The times., 1897-12-18
BIC BOND ISSUE PROPOSED
Highway Extension Act TO BE
Carried Into Effect.
MR.. RICHARDSON'S
BILL
Provides for Seven and One-Half
Million Dollars of Three Per Cent
Bonds, Payable in Fifty and RE-
deemable After Ten Hears-List
of Streets TO be Improved.

MI lkltltdt'lSulr pl 1tiltftSSHGf Aiiti phASSA
in the House yesterday bin providing
for carrying into effect the highway eX-
tension act. II provides for the issue of
$4,000 Of bonds, bearing per cent
interest. payable fifty years from date,
with the privilege OF anticipating payment
any lirie after ten years. sinking fund
OF $3.50 600 annually is provided for the
payment OF the principal and the interest
thereof: Sl75 600 TO lie paid by the Dis
! trict OF Columbia and like amount by
tie United states. Three million dollars
OF the proceeds Of said bonds is TO be eN
pended by the Commissioners for the pay
| ment OF property condemned for highway,
| S4 600 600 for the Improvement OF high
ways, and $1,000 for the Improvement
| Of Rock Creek National Park.
The bin provides for the repeal of the
| highway act and for the elimination from
| the record Of all maps and plans:
Provided, however, that said plans and
maps snail be filed III tie office or the
| Commi SsiupeTs OF the District ot Column
| bia for the information and guidance or
property owners who may desire to sub
divide their land in conformity with the
provisions Of the act of Congress approved
| August 27, 1888, providing that any SUD-
| divisions of land made after the passage
| of said act shall conform TO the general
| plan OF the city of Washington, and the
| said Commissioners are hereby authorized
| to completc the said maps ami plans over
| the entire area of tue District Of Co.
| lunibid, aud shall in their discretion modify
| or change said plans, in such manner as
| they may deem to be in the interest OF
| the Iuulv guul pTovued Al uolh- ~, lhey
do not radically depart from the compre-
| heusiye plan uf tie city OF Washington
and all subdivisions made under the sald
| act Of August 27, 1855, shall conform To
| said plans.
The following are the streets aud avenues
that are to be opened:
sixteenth street west, with a width OF
| l6u feet, 70 the northern Lounuary OF the
District OF Columbia.
seventeenth street west, with a width Of
| ninety feet, from Florida avenue TO Piney
Branch.
massachusetts, avenue, with width OF
| 100 feet, 10 the western Louudary OF the
| District OF Columbia.
Connecticut avenue with Wiuth OF loO
| feet. Uotne Northern boundaryor the DistTlct
OF Columbia.
Colurilna road, 10 he called Columbia
avenue, with width of 70 IeeI, from
Eighteenth street 10 Sherman avenue, by
deflecting IL into Whitney avenue at
point between Thirteenth anu Fourteenth
much improved property Is possible.
New Hampshire avenue, with width
| OF 20 feet from Whitney avenue to the
| boundary of the District or columbia
Spring Road, from Sixteenth street west.
east wardIy with width or zoo feet, to
Soldiers Home grounds andfron sixteenth
| street, westwardly, with same width, TO
Rock Greek National Park.
Superior street northwest, from Eight
eenth street west, TO Sixteenth street
west.
of ninety feet, to the mort heTn boundary
OF the District of Columbia.
Columbia street, from Thirteenth street
west, from its present terminus, with
yyi,lt of ninety feet TO sherman avenue.
Kenesaw avenue, with 8 width Of ninety
feet from the Geological Park 10 the
Soldiers Home PARK.
feet from Sixth street to Sixteenth street
at its intersection with Piney Eranch road
New York avenue, with a width OF 30
feet. To tire noTthea stern boundary or the
District.
Eleventh street east, with width Of 30
feet, To the northern boundary or the
District OF Columbia.
Maryland avenue, with width OF 100
feet, To the Eastern Rranch.
Eenning road, with a width OF 20 feet,
from Fifteenth street east to the eastern
boundary Of the District OF Columbia.
Fourteenth street, from its present
mort hern terminus TO tie boundary OF the
District of Columbia
Rock Greek Cnurch road. from FrightwoOd
avenue weStwar rd to Spring road.
Illinois avenue, with width OF 40 feet
from the Soldiers Home grounds to ROCK
Greek National fatK-
Iowa avenue, with width OF l20 feet,
from BrightwoOd avenue to Rock Greek
Richmund street, with a width OF 90
feet from Brightwood avenue to Rock Greek
National Park.
Tennessee street, with a width of 80
feet, frOta the "a stern boundary Of the Dis
trict OF Columbia 10 Rock Greek National
Park.
feet, from the eastern boundary Of the
District OF Columbia TO Rock Creek National
Park.
The Commissioners are also authorized
70 la out an avenue, with width OF
100 feet, to be called Washington avenue,
following the boundary line of the Dis
trict or Columbia, commencing at or near
the Potomac River on the north and eX
tending to or near the Potomac River on
the south.
PENNSYLVANIA avenue, from the eastern
end Of PENNSYLVANIA avenue bridge, cross
ing the Eastern Branch OF the Potomac
River, Southeasterly to the boundary of
the District OF Columbia.
Kansas avenue, from Fourteenth street
northwest nUrthwesterly, with width OF
12O feet, to the boundary Of the District
OF Columbia.
Lydecker a venue westwardIy V from present
western terminus, with a width OF 80 feet,
to Fourteenth street northwest.
Grant street, with a width Of 80 feet,
from Florida avenue to Sixth street north
west.
RE street. with a width of 80 feet from
Florida avenue to Whitney avenue.
BladensbuTg road, with width of 80
feet, from Florida avenue to the north
eastern boundary Of the District of Colum-
bia.
North Carolina avenue, from Sixth street
northeast, with width OF 80 feet to the
northeastern boundary Of the District OF
Columbia.
Rhode island avenue, with width OF
l 80 feet northeasterly, from Florida ave
pue 10 the boundary Of the District Of
Columbia,
+ street northeast, with a width of 80
feet, from Fifteenth street northeast to
Beuning road.
T street northeast, with a width Of 80
feet, from Z Eckington to the Eastern
Branch, and Z street northw est, same
width, from High street to the Conduit
road.
Conduit road, with width of 30 feet.
from the point where street extended
will intersect it, to the boundary of the
District OF Columbia.
Forty third street northwest, with a
width uf 80 feet, from Canal road to the
northern boundary Of the Distri ct of
twentieth street northwest. from Pfney
Branch, with a width of 90 feet on de-
Elected line to Rock Greek Park.
The follOwing streets are To be improved:
Sixteenth street northwest, from Florida
avenue TO the northern boundary of the
District or Columbia; Massachusetts avenue
on the east side of Rock Creek to file
northwestern boundary Of tue District of
Columbia: New Hampshire avenue, from
BTightwood avenue to Whitney avenue:
Eleventh street northeast, from its pres emf
northern terminus to tie northern boundary
OF the District Of Columbia; Illinois ave
nue from the Soldiers Home grots}ds to
Rock Creek National Park: Iowa avenue.
from Bright wood aVenueto Sixteenth street
northwest; Spring Road, between Bo,g
Creek National Park and Soldiers Home