Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-09

Of knowledge in regard to the general de-
tails of this great work. Still 1t may be
said that very few have any conception or
the result when the plaza In front of the
depot at the intersection of Massachusetts
and Delaware avenues IS finished. This
level surface will be some twenty feet
above the grade of the present street. and
L will be necessary to bring the intersecting
streets up 10 that level except in the case
Of II street. where a tunnel is being made.
so that the travel can pass beneath the
railroad tracks.
Buildings Disappear.
The difference IN grade between the
streets as they now are and the new depot
Is Illustrated by the present appearance of
McDowells mill, which is standing at the
corner Of Massachusetts avenue and North
Capitol street This rather tall structure Is
surrounded by walls of earth and the level
OF the clay almost comes to the top of the
building. 1t is no longer in use and is
only waiting the action of the new owners
the railroad company. This building can
also be used to show another phase of the
changes that are being brought about by
the carrying out of this great undertaking.
Mr.. Mcdowell has already completed a
much larger and better building for his
business at lexington place and q street,
opposite the new freight depot of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad. In this structure
Is combined a mill and a grain elevator, as
well as a salesroom, and in the same
other buildings as they may be needed.
In this particular the change IN the depot
has resulted in an expansion of the facilities
for doing business OF this character such
as never before existed In this city.
A Shifting of Business Places.
There are other instances OF men who
had business places along the old line of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad who have
moved them farther north. But in their
and more elaborate scale showing that
they have taken advantage of the OPP
portunity TO provide the cOnveniences and
the space which the growing needs of the
city in this line make necessary.
The founda ton walls of the new depot are
practically completed and when II Is real
lied how extensive these foundations are
that statement in Itself gives some no.
ton OF the progress that has been made.
Already the iron frame work OF the SUI
perstructure Is seen thrusting its long arms
into the sky and in a short time the loca-
ton OF the depot viii resemble something
better than pile OF earth and OF building
material.
1t is not exactly clear to property owners
in general what will be the effect of this
change in the terminal facilities OF the
city on the property values in that immedi
ate locality. II Is believed, OF course, that
the ueighborhood OF such place always
draws to it certain classes of business.
The extent TO which this Will happen in
this case and the character of the changes
which will follow are more or less uncertain
factors. 1t Is, OF course. borne in mind
that only the passenger traffic coming to
and going from the city will center here.
To this point all that sort of business will
come II at the same time there was re-
moval OF the freight depots and centering
OF all that business of the city In that gen
eral section of the city. then 1t Is thought
that the influence would be more marked
and more general
AS 10 the freight business there will be
change As heretofore that ClaSa ~
business done by the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad will continue in the same locality.
only some distance farther to the north.
The same thing can be said OF the freight
that will enter the city via the Pennsyva-
MA road ard the southern lines.
The Freight Business.
There wifi be no change made In the To-
cation of the freight offices except of
minor character. The various classes of
business that find II necessary to be near
the freight depots see In the railroad out
look no need to shift their headquarters
As stated. owing to the space taken up by
the large building of the Union depot, there
will follow a general shifting of the bust
ness establishments drawn about the depot
and the tracks leading to It. The fregn:
station OF the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road Is now located north OF Florida ave-
enue instead of just north OF its present
station.
In the same way the various yards and
business places that had sidings and were
located near to the main tracks have also
moved northward. and have new locations.
1t is seen that these are merely changes
OF base and not the opening of new centers
as would be the case II the entire freight
business OF all the roads entering the city
was conferred In the vicinity OF the new
depot.
The returns from real estate Investments
where the buildings concerned represented
full and appropriate Improvement OF the
land are high In comparison with the re-
turns from other investments of equal sta
''iU.y remarked an investor who has had
as -. = experience. The public, year