Evening star., 1909-05-15
CITY IS STEADILY PUSHING
TOWARD THE MARYLA AND LINE
Country Looking Its Best, Especially in the CHEVY
Chase Section Spread of Building Occupies
aWide Area--Remarkab1eR Rate of Progress

Georgetown is steadily pushing its line
of rows of houses out Wisconsin avenue,
or the Tenleytown road. Then appears
vacant ground. and when the vicinity of
the Cathedral School is reacher. or the
site where the Episcopal Cathedral is
planned to be located, there is another
grouping Of houses. This is partly due
TO the stretching to the west of Cleveland
Park which began as an Offshoot or the
growth of the population out Connecticut
avenue
There is another section of vacant land
before Tenleytown is heached. Beyond Is
really country in the sense that 1t Is not
yet cut up by city streets and is still
under cultivation as farm land. Such is the
condition to the District line and some
distance farther to the north, when all
at once is to be seen an active and
populous center, where are modern houses
ana lawns and all the attractive features
OF life in the country.
Country Looking It's Best.
Just now the suburbs are in their best
attire. and If the vistas and the views
and the surroundings Of the homes have
now no attraction to the visitor it may
be concluded that for him at least the
hard surface of the pavements and the
comparative scarcity OF foliage and shrub
berry and flowers. is his congenial and
appreciated surroundings.
The center in question embraces Friend
ship Heights, Somerset Heights and
Drummond, prosperous in their appear
ance and providing for many hundreds
OF comfortable ana desirable homes. The
general locality as West chevy Chase. and
the appropriateness OF the name is read
lily perceived in looking to the east where
the line Of houses on some OF the streets
in Chevy Chase Is approaching the Ten
lerown road. or. more properly, In that
locality. the Rockville road.
Combination u Happy.
Very much the same conditions in the
development Of land for the use Of the resi-
dents of the city is noticed in the Chevy
Chase region or, more strictly speaking.
in the section that is tributary to Connec-
ticut avenue as the main artery leading to
the city center. This portion of the sub
urbs has had a rapid growth during the
last year or so, after somewhat somno-
lent existence covering good many
YEARS. But the promoters of Chevy Chase
nd notions OF what they wanted the
lsface to become and, what Is more un-
;leual, they had the means to wait for
that happy conjunction of circumstances
utAtion and property happen to coincide.
AT any rate, Chevy Chase, with its
r&rkinss and landscape garden effects
sd Ns beds of flowers and groupings
az shrubbery all cared for at the ex-
pense OF some one other than the prop
eFty owners. has been waiting and has
St the same time been adding to its
charms, 50 that now, when 1t seemed the
psychological hour had arrived, 1t start
"a In again TO grow just as II 1t had
been doing nothing else for the past dec
ade or SO.
Location Of the Growth.
While the portion just to the north of
the circle. and which lies Just beyond
the bounds of the District as Originally
laid out. has shared in this revival, SAIL
a marked development has taken place In
the property south of the circle within
the District. and again in the section
along Connecticut avenue and farther
north In the vicinity of the Chevy Chase
Club.
An idea OF what has happened is gath
cred from the fact that Bradley lane,
try road. passing between hedges of
sweetly scented shrubbery, is now a
macadamized highway with dwellings
along 1t. But other things have under
gone q change besides Bradley lane. In
stead of the eye travelling over an agri-
cultural country to the east. clusters OF
houses are seen here and there through
the masses OF the foliage There is no
limit to the extent of the suburban popu-
lation in this section apparently. and
while II does not quite extend over to
Brentwood, on the 18th street road. still
that section doesn't appear to be very far
off-at least not as far as formerly 1t
seemed to be.
Covers q Wide Area.
In fact, reference to Chevy Chase means
much more than the property owned by
the company of that name. Large tracts
have been taken up. especially to the east