Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-06
SU BIN IT SUBSTITUTE
COMMISSIONERS FORWARD RE-
PORT ON TERMINAL PROJECT.
Clause Included in Bill for Grant of
Additional Ground for Union
Station.

The Commissioners today forwarded to
Congress their report on the bill authorizing
the Washington Terminal Company to ac-
quire the remainder Of squares 719 and go,
bounded by F and H and I'd streets north
east, and also permitting the terminal COM
pany to close and use G and Chicago streets
at I'd street, and any alleys In the squares.
The Commissioners, in reporting on this
bill. submit substitute bill, which includes
the proposition that in consideration of
permitting the railroad company to close
and use the portions of G and Chicago
streets mentioned the railroad company
will give the District a new street 60 feet
wide, connecting F street with the plaza.
the union station, and relieve the District of
any claims for damages resulting to prop
erty In the two squares resulting from
changes in grade of streets in the vicinity
of the station.
ton the Commissioners indicate their an
swer to the objections raised by the repre-
sentatives of the Northeast Citizens Assoc
citation at the hearing on the matter held
before the Commissioners Saturday. The
Commissioners state that If the traffic to
the railroad company's baggage yards re-
quires that the new street along the east
wall of the terminal be wider than sixty
feet they believe the company will dedica te
the necessary land for the increased width.
The, northeast citizens argued that the
street along the east side of the station
should be at least eighty feet wide and that
the railroad company be restricted from
blocking up the roadway with its wagons.
Text Of the Report.
The Commissioners report is in part as
follows:
"As at present drawn the bill does not pro-
vide that the terminal company shall COM
pensate the District for the closing of the
streets and alleys, and in order to provide
for this and for certain changes of verbage
the Commissioners have prepared a substi-
tute bill. A description of this substitute
bill is as follows:
Certain changes Of verbiage are made in
the first section of the bill in order to pro-
vide that the streets and alleys referred to
therein shall not be closed until all the
property abutting thereon shall have been
acquired by the terminal company The
first proviso authorities the terminal COM
pany TO acquire. by purchase or condemna-
ton, all the solidly improved property fac
Ing on the south side of F street west of
I'd street. Its acquisition will enable the
Commissioners, without expense for grade
damages, to carry street west into the
plaza In front of the new union station
at practicable grade. The second proviso
requires the terminal company to dedi-
cate a street sixty feet wide to connect F
street with the plaza. The third proviso
extends all the provisions of the original
union station act and the acts in relation
to the elimination of grade crossings which
1t amended to the structures and tracks to
be authorized in this BILL The Commits
sioners have the assurance of the railroad
company in writing that all grade damages
to property to be acquired by it under the
terms Of this bill will be waived.
A Matter Undetermined.
sit is not yet known to the Commits
sioners exactly what plan the railroad COM
pany proposed in order to provide for the
hauling Of mail and express, including
possibly the handling of large number of
milk cans from this station. II 1t is done
from the F street side. there would seem to
be no question but that this street to the
east OF the station should be wider than
the sixty feet proposed. The reason for
the adoption of the width OF sixty feet was
that the street provided for on the west
side OF the station was OF this width and
pnless the street Is to be used largely by
the railroad company. width Of sixty feet
win be sufilcient even II there are street