The times., 1899-01-18


doesn't necessarily imply that you will run
over the Brightwood tracks to TakOma-
We have already arranged with the
Brightwood road to operate reciprocaily
over each others lines. If the present bill
goes throug hthe Brightwood cars will by
| contract have the privilege of passing
| down Eleventh Street over our line TO the
centre of the city
VII. Williams states Facts.
Treasurer Williams. of the Brightwood
road. advanced to the center of the board
room and offered to explain matters.
The Brightwood line" he said, has for
! many years past endeavored to get the
Metropolitan line to execute the law of
1894. They refused. The Belt Railway now
! comes and says it will execute the law
and make connection whereby the
Brightwood cars may run through into
! the city over its lines. According to this
agreement the cars will start at Takoma
Park and run all the way down Eleventh
Street TO the Centre Market. The Belt in
good faith says it will execute the law by
a fair and proper agreement. We accept.
About the cry of congestion on Florida
Avenue. Five and six lines of cars run
through narrow streets in Baltimore, Phil
adeIphia, Boston and Cincinnati without
congestion. The same thing can be done
! here Just as we'll The Brightwood road
has stood as a stub-end long enough now.
It will be so no longer, despite the efforts
OF the city roads,
President Crosby was then asked for an
opinion by the Commissioners. He scout
ed the idea that fourth road would con-
gest Florida Avenue in n short section of
road. When the proposed bill was
drafted, he said. we asked TO run part
Of the way in T Street on account of the
known opposition of the two present L
Street lines 10 our passing along that
thoroughfare.
What of Broadway and Twenty third
Street in New York with many lines?
Is that intersecting point congested? We
want a cooperative system of movement
! of cars with the Brightwood company in
order that we may derive more profits out
| of a better handling of the public. We
| feel that there will be such good results
| that We Willingly agree to reciprocal
! trackage arrangements So FAR as the
| present status is concerned. the law of
| August . 1894. intended that through
service should be secured to the residents
| of the suburbs by reciprocal trackage ar
rangements.
The bill was drawn with the distinct
| end in view of giving Suburbanltes more
rapid access TO the centre of the city. Ii
| there were a way Of connecting without
using the two blocks between Seventh and
| Ninth Streets l would avail of it in a
moment. There is none. The iIGerest of
| a corporation is not always the same as
| that of the public. This. though, is one
| of the cases where the interest of cor
| poration is identical with that of the pub
! lie and particularly the suburbanites.'
| Attorney Wilton Lambert, a resident of
| Brightwood Avenue, said that the people
/ of that section of the District had believed
! that the act of 1894 would result in giving
! them a continuous ride into the city.
/ That hope proved a delusion,' he con-
! tinued 1T was indefinitely postponed.
! The present bill is to us good one. If
! the arrangement between the Belt and
( BTightwood companies is a sincere one, 1t
will meet the endorsement of every resi-
| dent OF that section OF the District.
The TenicXtown Boad-
The Commissioners then called up House
bill II445, providing for the extension of
the Georgetown and Tenleytown Rail-
way. The verbal fight which character
| lied the discussion of the first bill was
| continued with renewed energy during the
| consideration Of the latter bill.
This bill requires the Capital Traction
| Company and the Georgetown and Ten
| leytown Railway Company TO estab ish,
( within ninety days from the passage Of
! the act a through-car service from the
| District line near Tenleytown 10 The
| Navy Yard. This provision cont 9mpiates
| the granting of reciprocal trackaee ar
| rangements by the two companies under
| the provisions of the act Of August :, ls9i-
| The Tenleytown road will then be PRIV
| lleged TO operate its cars over the line Ci
! the Traction Company from Thirty second
and NJ Streets northwest TO the Navy
| Yard.
| In the event of the failure OF the rail-
| way companies to estab ish such q System
Of through service within the time speci-
fed in the bill. the Georgetown and Tenley-
| town Railway Company is authorized ana
! required TO construct. within 1--WE montns,
| double-track underground electric rail-
way over the following route:
Beginning al its present line. at the m
| tersection OF Thirty and y Streets
| northwest: thence south on Thirty second
| Street to y Street thence east on y Street
10 Twenty-seyenth Street. thence south ua
| Twentv-seventh Street 10 Street thence
| easr on NJ street TO Fifteenth Street
| thence south to L Street, east on l. street
to Eleventh Street. forming at this pom
a junction with the Belt Company's lines
one fare is 10 be charged over the pro
posed lines from beginning to end
MIR Dunlop Objects.
President Dunlop led the argument Of
rbis bill He said in part: The Tcnley
town road under this bill seeks TO force IL
vay over our tracks from Thirty
and NJ Streets to the Navy Yard under III
| nrovisions of this 1884 act. The bill doe
moi saw anything about reciprocal track
ape arrangements with connecting lines
and the Capital Traction Company l
| therefore has nothing to do with as. ID
ven SUPPOSE anyway, that any sensii
Derson wants to wait in Tenleyto ~
trailer at Thirty second Street until
Capital Traction car comes along TO TAX
up the trailer? / think it folly. 1t looE
like nonsense. What does Crosby seem 1
! | want to do? Collect fares on our tracks
He saws that the traffic on the Tenley
town road is small? Will 1t pay To wea
| out our tracks with this small amount q
! | traffic.
The snake in the grass is TO get his car
on our tracks: then get the public benin
him and collect fares. ! think Mr.. Crosb
E will agree that if Mr.. Crosby runs over m
l | line TO the Navy Yard he will PRACTICAL
l be confscating the Capital Traction Com
pany. Our motto is 10 keep tracks cleaI
IT is not good rairoadng 10 be hampere
by horse cars. trailers and chicken -roOs'
. Of cars
Attorney Wilson while not directly in
7 terested in the bill said that Ihe argumer
T seemed 10 intimate that the Metropoiita
| road had been trying to evade the track
Z age law Of 1884. We have not shiclde
p ourselves behind the Law he added
The law of 1894 never was intended
!. and does not apply TO the Metropollta
, road so as to compel the latter to suppl
all suburban roads with city tracks. W
Il hold also that We are not required to fuI
N nish them with power under the provision
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