Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-09-21
ANNAPOLIS ELECTRIC ROAD.
THE ROAD WILL BE THIRTY -ONE
MILES LONG.

Construction OF The Line Between Annap-
oils, Baltimore And Washington To
Begin Shortly-Great Progress Made
In Securing Rights OF Way.
Mr.. James Christy, Jr., of Washing
ton, general manager of the Annapolis
and Washington Electric Railway. had a
conference with President Geo. Il. Webb
OF the United Railways, BALTIC. yesterday.
Ii is understood that no definite arrange
ments have been made with the United
Railways, but that the latter is ready to
provide facilities for handling the local
end of the new road.
T MIR. w. L. MaTbury, director in the
Annapolis and Washington Company,
said yesterday that rapid progress was
being made on the prellmlnarles of the
new line, and that after the Company
WAS ready to start work IL would not take
more than ninety days to grade the road
and put down the tracks. Most OF the
rights of way have been secured and con-
siderable interest has been aroused in the
new line throughout the territory it will
traverse. AS it is expected to develop
the country and improve values, in many
given the new road.
AS planned the line will be thirty -one
miles long between the boundary limits
OF Baltimore and Washington. 1t is in
tended to build the road OF such heavy
lconstruction as to enable the cars to
cover the distance in forty-five minutes.
The route will be an air line between the
two cities and some seven miles shorter
than the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
II will run over private right of way for
the entire distance. A part of the new
road will run parallel with the Baltimore
and Washington Short Line. This will be
between Annapolis Junction and Balti-
more, and the former place and Annap-
oils. An arrangement may, however, be
made with the Railroad Company to take
its line and equip 1t with electricity in
stead OF building a new road.
AS there are two railroads running
from Baltimore to Annapolis and botn
owned by the same interests, a deal of
this sort is considered practicable. APP
preaching Baltimore, the new trolley
road will come through Westport and
meet the United Railways line now run
ming to that place. Either transfer
arrangement will be entered into or a
traffic agreement made by which the
United Railways would handle the cars
Of the Annapolis and Washington Com
pany. In the case OF the latter, it would
be necessary to lay third rail along the
route of the United Railways line to be
followed, as the cars of the new road
will have trucks of railroad guage, which
is narrower than those In use upon the
street railways OF Baltimore. The plan
is to reach Baltimore street with the cars
OF the new line. 1t would be necessary
to 60 to the City Council for franchise
to lay the extra rail required.
In connection with the plans for the
Baltimore end of the new road, the Uni
ted Railways may decide to establish a
union depot in the central part of Balti-
more. from which cars of all the subur-
ban lines of its system would run. AS
there promises to be an active develop
ment IN the near future OF suburban and
inter-city travel over trolley lines. this
union depot, it is thought, would be a
convenience to the public. The new
roads to be built, including the Sparrows
Point Line, the Belair and Havre de
Grace Railway, the Liberty Turnpike
Electric Railroad, the line from Reisters-
town, via Westminster, to Gettysburg
and newly projected road to York, Pa. +,
will all call for local terminals. The
handling OF the present suburban lines,
such as the Catonsville, Towson, Emory
Grove, Westport, Dundalk, Mount Wash
ington, Ellicott City and other branches,
would also be simplihed if union term
inal was established. This idea is now
being given serious Consideration, and it
is expected that decision will soon be
reached in the matter.