The Washington times., 1934-04-05

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vania railroad D s.
to electrify it's 5##&
lines from Dick Baker
Washington to New York.
Yesterday the detailed plans
for the $3,5O0,0O0 project were
received by j. Gilbert Nettleton,
local representative of the Penn
sylvania outfit and were sub
mitted to the District Commis-
sioners for approval.
Aid to JobIeSS
Local unemployment, as far
as railroad employees of the
Pennsylvania lines are concerned,
will be solved for a long time
to come as a result of the elec-
trification project-made possible
by an immense loan from the
PWA-but expended by the bor-
rover without hinder or help
from the Government.
It is the aim of the company,
Mr.. Nettleton says, to call in all
furloughed employees of the road
to complete the project before
outside labor is called upon. This
will certainly furnish employment
for the entire 1900 such en-
ployeS now without means of
livelihood or else engaged tenn
porarily in makeshift vocations.
Outside contractors will be
taboo under terms of the loan.
This means that hundreds of
thousands of dollars will be spent
by the railroad company to pur-
chase equipment and material for
constructions which the company
has never been required to under
take in the past.
Among these will be included
equipment for ditching and chan
nelling pavement for the 15-block
long line of cable along the right
of-way in Southwest washington
which is to be encased in two
Six-inch wrought iron castings, with
welded joints the entire distance.
To Rebuild Bridge
The old bridge over the Ana
costa River, near Cheverly, the
scene of a horrible tragedy a few
months ago, is to be entirely re-
built and a transformer station
to handle the $4,000 volts of cur
rent for the electric lines, is to
be built at some strategic point
along the electric lines.
Nineteen of the passenger tracks
running to the terminal from
Landover will be electrified and
some of the freight lines will nee
essarily be handled by electric mo-
tors within the district. This
means a cleaner section of the
city along the Anacostia River
and Washington Harbor precincts
with resultant elimination of
smoke and cinders that have dis
comfited residents of those sec
tions in the past.
The project should be completed
within a year.
It means much to Washington
this identification project-and
the wide-awake firm of R. Mar
bury Stamp has already cashed
in on the proposition.
This firm, it is reliably re-
ported, has negotiated transac-
ton whereby the old hardware
firm of F. P. May and Company,
soon to be ousted from its 400
block c Street location because
the Government needs the ground
for its municipal center, has ac-
quired approximately S., 900 square
feet of ground along the right of
way for a new warehouse and
storeroom.
Arthur B. Heaton, prominent
local architect, is now engaged
in drafting plans for the new
structures to be erected on the
property and the construction is
expected to exceed 100000.
That is also going to help the
unemployment situation and un-
employment, together with salary
reductions, contributed to large
extent to the famine in the real
estate industry in the past three
years.
A reorganization is taking place
In the firm of w. C. & A. N.
Miller, details of which will be
announced later. And it doesn't
mean that w. C. Miller, preSi-
dent of the washington Chamber
Of Commerce. past president of
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards, potentate of Almas
Temple and code authority mem
Der for the building industry, is
getting out from under because
Df the press of other duties. It
means that he is taking a more
active hand than ever in his
Gr1stocratic residence develop
ments.