Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-30
ELECTRIC FIRMS
| FIGHT FOR POWER
Baltimore Corporation May
Form Wedge to Great Falls
Project Site.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md, June 30.-With
the fling of an application with the
Public Service Commission for per-
mission to extend it's lines into Mont
gomery County, the Consolidated Gas
& Electric Co. of Baltimore plans to
enter into competition with the Po-
tomac Electric Power Co. of WASH
ington and the Potomac Edison co.
of Hagerstown for the output OF the
proposed hydro-electric development
at Great Falls. In it's application the
company seeks permission to extend
its lines to within a few miles of Great
Falls and the move, it is believed, Is
being made with the object of placing
the company within reach of the de-
yelopment on the Potomac River so
that it would not be shut out by the
two rival companies in the vicinity of
the proposed hydro-electric plant.
With the purchase of the Washing
ton, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric
Railway Co. and it's subsidiary power
companies, the Consolidated Gas
Electric Co. now controls the electric
power output in Anne Arundel, Prince
Georges and Calvert Counties, and by
extending it's lines into Montgomery
County would insert an entering wedge
| between the lines of the Potomac Elec-
| trio Power Co. of Washington and the
| Potomac Edison Co. of Hagerstown.
| A fight between the Consolidated COM
| pany and the two competing compa-
MES Is expected to develop at the
| hearing of the Consolidated applica-
ton, which the commission has set for
| July at IL I'm.
| Seeks to Extend Lines.
| The Potomac Edison Co. already has
| filed an application with the Public
Service Commission to extend its lines
farther into Montgomery County,
bringing it closer to the proposed de-
| velopment at Great Falls, and this APP
plication will be heard by the commits
sion an hour before that Of the con-
solidated company. Lines of the Pn-
tomac Electric Power Co. of Wash
ington now extend into Montgomery
County through Rockville to Gathers
burg.
| The application of the consolidated
| to extend it's lines into Montgomery
| County was made possible by the re-
cent control of stock of the Washing
ton, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric
Railroad and it's subsidiary, the An
napolis & Chesapeake Bay Power Co.
The subsidiary has lines running into
Prince Georges County at Laurel.
The Consolidated's application TO
extend the lines would continue from
Laurel along the Sandy Spring road
through Burtonsville, Spencerville'
Ednor, Ashton, Sandy Spring, Olney
and Claysville to Latonsyille and along
the Union turnpike from Norbeck
through Olney to Brookeyille and ada
cent territory.
Could Form Wedge.
| Tt is asserted that the Consolidated
could form a wedge between the lines
| of the Potomac Edison Co. and the
Potomac Electric Power Co. by extend
| ing it's lines from Laytonsville in a
westerly direction around Gathers
| burg, where the Potomac Electric
| Power Co.'S fines end in Montgomery
County and then around to Great
Falls
This extension would eliminate the
| difficulty of its lines from crossing
the lines of the Washington company,
| it also would prevent the Potomac
Edison Co. from blocking the Consoli-
| dated lines to Great Falls unless the
| former, company obtained permission
| to extend it's lines toward Great Falls.
The lines the Potomac Edison Co.
desires to extend would begin at
Buckeystown, Frederick County, to
Beallsville, Montgomery County, and
| continue from BealIsville along the
roads leading respectively to Barnes
willie and Poolesville, Montgomery
County, and into adjacent territory
including the town of Dickerson.