Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 18

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ERan $1 99 ® " "First Floor. $5.00 and $6.00 WASH DRESSES Of pretty French Voile and Rayons. also other pretty materials, that will retain their color and luster after -3.88 Second Floor. Mon New Black Satin Dresses With short sleeves, white and flesh trimmed. Other $ 5 5 [ ] i cle ver ‘styles black and m- Bargain Basement. 100 Fine Silk Crepe Dresses Selected from _our regular $5.00 stock. Beauti- § flat crepe. All sires, Reduced 3.88 Monday to: ful light solid colors and dots Bargain Bgsement. in heavy silk Just Out—New Charleston Dresses 41,69 ‘With e yard material ‘gain Basement. Sigmunds, 7th & H Sts. The. sonsation in wash _dresses. Monday_at YA COVERS THIS CITY Ever-growing Transportation System Provides Conveni- ent Means of Travel. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN, Automobile Editor cf The Star. Advance guard of progress and prosperity, forerunner of development and expansion, intracity transporta- tion is the maker or breaker of com- munities, the deciding weight in an inflexibly honest economic scales, a scales which in Washington has been turned emphatically by numerous tenuous lines of busses plying, many times a day, from scores of points within the District of Columbia- and joining street with boulevard, avenue with lane, tearing down the barriers of time which have heretofore sepa- rated centers of interest, business or residence. . A veritable network of bus commu- nication has been thrown over the National Capital, until at the present not an important section remains un- crossed, not a division is far from a bus, not a point within the, city lacks the means of moving from one corner of Washington to the other. Important adjuncts to the street car lines, busses have gained a highly significant hold here, a hold which is advanting in public favor as: these huge, comfortable machines move through a crowded day steadily, quiet- , fast to schedule. As a result, shington’s transportation system. | is now more complete than ever be- fore, with the already established tracked lines supplemented by great fleets of motor vehicles, ‘which, pok- ing their noses into residential or other sections relatively far removed, act as busy feeders for the electric systems. Easy Riding Is Feature. ‘Washington's busses make hundreds of trips a day, some of them long, some of them short, some from one end of the city to a distant and tucked-away corner, some of them be- tween points seemingly just a stone's throw from each other. These trips are made in busses distinguished by their riding qualities and by their ability to be at their starting points on time and arrive at their destina- tions precisely on the dot. These coaches, most of them, are not as large as the intercity machines, being built specifically for intra-community work, but they are cradled quite as well and seem just as free from ordi- | nary automotive ills, Each year has seen vast improve- ment in the actual construction of these busses until today they appear | quite perfect in every mechanical way. The motors do not bark but, on the contrary, hum like those of high priced passenger cars; the seats are cushioned scientifically; head room arrangements are thoughtfyl, and the drivers’ comfort has been well con- sidered. ! There are three names to be borne !in mind in considering Washington' | bus transportation system—Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co., Washing- ion Rapid Transit Co. and Capital Traction Co. The Washington Rapia Transit Co is owned by the North American Co., the huge public utility organization which _ controls con- siderable stock of the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. i i Klotz Alds Survey. | The Washington Railway & Electric Co.’'s Rock Creek Church road line is as good a place as any. to begin this survey which will include all the National Capital's bus sys- - various routes. In | making the survey, The Star has had hearty and full-spiritea co-operation of Capt. Robert C lotz, bus engineer of the District of Co- lumbia Public Utilities Commission and a leading authority on auto- motive common carriers. The line mentioned above runs from Rock Cretek Church road and Randolph street to Seventeenth street and Park road via Rock Creek Church road, New Hampshire avenue, Parx road, Mount Pleasant street, Newton street, Nineteenth street, Lamont street and Seventeenth street, return- ing