The evening times., 1896-03-14
tHIkPI0Hs 0EIaE RolD
Protests Against cuEtailmsai Of
Anacastia lines Rights.
YET GLAD OF THE CHANGE
HopeIt win he Compelled to Provide
Rupid Transit -ArterTwenty Years,
With Unlimited Muney ut His Com
mand, president G riswOld IsNO Fur
tlier Ahead Than at the Start.

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Some people outside OF the Anacostia
Street Railway Company are opposed to
amendments.
or course, that company would be ex-
pected 10 be against the transfer system
offered by the Senate bill introduced by
Mr. McAIiIlana few days ego. That meas
ure provides that the one horse cars OF the
Anucostia Iine'shall not run over the tracks
OF the Metropolitan Company on Einth
street. 1t further provides that at Four
and-l-half street and Missouri avenue The
Metropolitan line shall issue free trans
fers in each direction.
Mr.. Mcmillan today received the fol-
lowing communication from Mr.. ID. c.
Fountain of the Posiof1ice Department.
1t was placed on file, and will be given due
weight ut the proper time II Is addressed
To Mr. Mcmillan as chairman of the Senate
Committee on District Affairs. 1t says:
WILL DEPRECIATE THE SECURITY.
.As a resident on the heights overlooking
Anacostia, and an empioye of the Pos,office
Department, desire TO enter most earn
est protest against the adoption OF 80 much
of Senate bill No. 2472 as proposes 10 cur
tail the present charter rights OF the Anacos-
tia aad Potomac Railroad, under which Its
cars are run In close proximity to my place
OF business, and enabling me to reach 1t,
when riding thereon, without the delay and
Inconvenience attending Il transfer to the
Metropolitan Line.
Il also, as executor OF an estate, consist
ing principally of the bonds of this road,
protest against the proposed curtailmcnt OF
Its fraueaisc. as caicutlied todcpreciatc the
security upon which the bonds were issued.
and thereby endanger the value OF the prop
erty of the minor heirs l Represent.
The features OF The bill requiring the
company v to provide ra pid transit meet with
my hearty approval and VIII, L trust, be
enacted into law."-Er -sl -l.
There Is. perhaps. no bill which has been
introduced this session where there has
been n more comparatively greater interest
expressed. There has been Il number of
callers from Anacostia at the room OF the
District Committee. 1t is intimated that
the entire population of that little city
would turn out II IL received even an intima-
ton that it would be received.
The bill is now with the District Commits
sioncrs. On their action will depend to
some extent the action of the District Con-
mittee.
PLEASED WITH THE BILL.
Mr. Henry johnson. of Anacostia, also
writes a letter to the Senate District Com
mittee on the same subject as Mr.. Fountain.
He is property owner in Anacos,ia and a
holder of the street railway bonds. He
thanks Mr.. Mcmillan for the bill introduced
and the relief it furnishes citizens of his
town. He says:
..'rhe Anacostia cars have been running
for twenty years, and during that period
its president has had almost unlimited
money at his command. and absolute con-
troi over its management. 1t started
with u one horse, bob-tail car, and after
all that time, twenty years, with the largest
and most permanently settled suburb to
draw from, il returns TO its primitive con-
dit ion, and this, too, in defiance OF its
pat rons, and public sentiment generally"
He further claims that it tn kcs fully forty
five minutes to reach the City Hall from
the company's office in Anacostia. He
says that the president OF the company has
laid rails On streets over which a street car
has not passed in six months; land he has,
by removing the iirge rear platforms and
substituting steps about eighteen inches
square, converted I'll, with two exceptions,
of his ca RS into bOb-tail cars draw by one
horse"
CARS CARRY THIRTY PASSENGERS.
..These cars" he continues, 'at times
carry over thirty passengers, as shown by
the register, which is load enough for two
horses. The drivers are required to be on
the alert to pick up passengers; see that
all passengers drop their fare in the box;
register fares; give transfers at two differ
ent stat tions on the route, and look after
their horse"
He claims the step is too small. and
is even dangerous. THE recent death of
the young child at Eleventh street and
Georgia avenue" he says. might. in my
Judgment. have been avcrted had the car
platform been wide enough TO accommo-
date mother and child. for then they could
have gone out together instead. AS it
happened, the child went first, and there
being no conductor in charge 10 warn him
the little innocent was crushed to death
by q car coming in the opposite direction"