Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-21
FILE COUNTER PETITION.
Citizens Sign a Paper i'm the Interes
of CAPITAL RaiIHny Comnanx

Cttfzens Sign Paper i'm the Interest
of Capital Railway Company.
A special meeting of the Congress
Heights Citizens Association was held last
evening, for the purpose of considering a
petition addressed to the District Commits
s1oners. and which, it was declared was
signed by more than 500 persons residing
In the southeastern part OF the city Ana
costa and Congress Heights, as well as
by others, who expect to be benefited by
the accomplishment of rapid transit be-
tween Congress Heights and the Navy
Yard gate, which petition was intended to
counteract the effect of a paper previously
filed with the Commissioners.
The reading of the petition was followed
py earnest discussion, at the conclusion of
which the paper was Endorsed by a unani-
nous vote. 1t is as follows:
I'VE, the undersigned residents along the
road of the Capital railway including those
on 18th and M streets southeast where the
Brown underground system is used petit
ton your honorable board to disregard the
petition filed by the Anacostia and Potomac
River Railroad Company. That petition
was drawn up by one of the stockholders
of the said railroad and circulated by one
OF the employees of the company, while this
petition is signed and presented by finan-
cially disinterested patrons of the Capital
railway.
I'VE beg to state that the cross-over
which their petition complained of was put
in at the request of your honorable boa I'd
and was also removed by your request a
week before they presented their petition
requesting its removal. The Brown under
ground system was used for a number Of
trips over the city portion OF the line both
night and day and no harm whatever was
done. We believe this system will /, owe
satisfactory, and the boxes when properly
put in do not project any higher above the
pavement than plates along the Metropoli-
SyIa hacf i1x,
put in, because Congress granted the char
ter in a presidential e:ection year when
the monetary question caused panic
throughout the country therefore nothine
could be done until winter. Rain, sleet and
snow did not stop the company in it's eff
forts to comply with it's charter. Frequent
ly the workmen stood knee deep in mud
constructing the road
by extraordinary work the comma nv
was able to run cars over it's entire line
overhead outside and underground inside
the city limits, within its charter limits
The company is now operating a portion of
Its line successfully, and soon as The
nasty work done on the Brown under
ground electric system is corrected our sec
ton of the District. which has suffered SO
long for the want of rapid transit will be
furnished modern transportation.
The Anacostia railroad has put every
obstacle in the way of the Capital railway
and is playing the dog in the manger'
THE Capital Railway Company does not
now run over as much OF the track of the
Anacostia company as the Anacostia COM
p&ny runs owe" other companies roads,
We simply ask for fair play. believing that
if this is obtained We will soon get rapid
transit
l. The Capital Railway Company last even
ing resumed the running of it's cars on that
portion of the route which is operated with
the overhead trolley. and expects to be
able to operate it's entire line by the LIST of
next month. A large force of expert cleo
tricians from JohnstOwn, Pa, is now at
work correcting the errors which have been
discovered in the Brown system and which.
it is claimed, were made in it by hasty con-
Struction.