Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-23
Important Measure Propos-
ed by Congressman Car
lin Will Pass Today.
ROUTE OF NEW ROAD.
Makes Direct Highway Bridge to Ar
lington Junction Where it Meets
Road From Acqueduct Bridge.

The construction of the greater
part of the modern highway between
Washington and Alexandria, which
has been one of the things that the
people of this section have longed,
hoped and prayed for many years is
now an assured fact and before the
snow flies this winter work will have
been commenced on this great thor
oughfare.
The accomplishment of this long
sought object is the result of the in
sertion in the army appropriation
bill of two paragraphs which are
published in full in the adjoining COL
umn.
These two sections of the bill which
provide for the building of these
roads, have been agreed upon by the
conference committees of the House
and Senate which means their pas
sage some time this afternoon or to-
morrow. There is no possibility Of
their being stricken from the bill for
n order to do so the entire bill would
have to be killed and as congress will
adjourn tomorrow there is no posi-
bility of the army appropriation bill,
which is one of the biggest measures
before Congress being held up fur
ther.
AS provided in the bill there will
be two new roads out of Washington
to Arlington which will connect with
the county road to Alexandria. The
one in which Alexandria is largely
interested is the one from the south
end of the Highway bridge over
which the Washington-V Virginia trains
are operated to Arlington. This road
will run in a direct line from the end
of the bridge through the government
experimental farm to Arlington, a
distance of practically one mile. 1t
will be over 100 feet wide, and when
it is noted that the appropriation calls
for an expenditure of $4,000 for this
one mile of roadway it can readily be
seen that it will be one of the hand
soonest boulevards in the United
States.
At what is known as Johnson's cor
ner which is few hundred feet from
the south wall of Arlington, the new
highway will connect with the county
road. The board of supervisors of
Alexandria county have already
agreed to make great improvements
in this road from Johnson's cornor to
st. Asaph junction where it will con-
meet with the new macadam highway
already constructed through the town
of Potomac into Poorhouse lane and
then across the bridge over the rail-
way into north Washington street.
The other road for which an appro-
priation of $4,000 is made will start
from the end of the Aqueduct
bridge and run between Arlington
and the Experimental farm. 1t will
be about one mile in length.
One of the most important features
of the measure is that both roads will
be government roads and that for all
time in the future they will be main
tanned at the expense of the United
States government.
The securing of the appropriation
for these two roads which means SO
much to Alexandria and this entire
section of Virginia is the result OF the
work of Hon. Charles c. Carlin con-
gressman from the Eighth District
When Mr.. Carlin entered congress
five years ago he laid out a program
of work to be accomplished for this
district which seemed beyond the
limit of any one man. One OF the
first things he set himself to accom-
plish was the building of these two
roads which he felt was SO urgently
needed, not only by the people OF Vlr'
ginia, but by the government as we'll
on account of the location of Fort
Meyer, in the rear of Arlington
Another big undertaking was to Sc
cure the return to Virginia of S120,
900 which had been advanced by thi:
state to the United States govern.
ment when the capitol building i,
Washington was constructed. AS i.