Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-29
SAY THERE IS HOPE
Improved Herdic Service Is
Promised by the Owners.
LINE ON SIXTEENTH STREET
Hearing Before Commissioners Re.
suits in U,timatum.
TIME EXTENDED TO FEB. l
Condition of Coaches Condemned by
Former Justice Brown-Street
improvements Discussed.
LINE ON SIXTEENTH STREET
TIME EXTENDED TO FEB.

There Is hope" the residents of 10th
street northwest were told at hearing
before the District Commissioners yes
terday on questions relating to the Met
ropolitan Coach Company, which operates
the herdfc line on that fashionable thor
oughfare S. Dana Lincoln of the coach
company declared that before February 1.
1913, the date set for the supervision of
the herdic line by the District Commits
sioners. six or eight new electric vehicles
would be in operation on 18th street, on a
five-minute schedule.
Mr. Lincoln was assured by the Com
missioners that If the condition of its
standards by that time, the company
would have to go out Of business.
Among the residents of 18th street who
complain OF the service given by the
herdic company at present was former
Justice Hen;y B. Brown of the United
States Supreme Court Among those who
also talked of the herdic line was f. I.
Schneider of the Cairo.
Denounces the Conditions.
Justice Brown did not mince matters
in discussing the operation of the two
UuScS uOW run Dy Tic COdtH COiipduy +.
He denounced the condition of the buses,
saying they We're insanitary. and declared
that such a thing as a schedule was not
known,
THE chauffeurs are seventeen-year-old
boys, said Justice Brown, who smoke
cigarettes take no care of the herdics
and apparently have no knowledge of a
schedule. The condition of affairs is dis
graceful We would rather have no her.
die service al all taan TO have coaches
that look like garbage wagons rafting
down the street.
Mr.. Lincoln defended the coach COM
pany. He said the company was losing SD
day, and that SO far as he knew the
buses We're in fairly good condition and
kept clean.
The Commissioners brought out the
point that new herdic service could be
esta blished in, 18th street by individual
licensing of cars, but that such new
enterprise could not gain the transfer
privilege on the F street and Pennsyl
vania avenue car lines granted the Met
ropoltan Coach Company by act of
Congress.
Plea for improvements.
On behalf of the paving of 18th street
and of two or more cross streets rum ng
between Georgia avenue and 18th street,
of the Columbia Heights
Citizens Association appeared before the
Comm ssioners also. The Commissioners
promised to take up the matter in their
est mates for the District budget. Among
those members of the association appear
ing before the Commissioners were D. w
Edeler, w. II. Saunders AMI G.. L. Cert
man
The extension of Albemarle street
Rock Creek Park and the resnr-
facing of some portions of the street We're
asked by members of the citizens aSso-
Citations of the territory of Connecticut
avenue extended. jesse b. Crawford, Ed
gar D. Turner and T. D. Alexander We're
the representatives before the comm s.
sioners They made a plea also for
new high school to serve Cleve' and He. gfts
and Chevy Chase territory. The Commits
soners SAID this matter would have to be
by the board of education be-
fore they could take IT up in connection
with their estimates.
The purchase of the two hills east of
avenue and between the en-
trance of the Geological Park and the
klingle valley was looked upon with IA
vor by the Commissioners. 1t is probable
that an item for this purchase will be in
cluded in the estimates.