The Washington times., 1925-09-02
NEW PLAN MAY
SOLVE GRADE
CROSSING
HyattsViIIe Committee Will
Submit to State Roads
Commission

| Md, Sept. 2.-Tomorrow morning
at II o'clock a delegation headed
| by H. A. Harrison, chairman of
! the executive committee of the
| Prince Georges County Improve
ment and Protective Association,
will appear before the State Roads
| Commission at it's office in Balti-
| more and submit a plan for the
j elimination of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad grade crossing al
Hyattsville, prepared by Robert B.
| Morse, chief engineer of the Wash
! ington Suburban Sanitary Commits.
sion, which has been approved by
| the association, and BY the mayor
and town council of Hyattsville.
High lights of the plan are a
new road from Marion street
through intervening property with
| an underpass under the electric and
| steam railroad tracks to connect
with a new road through George
| N. Bowen's property on the east
side of the tracks and with another
| underpass under the tracks of the
| Alexandria branch of the Balti-
| more and Ohio to serve as an out
| let for the people Of Edmonston.
| The plan also proposes underpasses
| for pedestrians wishing to get
| across the tracks at Spencer street
| and at the present grade crossing.
| 1t is also suggested that spur
| road be built from the terminus
| of the proposed underpass in Ed
monston along the railroad tracks
<Io& - n
dale citizens.
The plan is to be laid before the
| roads commission tomorrow " i'll, it
is estimated. cost 1892, 900. It's pro-
ponents emphasize thac it would
eliminate two grade crossings.
The Prince Georges County I'm
| provement and Protective Associa-
ton has declared IT'S favorable atti-
tude toward extension Of Rhode
Island avenue from Hyattsville to
Mount Rainier if an adequate out.
let is afforded property owners
east and south of the grade cross
| ing.
It is estimated that Rhode Island
| 900 making a total cost of 1926, 900
! plan approved by the association
or $4,000 more than the cost of
plan No. 4, proposed at the recent
mass meeting of citizens in the
armory at Hyattsville and which
provides for building a road from
| the proposed extension of Rhode
| Island avenue to the memorial
cross at Bladensburg.
At the meeting tonight of Snyder
Farper Post No. 3, American Le-
gion, Of Hyattsville, in the posts
clubrooms, a report of the recent
convention Of the state department
at Hagerstown viii be made by the
delegates and a number Of new
members are expected to be in
| itiated.
The mayor and town council Of
! Hyatts Vile has granted a permit
to Israel Diamond to erect a brick
store on Spencer street adjoining
Odd Fellows Hall. 1t Is understood
the store will be occupied by
chain grocery company.
The council has also granted
permit to the Fowler Concrete Prod
ucts Co., Inc, to carry on business
on Maryland avenue near the
bridge separating Hyattsville from
Bladensburg, resembling its former
action revoking the permit.
William Reeves, president of the
Prince Georges County Duckpin
| association, has called a meeting
! for Friday night at 8 o'clock i'll
1.-THE American Legion clubrooms,
Maryland avenue. Hyattsville. of
managers of the teams in the league
last year and all others in this
section interested in the league, to
get plans for the coming season
| under way.
A plan to increase the size OF the
! league from eight to ten teams is
under consideration, and repre-
sentatives of teams wishing fran.
| chises are invited to attend Fridays
meeting. Another meeting is to be
held at the legion clubroom next
| Tuesday night.
| The mayor and town council Of
| Uyattsville has appointed Robert
! has had experience as a special
officer on the Metropolitan police
| force, Washington, as chief of po-
lice of Hyattsville, and he has just
entered upon his duties. Gallagher
succeeds Andrew riasch, resigned,
and us the third man to hold the
| position, which pays an annual sal
airy OF $1,000, within the last few
weeks Gallagher recently married
Miss Margaret Hartman, chief day
operator of the Hyattsville tele-
phone exchange.
The Hyattsville mayor and town
council, aroused at the numerous
complaints reaching them recently
of disorder in Dewey street, a negro
section in the extreme southern end
Of the town. have begun campaign
designed to improve conditions there.
According to Sheriff John A.
Fink, of Prince Georges county,
who a few nights ago led a party
OF officers to the section after re-
ceiving riot call, conditions there,
at that time, were such as to make
II extremely dangerous for one or
two officers to attempt to handle
the situation.
Fink says that the street was be
ing shot up" He states fighting.
cursing and general disorder were
raging. He arrested one colored
man, who is now in the Bladensburg
jail.
Sheriff Fink states that the dis.
order was confined almost wholly
to the south side Of Dewey street