Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1897, Page 12

12 “THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, ‘DECEMBER 18, it — 1897—26 PAGES. ee -_—— \ = -— as FRAWKFOAT ST y i EMPonn 2 eTAorr st 4 Revised Plan Proposed by the District Commissioners. —__+__—_ AMENDATORY OF ACT OF MARCH 2, *93 Suggestions by Special Committee of Board of Trade. ——_+ - —-. ESTIMATE OF THE COST oo When it became apparent that the high- @ay extension act of March 2, 1893, w: impracticable. that it could not be enfore- ed, although declared constitutional and valid by the United States Supreme Court, the District Commissioners determined to prepare and submit to Congress such an amendatory measure as would repeal the objectionable and impracticable provisions of the act of 1403 and yet provide for such @ system for the extension of highways as would meet the approval of the people of the District. In this labor of theirs the Commissioners co-operated with the board of trade, a special committee of seven having been previously appointed by the board to prepare a more conserva- uve plan of street extension, through amendment of the highway act. The meas. ure proposed by the Commissioners, after conference with the special committee, was published in The Star the 6th of this month. The Commissioners and the board of trade committee differ upon a single point. This difference 1s on section 2 of the Com- missioners’ bill, which section provides that the Commissioners shall be authoriz- ed, under certain restrictions, after a map shall have been prepared and filed under the act, to make changes therein from time to ume. The committee Is of the opinion that it would be unwise at this time to confer upon the Commissioners, even with the proposed restrictions, pow- er to make such changes. Provisions of Section 2. Section 2 of the amendatory act, as Grawn by the Commissioners, is as follows: “That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be and they are hereby au- thorized, whenever in their judgment eco- nomic or engineering reasons require it, to prepare amended plans to the permanent system of highways for any part of the District outside of Washington; Provided, That under the authority hereby conferred no changes shall be made in parts of high- ways which at the time the changes are bein considered shall have been dedicated or acquired under the highway act, nor in parts of highways lying wholly within then existing recorded subdivisions. Such plans. after being duly certified by said Commissioners, shall be forwarded to the commission composed of the Secretary of sments levied on land involved in ndemnation procedings after those pro- jings have been begun by the filing of a petition fer condemnation, to be sus- pended until the terminatio: of the pro- ceedings. If the land fs not “taken, the taxes are then to be paid, but without in- terest or penalty accruing during the in- terval. If the land be taken, then the taxes wre to be canceled altogether if the whole cf a lot is taken, and proportionately if but a part of it be condemned. 3. Section 15 to be repealed altogether. This is the section which imposes upon the District the entire cost of the condemna- tions, and which also provides for an as- sessment upon property benefited of one- half the total damages. Relating to Benefits. 4. A new section relating to the assess- ment of benefits in proceedings under section 6 of the original act for the con- demnation of land in subdivisions existing at the time of the fillng of any map. This assessment is to be for actual benefits only, and all parties in interest are enti- ‘led to be heard before it is confirmed. It fs not to be made for each subdivision separately, but after all the subdivisions included in any such may have been acted upon, and provision for the payment of the awards made, the board of assessors is to assess upon any lot of land included in the map the benefits, {f any, which it shall find to have accrued from any such con- demnations in subdivisions. These bene- fits are to be confined to those which arise from the establishment of the highway, ard will exclude benefits that may be an- ticipated from the actual opening of the street or from the condemnation of other parts of the same highway lying between subdivisions. In making this assessment the beard of assessors is to be required tc give due credit to any parcel of land part of which has been taken for any benefits that may have been deducted from the re- mainder of the tract, so as to avoid a dou- ble assessment on the same land. 5. A new section providing for an as- “cssment in proceedings under section 7 of the original act for the condemnation of land outside of existing eubdivisions. This assessment is to be made by the same jury that determines the damages, and is to include one-half of the total award. If for any reason the assessment shall fail, the proceeding shall fail also. Proceedings for this purpose are te~ be instituted only when provision is to be made for the immediate actual opening of the street. Portion to Be Repealed. 