Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-26
COMPLAIN OF CAR SERVICE
LEXINGTON CITIZENS WANT
BETTER FACILITIES.
Business Discussed at Meeting Of As
Observation-Disclosures for En-
suing Year.

suing Year.
! That 1.-THE Brookland branch of the City
and Suburban railway has not kept pace
with the needs of the community Is q
notorious fact. causing the insufficient
number of cars to be continually over
crowded, and men and women are packed
In them like sardines or ,herded together
like CATTLE" were the sentiments expressed
last night at a meeting Of the North Cap
itol and lexington Citizens Association.
In ST.. Martins Hall, North Capitol and
T streets northwest ~ ....-
| 1t was commended that "as this is the
only line directly touching the property
OF the new terminal company the over
| croWding of the cars Is augmented and
Will develop a rapid increase. The asso-
cation emphatically protests against such
| nlggardly service"
In accordance with this protest the mat
ter was referred to the executive commit
| lee with instructions to call 1t to the at
| tention of the District Commissioners and
| the Sixtieth Congress-; to recommend ad-
ditional cars, the abolition of straps in
the cars and a seat for every passenger.
William G. Henderson, chairman of the
railways committee, made an address In
| reference to the proposed crosstown rail-
|
| northwest to 8th street northeast. He
stated that 1t was proposed to continue
the Capital Traction line from 7th street
ana Florida avenue to 9Th street. and
Traction line at 9th street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast. and that branch
| line be along F street from 9Th street to
the new Union station.
| In connection with this matter it was
proposed to get up petition to be signed
by property owners in the neighborhood
| as an expression in favor Of this line.
Streets, Sidewalks, Lights.
The committee on Streets sidewalks and
lights. of which Herman E. Blau Is chair
man, made report. The report set forth
that the Commissioners have not taken
action in lowering the tree space on both
sides of r street, between Lincoln ave-
nue. and Sd street east; that work Is be-
| ing done on Lincoln avenue in the matter
| of grading and cutting through Rhode
| Island avenue at the intersection of Lin
| coin avenue: Adams street. where 1t inter-
| sects North Capitol street. has been
graded. Lights have been requested in al
| Ieys bounded by streets as follows: North
Capitol and LIST street west, and T street
and Rhode Island avenue; Quincy place
| and street and Lincoln avenue and LIST
street east: Quincy place and r street
and North Capitol and LIST street west; r
| street and Randolph place and Lincoln
| avenue and LIST street east.
| Several members spoke in reference to
| what was regarded as the poor mail serv-
Ice in the section represented by the as
ISOLATION. DR.. e. D. Thompson. the new
president, made brief address in which
he urged that the members work for the
| increase in membership of the association
and for the crosstown line, during the
| coming year.
The auditing committee. w. w. Trail.
| chairman, reported the expenditures for
lkl-- hnIo ~
| In the treasury.
Committees for Ensuing Year.
President Thompson appointed the COM
mittees for the ensuing year as follows:
Membership No. William 8. Odell,
chairman; W. w. Jordan, Bernard Wat
ers, FINS D. Morris and ]. W. McGarry.
Membership No. 2-Dr. w. w. Trail,
chairman: w. B. Gibb ]. D. Yoakley.
Henry NJ Gunderson and w. L. Terrett.
| Membership No. 3-Frank M. Ferris,
chairman; ]. H. Cause, John c. Weidmarl,
H. w. Marshall and Roe Fulkerson.
| Membership No. &C. P. Boss, chair
man; w. F. Ashford. H. ]. Redfield. c.
H. Serrin and George Newton.
Membership No. sc. NJ. D. Browne,
chairman; George Lippert. Clement Krog-
mann. Walter Donaldson and DR.. r. A.
| Daniel
Railways william G: Hendsrson,
|
Hughes. ]. E. Rockwell, R.. j: Nav
Kinney l.. F. Won Wimpffen. ]. T. Bres-
nahan. ]. v. Camalier.
Pressacharles E Kern Kern, sha i, ,an
Givern. Fletcher S. Page. R. n. Jeffer-
son. John c. ,Conlin, w. FL Rock.
Charles w. Summers.
Streets, sidewalks and 1ights-Her-
strong. Charles Gersdorff. H. Il. War
| rem. Charles Specht. Frank ]. Day, ].
B. Robinson, William F. Finn. Dim w.
Roakes.
chairman: John Gaghan. G. E. 5. Will
| liams William w. Spies. Charles w.
Floeckher. H., B. Mattox. S. P. Hartzell,
John Henderson, jr.: A. H. Jaeger.
well. chairman; James w. Loveless, NJ
| l.. Bundy. jr.; John Hartung, John w.
| Stewart. Theodore T. Moore. w. J. Friz-
cell, Willis Magruder. II, R. Linfoot
| W. s. Martin. John F. Weyrich. Joseph
| Armand. W. E. Waggener. A. D. Spang-
Ter, S. F. Birthright. w. N. Irwin. STAN
| ton Weaver.
Linton. chairman; S. NJ Leitzell. Selden
NJ Ely, Washington Topham, Rev. P. N.
Jeffries. Dr.. A. L. Howard. Rev. w. T.
Thompson, William R. Bushby, John B.
Chase
Parks and parkins-Edward Kern,
chairman: William A Taylor. William
H. Sylvester, Samuel Miller. M. H.
Stout. H. s. Meekham. r. A. Sanders, ].
iC. Veatch, e. 8. Bruce.
Mail facilities-solon c. Kemon, chair
man; DR.. Mark w. Moore, E. H. Latch.
Charles F. Trogner. r. g. Whaley. Jo-
seph D. Steele. J. ]. Neagle, Myron J.
Ferren. w. S. Tappan;
Baltimore and Ohio viaduct-W. 8.
Chase. chairman; Irwin B. Linton.
Gideon A Lyon. jr.. p. A. Auer. Scion
C. Kemon, Charles W. Floeckher, Eugene
B. Bell walter T. Austin. John H. Lane.
Public hall and library-F. w. STAN
ton chairman: R. H. Johnston. Charles
E. Kern. P. H. O'Dea- B. F. Barnes, J.
T. White, NJ. A. King. E. w. Woodruff,
NJ S. Wright. D. C. Grain.
Public health-Dr. J. c. Tappan, chair
man; Thomas D. Walsh. DR.. Carl Mess,
Dr. c. S. Rice. DR.. J. D. Bradfield, DR..
| A. c. Miller. DR.. c. E. Ferguson. Will
| liam NJ. Leavitt, Dr. Damon A. Binkert.
Members Present.
| The members present were:
| H. M. Gunderson, H. e. Blau, Washing
|