via Seventeenth street, New Hampshire avenue and Rock Creek Church road. These busses operate on a nine-minute headway through- out the day and take 24 minutes to complete one round trip. An ex- tension west on Park road into Rock Creek Park picnic grounds is op- erated Saturdays, Sundays and holi- days in Summer. Another important Washington Rallway and Electric line, one which has proved an important stimulus to development in a portion of the sec- tion it traverses, is the so-called Woodley road branch. This line runs from Wisconsin avenue and Ordway street to Columbia road and Cali- fornia street, via Wisconsin avenue, Ordway street, Thirty-fourth street, Woodley road, Cathedral avenue, Twenty-seventh street, Woodley roaa, Connecticut avenue, Wyoming avenue, Columbia road and Call- fornia street to Connecticut avenue and returning via Connecticut avenue, Woodley road, Twenty: séventh street, Cathedral avenue, Woodley road and Wisconsin avenue to Ordway street. These busses run on 10- minute headway and the trip they make takes 27 minutes, includ- ing going and coming. Another line leaves Seventeenth and K streets for the Lincoln Memorial, moving along through Seventeenth street Pennsylvannia avenue, Nine- teenth street, B street and Memorial Driveway, and returning via Drive- way, B street, Eighteenth street and K street. Busses operating on the lat- ter line keep to a schedule calling for 10-minute headway and 20-minute run- ning time. . Long Run to Georgetown. Quite a run is made by the busses which leave Tenth and Pemnsylvania avenue and run to Thirty-seventh and T, returning by way of Thirty-seventh street, S street, Thirty-fifth street, Q street, MassachWsetts avenue, Twen- tieth street, K street, Thirteenth street fo Pennsylvania ayenue and Tenth street. Operating oh a 12-min- ute headway, it takes these. huge busses a scant 42 minutes to make the round trip. Another run of considerable length, and a line of great importance to a Iarge number of persons, s that run- ning from Dupont Circle to Forty- fifth and Fessenden streets and return via Massachusetts avenue, Cathedral avenue, New Mexico avenue (Tunlaw road), Nebraska avenue, Massachu- setts avenue, Murdock Mill road, Forty-ninth street, Chesapeake street, Forty-fifth - street, Ellicott street, Fq-ty-seventh street and Fessenden street. It is provided that during morning and evening run hours busses operated over this route shall be deflected at Massachusetts avenue and Twentleth street and run thence to Seventeenth and I streets and return via Twentieth street, K street, Seven- | Twenty-second and Monroe, and the teenth street, I street, Fighteenth street, K street and Twentieth street, These busses work on a 60-minute headway and the time consumed in completing one round trip is 56 min- utes. Still another W. R. E. bus line is operated out from Fifteenth and H streets northeast which runs to Blad- ensburg road and the District line and return via Bladensburg road. A 15-minute headway is maintained by these busses, which make the round trip tn 16 minutes. . A line and a rather heavily used ¥ Copyright 1926 Y The EVENING STAR NEWSPAPERCO. one, is that running from Mount Oli- vet road and Montello avenue north- east to Eleventh and G streets south- east, via Montello avenue, Oats street, Trinidad avenue, Fifteenth street, Ten- nessee avenue, Fourteenth street, Bast Capitol _street, Eighteenth street, A street, Fourteenth street, South Caro- lina avenue, Twelfth. street, and G street, returning via Twelfth street, South Carolina avenue, Fourteenth street, A street, Eighteenth street, East Capitol street, Fourteenth street, Maryland avenue, Fifteenth street, Florida avenue, Trinidad avenue, Oats street and Montello avenue. Operated on a headway of 20 minutes,. this route is covered in 34 minutes by the powerful vehicles running on it. Bus to Northeast. The Nichols avenue and Good Hope road bus, which runs to Alabama and Nichols avenues, goes by way of Good Hope road and Alabama avenue, and goes through Good Hope, Garfield and Congress Heights. Running from Twenty-second and Monroe streets northeast to Nine- teenth and H streets northwest, a W. R. and E. bus goes by way ‘of Monroe street, Twelfth street northeast, mak- ing a loop via Fourth street and Chan: ning street, thence to Rhode Island avenue, Vermont avenue, N street, Fourteenth street, Vermont avenue, K street, west side of McPherson Square, Vermont avenue, H street to Nineteenth street, returning via Nine- teenth