Evening star., 1896-12-23
ANACosr1A ROAD.
REVIVAL Of Talk Concerninw Much,
Needed Rapa6 Transit,

Revival Of Talk Concerning Much.
Needed Rapid Translt.
President George c. Havenner of the Ana
costa Citizens Association last evening
toid star reporter that he intends to call
meeting OF the executive committee Of
sne organisation very shortly to consider
matters relative to the long-pending Ques-
uon OF rapid transit on the south side Of
tne Anacostia river. DR.. Havenner said
luftner that he believed that Vice Presi-
oent and General Manager Randle OF the
capital Railway Company, which was
granted . charter by Congress at it's last
session to build an electric road from Con.
sress Heights to the city proper, is entirely
sincere s. IN saying that he Is doing all in
ms power to make the proposed enterprise
q success. but that 1t was equally apparent
70 every person who has given the mat
Ter thought or who has visited the route
OF the projected road that but little practi-
cal work has been done in the direction
contemplated by Congress to be performed
"nen the charter was granted
another well-known citizen, who was
iargeiy instrumental In getting the charter
for the Capital Railway Company granted
oy Congress. said that he and several 9th.
ers mad recently conversed with influential
members OF Congress on the subject of inn
proved street railway facilities for the
people OF Anacostia and vicinity and had
found that they were very fayoraIlv dis
posed toward granting a charter to Pres
ident Griswold of the Washington and Ana
COSTA railway Company. and q number of
bankers and other moneyed men Of Wash
!ngton Tor the construction Of an overhead
trolley line from Congress Heights to the
corner Of AZ and Missouri avenue. where
a connection would be made with the Met
ropolitan line.
The practical effect Of this would be. as
understood. that the present Anacostia
norSe-car line would be transformed into a
trolley line from Hillsdale to the corner Of
lIth and M streets southeast and that the
same means of propulsion would be used
along street to I'd, thence up that street
TO Canal, to Sd northwest as far as Mis-
souri, avenue, and to the corner of Missouri
avenue and AZ street, where the cars being
provided with the necessary machinery
would be placed on the tracks of the Net
ropolitan line and taken to 9th and G
streets, from which point, 1t Is said 10 be
the intention Of the company to build an
Underground system and loop along G, 11th
and E streets to 9th, where the Anacostia
cars would again strike the Metropolitan
nne ana proceed toward their own lire by
the latter.
1t is claimed by the promoters of the
scheme tnat II Congress will grant the
charter asked for the company will not
only obtain the money necessary to make
the Improvement without much delay, but
Will bind itself, if the trolley system shall
prove unsatisfactory after two years of
trial, to substitute that system with an
Underground one. 1t is further asserted
that although the friends of the trolley
scheme have made the most assiduous eff
1orts they have been unable to enlist the
interests OF capitalists to an extent suffi-
cient to obtain assurances that enough
money could be obtained to construct an
Anacostia line which lies north of the navy
yard bridge.