Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-24

Trouble between the District gov
eminent and the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company
Car Track. m over the grade Of
NJ -. street and the prop
First Street. er method Of enter
ing the city was not settled. although
the city councils took strong ground
against continued railroad occupation
of I street at its original level In The
Star Of November Is. 1868. is the fol-
lowing:
at was stated on Saturday that the
construction Of the track for the Met
ropolitan road had been commenced
near n street and that Mr.. Koontz Of
the Baltimore and Ohio had notified
the corporation that it was the fnten-
ton Of the company to proceed with
the construction of the track beyond
II street AS the work of laying the
track Of the Metropolitan road mas
not been entered upon at the otner
end of the line, or at any point on the
line. and as 1t does not appear that
awards have been made upon the bios
recently put In for the construction OF
sections near this city. 1t Is matter
of some interest to know the purpose
of this track laying near II street
Rumor has 1t that Mr.. Garrett pro-
poses to use this new track of the
Metropolitan road along LIST street as
the track for the Baltimore road
in place Of the present track. to the
depot on New Jersey avenue. 1t would
SEEM however, that the Baltimore and
Ohio road lacks the authority to enter
the city on the line Of 1st stre-' as
the corporation only granted the use
Of the street to the Metropolitan
road"
In view of the fact that the use OF
the streets at grade, granted in the
early days Of rail-
Steam Motor for road construction
ctreet Gais.e great trouble and
caused many deaths In after years the
following suggestion. printed original
ly in the Philadelphia Ledger and re-
printed in The Star Of November II.
1868, of a steam locomotive for street
car lines is interesting:
"A new method OF applying steam
for locomotive purposes on street rail-
ways, so as to avoid the use of fire in
the engine while running on the
streets. was exhibited yesterday on
temporary track at the establishment
Of Grice & Long, Beach street, above
Hanover. In this engine the necessity
of firebox, smokestack. ETC., is done
away with by substituting a strong
tank for holding water previously heat
ed to high temperature. The water Is
capable of giving off an amount of
working steam for considerable
length of time. sufficient to drive the
engine and draw one or more cars
The locomotive weighs about five tons
when fully supplied with the requisite
storage of heated water. At the trial
yesterday it ran forty-five minutes
making 125 stoppages. and reducing
the steam pressure from eighty
pounds Mt starting to twenty pounds
when the trial ceased. No noise was
made other than the rumble of the
wheels over the rails and the machine
perfect control of the engineer being
stopped almost instantly while run
ming at the rate of six miles an hour.
The temperature of the water is kept
up by a non-conducting jacket three
inches thick around the tank. 1t is
proposed in adapting the invention
to street cars, to place stationary
steam boiler at one end of the road
to charge the locomotive"
X
Brig. Gen. Mfchler. superintendent
Of public buildings and grounds. in
the course of his
Conditions North annual report
summarized in
Of the Capitol. The Star of No
vember IS, 1868. scored conditions
..l - 4ba CoDffo1 Incident IN the