Evening star., 1927-10-29
NJ 'ADOO |NDORSES
TRACTION MERGER
Former Treasury Head Holds
Consolidation Is Essential
to Progress.
tFrom the 80 Edition of Yesterdays Star.

tFrom the go Edition of Yesterdays Star.1
Proposing the consolidation of the
street railway companies of Washing
ton as one of the prime factors in
solving the city'S transportation prob
lens and as an important step in car
rying out the plans for a greater and
more beautiful Washington, former
Secretary of the Treasury William
Gibbs McAdoo indorsed the plans of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission in an address today
at the Management week luncheon
forum of the City Club and urged that
they be accepted and adopted
Mr.. McAdoo, who spoke on Trans.
portation and the Part 1t Plays in
Maintaining Prosperity" restricted
his talk to the transportation prob
lens OF Washington and to the devel.
opment of the city from an economic
and an esthetic point of view and dis.
cussed various important factors to-.
ward the growth and welfare Of the
community.
Sees Million Population.
washington will have a popula.
ton OF one million people within the
next % years." said Mr.. McAdoo.
Il Enfant's plan, which provided for
city of 100000 people, has already
been outgrown, and an improvement
OF LEnfant's plan to provide for the
present growth of the city and for
its 1uture development is impera tive"
In expressing his approval IF the
projects proposed by the Park and
Planning Commission, Mr.. McAdoo
said that in his opinion the Federal
government should come to the front
In bearing the burden Of the expense
In carrying out these plans.
Every citizen in the United States
has an interest in the National Capi.
tal," he said, land every citizen has
right to the ambition that it he
made the most beautiful capital in the
world. Congress should provide that
funds for the development of this city
should come out Of the National
Treasury
Mr.. McAdoo said that the streets of
washington were ''gorged" and were
inadequate to take care of the local
transportation situation today" He
pointed out further that an unfortu.
nate condition existed in having two
separate street car companies here
working in competition.
because OF present conditions these
two companies, unable to earn enough,
working on an improbable basis, are
restricting the artistic development
OF the city as well as it's material
growth" he said. ''It is imperative
that they be brought together. Some
plan must be worked out toward this
end without infringing upon :heir pri-
vate rights"
Mr.. McAdoo described street rail.
way transportation as a vital clement
in the growth of a community, and
said that under present conditions the
whole burden of taxation upon street
car company falls upon the rider.
Street Car Issue Vital.
"The street car is Just as vital to
the man who doesn't use it as it is
to the man who does" he said. "It
is Of vital Importance to the depart.
ment store owner, for instance, who
must depend on it to bring his EN-.
ployes to and from his store, it is of
vital Importance to the real estate
owner as it influences the value of
his property.
Il believe that in the consolidation
some method of control must he pro.
vided whereby these companies ran
be made to do things for the welfare
OF the community without disregard
to their own private rights.
Il have deep interest in the de.
velopment Of Washington as a great
CITY," Mr.. McAdoo said, "and I am
interested in all plans that tend to
preserve it in logical way, not only
along economic lines but along es.
thetic lines"