The morning times., 1896-02-22
RAILROAD KNOCKED OUT
Bill for Extension of E. & S. H.
Railway Lines DisapproVad.
BOARD FILES IT'S REASONS
District missloners Do Not Re
gard the Several Projects With
Favor-Citizens Protest Against B
and r. BlI-Appropriation Asked
for lexington Street Lighting

The District Commission ers, IN their
letter, addressed respectively to Chair
man Mcmillan, of the Senate District
Committee, and Chairman Baboock. of
the House Committee, in review of the
bills for the extension of the lexington
and Soldiers Home Railway in several
directions, mention OF which was made in
The Evening Times OF yesterday, review
in detail the several routes proposed To be
covered by the extended lines, and recon-
mended adverse action on each.
The routes have been described In The
Times. The Commissioners take them
up singly and give the grounds of objection.
They say the reasons that existed two
years for rejection OF the Seventeenth
street route TO Mount Pleasant are still
potent, and they cite the protest against
it filed by property owners.
In addition, they assert, the Capital
Traction L street line, with the present
system OF free transfers with the Fourteenth
street and Seventh street connections,
furnishes extensive rapid transit facilities
for the northern part of the territory be-
tween Connecticut avenue and Fourteenth
street, and there are besides the hcrdic
coaches. while the expected extension of
ward will increase accommodations.
AMPLE FACILITIES ALREADY.
Ample facilities for reaching the Zoo
logical Park and adjacent territory can
be provided by extensions norihward of the
Connecticut avenue line, the lines ON
Eighteenth street extended, and the Elev-
enth street road as now contemplated.
These lines are the ones that naturally should
be extended, as the Commissioners believe,
rather than one on q street, where street
car line is unnecessary and not desired.
The running OF street cars on Linnean
Hill road and on Nineteenth and Kenyon
streets. as contemplated 10y the lexington
Company, is deemed inadvisable. 1t is
judged that there will be no need for a
street car service on Michigan avenue
until after North Capitol street is opened
up, and a car line placed thereon.
The Commissioners are not able. they
declare. 10 recommend the third extension
out Bladensburg road. They believe If
any company is authorized to occupy that
route Ii is the Columbia. This road, they
say, has an improved method of propulsion,
has established a system of free transfers
with the Metropolitan. and has prior right
to the BadcnSburg extension.
The c and u street lines Of the lexington
system. In their opinion, should be extend
ed directly eastward, and not northward.
Messrs. Sigismund J. Block. Chas. King,
"A. +. Fox, ana Franklin Bid, repreSen ting
the owners of square 4G2 in the southwest,
called on the Commissioners yesterday to
protest against so much OF Senate bill 1702
as authorizes the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad Company, in establishing its pro-
posed system OF elevated and depressed
tracks. as a means of abolishing grade
crossings, to purchase a portion only of
the square in question.
DESTROYS THE VALUES.
IT was represented to the Commissioners
that to construct the requisite embankment
through the property ii will be necessary
10 make it sixteen feet high, and this will
destroy the value of tire remainder. 1t was
urged that the bill be amended so as to
require the company 10 purchase the entire
square.
The Commissioners yesterday returned
to Chairman Babcock of the House Dis
trict Committee the bilito amend the act
authorizing the Washington and
Marlborough Railroad Company TO
extend its road into the District. with
the recommendation that the matter he
referred TO the Secretary of War for his
views in reference 10 tie construction Of
a bridge across the Eastern branch.
They suggest, also. that the bin be
amended so as 10 oblge the company to
begin operations within one year and
complete the road in two years from the
date of the passage OF the act, with GER
tain exceptions, requisite penalties and
obligations being prescribed.
The bill 10 amend the charter OF the Eek
.ngton and Soldiers Home Railway Com
pany has been approved by the Commits
sioners, with certain amendments. This
is the measure providing for the suhstitu-
ton Of rapid transit power for horses.
The Commissioners have addressed a
letter to Hon. w. B. Allison, chairman OF
the Senate Appropriations Committee,
asking that an item OF $3.50 be included
in the deficiency bill to ray the cost OF
lighting the streets Of lexington for the
remainder OF the fiscal year. a similar
request was addressed to Hon. Joseph
G. Cannon, chairman OF the House Com
mIttee.
MINOR DISTRICT ITEMS.
Bar room licenses were granted by the
Excise Board yesterday as follows: Cassie
NJ. Leahy, no. 1C01 Sixth street south
west; John Ready, No. 7O1 North Capitol
street, and William Mcclure, No. 1900
Seventh street northwest.
The application for pension flied by ex-
Fireman James j. Taylor has been re-
jected by the Commissioners.
The Commissioners have approved the
Senate bill, I49S, known as the "age
OF consent measure.
The collection Of garbage from Brook
land win be discontinued until April 10,
1886, unless otherwise ordered.
TO CONiPIET THE pnST0EEIC.E