The times., 1899-02-11
THE CONSOLIDATION
Of THE CROSBY ROADS
To Be known as the Washing
ton City Railway.
Embraces All the Lines in the City
But Three.
Six important Sections Added to the
Bill by the senate. District
Committee.

The first step in legaiizing what will
doubtless prove to be Washngtons largest
street railway combination was taken yes
terday by the action of the Senate Commit
teo on the District of Columbia in agreeing
to report fayorabiy a bill authorizing
under the name of the Washington CITY
| Railway Company, the consolidation and
equipment of the following roads with the
| the electric system: The Anacostia and
/ Potomac River Road, the Capital Railway
| Company's line, the Brightwooi road
Washington, Wocdside and Forest Glen
Railway and Power Company: the City and
| Suburban Railway Company. the Ecking-
! ton and Soldiers Home and Belt lines
This enterprise is known outside OF legal
parlance as the Crosby syndicate. The
measure on which the Senate Committee
! took action yesterday, and under which It
is proposed to create this gigantic street
railway system, was House bill providing
simply that the Capital Railway Company
be allowed to change its name to the
Washington City Railway Company The
Senate committee struck out the name
Capital Railway Company and subst tuted
the Anacostia and Potomac River Com
pany providing also that the latter COM
paDy should purchase the road and other
property of the Capital Railway Company
which is a short line running from the
| Navy Yard to Congress Heights The fol-
! lowing additional sections were then added
4 TO the bill:
! Sec J. That the Anacostia and Potomac River
| Railroad Company is also hereby authorized to
purchase or lease the property and franchise of
| thc Brightwood Railway Company; Washington
! Nocdside and Forest Glen Railway and Power
Company of Montgomery County Nd and the
| City and Suburban Railway Company of Wash
| ngton; and the said companies are hereby au.
thorized to sell or lease to the said Anacosta and
Potomac River Railroad Company all their prop
! erty and franchises And the Anacostia and Po-
tomac River Railroad Company is hereby
! thorized to issue its bonds. secured by mortgage
| OF the whole or any part OF property and fran
| ctiscs now owned to be acquired, and stock
| for the purchase and retirement OF the outstand-
| ing obligations and stock Of said companies, and
| for such improvement in the construction as the
| lines of said companies may require in order to
he placed in frst-class condition: Provided
That the bonds and stock of the Anacostia and
Potomac River Railroad Company thus TO he
issued shall not in the aggregate exceed the
OF Sl50.00O per mile Of single track for the tracks
thus purchased and leased.
Sec. 4. That the purchasers of the Belt Rail
way Company and their assigns also hereby
authorized to extend their doubIe-track road from
| Eleventh and Streets northwest southerly along
| Eleventh Street TO Louisiana Avenue north. there
TO connect with the present tracks OF the Belt
| Railway Company.
Sec. 3. That the time for completion Of the
tracks authorized TO he built by section Of
an act entitled AN act to extend the routes of
the lexington and Soldiers Home Railway Com
pany and OF the Belt Railway Company Of the
District of Columbia, and for other purposes"
approved June TO- 1896, is hereby extended to one
year from the date of the passage Of this act
Sec. q. That the owners of the property and
franchises OF the Belt Railway Company are
hereby authorized to construct a double track
electric railway from the northern terminus OF
the Eleventh Street line eastwardly along Grant
Avenue TO a junction with the BrightwoOd Rail
way Company: Provided. That the overhead
electric system shall not be installed south Of
Florida Avenue.
Sec. Z That the Anacostia and Potomac River
| Railway Company is hereby required 10 begin
within three months and complete within twelve
months from the date OF the passage OF tins act
the installation on all its lines within the city
OF Washington. now regularly operated by horse
cars Of the underground electric system, suistan
italy similar to that used by the Metropolitan
Railroad Company; And provided further That
. through service of electric shall he regu
lIrly operated from Congress Heights at least as
lar as Eleventh and G Streets northwest. and
that 10 more than single fare shall be charged
for 4 continuous ride this route, and that
free transfers shah be given 10 any passenger de
string the same for continuous ride in the same
general direction over any connecting ruuteS OF
|
ulny. the Capital Railway Company, and the
routes formerly owned and operated by the Belt
Railway Company.
Sec s. That the owners Of the property and
franchises of tho Belt Railway Company are
/ hereby authorized to operate their over the
tracks Of the City and Suburban Railway Com
Iany from the point Of intersection OF the tracks
! Oi the two companies at Fourth and g Streets
| northwest WestWardly on & Street to Eleventh
! Street northwest
Whenever the foregoing route comedies with
the duly authorized route or uutcS Of ans other
| fiuly incnruGFatCd street railway company m the
District Of Columbia both companies shall use
/ the same tracks. upon such fair and equitable
terms Tor such Of tracks and power as may
Ice agreed uron ly said companies. In the event
said companies shall fail to agree upon equitable
| terms either OF said companies may apply by pc
| tjiiGn to the Supreme Court Of the District Of
| Columbia which shall hear and determine the
matter in due form Of law, and the decision Of
the supreme Court OF the District OF Columbia
Shall be final and without appeal
An additional section provides that the
above company shall pay to the District of
Columbia in lieu of personal taxes upon
personal property 4 per cent OF its gross
earnings per annum on its lines within the
District Its real estate shall be taxed as
other real estate in the District.
The company is also authorized to eX-
, tend tracks along the following route: Be
ginning at or near the intersection of Con-
necticut Avenue extended and Philadelphia
Street, thence westerly on Philadelphia
/ Street to its intersection with Tenleytown
: Road. thence northwesterly to Trenton
Street, westerly to rty-fourth, norther-
ly to Vallejo. westerly to Forty-seventh,
5 northerly to Flint, and westerly to Boun-
dary avenue, thence southeriy to Forty
eighth Street, and on Forty-eighth to
: Brandywine, and easterly to Forty seventh
Street, as shown upon the plans of the
third section of the highway extensions.
EXTENSION OF CONDUITS.