The evening times., 1896-04-03
DOUBLE LOOP 1t PARK
How -Four Car Lines Will Run
Abound the Zoo.
SCHEMEaa0Fr COMMISSIONERS
By THIS Arrangement All Blocking of
the Entrance VIII he Avoided-The
Measure Also Proviics for ENten-
sion Into Other New Territory-The
Right OF Way. r-.- go, ..-.....s..

The details OF the double loop Of street
railway tracks at the eastern entrance OF
Zoo.ogica Park are brough; out by the Com
mssiouersi bill INT reduced n The Senate
yesterday = by Mt Mcmillan. and referred
10y the Scnt a. 10 the District Committee.
TINS bill Is Offered by the Commissioners
as substitute ier iour bills already pend
ing. 1t WAS discussed to some extent at
tine DistrICt toiHnIItee room this morning.
One of the loops VIII Dc used by The Capital
Traction COmpIny and the metropolitan
jointly; The otner by the Belt Line and the
Bright wooi Company. TIE first runs from
ttc ~, s,crn pa rs < Si5ranct., on the park high
way, north OH Nineteenth street TO How
ri. cast on Howard 10 Seventeenth, south
on Seventeenth TO Superior. From Su-
iicrIor street the two lines divcrge 10 their
FCsrective routes. the Traction ON Eight
ecntn street. the Metropolitan on Columbia
road.
The second loop goes north along the
same line as the first, but turns east at
Grant street along which it passes 10 Sew
enteeath. and reJoins the first iopp on that
street. It also runs back 10 Columbia
! instead of Superior, and from Columbia
the Belt cars and the Brghtwoo1 separate
to go 20 their respective lines.
TO PREVENT BLOCKING.
This Arrangement, the Commissioners
| say, will prevent blocking park entrances
| and streets leading thither, and keep
| residence streets and one main entrance
| TO the park free from tracks. .....
The proposed extensions also put the
| CAPITAL Traction on Florida avenue and
| Eighth street cast, giving the northeast
needed facilities; running from that point
| on Eighth TO Pennsylvania avenue and its
| Anacostia bridge; also on Florida avenue
west to west Seventh street.
Overhead single trolley is allow OUT
| side the city until the streets are improved,
| but in no case later than July /, 1893,
| except in connection with cCntinuous-fTack
| rails The use of the continuous-.rack rails
| is expected to prevent the electric current
| from leaving the circuit ana damaging gas
| and water pipes.
| The CapiIal Traction Company is to have
| a terminal at Twenty-sevcnth and the
| harbar front. and go thence on F. g, Twen-
| ty-second streets and Florida avenue out
| Eighteenth to Geological Park. The Met
| ropol;tan goes out Columbia, Kalorama,
| Columbia road. Eighteenth to the park.
| The Belt line is to go rCrth from its
| Eleventh. street terminus to New Jersey
avenue extended. on Columbia avenue to
| Kcuesaw, to Columbia road. to Columbia
| street, to park entrance.
SOME CHANGES.
| The lexington is allowed to run from
| west Eleventh on l. street to cast Ninth;
NAV abandon New York avenue from Fifth
| to seventh, and must abandon from Third
| and T to GleDwood. .,.-s-
rbe BELT line may abandon o and 2 when
| auborized extensions are made; also may
abandon f from Eleventh to Ninth, Loulsi-
ana avenue to Twelfth. and south 10 Eir-
pipia avenue The Brightwood may aban-
t-unf KENYON and Richmond west OF Third.
| Tracks must be removed in month from
| cars being taken off,
Work must begin within year on plans
nicted in two years, under $50 a day
| penalty.
Right of way may be condemned, but must
he dedicated for street before track Is laid.