Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-01
Board of Trade to Consider Vital
Local Measures,
COMMITTEE REPORTS OUTLINED
Recommendations About 3. and O.
Railroad Bill.
REMOVAL OF CITY RECORDS

The bill providing for the abolition of
grade crossings within the limits of the city
and along the line of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company will be considered
at meeting of the board of trade to be
held tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in
the National Rifles Hall. on G street be-
tween 9th and 10th streets northwest.
Inc committee on streets and avenues
Will make a report adversely to the bill
transferring the records and maps relating
to the city now m the office of the city
surveyor to the Office of the commissioner
of public buildings and grounds, and favor
ably on the bill for the transfer of the rec
ords of the city now in the office of the
commissioner of public buildings and
grounds to the office of the city surveyor.
There is, of course, much general interest
in the report on the railroad bill, and the
committee on railroads. of which Mr.. Frank
Hume is chairman, has given the subject
much consideration.
Recommendations to Be Made.
The committee in its report will make a
number of recommendations. The report
Will favor the widening of street forty
ieet IN front of the proposed new depot
and the extension to continue on the north
side from New Jersey avenue to 1st street
northeast; that both Massachusetts avenue
and r street be left open and the parked
space pounded by Delaware avenue Massa-
chusetts avenue, F and 1st streets east be
le1t undlsturbed as park; that the use of
any part of North Capitol street by the
Iailroad company be prohibited, and that
the words District of Columbia be sub
stituted for the words city of Wash
ington'' wherever the latter occ,,r IN IT.
bill. 'A .'A0
-, ~ IS further recommended that the pro-
a n to
nails and terminal tracks with tho present
Lnes OF railroads of the Washington and
METROPOLITAN branches should continue
northerly across Florida avenue at a point
edst OF Brentwood road. This latter road
Is not to be obStructed, and thence the
road Is to be continued to 9th and S streets
northeast, crossing New York avenue bv n
p.lose' ana leaving that avenue and 4th
street northeast at their intersection unob-
structed From 9th and streets the tracks
are to d1verge, one to continue in a general
northeasterly direction to connect with the
Pre- sent tracks of the Washington branch
AT or near winthrop Heights, and the
other In northerly direction to connect
with the present tracks of the METROPOLITAN
branch near Indianapolis street.
Yards and Shops,
Provision is to be made for yards, shops,
&c, at or near the connection of the Wash
ington branch and the branch track or Y,
the latter to commence at point on the
washington branch at or near 18th street
between 7 and U streets northeast; thence
in a northwesterly direction at or near 10th
and w streets northeast on the Washing
ton branch. The report provides for the
surrender of abandoned land to the United
states and recommends that provisions for
drainage should be inserted in the bill SINH
lar to those recommended by the commits
tee for the Pennsylvania railroad bill, and
also the provisions for taxation 1t is fur
ther advised by the committee that author
ity be given to run switches from author
lied tracks upon the application of any
property holder
The committee adds that as the division
OF the cost of similar improvements in
other municipalities has differed widely the
question of the payment of any portion of
the cost OF these improvements be left 10
the discretion of the Commissioners and Of
Congress