6. That part of the original act which provides that awards shall be submitted to Congress for its approval to be repealed, and instead thereof provisions to be made for the immediate payment of the awards when confirmed by the courts and approv- ed by the President of the United States. 7. One-half of the amount awarded as damages for any trect of land condemned under the act, or any amendment thereof, to be paid by the United States, and the cther half by the District. 8. For the purpose of raising money to pay the awards when confirmed by the court ard approved by the President, an issue of District of Columbia bonds bearing % per cent interest to be authorized to an amount not exceeding four million dollars— such bonds, except as to the rate of inter- est, to be similar to the existing 3.63 bonds. In connection with their measure, the Ccmmissioners have had prepared a map of section 1, showing the improvements to be mace thereunder. War, the Secretary of the Interior and the chief of engineers, United States army, to- gether with the written opinions of’ the owners or agents of the land directly af- fected, and of the citizens’ association for the territory within which the changes He, and having been approved by sald commis- sicn they shall be recorded in the office of the surveyor of the District of Colum- bia, and when so recorded they shall take the place of the plans previously adopted for the same territory and shall become a part of the permanent system gf high- ways.” The Committee's Amendments. The substance of the amendments to the highway act. which this special committee propose to recommend to the board of trade for its approval, is outlining a bill substan- tially similar to that proposed by the Com- missioners, omitting section 2, Is: 1. The map of section 1 as filed to be changed by leaving out certain new high- ways, or parts thereof, and by restoring certain streets which on that map are wbandoned. These proposed changes to be prepared by the Commissioners and in- cluded in the bill when passed. It is ex- ected that they will reduce the cost of con- demnations im existing subdivisions in fection 1 from $8,000,000 or $10,000,000 to about $3,500,000. 2. The cotlection of all taxes and special ‘That map is herewith published in The Star. Explanatory of the map and the im- provements shcwn thereon is also publish- ed the following list of streets and high- ways for extension and improvement, and also the reservations propcsed: North Capitol strect, extend from T street to Prospect Hill cemetery. U,V and W streets, extend between North Capitol street and Le Droit avenue. Sheridan street, extend and widen from 13th street to Soldiers’ Home. Reservation at Sheridan street, Whitney avenue and Sherman avenue. New Hampshire avenue, extend from Rock Creek Church road to Whitney ave- nue. Warder avenue, extend to Steuben street and connect with 5th street. J Cammack and Ludlow avenues, extend to ith street. Rock Creek Church road, widen and ex- tend to Spring road. ? ay (Spring road) from New Hamp- venue to Rock Creek Park. AS enue, extend from Spring to 14th street. Lydecker avenue, widen and extend from Sherman avenue to lith street. Whitney avenue, widen frem Sherman avenue to 1ith street. Thirteenth street, widen from Whitney avenue to Spring road. Fourteenth street, extend to Spring roa. Fourteenth Street road, widen to Spriz road. Howard avenue, widen and extend from 14th to 18th street. Park stres widen from 14th street lith street. a Kenesaw avenue, widen between 14th street and Zoological Park. Columbia street, locate from 16th street to 18th street School street, widen and extend from Park street to Kenesaw avenue. Bacon and Binney streets, extend west- ward, 60 feet in width, to Columbia avenue. Euclid place, connect, 75 feet wide, with Erle street. Columbia road, widen and extend from 18th street to 14th street. Reservation, at 14th street and Columbia street. Erie street, widen and extefid from 18th street to Columbia avenue. Chapin street, widen to 05 feet. ~ Superior street, widen and extend from lsth street to 18th street. Sixteenth street, extend from Morris street to Spring road. Seventeenth street and Central avenue, widen and extend from Florida avenue to Spring road. Ontario aver.ue and Poplar avenue, widen from Columbia road to Quarry road. Eighteenth street, extend from Quarry read to Kenesaw avenue. Eignteenth street, widen at Champlain avenue shaft and above Howard avenue. Adams’ Mill road, widen from Columbia road to Zoological Park. Twentieth street, extend from Cincinnati street to Adams’ Mill road. Kalorama avenue, extend at Columbia Toad and to Prescott place. Twentieth street, extend at Columbia road and Wyoming avenue. Wyoming avenue, connect at 19th street ard Columbia road and at 22d street. Nineteenth street, widen from Floriia avenue to Columbia road. Connecticut averve, extend from Florida avenue to Rock creek. Twenty-second street, extend to 8 street. to S street, extend from Phelps place to 23d sireet. Vernon avenue, extend to Columbia road. Piney Branch road, Takoma, widen and extend to District line. Magnolia avenue, Takoma, widen and ex- tend. Land for Condemnation, At the direction of the Commissioners an approximate estimate amount of about all the land necessary to