The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
WASHINGTON DEPOT
rrxr RAILWAY STATION TO BE
 OPENED IN MAY.
csmpletsen of the New Railresd Bniaa- TIT Brinxs to Mind Recoilectton of Historic Incidents In
 Conxrcas.

rwashfngHon. March so.--tspecial.} --Along about the 1st of May the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will com usnce to run It's passenger trains in to the new union station here.
 Later in the year the other lines which enter the city will begin to use the additional tracks which are being
 when completed this will be one of the rnost gorgeous union railway sta Hons ever built in the world. It has post great many millions Of dollars, pnd in addition the tunnels for trains From the South and West wnicn come h over the bridge on the Potomac . taver have entailed enormous cost upon the companies, the bridge also he3ng new steel structure which look the place of the old wooden one hsed for the past fifty years.
 The Pennsylvania station at the cor her of Sixth and B streets, and in which President Garfield received the wound which caused his death. will rventuaIly be torn down. When that occurs property in that portion or Washington wlii be greatly deprecia- ted The owners of the property re- eflze this to their sorrow. for values are now increasing in the direction Of fhe new union station. They VIII doubtless continue to increase at wonderful rate. This is really the story os aIi cities which are growing. and xhe nations capital is certainly grow fng by leaps and bounds.
 The property on which the Penn zv1vsnia station now stands is govern mont land. and the company has been there for the past forty or more years by the leniency of Congress. Nvery now and then efforts have been
 a- Ra- nU yrnm the work of lobbyists who want a agitation so that more cash could bo put in circulation here. some vearn ago the agents of this great e0rporation were caught mapping. A Dill had been favorably reported to fho House requiring the Pennsyivania to vacate and get land of It's own TOT . station. The men in charge ol reg. seiation for the read in this city did not attach enough Importance to the movement. And the first thing they knew votes enough and to spare had been secured to pass the bill. A mo- <ion fo reconsider was made and a truce followed. The officials at Phil- adelphia had fits. The hardest sort of work was put in.
 Al that time the late Representative paul Darlington Edmunds of the Hal flax district of Virginia. was in the House. Like most of the men from xhe rural districts Farmer" Ed rnunds, as he was generally called. was much opposed to the railroads, thinking 1t was clearly in the interest Of his constituents to take such sposition. It really was hard on the farrners for him to be voting that way. ana the then correspondent of the old Richmond Dispatch told him so plain
 .sut for Heavens sake. my friend" aaad ssFarmer Edmunds., ''how could l ever explain to my friends in the dis Rrlct my position if ! were to vote in favor of a railroad company"
 Easily enough" replied the core spondent sTf. that station is moved tt will cost your farmer friends extra money when they come to Washing ion. Lots of them visit the city. They know where this station is, and if it Is moved they will be lost. and khe sharpers will extract money from them, for they will not be able to To- rate the hotels and lodging places wSAn coming to town unless they put up this extra money. Now. if you will change your vote can show in The Dispatch that you are voting In the interest of the people you represent" "
 Mfr. Edmunds was & man O. sense and the argument appealed to him.
 If you will set me right in The IglHV0ICn \ VIII NOtC NO AO~Ss-~AANN
 The correspondent did so, and up to the time he quit Congress Farmer" Edmunds declared that no vote ever cast by him during his six years ser vice gave greater satisfaction than that which gave the Pennsylvania Railroad the right to occupy itspres- ent station. He received letters from ali over his district extoliing him for looking out for the rights of the az rtcuitural classes.
 It is expected that by the end of the present year the new union sta lion will be ready to permit all trains to come into the sheds. but 1t may be well Into next year before all the approaches will be in first class shape. Some additional Legislation by Congress win be necessary before the street car facilities which will con meet the station with all points in the city are arranged. This Is worry ing delay, but it could not be avoided
 At present all of the trains over the Southern, the Chesapeake and Ohio the Atlantic Coast Line and the Sea- board Air Line come into the Penn gyivania station. The Norfolk and western trains, with the exception oi two which are run in connection with the Southern company. arrive at the ola Baltimore and Ohio station.
 Alfred J. Stofer.