The times., 1899-02-09
PROTESTS FROM CITIZENS.
An Important Session OF the High
way Extension Commission.

The Highway Extension Commission
held very important session at the War
Department yesterday and considered a
score of protests against certain provisions
OF the first section of the highway eN-
tension plan.
All the members of the Commission were
present, including the Secretary of War,
the Secretary of the Interior, and Gen.
John NJ. Wilson, Chief of Engineers of the
Army; William p. Richards, Assistant En-
gineer of the District Engineer Depart
ment, acted as secretary of the Commits
sion.
The Commission considered written pro-
tests from the Brightwood Citizens Asso-
citation. F. H. Kuhn, George II. Wilson.
A. c. Osborn, Blair Lee, Wilton J. Lam
bert, B. H. Warner. Charles C. Glover,
L. p. Shoemaker, Richard NJ. johnson.
Elizabeth Thomas. George Truesdell and
others.
Messrs. Wilton ]. Lambert, George
Truesdell, former Commissioner of the
District of Columbia, and T.. T. Bates ap
peared before the Commission and offered
further explanations regarding the various
objections lodged by them in their pro-
tests
Fully one-half of the protests were op-
posed TO the plan of the Highway Commits
sion for the first section and in favor of
ii pioh SuDIiIillsu Dy tne BTlSnIWUOu tlIl-
zens' Association. The others were in
favor of accepting the plan prepared and
approved by the Commission and against
the changes proposed by the Brightwood
Association.
After reading the protests and hearing
the remarks of those present at the con-
ference. the Highway Commissioners went
into executive session. important action
was taken during this session. Certain
rhgnpaS do in ba fire. nd
these will be embodied in letter 10 be
submitted TO the District Commissioners
tomorrow. II approved. the first section
will be sealed and closed and the entire
| plan of highway extension north of the
| city limits and northeast of the Eastern
Branch will have been agreed upon. 1t
| is believed that yesterdays session prac-
| ticaliy settled the question. of highway eX-
| tension as far as the first three sections
! are concerned.
Some of the protests considered by the
| Commission were in favor of all manner of
| changes
Wilton ]. Lambert requested that GER
| tain changes be made in the streets of the
! first section.
| l.. S. Chapman was against any inter
! ference with the continuation of Thirteenth
| Street in a straight line to the District of
| Columbia line.
The Brightwood Citizens Association
| called attention to laws pertaining TO
street extension and agreed to retain GER
| tain streets.
| F.. II. Kuhn opposed the change in ,he
| plan Of the Highway Commission asked
for by the Brightwood Citizens Associa-
| ton.
! a. C. Osborn requested that Thirteenth
| Street north of the Piney Branch Road
| and the Piney Branch Road running south
west from r Street be eliminated from the
| plan of the first section.
Blair Lee opposed all the changes in
the first section with the exception of the
elimination of Twelfth Street
Wilton ]. Lambert objected to Thir-
| teenth Street from Brightwood TO the
| District line to the original diagonal av-
enue running from Sixteenth Street
| through his tract. and TO the ninety-foot
roadway between his property and that
| OF Lee
Charles c. Glover was opposed to any
change OF the plan of the first section ap-
proved by the Highway Commission.
| b. II. Warner objected to all the sugges-
tons offered by the Brightwood Citizens
! Association and urged that the entire sub
ject of highway extension be reopened if
| the association S request were granted.
| l.. P. Shoemaker, in his protest, dis
cussed the subject generally as a mem
ber of the. Brightwood Citizens Associa-
tion and asked that the curved street in
his land be abandoned.
| Richard ". johnson protested against
| the changes in the first section suggested
| By the Brightwood Citizens Association.