Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-08
AQUEDUCT BRIDGE CHANGE
BILL BEFORE CONGREss INDORsED
BY GEORGEfUwN CITIZENS.
Movement for Observance of se"aui-
Centennial-Other Matters Dis
cussed by Association.

| Georgetown Citizens Association was held
last evening at the hall of the First CO.
Operative Building Association, 1925 32d
street, the meeting being postponed from
last Friday. Mr.B. q. Janney, president
called the members together at 7:3O O'Clock
for the transaction of business. Mr.. James
H. Taylor OBLIGATED as secretary. All of the
officers were present.
Colonel H. F. Blount chairman of the
committee on parks and public grounds,
was unable to be present at the meeting,
and his report was verbally made by Mr..
George w. King. Mr.. King stated that the
chairman had called upon Senator McMil-
Ian of the Senate District committee, who
stated that he was about to introduce a
bill In Congress giving the President power
to appoint committee of three or more
persons, who were to make d report on the
parks and public buildings of the District.
The committee, under the bill, would have
full charge of the matter, and it's report
would be broad enough to cover the needs
OF Georgetown, relative to the making or
the Boyce tract into part Of the national
chain of parks.
The Aqueduct Bridge.
Mr.. q. e. Boteler, the chairman of the
committee on commerce, had read Senate
bill 1886, introduced by Senator Mcmillan,
and now before the committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia. The bill provides for the
rebuilding of the Aqueduct bridge suffi-
GENTLY to allow the placing of a single cleo
trio railway track thereon with the under
ground system of locomotion, such as used
by the railroads of the city; equal facilities
for crossing the bridge on the track being
afforded to all of the suburban electric rail-
roads DESTROYS of reaching the Virginia end
of the structure.
The provisions of the measure were fully
explained, and Mr.. Boteler gave, in brief,
the scope of the proposed change In the
bridge and the importance of the entrance
of the electric railroad from the Virginia
side of the river. He stated that the bridge
was the most used of any leading into the
District, and that the number of people who
crossed it every twenty-four hours was UNI
usually large. He said he had seen people
cross the structure when the boards were
covered to the depth of nearly one inch with
SluSh and water.
AS it is now the bridge is in a thoroughly
safe condition, Mr.. Boteler explained. The
damaged pier No. 4. after some years of
work has been placed in a perfectly salts
factory condition. and the present super
structure rests entirely upon the new pier,
the false work at the point being of no more
use AS he explained it, one of the foot
walks would have to be taken for the pur-
pose of the track
number of well-known Georgetown peo-
pie are interested in the new railroad
which is to run to Great Falls on the Vir-
ginia side of the river having a total
length of thirteen or fourteen miles The
the exception of ten pieces of land in Alex
andria county, over which a jury Of con-
domination is to Sit on January "a.
The Bill Endorsed.
1t was the opinion Of the members pres
ent at the meeting that railroad tracks
should be laid on the bridge. Messrs. Jesse
H. Wilson, George w. King, Samuel G.
Palmer and Walter T. Weaver made re-
marks on the subject. Upon motion it
was decided that the association heartily
indorses the report of the committee and
urges passage of the bill. committee Of
three was appointed TO appear before the
Commissioners and the District commit
tees when hearing shall be given upon
the bill. The chair appointed as the COM
mittee Messrs. Boteler, Wilson and Palmer.
A letter was read from Mr.. C. c. Lam
caster, president of the Northwest Subur-
ban Citizens Association, asking the asso-
citation to indorse the proposed widening of
Wisconsin avenue to its full width of 12O
feet from Georgetown to the District line,
thereby making it one Of the boulevards
of the District. The project was Endorsed.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. James
II. Taylor reciting that as it Is necessary
for the preservation of the records of sur
veys of the line of Georgetown properties
and for the certainty Of titles thereto, the
records, plats and other data of the late
Henry Brewer should be acquired by the
District Of Columbia, and made a part Of
the records Of the office Of the surveyor of
the said District.
Mr.. Jesse H. Wilson spoke in favor of
the resolution. He stated that there was
great uncertainty as to the lines of many
Of the lots in Georgetown, and gave an in
stance in particular where one street as it
exists today, is far different from that Of
the lines laid down on the original plat
A motion was made by Mr.. Taylor that
committee Of three be appointed to call on
the Commissioners and urge upon them the
necessity of acquiring the records in ques-
ton. The motion was passed and the chair
appointed as the committee Messrs Tay-
lor, Boyle and Weaver.
Georgetown Anniversary.
The matter of the sesqui-centennial of
Georgetown was brought up by the intro
duction of resolution reciting that by act
Of the legislative assembly of the province
Of Maryland, dated May Is, 1851, the city
Of Georgetown twas created; and as the
10th anniversary of the organization will
occur May 10 Of this year the Georgetown
Citizens Association is of the opinion that
the anniversary should be properly cele
brated. The president of the association
was authorized to appoint a committee of
five, of which he is to be chairman, to con-
fer with the citizens of the town in general
to decide upon a proper and fitting means
Of observing the day.
The question was raised as to the date
of the anniversary. 1t was stated by Judge
J. Barton Miller that the town was created
by act of the legislative assembly May 15
1851, but the commission appointed did not
meet and organize until September Of the
same year. and it was February of the fol-
lowing year before the plat of the town
was made out 1t was decided to appoint
a committee of five to determine the date
of the celebration and to recommend at the
next meeting of the association some form
of observance of the sesqui-centennial.T The
chair appointed on the committee Messrs
Miller DR.. Wood, Hugh Taggart, Frank j.
Wissner and ]. Hite Miller.
Casualties In the Philippines.
General Macarthur has reported to the
War Department the following additional