street, I street, east side of Mc- Pherson Square, Vermont avenue, Fourteenth street, N street, Vermont avenue, Rhode Island avenue, Fourth street to Central avenue northeast. There is a bus every 20 minytes to same holds true for a bus to Fourth and Central avenue, making a 10-min- ute headway for the entire line. The full trip occuples 56 minutes. Operating on a 30-minute headway and covering the round trip in 6 min- utes, a brown bus runs from Thirty- fifth and Reservoir streets to Reser- voir and Foxall road via Reserveir road, returning by the same route to Thirty-fifth street and Reservoit road, thence making a loop from Thirty- fifth street to Thirty-fourth street to Thirty-fifth street and to point of be- ginning. This, then, completes the list of bus routes run by the Washington Ralil- way and Electric Co. within the Dis- trict of Columbia. This company op- erates a number of lines out of the city, but they were covered in a sur- vey published in The Star on June 12, which detailed all bus systems going to points outside Washington. W. R. T. Reutes Outlined. The Washington Rapld Transit's routes, which operate through some of the downtown section and in thick- 1y settled residential regions, next will be outlined. The streets traversed by this organization’s massive singleand double decked busses will be shown, together with the headway and run- ning time maintained, thus giving a clear view of operations. ° One of the most popular bus trips in the National Capital begins at Six- teenth and Kennedy streets and runs to Eighth and Pennsylvania ‘avenue via Sixteenth street, Massachusetts avenue, Thirteenth street’' and Penn. sylvania avenue, returning by way of Pennsylvania avenue, Twelfth street, Massachusetts avenue, _Sixteenth street, Colorado avenue and K.-nhedx street. Numerous busses are run o this line during the course’of a da.dy, as its 7}%-minute headway will indi- cate. A total of 56 minutes is re- quired to make the complete round- trip tour. The Sixteenth and Harvard streets to Lincoln Memorial line proves af tractive to many, the busses movlng' to their destination by way of his- toric Sixteenth street, H street, Madi- son place, east Executive avenue, south of White House, State place, Seventeenth street, B street and Twenty-third street, and returning via the same route, It takes 40 minutes for these handsome vehicles to make the full trip, and the 10-minute head- way makes them convenient at all times during the day. s Approximately 35 minutes is .con- sumed in making the Eighth and Penn- sylvania avenue to Lincoln Memorial trip, while a 15-minute schedule - is maintained on this routs The ma~ chines go by way of Pennsylvania avenue, Twelfth street, K street, Fif- teenth street, Vermont avenue, H street, Pennsylvania avenue, Twen- tieth street, New York avenue and Twenty-third street, returning via Me- morial driveway, B street, Seventeenth street, Pennsylvania avenue, Madison place, Vermont avenue, I street, Thir- teenth street and Pennsylvania ave. nue. Buchanan Line Longest. Probably the longest regular trip over the Washington Rapid Transit line 4s furnished by what is known as route 12. This runs from Fourteenth | and Buchanan streets to Fighth and Pennsylvania avenue, via Buchanan street, Iowa avenue, Allison street, Iliinols ,avenue, Grant Circle, pshire avenue, Park road, Thir- teenth street, Columbia road, Six- teenth street, I street, Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, re- turning by way of Pennsylvania ave- nue, Twelfth street, K street, Six. teenth strest, /ard- street, Thire teenth street, Park road; New Hamp: Hap of BUS LINES' OPERATING * Withinthe shire avenue, Grant Circle, Illinols avenue, Allison street, Iowa avenue and Buchanan street. The time taken to make this cir- cuitous route is 64 minutes, and the busses on the line hold to a 7%-min- ute headway schedule. It should be pointed out here that various combinations of the above- mentioned W. R. T. routes are oper- ated during rush hours to provide extra. and through service. City service between Fourteenth and Kennedy streets and the District line is furnished by Maryland busses run- ning via Kennedy street, Sixteenth street, Alaska avenue and Georgla avenue. These busses run every 15 minutes and the time occupied in mak- ing_their trip is 18 minutes. The bus lines of the Capital Trace tion Co. cover a wide area and stretch long arms into widely separated sec- tions of the city. Oné of its lines runs from Four-and-a-half