Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18

New Hampshire avenue and reservation
froni Whitney to Rock Creek Church road,
10000 square feet Coo. per foot $500
Parkway. Holme ad subdivision, 45, 600
square feet. soc. FER foot. $50.
Parkway. Lewis subdivision, $1,000 square
feet. 30c. per foot, $16,SD0.
Parkway. Mt. Pleasant, 10000 square
feet. 3Uc. per foot, $4,000.
Kansas avenue, Ho.mead subdivision,
13. $40 square feet, % cents per foot, $1,000.
Lydecker avenue from Sherman avenue
to Holmead avenue. $4,000 square feet, 10
cents per foot, $S2, $50.
Whitney avenue from Sherman avenue
to 14th street. 10000 square feet, 80 cents
per foot, $4,000.
Fourteenth street road from Park street
to Spring road. $4,000 square feet. so cents
per foot. $4,000.
Howard avenue from 14th to 18th street
$1,000 square feet. so cents per foot, So, 900
Park street from 18th to 18th street, 1G9,
600 square feet, So cents per foot, $37,20O
kenesaw avenue from 14th street to Zoo
Park, -, 900 square feet, 80 cents per foot,
$43,2O0
School street from Park street to Kene-
| saw avenue, 5000 square feet, 20 cents
per foot, S31 500.
Bacon street, $50 feet west, II, 500 square
feet, 81 per foot, $4,000.
Binney street, $50 feet west, IL, 800 square
feet. 81 per foot. $4,000.
Columbia road from 18th to 18th street,
1902 100 square feet, 81 per foot s1O2. 100
Reservation 18th street and Columbia
road. 112.0O0 square feet $3.50 per foot,
$3.50, 900
Erie street from University place to Co.
!! lumhia road. 400 square feet, 81 per foot,
$94. 400.
Superior street from 10th to 18th street,
10000 square feet, 81 per foot $4,000.
Sixteenth street. Meridian Hill, It's, 200
square feet, $1.20 per foot, S21O24
Sixteenth street from Denison to L street.
subdivision. lGs,oO square feet. 10 cents
per foot, $i21 500.
J Sixteenth street, Mount Pleasant, 1913, 400
square feet, GO cents per foot $1SS, O4O.
Seventeenth street or Central avenue
Meridian Hill. 1O1,6O0 square feet, 81 per
foot, $101 600.
Seventeenth street, or Central avenue,
D. and l.. subdivision, $1,000 square feet
50 cents per foot. $4,000.
Seventeenth street. or Central avenue,
Mount Pleasant, $500 square feet, 50 cents
per foot, $43. 100.
Ontario avenue above Columbia road
1000 square feet GO cents Per foot 81, 300
Poplar avenue, widened, 600 square feet
so cents per foot. 81. 900.
kalorama avenue, connected at Column
bia road, 5000 square feet, 81 per foot
| 5000.
Wyoming avenue and 10th street. con-
nected at Columbia road, $4,000 square feet
,, 81 per foot. s66,0O0
Prescott place, extended to kalorama
avenue. 1900 square feet. 81 per foot, 50 900
s street west to 22d, Il 900 square feet, 81
per foot, $4,000. Total $2,7l3,1 1853.
Connecticut avenue, $225,OOO
oDJCSs Va highway ACT.
The whole object of the highway act, it
| is pointed out, is to provide means by
| which the streets of the city shall be ex-
| tended outwardly through the suburban
districts in such a manner as shall, as
| nearly as possible, preserve their uniform
ity with the streets of the city. The act of
1888 endeayored ITO provide for tbat-a
want, by the, way which has been felt and
provided for in all. large cities. and in New
York the necessity for such an act was
felt as early as 1SOS or 1909
The act of. 1885, was intended to proyide
for just such a. plan. SO that when farm
lands should be tsubdivided for such pur-
poses the streets would be in conformity
| as far as possible with the streets Of the
city. But that act was faulty, in that It
made no prayiston to enable the District
Commissioners tosAscertain how the streets
would run in different parts Of the District.
The want Of Q comprehensive plan for the
extension Of the streets Of the city prior to
1888, and the effect of the defects Of the
act of that Year. have caused subdivisions
TO- be made, me streets Of which are in no
with those OF the city. The result was the
bringing into existence of what have been
termed ''misfit subdivisions
street extension these irregular subdivi
sions would have been impossible. and.
aside from certain faulty methods Of the
highway extension act Of 1888. the present
nave
suited wholly from the want Of such a COM
prehensive plan would have been avoided.
The Proposed Amendments,
The amendments proposed by the Com
missioners and the board Of trade are de-
signed to do away with, first those pro-
visions of the act Of 1893 which expert
ence has shown to be difficult or impossible
of enforcement, and which have caused hard
ship and suffering to owners Of land in
these so-called ''nisfit subdivisions:" next,
] to reduce to q minimum the changes In tina