be condemned and taken in section 1 has been made by the District engineer's office, the land having been valued at their request by an expert in real estate values. Those estimates, as so far made, are as follows: Rhode Island avenue from Florida avenue to Le Droit avenue, 81,250 square feet, $1 Per foot, $81,250. Le Droit avenue from Elm to Trumbull, 74,000 square feet, 40c. per foot, $29,600. Sixth street from Spruce to Pomeroy, 16,300 square feet, W0c. Fer foot, $9,780. New Jersey avenue from 6th to Grant, $9,000 square feet, 9c. per foot, $80,100. jew Jersey avenue from Grant to Irving, No Albany street, extend to North Capitol | 117,00 square feet, 60c. per foot, $70,560. street and abandon west of Le Droit ave- nue. Rhode Island avenue, extend between Florida avenue and North Capitol street. New Jersey avenue frcm Irving to Kene- saw, 180,700 square feet, 75c. per foot, $135,525. Grapt street from Florida avenue to 6th Le Droit avenue, extend from Elm street | street, 68,000 square feet, 75c. per foot, Trumbull end College streets, extend through reeervoir grounds. $51,000. ‘Vermont avenue from Florida avenue to Grant, 96,000 square feet, 0c. ‘per foo, Elm and Wilson streets, extend to sixth | $s6,400. street. Sherman avenue, south of Grant, 28,500 Sixth street, extend from Spruce street to | square feet, 90c. per foot, $25,650. Pomeroy street. Sherman avenue from Grant to Whitney, New Jersey avenue, extend from 6th | 170,000 square fect, 50c. pss foot, $85,000. street to Kenesaw street. Grant street, widen and extend from Florida avenue to 6th street. Vermont avenue, extend: from Fiorida avenue to Grant street. ‘ Sherinan avenue, widen and extend from Fiorida avenue to Whitney avenue. ith street, extend from Florida avenue to New Jersey avenue extended. Columbia and Steuben - streets, from 18th street to Soldiers’ Home. i : Trumbull street. Eleventh street from rida avenue to New Jersey avenue, ‘square feet, 80c. 108,320, ‘street from Sherman avenue to pores 60,000 square feet,‘ 90c. per foot, eridan street from 18th to 7th, 80,000 re feet, 70c. per foot, $56,000. ridan street from 7th to Soldiers’ extend | Home, 78,000.square feet, 30c. per foot, 110,000 square feet, We, fer foot, $i Parkway, Holmead. subdivision, square feet, 5c. per fodt, Parkway, Lewis subdivision, feet, 30c. per foot, $16,800. 45,600 0) square Parkway, Mt. Pleasant, 60,000 square per foot, $18,000, awenue, Holmead subdivis'! 13,800 square feet, 50 cents per foot, $ Lydecker avenue from Sherman avenue to Holmead avenue, 43,000 square feet, 75 cents per foot, $42,250. Whitney avenue from Sherman avenue to 14th street, 30,000 square feet, 9) cents per foot, $27,000. Fourteenth street road from Park street to Spring. road, 39,000 square feet, 50 cents per foot, $19,500. Howard avenue from 14th to 18th street, 82,000 square feet, 80 cents Per foot, $65,600. Park street from 14th to 17th street, 160, 000 square feet, 85 cents per foot, $37,200. Kenesaw avenue from 14th street to Zoo Park, £4,000 square feet, 80 cents per foot, $43,200. School street from Park street to Kene- saw avenue, 45,000 square feet, 70 cents per foot, $31 Bacon street, fect west, 13,500 square feet, $1 per foot, $13,500. Binney street, 150 feet west, 13,500 square feet, $1 per foot, $13,500. Columbia road from 14th to 18th street, 102,100 square feet, $1 per foot, $102,100. Reservation 14th street and Columbia road, 112,000 square feet $2.50 per foot, $280,000. Erle street from University place to Co- lumbia road, 94,400 square feet, $1 per foot, $94,400, Superior street from 16th to 18th street, 70,600 square feet, $1 per foot, $70,600. Sixteenth street, Meridian Hill, 175,200 square feet, $1.20 per foot, $210,2: Sixteenth street from Denison to L street, subdivision, 162,000 square feet, 75 cents per foot, $121,500. ~ Sixteenth street, Mount Pleasant, 313,400 square feet, 60 cents per foot, $188,040. Seventeenth street or Central avenue, Meridian Hill, 101,600 square feet, $1 per foot, $101,600. Seventeenth street, or Central avenue, D. and L. subdivisicn, 32,000 square feet, 50 cents per foot, $16,000. Seventeenth street, or Central avenue, Mount Pleasant, 86,300 square feet, 50 cents per foot, $43,150. Ontario avenue above Columbia road, 7,000 square feet, 60 cents foot, $4,200. Poplar avenue, widened, 16,000 square feet, 50 cents per foot, $5,000. Kalorama avenue, connected at Colum- bia road, 6,000 square feet, $1 per foot, $6,000. Wyoming avenue and 19th street, con- nected at Columbia road, 33,000 square feet, $2 per foot, $63,000 Prescott place, extended to Kalorama avenue, 2,000 square feet, $1 per foot, $2,000. 