Evening star., 1898-10-19
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Petition of Citizens for the Opening of Q
Street.
Reasons Advocated in Support of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of George
town Boy Briefs.


Commissioners by the residents of this sec
tion asking that Q street east of 2Sth street
be opened as a means of communication
with the city lying east of Rock creek for
the residents in the northern portion of
West Washington statement issued in
connection with this petition says:
AN examination of the map of the city
will show that the streets of West Wash
ington have now the same names as the
streets of the eastern portion of the city
and are practically similar in alignment.
Rock creek and the deep depression, in
which il flows, however, constitutes bar
rier passable only by bridges, four in num-
Der. Three of these bridges cross the creek
south of street. at points in the least at
tractive, the least desirable and the least
Vaiuabie portion of Georgetown, from a
residential point of view. The best part of
West Washington may be said to extend
from n street northward to T. or Road
street, and westward from 9th to 35th
streets.
The best approach to this quarter from
the residential portion of the city east of
Rock creek is by way of z street but it is
tar from desirable. p street is not wide
street, and the roadway and the bridge
over the stream is occupied by the tracks
of rapid transit line 1t is neither safe
nor attractive. The northern part of West
Washington contains the residences of a
large population of refinement and means,
people who are among the best of our cit-
zens and tax payers. They have done their
part in improving that section of the CITY
ana their residences are the result of large
expenditures toward the substantial and
permanent wealth and taxable basis of the
national capital.
Matter of Population.
1T appears by the police census taken by
the order of the Commissioners (see page
l95 of the report to Congress, 1897, Vol. u
that the population of the seventh precinct,
the bulk of which is in West Washington,
is 1912 persons Adjacent to Rock craek
on the east is the third police precinct con-
tanning, according to the same authority
54,i persons, so that it is Instructive to
note that settled around Rock creek from
its entrance to the city proper at Florida
avenue to the Potomac river is a popula-
ton of 54,4G4 persons.
ITO say nothing of the rest of the city,
1t Is earnestly submitted that it is not an
unreasonable proposition that better and
more attractive means of communication
should be provided between two such we'll
populated portions of the city, and that
the residents should not be restricted to
but four bridges, two of which are occupied
by the tracks of rapid transit companies,
and three of which are located far apart
from the most attractive and the best resi-
d9Ece portion OF the town.
The opening of Q street would add
greatly to the comfort of the residents of
the city west of Rock creek, and the public
generally and, it is confidently submitted,
would increase the desirablity of residence
pl operty in that part of the town, enhance
taxable values, would be an act of justice
to the citizens there who, by their invest
nent of capital, have added to the city's
wealth, and would be a distinct advance in
good and progressive government
1T Is suggested, however, that any rec
omme ndation looking toward the improve
ment referred to might be properly accom-
panied by a proviso that the highway and
ia cilities so provided should not be occupied
by the tracks of any rapid transit line
which would defeat the benefit design4d).
but that the bridge and driveway should
be used only for vehicles and foot passen-
gers.
Marriage of j. MiIInrd Fisher.
Mrs. W. H. Fisher and Messrs. Alfred
and William Fisher left recently to attend
the wedding of Mr ]. Millard Fisher, a
former Georgetown boy, who IS now located
at Springfield, Ohio. The wedding took
place last evening, the bride being Miss
Caroline Kurtz, a daughter of a we'll
known resident of that city The cere-
mony was performed in the evening at
O'Clock at the Third Presbyterian Church,
and after a short reception the newly mar
ried couple took train for this city, where
they will spend the honeymoon. Mr.. Fisher
is a graduate of the local public schools
and formerly was the principal of The
Weishtman School.
"Lights Out"
The residents of Tenleytown were without
light early this morning. The forty-six in
candescent lights on the Tenleytown cir
cult, as it is called, were extinguished from
some cause al 3 o'clock and remained so
until daybreak. The dairymen and but m
ers, who come into town before sunrise.
were most inconvenienced by the occur
renee.
Brief Mention.
Miss Fannie Petit, the daughter of Mr..
Robert Petit, is dangerously i'll of typhoid
fever at her home on S2d street
Annie Jenness Miller has bought of Mary
NJ. Winner lots 10, II, u, 13 and ii, of
block ,, in the Reno subdivision. The con-
sideration is placed at 81 800.
The work of grading the grounds sur
rounding the Western High School mas
taken Il much longer time than
The District Commissioners have
granted Andrew Gleason, the contractor,
an additional period of fifteen days in which
to complete everything.