The morning times., 1896-02-21
DISCUSS VIADUcT PLANS
OpiniGns Given Concerning Pros
pee i've Legislation.
GRADE CROSSINGS QUESTION
commissioners Recommend Adverse
Action on the Bill To Incorporate
ity ay-DetrimentaI TO the
Park-As to Inspectors.


the Commissioners yesterday in reference TO
the Mcmillan bill TO abolish grade crossings
as compared with the bill for the same
purpose submitted by the Commissioners,
and also TO discuss the prospective bill to
be submitted on the basis of q propOsi-
tion which the Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany is supposed TO be formulating.
1t is understood that Senator Mcmillan
is firmly of the opinion that his measure
as applied to the Baltimore and Potomac
road, will be all that is required, and
this view is said 10 be shared by Senator
Faulkner, who was party 10 the inter
view given Wednesday to a committee
of the board OF trade.
II is Mr. FriZZelfs understanding that
the Baltimore and Ohio Company contem-
plates the construction of two viaducts,
and ne suggested TO the Commissioners to-
day that If the company proposes TO bui,d
one over it's present route OF entrance it
viii be impracticable to get n proper ele-
WALTON over Florida avenue, ard when l
street shall be reached it Will be occu-
pied by the road to the exclusion OF every
thing else.
There viii also be a conflict of grade
AT Second street, Mr.. FrZZel says, ard
TO demonstrate This does not require the
skin Of an engineer, The fact being so
patent 10 all.
THEIR BILL NECESSARY.
The Commissioners say there can be no
objection to the adoption of the Nc
MILAN bill, nor to supplementinE il with
one to fit the b. aud o. proposition, but
they believe il is imperative that some
which shall definitely settle the date when
grade crossings are TO be abolished, shall
be enacted withoutdelay.
Mr.. Frizzen has heard ii intimatod that
the b. and o. Company expects TO ask
for authority TO acquire more ground ad-
jacent TO their present depot on New
jersey avenue TO enable it to develop its
viaduct plan, but this viii be contested.
1t is claimed that he tract OF thirteen
acres owned by the company at lexington,
through which DO streets are projected,
win afford ample facilities for all the
purposes involved, and it is suggested that
the acquisition of more territory at the
present city terminus is not necessary.
The bill 70 incorporate the Mount Pleas
ant and Zoo Gravity Railway was returned
yesterday by the Commissioners TO Chair
man Babcock of the House District Com
mittee. with recommendation for adverse
action.
NOT FOR BEST INTERESTS.
It is not considered by the board that the
building of such road VIII be for the best
Interests of the District, and they believe
it would bc positively detrimental to the
Geological Park.
s.r.uacfl aytnfcinr nf m
itauand other street railways, the Commits
siouers say. will afford ample facilities for
the people 10 reach the park without the
payment OF an additional fare, and il is ex-
tremely doubtful, in their judgment. if the
railway can bc built without interfering
with the grades of streets.
protest from the owner OF the tract
through which the gravity road would run
is forwarded with the Commissioners re-
port.
The incorporators of the proposed road, as
named in the hill, are Thomas Someryille,
Louis ID. Wine. James II. Ncrmilya, W. B.
Hibbs and Ethelbert Baier.
1t is proposed to construct n railway
from Fourteenth street northwest at some
point within 500 feet of Columbia road. 10
and through the Geological Park, Ito the
elevated contour of ground located at or
aboat eco yards west Of the elk and buffalo
Enclosures" with a right Of way not to
exceed fifty feet.
The road is TO be on elevated tracks,
without grade crossings at any streets or
avenues in the territory traversed. The
cars are to be propelled on the gravity sys-
TEN aud are TO be supplied with hand and
automatic brakes. Two stations are pro-
vidcd for in the bill, designated as the east
ern and western, respectively, and both are
TO be built OF good material and after a
substantial and at:ra ctiye pattern.
The western edificc is denomiDated a
combined departing and receiving sta
tion,'' containing a large open pavilion,
with firsi-class cafe, and to be subject to
the park regulations.
The right is reserved TO elevate or de-
press tracks. as most convenient according
to the survey"
FOR THE ANNUAL ROLL.
The Commissioners forwarded yesterday
to Chairman GrOut, of the Subcommittee
on Appropriations In the House OF Repre-
sentatives, recommendation for the adj
dition OF four inspectors TO the list OF Dis
trict employees previously made up for trans
1 leE 10 illt dliiiiiii I3llS from tut IOiCC Va
! per diem workers in the street cleaning
department..
This recommendation, as we'll as that
preceding ii, is made to equalize the priv
ileges OF District employees, and involves
no additional expense.
1t places these inspectors upon an equal
footing with other employees. was in
tended TO be done in the last general esti-
mates, which provides for the transfer of
others TO the annual roll, and from which
| list the four were by inadvertence omitted.
| The Commissioners believe there should
| be no distinction made.
Superintendent Mckenzie indorses the
recommendation in a strong letter to the
| Commissioners. and makes the suggestion
that the change will work no modification
of the present schedule as to the employ
ment OF the inspectors, as at times when
there is no call for their services in the
! street cleaning department and no demand
for them in other capacity, they will be
! furloughed without pay until work re-
sumes.
GOVERNMENT Is CLAIMANT