Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-22
PLEASED AND DISPLEASED
WHO COMMENT ON
CHANGES IN STREET NAMES.
Plea That Proposed System Will At
feet Tftles-One MAN APP
proves Plan.

Letters commenting onthe remaining OF
the streets of the suburbs continue to ar
rive at the District building. There are
today, as usual, more DIRECTORS than there
are fndorsers of thesproposed system. The
following are samples:
John w. Broshers Of Winthrop Heights
objects to any change in the name Of Gin
cinnati street in Winthrop Heights, or the
Montello subdivision.
"As my deed calls" he says, 'for GER
tain number of feet commencing on given
point on that street and running so many
feet on 10th street, and so on to the start
ing point; and as we have donated all our
rights to said street to the District Of Co
lumbia as Cincinnati street and 10th street,
/ think we are entitled to the retention
of the names, as changing them Will con-
fuse and injure the title to our lands
John M. Rankin, an attorney OF the. AT
lant1c building, writes In similar manner
of Ka1orama avenue.
1.-THE protest Of Mr.. ]. B. Winner against
changing Kalorama avenue to Yates street
has my cordial concurrence" says Mr..
Rankin. Il own property ana reside on
KalOrama avenue, and am very strongly
opposed to he proposed change in Its
name.
while the proposed change of nomen-
clature Is theoretically merltorious, II
seems to me that the advantages pre-
sumed to result therefrom are decidedly
more fictitious than real"
Columbia Road Residents.
The Commissioners today received pc
tition numerously signed by the residents
on both sides of Columbia road protesting
against the changing of the name OF the
said road to Franklin street. They say that
1t seems particularly appropriate. owing
to the irregular directions taken by the
road from Its beginning at connecticut
avenue and Boundary to its present termi-
nus at 7th street, that 1t should be styled
as at present-a road. Owing to it's great
trregularity at many points the petitioners
say that 1t clearly could not be brought
into the general scheme as outlined. There
fore, In the minds of the petitioners there
does not appear to be sufficient reason to
change the name Of Columbia road as pro-
posed.
Approves the Plan.
Thomas w. Giimer of 545 Florida avenue
northwest approves the plan, and writes
as follows:
Your proposed system Of street nomen-
clature for the county Is highly approved
by me. 1 hope you will obtain authority to
use the same system within the present
city limits. The system is practically the
same as that which I have advocated for
years. / am an owner Of property on some
of the streets to be changed. but am GER
tain the changes will not injure property
in any way.
1.-THE opposition seems to be based entire
1y on sentimental grounds. Some Of your
correspondents evidently fail to understand
the system. I am interest in property on
Yale street between-i13th and 14th. Your
list changes Yale street to Claiming.
should prefer the name Capron, in honor
Of Captain Capron, who was killed in the
Spanish war, but Charming is good enough.
bismarck Is continuation of Yale street,
but not one person in ten knows its loca-
ton. When Bismarck becomes Charming
every one who understands your simple
system will know at once that Claiming
street Is the third street in the second al
phabetical list. The initial letter and the
two SyllableS SO Indicate, ~,