The Washington herald., 1907-04-06
PLANS ELECTRIC LINE
Company Organizes to Build
Road Via Bladensburg.
ULTIMATE GOAL BALTIMORE
HyattsyiIIe and Outside Capital In
teFested and Majority Of stock Is
Gives Right of Way to Intersection
of Fifteenth and ii Streets,

/ East Washington VIII soon be supplied
with better street-car facilities. provided
/ the plans Of a company organized in
| Hyausville this week are realized This
! company. made up Of Washington.
/ Hyattsvlle. and outside capitalists, pro
I poses TO construct a line Of electric rail
way from the Maryland town to the Dis
trct line. thence into the city over the
/ BladensDurg road to Fifteenth and d
streets northeast The company will also
/ be permitted. according 10 the terms Of
| its charter. TO extend tracks across the
city TO connect with the Anacostia line
of the Washington Railway and Electric
Company. and to build ID Maryland lines
/ TO Baltimore and Gettysburg.
Company Organizes.
The company is called the Washington.
! Spa Spring and Gretta Electric Railroad
Company. and at a meeting held last
Tuesday evening at the office Of James
| c. Rogers. in HyattsviIle. the following
officers were elected: Is. d. Stephen.
president. eX-Congressnan s. S. Yoder OF
Ohio, vice president; Fillmore BeaU.
secretary; R. n. Ryon. treasurer. and
James c. Rogers, general counsel These
gentlemen. with William W. Poultney
William P. Msgruder. J. Enos Ray jr..
aud J. Harris Rogers. we're chosen di-
rectors.
BY act Of the last Congress, approved
on February Is, 1907. a franchise was
granted for this road into the city on the
Bladensburg pike. the terminus being at
Fifteenth and II streets northeast. The
projected route of the road extends from
this point TO the District line, through
Biadensburg, CRETE, and Berwyn Heights
on the county road leading from the
Edmondston road 30 Branchville The
ultimate terminals are Baltimore and
Gettysburg. BY way of Frederick. taking
in the rich farming communities Of How
ard and Frederick counties, where it is
most needed, they being now without
transportation facilities. The act of Con
gress also grants telegraph and telephone
rights, as well as light freight transpor-
tation, particularly desired for the move
ment OF truck and farm products.
Majority. of stock Paid In.
It is said a majority of the stock has
been subscribed and paid In. The deposit
required by the act of Congress authorfz-
| ing the extension of the road into the Dis
trict has been paid to the collector Of
taxes of the District as a guarantee that
the road viii be constructed.
The charter granted the company under
the laws OF Maryland gives it the right
Of way through the State and the right TO
condemn property for its purposes.
This is one of several projects TO con-
meet Washington with Baltimore and in
ltermediate points in Maryland One of the
others is the continuation OF the present
Maryland line of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company from Laurel to
Ellicott City. with q branch line TO the
capital of Maryland. Another is an en-
lterprise started in Washington, which con-
templates the construction of line out
through the extreme northwestern part of
the District, over lines already graded or
in use to Kensington. Md, and thence to
Ellicott City, to connect with the line
already in operation from that point into
Baltimore Others still have been pro-
jeeted at different times. but little has
been heard Of them in recent years
Washington. as compared with some
other cities. Is poorly supplied with cleo
trio lines connecting it with the surround
/ ing territory, and projects like that pro-
posed at Hyattsville have many OF them
seemed feasible. In general terms. it has
/ frequently Neen said there ought TO be an
electric line between here and Baltimore
A line to the battlefield of Gettysburg has
also been looked upon with favor. as it
would depend for support upon the large
patronage of tourists visiting this city
who also desire a side trip to the battle
field. IN time probably this scheme viii
1 be realized.