The Washington times., 1895-06-27
UNION DEPOT TOO SMALL
Georgetown Streets Will Be 0C-
Gupied by Railway Companies.
FULL WARNING WAS GIVEN
Only Sufficient Room in the Building
10 Store the Cars md for Companies
Offices-old Citizens Even Now Ter
ribIy Annoyed by the Noise of Max
ing Up Trains.

Georgetown has had warning of an addi-
tional burden to bear in the interests of the
street railway companies under the blind
of Service to the public. Four months
ago Mr.. George Hill, jr, the paper MANU-
facturer. who has been a business man in
Georgetown over sixty years, called the
attention OF the Commissioners to the fact
that the Site of the proposed Union Station
at Thirty-sixth and NJ streets, is too small
for the purposes for which it should be in
tended
Last week the Commissioners were so far
awakened to the fact that few lines got
into the papers calling attention to the con-
ditons which viii exist at the Georgetown
terminus OF the great street railway lines
when tho new station is completed 1t
may justly be expected 10 be very much
worse than is now experienced anywhere
in the city
Ii is the policy OF the great transportation
companies, TO whom exclusive privileges
which constitute them monopolies have
been given, TO add TO what has been granted
all they can seize and hold
STREETS MONoPoLIZED.
The railway companies take the streets
for car yards and the street car companies
up and starting their trains without any pre-
tense OF providing themselves with sheds or
stables for the purpose
This has arisen largely from the fact
That originally the street cars were drawn
by horses and only one car at time
stood ln the street obStructius the way
while II waited its time to start. But
now III is not one car; ii is six and eight
at time The single car has been re-
placed 10y trains each OF two or three
cable cars, each car being as large as two
horse cars.
The public Inconvenience by this en-
croachment is keeuly felt at the termini OF
the Washington and Georgetown Company
at Thirty aud NJ, on Fourteenth
street at Mt. Pleasant aud on Eighth street
near the navy yard, a little less at the
b. X o. depot, where the company has been
obliged 10y the Metropolitan cars TO take
the side OF the street.
The lot upon which excavation is in
progress at Thirty sixth and II for the
union station, which is TO be completed
IN September, but may not be- is about
l6O feet on Prospect avenue, by $50 feet
on Thirty sixth street. 1t is expected to
accommodate about fifty cars OF the Wash
ington and Georgetow wn road, about S many
more OF the Metropolitan, as well as to
have room for other roads that may come
in from the suburbs that are rapidly grow
ing northwest OF the city. In addition
TO this there are to be in the station Of
Ices or the company aud waiting rooms
for passengers.
Mr.. HILLS GRIEVANCE.
Mr. Hin. who first called the Commits
sioners' attention 10 the matter, lives
within twenty feet OF where the cable
cars now stop in Georgetown. He said
to Times reporter:
To appreciate what goes on here it is
necessary TO Sit on my front veranGa here
for an hour when the road is at it busiest
There is continuous rattle OF chains and
clangor Of iron as the cars are shifted 1t
is eleven years since have been able to take
breakfast with my family on account Of this
thing. / can not get TO sleep usually till
after the cars stop running, AT l o'clock, in
the morning and, OF course cannot be up
in the morning at the time people generally
are about
Il was in jersey City a few days since
and stopped at hotel near which seven
car lines had their terminus and all COM
bIned did not make as much noise as this one
does. The difference was that they had
provided proper terminalfacilities andmade
up their trains in the house. In every other
city OF any size in the world the cars go into
a car shed at one entrance. are made up in
the house and come out at another entrance
II costs little something for ground to put
the sheds on, but there is plenty Of room
where the station is located and the ground
just west of the present site of the depot
Will not need to be cut away.
NOT A PLEASING PROSPECT.
Il am one of the Oldest citizens OF Wash
ington, have always been useful and it
seems to me / do not deserve such treat
ment. I'm sure I've never done anything
very bad"
The prospect is that the streets at the
new station, with both the Washington
and Georgetown and the Metropolitan road
making up their trains outside the sheds,
Will be almost impossible.
1t is the history of such encroachments
that nothing is said about what is pro-
posed until the work is finished and the
eXaction OF additional tribute from the
common property is firmly taken hold of.
If the appropriation of the public space
is fOreseen, fair promises are made and
under cover Of them nearly everything
wanted is taken.
Colton-on-t he'll Potomac.
The Cotton Bay ComDany beg TO announce