The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-02
AVENUE IS OPENED
BRIDGE OVER CENTRAL RAILROAD
 IS COMPLETED.
1t Will Develop . Fine Driveway Through Capital Heights, the New Residential suburb
 of MOntE0mery.

With the completion yesterday of the fine steel bridge across the tracks of 1 the Central of Georgia Railway on the extension of Madison Avenue, that fine thoroughfare was opened to the Mount Meigs Road, thereby giving the farm CTS and other persons residing in the eastern part of the county a route to the city nearer by almost a mile. The construction of the bridge and the opening of Madison Avenue was promoted and completed by land com pany which is developing a residential suburb east of the railroad tracks for new subdivision of Montgomery. This suburb has been named Capital Heights" and it bids fair to become popular since about twenty-five or thirty prominent citizens have already purchased lots there and propose to build beautiful homes.
 Not the least of the benefits to be derived from the opening of the ave- nue to traffic Is the nearer route to the city by way Of the Mount Meigs Road and what is known as "the Red Bridge quarter of the city. The length of the old route was due to thelfact that the route traversed by the new Madison Avenue extension was impossible ow- ing to several deep ravines. The land development company at great expense filled in these ravines and graded the roadway approaching the steel bridge on either side and the new thorough fare will be one of the most popular about Montgomery.
 The Capital Heights division consists of 234 acres. some of which is within stones throw of the Capitol, but was heretofore cut off from the city by reason of the deep guiIies. This sub division was purchased by J. S. Pinck- ard, Albert F. Wilson and Massey Will son, who formed the development com pany. They have had the tract beau tifully subdivided and are making ina provements there that would be cred itable to the suburban districts of the greater cities.
 In the Capital Heights" division are SIS lots. The streets have been graded and the company Is now hav- ing cement sidewalks laid throughout the tract. Twelve hundred North Car olina poplars have been planted as shade trees, silver leaf and cut leaf maple are to he planted soon The avenues running east and west, begin- ming at the Mount Meigs Road and rum ming through to the Upper Wetumpka Road. are named in the following or- der; James. Capitol, Madison, St. Charles, Winona, Yancey, Mckinley and W lnuSOr N I ne cross streets are named California. Florida. Maryland, Pennsyl- vania and Panama. A graded and cherted boulevard will run around the property, connecting the Upper We- tumpka Road with the Mount Meigs Road
 A unique feature of the suburb will be that no houses will face on the streets. it being the plan to have all of them face on the avenues. The blocks are 400 feet square and each lot Is 200 feet deep
 The plans for improving the prop. erty embrace a double tracked street car service on Madison Avenue to the Mount Meigs Road, sanitary sewerage, water mains and electric lights.
 The development company is erect ing a neat octagonal shaped ofnce building at the corner of Madison Av- enue and California Street. It is to be equipped with telephones and other modern conveniences.
 The steel bridge by which the avenue was opened Is 130 feet long and cost about s5.000.