The evening times., 1896-12-08
TROLLEY TO GETTYSBURG
Bill to Incorporate a Company
With That Alleged Aim.
OTHER OBJECTS IN VIEW
Tie Main Purpose of the Project
Seems 10 BE the Accommodation
of suburban Traffic-FreiGht To
Be Carried Introduced in House
by Senator-Elect Wellington.

Senator-clect Wellingtonhasa already given
the House District Committee bill to work
on.
The measure he has introduced looks to
the incorporation of the Washington and
Getty ysburg Railway Company. This COM
pany is not only to carry passengers, but
it is to have n freight attachment. At the
first the intention seems to be to make 1t
d little local freight nd passenger line, hut
it is to be exten nded to Gett ysburg and ira
verse that battlefield.
This intention is not so clearly brought
out n the measure as it might be. The main
object of the bill, as the reading Of it
shows is to look after the interests of the
suburban residents of the District. The
Gett ysburg nd seemsto be a secondary con-
sideration.
The bill names the following gentlemen
as the incorporators OF the affair, TO be
known as the Washington and Gettysburg
Railway Company: George W. Cissel,
Charles jacobson. Edgar +. fHrry, John II.
Cheer, George W. Harve y and James S. Nc
Ilhenny, of the District OF Columbia, and
Asa NJ. Stabler, John Miller, j. Enos Ray,
Albert Gleason, r. G Israel, n. W. Williams,
Frank C. Drane Ashley NJ. Gould, s. ID.
Waters. Francis Thomas, Robert II. Mil
Ter and o. A. Homer, of the State of
Maryla nd, and T. William Harris, of the
State of New York.
The corporation is authorized to con-
struct. equip, and operate with the over
head trolley system of electric motive
power, or with other approved power, a
streetrail wa y for passenger and small i-pack
age freigth traffic, with the necessary
switches. turnouts, and other mechanical
devices, in the District of Columbia, and
run cars thereon through and along the
following route:
ROUTE OF PROPOSED LINE
Beginning at point'on the northeastern
boundary line of the District of Columbia
at or near the intersection of the boundary y
line and the Sargent road, and running
on the road to the Bunker Hill road, along
the Bunker Hill to Twelfth street to
Brookiand, thence south on Twelfth street
to Dahlgren Circle, thence on the route of
the proposed extension Of Delaware avenue,
or by such other route east of the Metro
politan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad as the Commissioners of the Dis
trict Of Columbia shall indicate or ap-
prove, to the intersection Of II street
east and Delaware avenue The company
is also authorized to construct and oper
ate telegraph line along its railway.
The small-package freight cars shall not
be run except during the hours of II
midnight and 4 o'clock in the morning
The bill further provides that the over
head-trolley system o motive power shall
not be used south of Florida and Delaware
avenues, aDdthattbe companyi is authorized
and empowered to locate, construct, equip
and operate single or double track rail-
way in and through the national cemetery
grounds at Gettysburg, State of Pennsyl-
vania, along such route or routes as may
be indicated or approved by the Secretary
OF War. These routes may be modified or
extended at the will Of Congress, and the