Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-10-18
AUCTION SALES.
FUTURE DAYS.
DUNCANsoN BROS, AUCTIoNEERs.

5UP 16kt5k sATE OF All AND SENsShAR TIE
FRANCHISES, RIGHTS OF WAY AND PROP
fih hE hhA EA nkFs9S tdMf fSS MINED OF
M' traaing A m ut ,on.
Complainant In Equity No. l7,ssl.
The Belt Railway Com
pany' ct al;
t,tod to the decree entered in the above en-
Columbia Holding spesa 0f term OF in 1h souy
! the twenty fourth day of December 1897 and The
Of the on c2 a f of The sy
august 1875, and to the decree entered therein in
holding special term in Equity on the twenty.
first day of September, 1893, the undersigned, the
ingtor, DC, as trustee under the DEGREES afore-
said Will ias on the r ElFTEEXTH DAY OF NovEM
office of the Belt Railway Company. at Eleventh
street and nd FIeFide Avenue in the City Of Wash
entirety, all and singular the corporate rights
privileges and franchises, rights of way and prop
erty, real personal and mixed, of the Belt Rail-
The lines of said Belt Railway Company, con.
| sistng of about fifteen miles of single track,
which is composed of about seven and seventeen
twenty-si -hundredtbs miles of single track as
| fully described in the said decree of December
Beginning for the First street west at
the point Of its intersection with Maryland avenue
trict of Columbia, and running thence north along
said First street and New Jersey 10 G
| street rortb: thence west along said q street 10
Fourth street west; thence north along said Fourth
| street and New Jersey avenue to street Forth:
| thence west along sail street to Eleventh street
west; thence south along said Eleventh street to
street north; thence west along said Y street TO
Fourteenth street west; thence south along said
| Fourteenth street to street south; thence east
nue. southwest; thence eastwardy along said Viz
| giria avenue TO its intersection with Maryland
| land averue to First street west. the place Of
beginning; also along o street north between
| ginning at the intersection of Eleventh and Boun
| Diary streets northwest. and running thence south
the Intersection of Eleventh and e streets North
west and running thence east along said + street
| TO Ninth street west: thence south along said
a tracks Of s s Of Ev s ANA nc GF
| to Louisiana avenue. and thence by said Belt
Louisiana avenue to it's intersection with the main
line at Twelfth street west: tEsIce south on
| sects the main line at Twelfth street. aIso conf
nencing at the interse ction of Virginia nvenne and
south aleng said Eleventh street To Water street,
| and thence southeastw arlly along said Water
along said seventh street to street santh: also
| commencing at the intersection of OHIO and
south along said Fourteenth street to Il street
south, with turnouts aid switches. together with
| all other extensions made or rights OF extension
granted prior to the aforesaid decree of December
| Also the following described pieces and parcels
Of ground aud premises, situated in the city of
! WGShlrptOD District of Columbia.
| Original lots numbered four - ard FIVE (5>. in
square Numbered three hundred and four t3mt
| lot nun bered five t5) in square numbered five
hundred and seventy-seven C577l, containing about
frse hundred and Thirty s cantainng about
1850 square feet, together with the improve
and other street railway structures. and all ways.
easements, rights, privileges and appurtenanees
indictments and personal property q whatever kind
| iV Ralt l1-a Conn nd Ia
the possession of the receiver thereof
chss by the said Belt a1ay c
For more particular description of ell the fore
going. property. reference is hereby made to the
said dsSSse # EeSem n%n 2 EhHS 1871 SALE
cemher 24th, 1897, as follows:
The said sale SHALL be CONDUCTED as follows
that is to say. IA offering and selling the property
and franchises .oyered by, and embraced in said
trustee shall SCI the entirety without
valuation. appraisement. extension or REDEMPTION.
1t shall accept no bid therefor from any bidder
who shall not first place In its hands or deposit
that said bidder will make good his bid if ac-
cepted by the trustee and ratified by the court the
franchises shall be sold there shall be paid in
hereinbefore REQUIRED, which shall he received
a part of the purchase price, and also within i've
chase price shall be paid in cash ten days prior
to the date Of ale the court may direct, in
such amounts as the court may a'ljuGge 10 be due
and prior il equity to the said deeds OF trust The
court the right to set aside any sale made
by the trustee and to resell said premises property
and franchises upon failure OF any purchaser for
twenty days to comply with any order of the court
requiring payment. The balance of the purchase
paid in cash or the purchaser may satisfy and make
coed such balance of his bid in whole in part by
paying and surrenderins the outstanding bonds
and overdue coupons secured by the deeds of trust
hereinbefore referred to- such bonds and coupons be-
ing received such price value Shall be
equivalent proportional to the amount that the
holders thereof would he entitled to thereon in
bonds and Coupons that may used TO make such
payment shall be surrendered TO the trustee and be
upon the purchase price, but if less than the whole
amount Is applied then the amount so applied shall
coupons, which shall then be returned to the holder.
The said balance OF the sa price ns whether
installments of twenty-five per cent thereof in thr
respectively from the date of the ratification Of the
sale
vided for in pursuance Of this decree, the trustee
shall report the same to this court for conirma-
by the -" purchaser or purchasers With the condi
tions Of sale as hereinbefore described. II any
or persons making the same shall fail to
comply with all the conditions Of sale and all
deposited by the bidder shah be forfeited and
shall be applied as the court may direct
to Py IN cash wha Ve das from the av Of
sale is not less than S62; 600 and will not exceed
payable by the DEGREES above named, and the
amounts of the claims for wages, supplies etc,
required to be paid by the act of Congress ap-
proved June "a, 1898, entitled An act to define
the rights OF purchasers of the Belt Railway
Company and for other purposes
Attention Of bidders is called to the aforesaid
act Of Congress approved June "a, 1898. whereby
the purchaser at the sale under said decree shall
possess and enjoy all the corporate rights. privi-
leees and franchises heretofore conferred upon the
said Belt hallway Company, and whereby cblga-
tions are imposed upon the purchaser with ref
eience to the underground electric equipment of
said road.
All conveyances, including tax, at the
purchasers cost.
AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST CO,
Trustee.
oc12dts @. J. BELL. President