The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-10
WANT AN OUTLET
FROM GEORGETOWN
River Front Shippers Seek
Rail Line to Northwest.
SUGGESTIONS HOW TO DO IT
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Has Fran
chises Sufficient for Accomplishing the
Work, Says Mr. R. 4. PhiIlips-An Al
tentative Proposition.

Business men IN Georgetown are again
advocating the movement started some
time ago 10 secure the removal OF the
tracks Of the Georgetown Barge, Dock.
Elevator. and EN.Iway Company from
Water Street in Georgetown It is said
that unless the tracks are to be used they
should be taken up. The chief interest
IN the matter is the desire OF business
men there to secure railroad connections.
which viii give river front shippers and
manufacturers an outlet to the northwest.
There are several feasible plans for
accomplishing this, declares Mr.. R. H.
Phillips, former superintendent of the
Washington, Arlington and Falls Church
Railway Company, who, in an interview.
said:
IF George J. Gould and the purchasers
Of the Western Maryland Railroad should
buy the right OF way Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal and construct railroad
from Cumberland to this city. it could I
think, be operated on paying basis in
conjunction with the Western MARYLAND
Railroad, which It woald touch at vii
Transport, Nd. Such a line would give
TINS city through connection To tbe
west and would be of unreasonable ben
cit TO western Maryland II wo,,Id not
interfere with the main line Of the West
eIh Maryland Railroad. as Georgetown
never mas been and never can become a
competitor with Baltimore in the deem
sea trade. The river Is not deep enough
iOt the larger vessels, and Georgetown is
al greater distJlce from the bav.
II the Gould interests do not purchase
me ne toWpath and use it for railroad like
~
Peahs ana ONO Railway. which. is bf,iIt
On towpath, and which is 17e If INC
Dsst-paylng branches of the Caesa7asI-o
anu OHIO line, the people O. Georre+o4z-1
are NOT without hopes that the Ralffusore
ana ONO Railroad viii enter Csorga
town from the west from Linden. or the
metropolitan branch. The railroad corn
pany now has the bonds OF these three
companies which give it the right OF wav.
ne Georgetown Barge, Dock EIeva-
ICT, and Railway Company. which has
tracks on Water Street representa-. an
expenditure OF nearly 500, coo, and right
q way from the intersection Of Water
Street with Rock Creek along Water
street to point west OF the Aqueduct
Bridge.
The Washington and Western Mary
land Railroad Company, which has right
OF way with trestle partly built al a
neaVy expenditure along the canal and
river bank e the Disrict OF Columbia
line.
THE Metropolitan Southern franchise
Tor railroad from Linden Nd. through
montgomery county, Maryland across the
river and through Fairfax county, Vir-
gi3ia, 10 Fairfax."
portion OF the Metropolitan Southern
Read is already in operation from linden
10 Chevy Chase, I'D. for freight pur-
poses only. II tI4e Baltimore and Ohio
Company does not intend 20 avail Itself
Of the use OF its franchise the business
men CT Georgetown are anxious to see its
tracks removed from Water Street and
some other corporation given an oppor-
tunity 10 furnish the facilities desired fer
the extension OF business interests there.