Evening star., 1926-02-15
OPPOSES
COAL REGULATION
Advisory Body Favors Pro-
posed Extension ot,14th and
Quackenbos: Streets.

F'ayora BILE report from the Citizens
Advisory Council on the bin for the
extension of QuacRenbos street. rec
concentrations of amendment In the
bill authorizing the extension of
Fourteenth street through the Walter
Reed Hospital grounds. and disa p
proval of the bill to regulate dealers
OF coal in the District were received
today by Chairma n Iihlman of the
House District committee.
These letters were all signed by
Jesse {. Suter, chairman of the
council
In regard 10 the bill for regulating
coal dealers Mr.. Suter wrote that the
disapprovai was through the unani-
nous adoption by the council of a
report, made by Councilman Charles
A. Baker. to whom the bill had been
referred for study
This treport said: This bill pro-
poses return to wartime methods
during peace and involves a degree
of paternalism which in the mind Of
your committee is out Of harmony
with American principles. The
obvious intent of the bill is to pro
tect the public against extortion
prices through municipal supervision
9rpf ethe profits cha rged7 by the local
coal dealers. who are all to be
licensed
For Fourteenth Street Extension.
In its report on the Fourteenth
street extension mea sure. the council
recommends that this bill be amend
ed by the elimination of the provi-
sion that any part of control of Four
teenth street be retained by the War
Department.
7. H. l1l e.,
hospital construction work or pro-
posed development be allowed to inter
fere with the extension of Fourteenth
street and that IL any such Is con-
templated. such plans he altered to
suit another location.
There is a practically universal de
mand that Fourteenth street be opened
through TO the hospital grounds" the
report SAYS, lin order to open up for
better development and provide ade-
quate transportation facilities for the
area in the District and in nearby
Maryla nd north of the hospital
through to Silver Spring and beyond.
Fourteenth street as planned will
he at some distance from the hospital
wards occupied by the inmates of the
hospital and near the medical center
occupied principally by medical officers
and students. No buildings are on
the proposed line of Fourteenth street
which lies in the natural valley, tend
ing still further to reduce noise from
ira ffic.'
In regard to the proposed extension
of QuaCkenbos street. the council
recommends passage of the hill as be
ing the most economical and fea Sihle
and in the best interest of the people
in this general locality as well as of
the entire District of Columbia.
The principal features of the bill
as approved by the council are: First.
that the owners of land extending
from Birth street nearly to Eighth
street shall dedicate the right of way
for QuackenboS street: second. after
such dedication by filing in. the sur
veyor's office, the Commissioners are
aut uthorized to bring condemnation pro
ceedings to extend Quackenbos street
from Blair road. its present terminus.
east to Sligo Mill road. in accorda nee
with the approved highway plan. The
Commissioners are further directed
to have plans and estimates made for
a conduit under the tracts of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at the
point of intersections; the Commits
siOnerS may suspend the use Of this
road east of Blair road until the y.ade
crossing shall have been abolished
the street can he utilized for sewer.
water. gas and electric light mains.
BY consulting the plat hooks. ths
council found that Quackenbos street.
North Capitol street and Kansas ave
nue. intersect at such a point that the
one conduit under the railroad can he
made to serve all three streets and
facilitate traffic under the tracks and
on both sides of the railroad