Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-14
COURT DECISION HELPS
EVANSVILLE GROWTH
Justice BeaII Settles Question
of Assessments and Much
Building Will Follow.
,crial Correspondence OF The star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
EVANSVILLE. Md. January II. 1911.
The recent decision of Associate Justice
Fillmore Beall of the seventh judicial cir
cult at Upper Marlboro. upholding the
legality of the approval of the act of the
Maryland legislature by the voters of IIy-
attsvilIe last May authorizing the mayor
and common council to construct perma-
nent roadWays and to assess the cost there
of against abutting property owners. will
result in the building of several miles of
macadam roadway in Hyattsville during
the coming spring. That this improve
ment will enhance real estate values and
result in the erection OF many dwellings
within the corporate limits is generally
agreed
Despite the handicap of poor streets
there has been considerable building in
Hyattsville during the past several
months. Councilman Herman +. Bur-
CESS, a Washington contractor, who re-
sides at Pinehurst, the old colonial home
of the late Benjamin F. Guy, has erected
thirty houses on Baltimore street in the
southeastern section, of the town. These
houses have all the modern; conveniences,
with a macadam roadway and cement
sidewalks in front of all Of them.
Municipal Building Proposed.
The mayor and town council propose to
erect municipal building for the accom-
modation of the fire department. This
building will ne placed on lot belonging
to DR.. I. II. T. Willis, on Johnson avenue
adjoining the post Office building. 1t will
cost in the neighborhood of 5000. Henry
r. Davis is building handsome cottage
on johnson avenue which will be ready
for occupancy in few weeks. E. A.
Fuller will probably begin the erection of
two houses on Owens avenue west of
Wine avenue in the early spring. DIR.
Charles A. Wells recently completed four
houses in the subdivision controlled by II.
w. Shepherd, cashier Of the First Ma
tional Bank of Hyattsville. Water mains
and sewer pipes have been laid in the
streets of this subdivision, and macadam
roadways and granolithic sidewalks con-
structed.
Railroad Hearing This Month.
The prospects for active building opera
tions in Hyattsville and vicinity were
never brighter. The construction of the
Washington, Westminster and Gettys-
burg railroad through Hyattsville is ex-
pected to greatly advance the material
welfare of the community. This COM
pany has filed with the public utilities
commission of Maryland an application
to construct the road through Prince
George, Montgomery. Howard. Frederick
and Carroll counties, to the Pennsylvania
state line. and then to Gettysburg.
In order to pay for the rights-of-way
and for the construction the company
asks the approval OF the commission to
issue 100000 of stock. and in addition
$35, 900 of bonds and $1,000 Of preferred
stock at per cent for each mile con-
structed. The commission will hear the
application January % At this hearing
the citizens of Hyattsville and vicinity
will appear before the commission and
ask that the company be compelled to
take their tracks over or under the City
and Suburban railroad at RandalltOwn,
just south Of the corporate limits of
Hyattsville, and also that the company
be prevented from maintaining grade
crossing at Columbia avenue in the eN
IRENE western end of the town.