and P streets to Eleventh and M streets southeast via Delaware avenue, Third street, M street, Potomac avenue and Eleventh street, returning via M street, Third street, L street, Water street and P street. Fleet, safe carriers cover the round trip in 256 minutes with users accommodated by 16-minute headway service, Service to Randle Highlands. It takes a Capital Traction bus just exactly 27% minutes to fun from ern High School to Randle Highlands (Twenty-fitth street and Naylor road southeast), going by way of Seven- teenth street, A street, Eighteenth street, B street, Nineteénth street, E street, Potomac avenue, Fifteenth street, Kentucky avenue, Pennsyl- vania avenue and thence over the same route back to the high school. This line is for Randle Highlands, Twining City, Congressional Cemetery, Gallinger Hospital, Almshouse, Dis- trict Jall and Eastern High School. Another one of this company’s routes is from Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast to Good Hope (Alabama avenue and Good Hope road) and return via Penn- sylvania, Branch and Alabama ave- nues. Operated on a 30-minute head- way, busses on this line run out and back in 26 minutes. The Connecticut avenue and Mo- Kinley street loop, so-called, is map- ped out via Western avenue, Ritten- house street, Thirty-second street, McKinley street, Belt road, Forty- McKinley street,- Belt road, Forty- first street, Davenport street,’ Belt road, Wisconsin avenue to Nebrasks avenue, north on Wisconsin. avenue, Belt road, Davenport street, Forty- first -troét. B-:’t :'M. McKinley street to Connecticut avenue. The Chevy Chase Circle-Capitol Coach line, or the de luxe 25-cent bus of the Capital Traction Co. fol- lows a course from Chevy Chase Circle down Connecticut avenue, Kal- orama rtoad, Eighteenth strest, Q street, Seventeenth street, I 'street, Thirtegnth street, E street, Union Station Plaza, Delaware avenue, Capitol grounds, New Jersey avenue, B street southeast. This long trip i8 made in 70 minutes, going and coming, and the smooth-running, remarkably comfortable and_ well- appolnted coaches run on a headway of 20 minutes, ! Taking in the golf courses; & Capi- tal Traction bus leavés Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue (back of the Treasury) every 30 minutes and goes by way of the Park roadway tu Seventeenth and B to the Tidal Basin, to the Inlet Bridge to Four- teenth street, to Golf Course drive to the clubhouse, returning on Speed- way to Fourteenth to northeast side of the Tidal Basin to Seventeenth and B streets, through the park and EIIIP se to Fifteenth and E streets to Fif- teenth and Pennsylvania avenue. The round trip is comple in 20 min- utes, Line Goes to Haines Point. There remains but. one more line of all the many criss-crossing the Capital to be accounted for and detalled, That is the Haines Point line of the Capital Traction Co. It starts from Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue, also back of the Treasury, and goes via Treasury place, south of the White House, State place, Sevel teenth street, B street, Lincoln M morial' drive, Memorial Branch road, Speedway, Haines Point; returning via the Speedway, Fourteenth street, Tidal Basin, Seventeenth street, B street, Park, Ellipse, Fifteenth and E streets and Fifteenth and Pennsy:- varnia avenue. That brings Yo a _close the outline of facts regarding Washington’s bus systems, the routes they take, the places they cover, their running time and their headway. 3 These facts, bald as they are, should give some indication of the place the motor bus has assumed in the dally life of the National Capital. t which affects transportation affects every-phase of & community’'s lite, ches eve ible_angle of OVERSTUFFED FURNITURE k. . m:‘d us. a G 50 Reabhoimering S Bovers its existence. As transportation is the life-blood of the Nation, so it is also the heartbeat of the city. Trans- portation is the reflection of prog- ress or stagnation, proseprity or fail- ure, woe or weal. It is to Washington's great credic, then, that it has developed intracity bus transportation to its present ad- vanced state, that the territorial body of the community is pierced by a scores of well placed arrows, that no one division of it is cut from any other part of the operation of nine- teenth century methodys in this, the twentieth. . The maintenance-of these lines in their present growing position, the preservation of their schedules and the equipment by which they keep them, is essential.to