Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-11-28
CARD FROM DIR. RUST.

10 the Editor Of the Alexandria Gazette:
Dear Sir i notice in your report Of
the proceedings Of the Alexandria
County Court of the oath inst. there is
a great effort to put an unjust tax on
Alexandria county for the good of those
who do not live in this county. This
expense comes in the shape of road
to meet the extension Of Prince street.
Now | know it is necessary to do
something for the safety Of those who
travel the road that comes into King
street, and it ought to he done at once,
but it is very wrong to saddle such an
expense on Alexandria county when it
will do the people of this county SO
little good And / make this state
ment that the people can see this
wrong. We will take the location first.
1t is narrow piece OF land at the point
to extend Prince parallel with King
street. 1t is about - feet wide to
the line of Fairfax county, and if the
street is to be extended it ought to be
done parallel with King, and that way
the dirt which it will take to raise the
grade can be obtained with one-half
the expense Oh account OF there being
bank to cut through which will furn.
ish the dirt that can be put in place by
horse power exclusively; but no, they
don't want Fairfax county to have any
of this road. They want to put all OF
the expense on Alexandria county,
and to do this they want to run the
road diagonally across this marshy
place and come out In the King street
rond little west Of the bridge over
Hoof g run. Now this way puts all
the road in Alexandria county with
every foot of it to be filled in and the
grade will have TO be raised on an aver
age of about five feet and not any dirt
to gil in with but what will have to be
handled by shovels and carts, and a
culvert TO be put in TO take the water
of good stream and rain water that
comes down valley with this stream
several miles above. On account
of bad drainage at the Stone
bridge below have seen the water in
this marshy place five feet deep after
heavy rain. | hope the people of Alex
andria county will see VINO these others
are that are mentioned in the petition
to the court to open this road, also those
who presented this petition and see if
he or she lives in Alexandria county. |
don't think they do. l think they must
live in Alexandria city and when they
got the charter for the electric railroad,
which / have reason to believe is large
~ in the hands of the Pennsylvania
road they failed to think of their inter
est ia Fairfax county, and let the rail
road come out in the middle OF the road
at the west end of King street, and now
they are afraid to drive out that way.
Now my friends if you do find that this
party that got up this petition and pre-
sented it to the court to open this road
does live in Alexandria city my advice
to YOU is to leave him there and we will
90 in town and show him or her the
way his or her town has been treating
us in the way of an outlet to our coun-
ty. Although we have some very good
roads coming to the corporation line of
Alexandria, yet they have not made
one decent road or street to meet our
roads. Under such circumstances |
think these lawyers who get paid for
working charters through the legisla-
ture for railroads through the middle of
the carriage way might get the electric
road to put its track on one side of the
road coming into King street, and then
make the road wider and in that way
let these parties out. And I beg you to
remember as an order comes from the
Alexandria court to open road in
Alexandria county it binds US to keep
the same in good repair. And if the
water is damned back to the extent to
cause an overflow the repairing of this
new road will cause Alexandria
county great deal OF trouble.
| will further say that if Judge Chi
chester has ordered this road to be
opened and has done it through a ia
yorable report from committee be has
done it by appointing committee after
committee until he got one to suit, be-
cause I was on the first committee and
we reported that something ought to
be done for the safety of those who
travel on the King street road, but not
in the shape of new road at the ex.
pense of Alexandria county.
D. n. RUST.
r. 10 tbouoht in pittsburp that big strike |