Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-29

superb new cold storage warehouse
OF the Terminal Refrigerating and
Warehousing Co., subsidiary of the
Washington Market Co.
Open to Heavy Traffic.
The main through traffic arteries
70 the water front section are Four
;eenth street. Twelfth street. seventh
street., Sixth street. Four-and-a half
street and Third street. all of which
are available for heavy traffic and
must be kept open always for the
distribution OF freight from the nu,
nervous railroad yards In the south.
west and from the city steamboat
wharves.
There are ample street car facil.
tiles TO the water front The Four.
zenith street line OF the Washington
Railway and Electric CO.. has its ter.
minus at the west end of this area
IN Water street. The Eleventh street
Inc OF the same company runs down
Eleventh street TO Water street
hence east on Water street past the
Municipal Fish Market and .steam m
boat wharves to Four!and half
street. returning via the same route
The Ninth street line of this com
pany runs south 10 Wafer street via
tour-a nda -haif streex, turning west
on Water street 10 Seventh street
and returning 70 E'our.and- a. half
street via. l. street. The Seventh
street line of the Capital Traction
Co. turns 10 the east on Water street
and thence to the foot of Four-and-
a-hsIf street. And finally there is
the Washington and Virginia line,
operating between Washington, Alex.
andria and various towns in Virginia
which passes the corner of Fourteenth
and Water streets.
The necessary space for such
tetail market could be acquired by
condemnation OF land carrying mex
pensive improvements in the same
orderly manner that it is proposed to
acquire property in the present whole.
sale district for the, erection OF new
public buildings and tthe development
)f parks pursuant tol the plan of the
Fine Arts. commissiutn. The loca ton
Of large retail market in the sec
lion adjacent TO the water front be-
tween Seventh and Twelfth streets,
southwest, would enable the public to
10 its general shopping and banking
m the principal commercial district
without detour ON the way to and
rom market, whereas II such a mar.
<et were located in the northeast
section of the city these requisite
would i've wholly lacking.
Aid to FaRmers.
ut Is even more important that
he socalIed farmers market should
De located on or near the water front.
rhe same dealers who come daily to
the Municipal fish wharf for their
supply of sea food purchase green
vegetables and dairy products which
IRE brought the farmers line from
he nearby counties of Maryland and
Virginia. And this is equally true of
he growing element of consumers
who obtain their market supplies
Without the intervention rof the mid.
Ileman. The ample strip of land on
he south side of Water street. be-
cipal Fish Market would present an
deal location for this farmers ma rket.
Such location would be geadiEv acces.
'ible to the public. closely co.ordi.
lated with all the other market
and easily reached by all
he farmers from the Trucking Sec
ions of nearby MaryIand and Vir-
sinia.
1T may he said in conclusion that
he economic advantages OF the water
ront as a market center are so over
that in all human probable
ty the colony of dealers in,perishables
who locate at the Water street ter
ninal would soon demoralize any SINH
Jar wholesale market that may be
projected in the northeast. section of