The morning times., 1896-04-02

III submitting the copy OF their Dill grant
ing the rights of way TO certain existing
street railways to the suburbs, as noted
in the Evening Times of Tuesday, the Com
missoners give i'll detail their reasons for
desiring the legislation, and i'll doing so
include suggestion rs To the provision
for railway extension as contemplated i'll
the plans prepared under the highway act
The maps prepared under that act, they
say, shows extensions Of street railways as
provided for in their proposed bill, and
also OF other future extensions 10 be recom-
mended as public needs may dictate, and
there is additional reason given for the
Inference that the Commissioners not only
propose TO stand lay the highway act, bGt
that they have good reasons for believing
that the bill, aS amended, viii pas Congress.
The general p!an is, say the CoDfniS-
sioners, ITO extend the present railways
instead OF chartcrinE new companies, to
make present extensions with Il view to
future ones, and, except where there are
strong reasons to tue contrary, to keep
each system of railroads in its own field
or territory
FOR VISITORS TO zoo.
Extensions arc then recommended, for
logical Park, which incudes the Capital
Traction, on Eighteenth street extended;
the Mctropoltan, on Connecticut avenue,
the Belt LIuc, on Eleventh street, and the
BriGhtwOOd, on Il street south or Kenyon;
all as heretofore outlined in The Times,
The last named being intended to supply
trans portatiOn between the park and the
Soldiers Home.
These extensions, The board concludes,
villages west OF Fourteenth hstreetcxtended.
The extension for the zoo traffic are laid
i'll loop at the GCrlhcrn end III which all
cars would move IN one direction, uCrth on
the propose new street to BOUND the park
on the east, generally called Park highway.
This causes ali The cars 10 PASS tie park
gates and To 90 south on Seventeenth street
10 points OF divergence.
BY this arrangement the ioara proposes
10 prevent the blocking of park cntr.Gces
aud streets leading TO them and keep other
streets in the rcsiGc nee section ana one
main approach to the park tree IRON car
tracks.
The extension Ia The east proposed for
the Capital Traction Company AMI the Eek
ingtOn line, respectively, is noted, ana
one ass. gnCd rcasetl is that The street car
facilities in that section are not sufficient.
The extension OF lie Felt ire Through Ic
Dron Park from ourth street is aISorcccm
mcndcd and note made OF the proposed line
Of the Capital TraetioO Company from the
hardOr front by prC.crttCd route to
Connecticut avcnue.
Use OF TROLLEYS.
at IS believed" say The Commissioner
in their report, ''that limitations addi-
t!onal 10 thee now secured by law sh Guild
lie placed upon The use OF overhead trGlleys
for preventing or diminishing injury TO
u'-surface pipes Where the eXten ed
routes are laid upon new streets over which
public tights or way have not beca OBJ
taincd, and where hep xtensiOn Sare through
or near suburbs,'' it is oontended. ''the
street car companies should secure the
rights OF way for at least thirty feet for
double tracks ana twenty feet in width
for single tracks ard DEDICATE such rights
of wa 10 the District"
The bill which the board prepared is
intended 10 be a sui titute for House Hills
numbered POI. 3.5J5, $500, and 3,53S,
introduced in behalf OF the several railway
companies. -....--..-
BY order of TIE Commissioners. issued
yesterday. the pay of the -four inspectors
on uDimprOVCd streets in the street aud
ailey-Cleanng service. was fixed at S3.!O
pcr day. 10 take effect the 1st iB.tant.
This is done to make the pay of inspectors
uniform.
MORE OLINE-COLORED POLES.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has obtained another permit for the crcc-
tion of two telegraph poles, this time
as n substitute for i defective one on
| Twcnty-fifth street, near Pennsylvania
avenue. and one on the west side of
! Thirty-second street, between NJ and Water
! streets.
! AS required in the case OF the one at
/ Fifteenth street. the new poles must bc
I painted an olive color, and lie marked
! with the name or the company ard rum
| bcrCd.
! The Commissioners yesterday returned
! to Chairman BabCock the bill numbered
! 7,ll3, 10 regulate street railway fares and
! transfers without comment. except to refer
| to prev ious recommendation similar
/ measure.