The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-13
Naming Washington Streets.

/ IN formal action in carrying out their
expressed intention of adopting Il
scheme of different street noIncn-
| clature for all thoroughfares outside
Df the city limits. The commissioners
| are without authority at present TO eX-
tend their system into the city proper,
but believe that Congress will take
| some action looking TO that end in the
near future. provided. of course. the
national legislators look upon the step
rs advisable.
! North and south streets will be dcsig-
mated by numbers, the present city
, system being extended into the coun-
| ry.
| East and west streets will be named
for distinguished Americans. Taking
East Capitol street as dividing line,
and running north, names of one syl
| liable will be used, arranged on alpha
I'betical order. Upon the completion of
,, the one syllable series two-syllable
! series will begin. and upon completion
Of this thrce-syllable series, until the
northern limit of the District of Co.
| lumbia Is reached.
More cxplicltedly. it may be stated
that what is now \ street north will
become Ames street, once the limits of
1 'IlC titS art CJOSsth III liltiI thS NplA-
missioners hope to have their system
Of one-syllablc names extend into the
city for all streets north of East Capt.
tol street, and the corresponding line in
he western section of the city. In this
way the designations of northwest and
northeast would be done away with
/. 1t would simply be necessary to state
| the number Of Ames street. and add
rs prefix east or west" In the
| case of Ames street there would be no
West Ames street. A better example
might be cited in II street, which under
the new system would become Hayes
street There will be both an East
Hayes street and West Hayes street
II the plan is ever adopted by Con-
gress for application to the city.
south of East Capitol street and in the
southwest also the lettercd system will
| be maintained. Under this scheme the
prefixes north and south would no
longer be necessary. But this fea-
ture of the case has not yet been
reached, and the commissioners while
/ laying proper foundation for the fu-
ture use Of the names in the city itself.
are cOnfining their attentions to the
streets that reach beyond the city lin
Its and which are some day to be
opened when the highway act Is car
ried into effect. The commissioners.
as stated in their orders, will make an
nouncement Of the names of the new
streets officially us soon as formally
adopted. The list which Engineer
Richards has submitted is as follows:
One syllable streets-Ames, Blaine,
Clay. Dix, Eads, FOote. Grant, Hayes.
Jay, King, Lee. Meade. Nash. Ord,
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yane, Writ, Yates and Zanc.S'
(Brown). Chase, Dodge. Ernst, Field,
Gates, Holmes (Hoe, Howe), James,
Kent. Low. Meigs. Neal. Orth, Pierce,
Quail, Reed. Swain, Todd. Ure, Vail,
(vroom), Wayne, Yost and Zahm
Two syllable etreets-Adams, Bry-
ant. Calhoun. Douglass, Evarts, Full
son. Kearney, Lawrence. Monroe, Otis,
Perry, Quincy, Randolph. Shepherd,
Taylor. Upham. yerplanck, Webster,
Yancy, Ziegler.
Two syllable places-Alcott (Astor.
.Allen). Benton. Claiming, Dana, Ed
wards (Eimunds). Fremont, Girard,
Hooker, ingalls,. johnson. Kendall, La
mar logan. Manning. Newcnmb Os-
good, Putnam, Quintard. Rogers. Sher-
man. Tyler, Upshur. yickers, Warren,
Yeaman, Zulick.
Three syllable streets-Allison. Bu-
chanan. Crittenden. Decatur. Emer.
son. Farragut. Gallatin. Hamilton, In
graham. Jefferson. Kennedy. IIongfel-
low, Madison. Nicholson, Oglethorpe,
Peabody. Quackenbos. Rittenhodse.
Sheridan, Tuckerman. Underwood,
Van Buren, Whittier.
Three syllable places-Audubon But
terworth, Cameron. Davenport. Ever.
EFT (Edison). Fessenden, Garrison. Har.
rison, Iverson. Jenifer, Eingshslry
Linderman. Montgomery, Nicolay,
Overton, Patterson. Quitman. Robin
son, Stevenson, Harrington, Underhin
venable, Worthington.