Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-17
CHANGES SUGGESTED.
Commissioners Recommend Amend
mcnts to Pending Railway Ell.

Commissioners Recommend Amend.
mcnts to Pending Railway Ell.
The District Commissioners, as stated In
The Star of yesterday. transmitted to the
Hcrse District committee report made
to them by Captain Beach of the engineer
department on the bill to authorize the
Washington and Gettysburg Railway Com
pany to enter the District. The Commits
sioners state that they concur In the re-
port, which recommends the making OF GER
tain changes in the route.
Captain Beach recommends that the route
provided for in section should be amended
SO as to read as follows: Beginning at the
boundary line of the District Of Columbia
at the intersection of said boundary line
With 18th street northeast extended, as
shown on the proposed plans of street eX-
tension: thence by double track south on
said 14th street for distance Of $50 feet,
thence in westerly direction to 18th street
northeast extended, as shown on the plans
Of street extension; thence south on 18th
street to the north line of Bunker Hill
road, thence along the north side. of said
road and wholly outside the limits thereof
to 18th street, Brookland; thence south by
single track on 18th and Duncan streets to
Rhode Island avenue, thence in a south
westerly direction on Rhode Island avenue
to 10th street, thence north on 10th and
Wallace streets to and across Bunker Hill
road to the north side thereof, thence along
18th street, connecting with the double
tracks at that point" 1t is not believed
advisable to allow the road to be extended
south Of Rhode Island avenue, as it practi-
cally parallels the lexington and Soldiers
Home railway, and the promoters of the
Washington and Gettysburg road have
stated that they do not desire to do this If
the lexington and Soldiers Home road
will establish a rapid transit system on it's
lines.
Captain Beach also recommends that the
clause allowing the extension of the road
south of Rhode Island avenue-that is.
ires to II, page 2 Of the bill, be stricken
out, as 1t Is not believed this extension will
be necessary, and, furthermore, the exact
route cannot be definitely determined at
this time without, in all probability, inter-
fertng with the plans for entrance, by ele-
waited structure, of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company into the city.
He thinks section 3 should be amended to
read as follows: THAT the motive power
shall be cable, electric, compressed air or
other mechanical power other than steam
locomotive power, and wherever the troll
ley system is used a return wire similar in
capacity, situation and insulation to the
feed wire shall be provided for the current,
and no dynamo furnishing power to the
road or any portion thereof shall have
either of its poles connected to earth"
Section declares the line of the road
to be mail route, and Captain Beach
says there appears to be no necessity for
eEiH a. tAAS ACSelll tlLlc, dliu IL Tie pOStdl
officials desire to send mails over this
road it would naturally become such. The
prcpriety of designating lines as mail
routes In advance of their construction is
a matter to be determined by Congress, he
says.
Section II, says Captain Beach, should
have the following added to it: "All pas
senger rooms and transfer stations shall
be provided with such conveniences for the
public as said Commissioners may direct"
Section q should, he believes, be stricken
out as it is not believed to be advisable
to give general authority to consolidate
with other lines, and authority for such
consolidation should be definite and speci-
fc in each particular case.
Section %, should the road be amended
as suggested in the report, become unnec-
essary, Captain Beach says. as the road In
that case would not extend below Florida
avenue.