The evening times., 1900-10-15

and in many instances are so bad that they
are practically impossible.
Complaint of these pavements was COM
mon long before the change from horse
cars to electric traction was effected or
before the lines Of conduit road were
abandoned because of parallel tracks on
adjacent streets. The companies when
formerly informed Of the bad condition of
the pavements replied 10 the Commission
ers that extensive improvements we're in
contemplation and they begged time be-
fore the pavements should be repaired.
Since the changes were effected orders
Of the Commissioners and sharp letters of
enquiry from the Engineer Department
have been answered By the company with
the claim that they could not yet determine
just what tracks they would equip with
electricity and what they would perma-
nently abandon. This has been the condi-
tion OF affairs since last March. The COM
pany fails either 10 repair the pavements
between the tracks or to give the authori-
ties any definite reply 70 enquiries as to
when they Will be ready 10 do the necessa-
~ work to put the streets in proper con-
dition.
TIL stretches of track not now used as
shown upon map in the Engineer Depart
ment at the District Building are deserib-
ed as follows:
P Street, between Fourth and Eleventh
Streets northwest, single track.
Street, between the same limits, sin
gle track.
Fourth Street between Street and
New York Avenue. double track
First Street, between Street and In
diana Avenue northwest single track
E Street, between Ninth and Eleventh
Streets northwest. double track.
K Street, between Twenty-ninth and
Thirty-sixth Streets northwest. single
track
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Streets northwest. single track.
Virginia and Maryland Avenues south
west, between Four and a-Half and Elev-
enth Streets, double track.
Maryland Avenue southwest, between
First and Third Streets, double track.
Missouri Avenue to Third Street to
Maryland Avenue southwest, single track.
Second Street southwest, between A
and NJ Streets double track
NJ Street above Sixth southwest to
Eleventh Street southeast. double track.
G Street southeast, between Eleventh
and Seventeenth to E Street to Nine
teenth Street, double track
The track mentioned on Street
northwest, is in the'heart of the city. Be
tween the tracks the pavement is cobble-
stone which is q great drawback to the
use of the street and a public eyesore by
way of comparison between that portion
| of the street and the rest OF it. This
track, II is UfSGu Dy sumo WIZ nave CUui-
| planned to the Commissioners of its bad
condition, is probably permanently aban-
| doned, unless it shall be used to partially
| relieve the congestion of traffic on F
! Street. But whatever be it's fate those
| who constantly use the street claim that
! it ought long ago to have been put in
! condition They say there is no excuse
| for the company thus to take advantage
| of the public and leave their superannua-
| ted tracks and old-time pavement on one
| of the principal thoroughfares of the
| city.
Similar complaints and arguments have
| been presented to the Commissioners over
| and over again by residents on Fourth
| Street northwest. The pavement OF that
| street between the tracks is not only cob
| blestone, but much worn and full of
| holes One letter OF complaint to the
| Commissioners described the street as
| dangerous to horses going over it. This
| street is, If possible, more unsightly than
| E Street, and it is not at ali likely that
| it will be used again for cars, as it is but
| one block from Fifth Street over which
| the cars of the company run at present
Complaints of similar kind come up
| from the southwest section, where the
| streets are described as even worse than
! in the northwest. There is much heavy
| teaming in the southwest section, and the
| pavements there are subjected TO very
| hard usage, and it is said that the street
| covering has given way around these
abandoned tracks and that great holes
have been worn into the soil, causing a