the best inter- ests of Washington; is vital to its continued growth; is supremely nec- essary -if the sweeping march - of progress s not to be stemmed. i Resignations Accepted. Resignation of Capt. Henry Brooks, Medical Corps, stationed_at Carlisle, Pa., and that of Second Lieut. David F. Stone, Cavalry, stationed at Fort 2y i x ScrooL FoR Bors POLICE ASKED TO NAME MAXIMUM TAXI RATES Utilities Commission” Wants Code to Harmonize With Rules It Recently Adopted. Several changes in the police regu- lations governing taxicabs were recommended by the Public Utilities Commission yesterday with a view of bringing the police code into harmony with the rules adopted hy the com- mission when it recently assumed Jjurisdiction of regulation of hackers. ‘The commission does not fix tariffs to be charged by the cabs, on the theory that competition is sufficlently keen to make action unnecessary, but it does suggest that the police code contain a schedule 6f maximum taxi- cab charges. The rates recommended are 30 cents for the first third of a mile and 10 cents for each third of & mile thereafter, with 20 cents ad- ditional per trip each for second and third passengers. The Police Department also was asked to concur in having the code pecify that the commission instead of It takes a fow Ih::lh’nn § :Vvinh.?fir:t , without a lot of muss en you have the same and fuss. - dependable electric We 'omkuth' Your now using—can be Kelvinator- LEGEND &F Bus LINES — = Gtpital Traction Go. k' Washn. Rwy. & Eleciric o Washh Rapid Transit the superintendent of weights and measures control the inspection of meters. TRASH PLANT HEARING. Proposed Looation at Blue Plans to Be Considered. A proposal to locate a municipal trash plant near Blue Plains will be considered by the District Commis- sioners at a public hearing in the board room of the District Building Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The Washington Highlands Citi- zens’ Assoclation sent a committee to | the District Building when the project | was first discussed to urge that it be fully canvassed in public before being decided. The commitee explained that it had no objection to the sanitary disposal of clean waste in territory of | the association, but did not want th health of the community, endangered J. R. Walsh Now Lieutenant. Jeremiah R. Walsh, 33 Michigan avenue northeast, has been appointed | by the War Department a second lieu- tenant in the Infantry Reservi Mm market; since AMERICA DECRIES CHINESE PROTES MacMurray Deplores “Lacy of Unity” Regarding Treaty Adjustments. By the Associated Press. KING, July John V. A n Minister t¢ ddressed a reply to the recent protest of Eu eign minister of the N ernment of Canton, against resump tion of the tariff conference at Peking The American Minister deplores the “digheartening lack of unity” amoi the Chinese, as shown by Chen’s and other similar protests, which hamper the joint efforts of the friendly pow ers to effect readjustments in their treaty relations with China an Minister assures t n minister that any adjustment undef consideration view the benefit of the whole of Chin: and not of any Individual military or political faction. The tariff conference at present is suspended until Autumn Last week the Canton foreign mir ister addressed a note to America officials in China protestinz agains the resumption of the tariff negot tions between the foreign delegate and a re-constituted Chinese deleg tion representing the government ¢ Peking. He also cabled to Senator William | Borah appealing to him to forces of modern country by moving the recall of the American delegation.” . e, FETE TO AID ORPHANAGE. Chicken Dinners to Feature St Vincent’s Benefit Next Week. A lawn fete and chicken dinner be given for the benefit of the Vincent's Orphan Asylum, at and Channing streets northeast, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdz next week, under the aus St. Vincent's auxiliary. The affa will be held on the lawn of the or phanage. Chicken_ dinner will be| served from 4 to 7 p.m. and oth features will include a band concert from 6 to 10 p.m. Monday, August 2, has been desig)) nated as Holy Name night, when members of all Holy e branc have been extended a special invita to attend; Tuesday will be of Columbus night, and for nvitation to at I “TRUCK O%ERVICE” “TAXI SYSTEM” ANY SIZE. ANY TIME. ANYWHERE Baitimore, Md.. Duily Hagerstown, Winchester, % and Cumberland Wednesday ¢ Vinchester. 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