Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-22
REMAINING STREETS
Provisions of the Historical Society's
Bill.
need OF REFORMED NOMENCLATURE
Many Implications in the Existing
Local System.
APPROXIMATIONS DROPPED

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The remaining of the thoroughfares of
this city will again he subject for the
consideration of Congress during the pres
ent session. The Historical Society of the
District of Columbia has taken great in
terest in this subject for several years,
and during the last Congress embodied it's
ideas this subject in bill which was in
trOduced in the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, and which it has again revived
with slight changes. Its present bill has
been laid before the Senate by Mr.. McMil-
Ian, chairman of the Senate committee on
the District of Columbia, and will be re-
ferred to subcommittee early in jan
Larry.
The necessity for uniformity in the nam
ing of streets and avenues in the District
of Columbia has become greater during the
past few years subdivision after Subd-
vision has sprung up, each of them add
ing score or more of names to the citys
list, in many instances duplicating names
that had been used in other sections for
many years When the extension of streets
and avenues throughout the District of
Columbia has been completed satisfac-
tory system of naming streets will have
become imperative, and it is quite likely
that the suggestions of the Historical So
clety VIII form at least the basis of the
rev system to be adopted. The society
has avoided the use of names of living
people in their work. The need for the re-
naming of streets is shown by the many
duplicates now existing
The name of Grant has been given to
hFe thoroughfareS. There is Grant
street. Anaccstia: Grant street northwest
Grant avenue Grant place and Grant
road Lincolps name has been used in an
equal number of instances There is Lin
coin street Anacostia: Lincoln street north
west Lincoln avenue, Lincoln square and
q Lincoln terrace. Madison's name is used
IN SIX instances. There are three Madison
streets northwest. a Madison avenue Mad
lson court and Madison street. Anacostia
Other Presidents have been likewise hon
ored in multitude of instances. much to
the confusion of people not tborourbIv
acquainted with the city
Lcttered Streets Given n Name
According to the scheme of naming
streets proposed by the Historical Society
the lettered streets are given a name. the
initial of which is The letter by which they
are now known.
The lettered streets north are given names
as follows: Adams, Buchanan. Cleye-
land, Dallas, Ellsworth Fillmore. Grant.
Harrison, jefferson. King. Lincoln, Mad
ison, Nelson, Cts, Polk, Quincy. Rutedge,
Saerman Tyler, Upshur, Van Buren,. w
street north, together with Boundary street
lcalied Florida avenue), from street
hrldse and the Benning read to the East
ern branch, passing through w street
north, to be known as Washington avenue.
Lettered streets south to be known a S
Arthur. Bel, Clinton, Dearborn. Everett,
Franklin, Garfield Hayes. Jackson. Knox,
Lafayette, Monroe Nicholson Oscood
Pierce. Quitman. Rush, Story, Taylor I'm
derwood, Van Ness, Wolcott. Adams Mill
road. from Columbia road, to be known as
Hancock; Adams street, Anacostia from
Harrison, to be known as Ames; Arthur
street. Anacostia, from g. Grant to be
known as Allen Arthur place northwest.
between b and C, New Jersey avenue and
lst, to be known as Calvert; Buchanan
street, from Monroe, to be known as Bar
Eey; buchanan street northwest west from
Columbia road, to he known as Pendleton;
cleveland avenue northwest, from 1919
west TO l22i Florida avenue, to be known
as Cass; Clinton street northwest from
llth extended, Pincy Branch road to be
known as Howard: Clinton place north
west, from 112O Connecticut avenue to be
known as Chase: Decatur street northeast
from North Capitol. between and z, to
be known as Raydrd; Fillmore street An
acostia, from Harrison. to be known as
Forsyth; Franklin street northwest, from
lst to I'd, and from New jersey avenue to
9TH above p. to be known as Campbell;
Garfield avenue southwest. from Delaware
avenue to Is. to be known as Gallatin; Car
field avenue, Washington Heights. to be
known as jay; Grant street, Anacos-
tia. from 354 Monroe. to be known
as Greene: Grant avenue northwest
from BrightwOod avenue to Florida
avenue ana 10Th, to be known as Hamlin;
p4aht place northwest. from 40 9th to
loth, TO be known as ColfaX; Grant road
ffom TenleytOWn to Broad Branch road
TO be known as Randolph; Grant street
northwest iron Pine to Brown road, to
be known as Decatur; Harrison avenue
southeast from 18th to Nth above c. to be
known as Hamilton Harrison street Ana
costa, from Monroe, to be known as Hen
bricks; Hayes court northwest from 18th
GtOEe -, TO be known Pickering. IarLx
son street, Anacostia. from Monroe, to be
known as Irving, jackson street northeast
from ~ North Capitol to LIST. to be known
as I1lglman; jefferson avenue northwest
from 3O23 %ater street to 3G2S NJ to be |
known as Smallwood; Jefferson place north |
west, from 121s Connecticut avenue TO 1227
18th street, to be known Scott; Jeffer- |
son stree. Anacostia, from Monroe, to be
known as lizard: King alley southeast be-
tween 18th and 18th streets. South Caro-
lima avenue and c, to be known Kendall;
King northeast. from Bladensburg road, to |
be known as Writ. Knox alley southwest |
from 32S T. to 327 +, to he known as KEYS
Lafayette avenue. Montello, from Queen |
to be known jenifer; Lincoln avenue
from Florida avenue and North Capitol to |
HARDWOOD and Bunker Hill roads, to be |
known as Marshall; Lincoln square East
Capitol, from 18th to 18th, to be known IS
Lincoln; Lincoln street, Anacostia from |
Johnson, to be known as Southland; Lincoln
street northwest, from Brightwood avenue
to be known as Laurens; Lincoln terrace
northwest, head or loth street and Florida
avenue, to be known as Mercer: Madison
street northwest, from 1922 18th to 1919
18th, to ne known Webster; Madison
avenue northwest, from BIS LIST to 80 ID |
to be known as Dexter Madison court
northwest, from 1916 Madison, to he known
as MUhlenberg; Madison street. Anacostia
fl Adams to be known Macon; Madi- |
son street northwest. from 9Th to 7th above
NJ, to be known as Pinkney; Madison street
northwest from GIL. to be known Nor
gan: Monroe street, AnacoStia from the
bridge to jefferson. 10 be known as Wilson;
Pierce place northwest from 141S 18th to
1926 10th, to be known Johnson; Pierce
street, Anacostia, from Harrison, to be
known Putnam; Pierce street northwest
from ITO North Capitol to 1873 New Jersey
avenue. to known as Mexican; Pierce Mill