Rocky Ford enterprise., 1901-09-13
NamInx w..h,as,o. s,r..,..

The district commissioners have TAX
en formal action In carrying out their
expressed intention OF adopting
scheme OF different street nomcn.
cinturc for NIL thoroughfarcs outside
Of the city limits. The commissioners
arc withou; authority nt present TO cx-
tend their system into tho city proper,
but believe that Congress Will take
some notion looking To that end In the
near future. provided. OF course. the
national Legislators look upon the step
is advisable.
North and south streets will bc dcsig.
natcd by numbers. the present city
system being extended into the coun.
ry.
East and west streets will bc named
fotrtii.t.sguishsAd Americans. Taking
East Capitol street ms u dividing line.
and running north, names OF one syl-
liable will bc used. arranged on alpha
bctical order. Upon the completion OF
the one syllable series two-syllnbic
series Will begin. and upon completion
of this n thrccsyllnblc series. until the
northern limit OF the District OF Co.
lumbia Is reached.
More cxplicitctily. II may bc stated
that what Is now a street north viii
become Ames street, once the limits OF
the city are crossed. In time the CON-
missioncrs hope to have their system
| Of onc-syllnblc names extend into the
| rity for all streets north OF Fast Capi-
tol street. and the corresponding line In
| The western section Of the city. In this
way the designations Of northwest and
northeast would bc done away with.
II would simply he necessary to state
the number OF Amcs street. and add
as n prefix east" or west" In the
case OF Amcs street there would bc no
West Amcs street. A better example
might he cited in ii street. which under
the new system would become Hayes
street. There will he both an East
Hayes street and West Hayes street
II the plan is ever adopted by Con-
grcss for application to the city.
south of East Capitol stree; and in the
southwest also the lcttercd system Will
be maintained. Under this scheme the
prciiXes north and south would no
longer be necessary. But this fea-
turc of the case has not yet been
reached. and the commissioners. while
laying n proper foundation for the fu-
turc use of the names In the city itself.
are confining their attentions to the
streets that reach beyond the city lim-
| its and which are some day to be
opened when the highway act Is car
ricd into effect The commissioners.
ns stated in their orders, will make an
nounccmcnt of the names of the new
streets officially as soon rs formally
ndoptcd. The list which Engineer
Richards has submitted is ns follows:
one syllable streets-Amcs. Blaine,
Clay. Dix. Eads, Foote. Grant. Hayes,
Jaw. King. Lee. Meade, Nash. Ord.
Polk, Quarles. Rusk. Scott. Taft, Uhl,
Vane. Writ. Yates and Zane.
One syllable places Ashe, Bell
Brown). Chase, Dodge. Ernst, Field,
Gates, Holmes UIoc. 11owe). james.
Kent. Low. Meigs. Neal. Orth, Pierce,
Quail. Reed. Swain, Todd ure. VAIL
CVroom), Wayne, Yost and Iahm.
Two syllable strcets-Adams, Bry-
ant, Calhoun. Douglass, Evnrts, Full
son. Kearncy. Lawrence. Monroe. Otis.
Perry, Quincy. Randolph. Shepherd.
Tnylor, Upham. Verplnnck, Webster,
Yancy, Iiegler.
Two syllable placcs-Alcott (Astor,
Allen). Benton. Claiming, Dana, Ed
wards (Edmunds). Fremont. Girard,
Hooker. ingalls,. Johnson. Kendall, La
mar Uognm. Manning, Newcomb. Os-
good, Putnam. Quntnrd. Rogers. Sher-
man, Tyler. Upshur, Vickers, Warren.
Ycamnn, Iulick.
Three syllable streets-Allison. Blu
chnnnn, Crittenden. Decatur. Emer-
son. Fnrrngut. Gnllatin, Hamilton, In
graham. Jefferson. Kennedy. Longfel-
low, Madison, Nicholson. Oglethorpc,
Peabody, Quackenbos. Rittenhouse,
sheridan. Tuckerman, Underwood,
Van Buren. Whittier.
Three syllable places-Audubon. But
terworth, Cameron. Davenport. Ever
cit (Edison). Fesscndcn, Garrison. Har-
rison, Iverson. Jenifer kingsbury,
Linderman. Montgomery. Nicoiay,
Oyerton, Patterson. Quitman. Robin-
son. Stevenson. Tarkington,, onderniii'
venable, WorthinSton.