The evening times., 1900-03-24
EXTENSION OF 4 RAILWAY
A Proposed Improvement Of The
Capital Traction Company.
An Amended Bill Reported by fac
CoIumbiR-The Changes to BE
Made Deemed Observation-Disclosures
Access TO tire Library of Congress.

The Senate Committee on the District OF
Columbia to which was referred the bill
authorizing and requiring certain exten-
sions to be made to the lines OF the Capt.
tai Traction Company has reported an
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
The new bill provides for an extension
of the company's lines on F and G Streets
south Of Pennsylvania Avenue and west Of
the State, War, and Navy Building. This
extension has been asked for by the prop
erty owners who have filed petitions with
the committee II is proposed that certain
of the cars on the Pennsylvania Avenue
line shall run to and from Georgetown via
and G Streets thus opening up section
that is growing both as business and also
as residence property.
The committee proposes two amend
ments TO the bill The first extends the
lines from their present terminus at {
Street and New Jersey Avenue along c
Street to Delaware Avenue; thence to the
B Street north, corner Of the Capitol
Grounds and around the block bounded
on the other two sides by First and .B
Streets east; that is TO say. a passenger
on the Fourteenth Street line instead of
being landed opposite the Baltimore and
Ohio station, may ride 10 the Capitol
Grounds, or to within one block Of the Ii
brary. Moreover, when the new station
of the Baltimore and Ohio Road shall be
constructed. cars on the Fourteenth Street
line will pass it. But one square of sim
gle-track road will be constructed TO make
this extension the route for the remainder
of the distance coinciding with that of the
Metropolitan Railway, and but one set Of
tracks being used
The second amendment provides for
DETECTION in the route of the Anacostia
Railway, so as TO bring passengers 10 the
Library and the Capitol.
The committee considers all these
changes TO be primarily in the interests
of the public and recommends them TO the
favorable consideration of the Senate.
The substitute bill was drawn b. the
Commissioners Of the District of Columbia
whose report follows:
The Commissioners have the honor to
submit the following on 5. 1870, Fifty-siXth
Congress. first session, for the extension
of the lines OF the Capital Traction Com
pany. referred to them by your committee
for report:
The first extension proposed by the bill
is from the present tracks Of the COM
panv at First and 3 Streets northwest,
east on Street to New Jersey Avenue,
and north on New Jersey Avenue TO c
Street. connecting with the present termi-
nal at that point.
The construction Of loop at this To-
cality would end the present necessity
OF parking and switching cars in c Street,
very desirable Improvement. In view,
however. of the proposed location of the
passenger station OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad in squares 6S3 and 6S4,
fronting on c Street, between North Cap
itol and First streets east. it is believed
that the cars Of the company should, by
all means, pass along this portion of
Street. For the purpose of accomplishing
this object it is recommended that the sec
oud paragraph Of the bill be amended so
as to provide for the operation Of the ears
over the following route. namely:
Beginning at the intersection Of First
and c Streets northwest: thence east on
c Street to Delaware Avenue; thence by
a loop bounding square 6S6 dying b5sWeen
Delaware Avenue, b. First, and Streets
northeast.
BY this route the cars would not only
pass by the new station site. but would
reach the top of Capitol Hill. and come
within easy walking distance of the Capt.
tol aud Library buildings.
The new construction required would
be a single track in c STREET northwest. be
tween First Street northeast and New Jer-
sey Avenue. and a single track in First
Street northeast. between and Streets,
the remaining portion Of the route being
over tracks now existing. This arrange
ment would also permit the abandonment
and removal of the double tracks of the
pow in the south side of c Street
northwest. between First Street and New
Jersey Avenue.
The second and third extensions pro-
posed by the bill authorize the extension
Of the road from the intersection OF Penn
sylvania Avenue and Seventeenth Street
northwest south on Seventeeth to G by
double tracks, west on G by single track to
north on Twenty-sixth by
double tracks to Pennsylvania Avenue:
also south on Twenty-siXth from G 10 i
by single track, east on by single track |
to Seventeenth. and north on Seventeenth |
by single track to G.
"It is believed that the operation of a |
street railway through this section would |
be a public benefit. On account of the mar !
row width of Twenty-sixth Street, how |
ever. it is deemed inadvisable to construct |
a double track therein, a single track in /
Twpniy- sixth and a single track in TWen- /