Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-06
STREET EXTENSIONS
Unusual Number of Acts Passed
at Last Session.
PROPERTY TO PAY THE COST
Intended to Add to Facilities Of Com
munication.
WHAT WILL BE DONE THIS YEAR
Ends of Streets Done Away With and
New Thoroughfares Are
Provided
PROPERTY TO PAY THE COST
WHAT WILL BE DONE THIS YEAR

During the session OF Congress just
closed no less than twenty-five distinct
bills were passed providing for the extern
sion OF streets within the District and
forming a part of~the city system which
now extends throughout the entire terri
tory. In volume certainly this record
goes ahead of anything of the sort that
has been done by Congress. Last year only
four such bills were passed. while In pre-
vious years they have only been coca
sional.
There are two considerations which prob
ably explain this situation, and one is the
growth of the city, which requires the
facilities that additional and especially
more direct. means of communication af-
ford, and also which finds that stub ends
are not desirable. The other reason why
bills of this sort pass the scrutiny of Con-
gress and survive the many perils which
lie in the pathway of legislation is a most
important one. In no instance do they
directly take cent of money out of the
public treasury.
Paid for by Property Owners.
Under the law all condemnation pro-
ceedngs for the acquiring of land for use
as public thoroughfares are at the ex-
pense OF the property holders, and from
that source is drawn the money for the
purchase of the land which is TO be taken
for the use OF the public. When authority
is given, as has been done In the twenty
five acts which became laws at the last
session of Congress-. to extend public
street, 1t Is stipulated jury of citizens
be summoned, whose duty Ii is to deter
mine the damages to individual property
holders because Of the taking Of their land
or. in other words. the value OF the land
under the peculiar circumstances.
The Jury is also required IN in
whether the remaining property OF the in
dividual whose land is to be taken will be
gard to other property holders In the
vicinity. While the jury finds both bene-
Ats and damages, yet the former is sup
posed to exceed the latter at least to a
property taken, but also for the expenses.
To Be Considered by Juries.
The street extension cases authorized at
the last session of Congress and prepared
by f. M. Talcott, engineer OF street extern
sion, and to be considered by juries are as
follows:
The acquisition of the land I'm the section
of the Park road and Waterside drive that
will pass through the Lyons Mil property.
Second street northwest from Elm street.
lie Droit Park. to the pumping station
about three blocks Also the extension of
w street, both east and west to join with
I'd street and doing away with the present
stub ends.
The widening to fifty feet of Mills ave
nue., which runs in northwesterly direc-
ton south of Rhode Island avenue and 2ith
street.
The extension of Monroe street. Brook
land, to Michigan avenue. It il proposed
when this work Is done that the street car
tracks will be transferred from Michigan
avenue to Monroe street. thus doing away
at that point
Some of the Streets.
The stub end OF School street in Mount
Pleasant is to be done away with by the
extension Of that thoroughfare south about
go feet to Irving street.
A connection is to be made between two
sections of McComb street in the subdivis-
ions of Cleveland Park and Cleveland
Heights. so as to afford a continuous line
of communication through from the Tenley-
town road to Connecticut avenue.
short extension of 45tn street in Wesley
Heights from Newark street to Nebraska
avenue Is to be made
connection of W.rren street In Ameri-
can University Heights with the section OF
the street I'm Dumblane subdivision is to be
made.
Fessenden street is to be extended from
Wisconsin avenue through the Shoemaker
property to the River road, thus affordIng a
direct connection to Wisconsin avenue
Albermarle street is to be opened up from
Wisconsin avenue to the Murdoch Mil
school house In Tenleytown.
Columbia road Is to be wdened sixty
feet for section OF about $50 feet In
length east of 10th street.
In the Eastern Section.
In case 90 per cent of the property
holders along the Badensburg road ded-
cate the necessary land. that thoroughfare
will be widened to ninety feet from Mary
land avenue and 18th street to the District
line.
The stub end of the section of Harvard
street in the north grounds of Columbian
College subdivision is to be done away
with by its western extension to 10th
street, a distance of about two blocks.
A ad,n M stu9 END Is to be abolished by
through to 14th street. and also the stub
ends Of Kenyon and 18th streets, In Ingle-
side. by the extension Of the former to
Mount Pleasant street. and the latter to
18th street.
The road along the west boundary of
the grounds of the Soldiers Home is TO
be extended SO as to run from the reser-
vor to Rock Creek Church road.
A northern continuation of 23d street L.
to be made in the form of q curved drive
way from Wyoming avenue. or U street,
to Kalorama avenue and Prescott street
In Metropolis View 7th street is to be
continued south along the Metropolitan
branch railroad to Rhode Island avenue
while Franklin street Is to go from its
present eastern terminus at Central ave-
nue. eastward to the Metropolitan branch.
Also westward from its present terminus
from 9Th street to 4th street. From the
present northern terminus of 9th street. at
Emporia street, continuation is to be
made to Central avenue.
Completing the Thoroughfares.
The right of way OF 4th street east
through the Rose property is authorized to
be secured.
Summit place. In Lanier Heights, is to
be extended from 18th street to Geneseo
place, and both Geneseo and Summit places
are to be continued along their present
lines until they meet
7 street is to be carried eastward from
35th street to 34th street and Wisconsin
avenue. and also from the latter east about
600 feet to a section already dedicated to
the public, and thence 300 feet to Rock
Creek drive at the foot Of Lovers lane,
Provision Is made for the opening OF w
and Adams streets through Prospect Hill
cemetery east ward to North Capitol street.
New Hampshire avenue is to be extended
from its present northern terminus IN
Petworth to the District boundary in a
direct line a distance OF about 900 feet.
Jewsharp Corner.