8 street west to 22d, 21,000 square feet, $2 per foot, $42,000. Total, $2,713,165. Connecticut avenue, $225,000. Object of Highway Act. The whole object of the highway act, it is pointed out, is to provide means by which the streets of the city shall be ex- tended outwardly through the suburban districts in guch, a manner as shall, as nearly as possible, preserve their uniform- ity with the airects of the city. The act of 1888 endeavored {to provide for that—a want, by the, way,, which has been felt and provided for ran all. large cities, and in New York the necessity for such an act was felt_as early’ as 1808 or 1809. The act of(1888!'was intended to provide for just such a plan, so that when farm jands should, be subdivided for such pur- ses the streets, would be in conformity far as pdssiblg, with the stréets of the city. But thi was faulty, in that it made no prpvisidn to enable the District Commission: to,pscertain how the streets would run in different parts of the District. The want of a comprehensive plan for the extension of the streets of the city prior to 1888, and thi attest of the defects of the act of that Yeat,, have caused subdivisions to be made, the ts of which are in no wise in conformity with each other or with those of the city. The result was the bringing into existence of what have been termed “misfit subdivisions. Had there been, however, a good plan of street extension these irregular subdivi- sions would have been impoestble, and, aside from certi faulty methods of the highway Se act of 1898, difficulties and annoyances which have sulted wholly from the want of such a come prehensive plan would have been avoided. The Proposed Amendments, ‘The amendments proposed by the Com- missioners and the board of. trade are de- signed to do away with, first; those pro- visions ‘of the act of 1898 which experi- has shown to be difficult or impossible of enforcement which have caused hard- > and suffer d owners of land existing streets {n those subdivisions nec sary to afford. highways for the inhabitants of the entire District. Under the act pro- posed by the Commissioners and the board of trade, the District will have to pay only the expense necessary for thes changes. The highways as laid down outside of these subdivisions are to be extended only as the public convenience requires, and with little or no expense to the people of the whole District, since experience has shown that owners of land are glad to do- nate for a street as soon as the public convenience requires one to be opened. Such is the measure which the Com- missioners and the board of trade desire shall take the place of the act of 189%, and it is entirely different from that !n troduced in Congress this week, and which was published in The Star yesterday. While the Commissioners decline to discuss the latter measure, explaining that it would be improper for them to discuss any bil! before it is referred to them by Congress, yet it is understood they believe that it would be most unwise to make it a law. It is said the Commissioners will oppose it because it makes no provision whatever which will enable land to be subdivided and streets to be opened throughout the District at large when needed. It is said to be the opinion of the Com- missioners that this act would perpetuate the conditicns in existence prior to the act of 183, and would lead necessarily ‘to th formation of additional misfit subdivisions, which at scme time in the future would have to be.corrected at great expense. 1 also said to be the beltef of the Commis- sioners that this measure provides simply for the opening and extension of certain strects to the District line, and for the tm- mediate condemnation of and payment for the land proposed to be taken. Then, again, it is understood the Commissioners fect that a large portion of the land which would have to be taken under this Dill ts not needed for highways at the present time, and will not be for many years, wile, if it should be taken now, it would entail a great and unnecessary charge on the Dis- trict, causing it to pay for land not now required and which could, in all probability, be obtained later through donation. It 1s sald to be the further belief of the Commis- sioners that the amount stated in the bill, $4,000,000, would not begin to cover the cost ef the land which is therein proposed to be taken. : geno MRS. BASSFORD MISSING. of Northeast Mynsteriously ppears From Home. The pelice have been requested to find Mrs. Elien Bassford, an elderly woman, who disappeared frcm the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ella Bower, No. 640 K street northeast, Wednesday. The missing woman is sixty-eight years old. It is stated her mind is affected. She went out for a walk Wednesday afternoon, and when she did not return home in time for supper her daughter became alarmed and notified the police. Mrs. Bowen had heari nothing of the missing woman's whereabouts yesterday, and she visited Inspector Mattingly again last night and renewed her request for as- sistance. She now fears scme great mis- fortune has overtaken her mother, inquiry at the hospitals and charitable institu- tions having disclosed no trace of her. When she lefi her daughter’s home Mrs. Basstord wore a blue calico wrapper, black cape ard fascinator. ——— Officer Confesses. Policeman 8. 8S. Ellis of the second pre- cinct was before Trial Officer Pugh today on the charge of remaining In a drug store Thursday night for twenty minutes on other than police duty. ie pees aid he went into the store for Tharpumeeeter drying his clothes, the even- ing being very stormy. Resident Di Negundo Trees Condemned. Tbe Commissioners have informed Mrs. E. J. 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