Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 5

. GARAGEBLOCKING . GAPITAL ENTRANGE Stands in Way of Proposed Avenue From Station to Peace Monument. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The front doorway of the Nation’s Capital s privately owned and the self-governing people from all over the country who flock to the seat of CGovernment are prohibited from the full and free use of that doorway— which is the main entrance to the Union Station—by a corporation which acquired this site, much of which was formerly public streets, by grant of Congress and has refused to pay any taxes during the more than 16 years it has occupled the site. This front doorway is blocked by & “blye-sky” garage, occupied con- stantly by scores of taxicabs owned nnd operated by one company which yays a substantial sum to the Wash- ington Terminal Co. annually for the exclusive privilege. Although Congress has just spent mearly three and a half million dol- llars to complete acquisition of 12 quares of land betwzen the Union s Station and the Capitol =0 as to give Jnisitors a beautiful vista of the Cap- stol, it still lacks control of this van- 1age ground. Garage Blocks Avenue. flw-mm\ Plaza development, carrying it a project authorized by than 15 years ago, an same width as Pennsylvania avenue 4s to run from-Union Station to Peace % Monument at the west front of the § Capitol grounds to connect with Pennsylvania avenue. The entrance 10 this new avenue will pled by this “blue-sky garage with taxicabs. This is one of the situations that g one of the most outspoken being Rep- Tesentative Allen T. Treadway, Re- publican, of Massachusetts. District officials have protested that they are powerles #!" Two methods of dealing with .the "Washington Terminal Co. to recover i¢his front entrance for the public have bheen suggested. One is that the Dis- trict collector of taxes exercise his yight to sell this property at auction for non-payment of taxes, as he _ tion by the Federal Government of * t{his stretch of land immediately in % rront of the-entrance to Union Station, § either by purchase or condemnation, 10 protect the rights of the taxpaying public. As a matter of fact title to nuch of the land Involved still rests in the United States, having been formerly streets that were closed by act of Congress in authorizing the “Union Station location and the use of the land given to the Washington tion.” The commission feels that Ynstead of four street car tracks to TUnion Station there should be only two, and that those should be so mrranged that the public would have full and free access to the main en- trance. Charles Moore, speaking for the commission, says that it is pre- posterous that the Government should ot own and control the approach to Union Station. Whatever legislation Congress may consider for regalning of the Capital. In this connection it is emphasized that the attitude of the Washington Terminal Co. in standing on its legal yights to use this property as it sees it, regardless of the public interest, s poor requital for the great generosity of Congress toward the railroad companies when the Union Station was being located and bullt. $3,000,000 to Abandon Mall. The authorizing act specified that “heir needs. Then Congress became very generous and gave the Baltimore s% Ohio Railroad and the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Rallroad $3,000,000 -in cash to abandon the Mall, what was already United States aproperty. In the act of 1901 the following Provision was carried: " “In consideration of the surrender hy the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., under the requirements of this ;cts of Congress, and in consideration of the large expenditures required For the construction of the new term nals, viaduct, and connecting raii roads, as required by this act, to avoid #1l grade crossings of streets and ave- hues within the City of Washington, #nd further, in consideration of the grant and conveyance to the United States of the lands included within the limits of the roadway and right of way of the Washington Branch Vated terminals, viaduct, and struc- fures within the City of Washington, fshall be, and is hereby, appropriated, pne-half to be paid out of any money §n the Treasury of the United States ot otherwise appropriated, the other alf to be paid out of the revenues f the District of Columbia. The sum appropriated shall be paid upen resentation of a certificate by the “ommissioners of the District of Co- umbla that the said viaduct has been he relinquishment and surrender by he Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash- ington Raflroad Co. of its rights to coupy and use the portion of the Mall, and to maintain thereon a new passenger station and terminals, granited to the Baltimore and Poto- imac Rallroad Co. by the act aforesaid in consideration of and as a contri- e MT. VERNON 5 STEAMER THE S NDAY - STAR, WASHINGTON, 0.0, AUGHRT. 4, CHART OF UNION STATION PLAZA “BLUE SKY” GARAGE AND CAPITOL VISTA Drawing shows area in front ef Union Station. Hea"Bobll(-I( line is front_ of building. tted line is boundary of Washington Terminal property. Crossed lines are street T e left s view of property G pper lel s view of property Gov- ernment recently purchased from rail- road to develop beautiful Capitol vista. The temporary war buildings on this property are to be removed, the side of the Senate Office Building | at extreme left of picture is to be | ornamentally treated. A wide avenue is to run from the: right of this pic- ture to the Peace Monument, west of the Capitol. Lower picture shows ‘“blue-sky garage,” where exclusive privilege is rented to one taxicab company, to the exclusion of the public. This is at the very mouth of the new avenue authorized by law. butfon toward the large expenditures to be made by said company in the relocation and improvement of its line of railroad and elimination of grade crossings resulting therefrom, as required by said act, the sum of $1,500,000 shall ‘be paid to said Phila- delphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Co., its successors and as- signs, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United- States not otherwise appropriated, and said sum of $1,600,000 is hereby expressly ap propriated for this purpose, and shall be paid upon presentation of a cer- tificate by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia that said pas- senger station and terminal and con- necting lines of railroad contem- plated by this act, are ready for oc- cupancy. Except as modified by this act, all provisions of said act relating to the Baltimore and Poto- mac Railroad Co., approved Febru- ary 12, 1901, and all rights, powers, remedies and processes thereby con- ferred on said last-named company, or upon Southern Railway Co., shall remain and continue in full force, and with like effect as if herein re- enacted at length: and all rights, powers and privileges granted to, or dutles imposed upon, said Phila- AQelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Co. by this act shall accrue to and devolve upon its successors and assigns, as provided with respect to the Baltimore and Potomac Rail- road Co. by section 15 of sald act relating to said Baltimore and Po- tomac Railroad Co. approved Feb- ruary 12, 1901, and all provisions of said = section shall be applicable thereto in all respects, and in like manner as_they are made applicable to the rights, privileges and duties granted or imposd upon sald com- pany by said last-mentioned act.” Right Is Clearly Defined. There really is no question of the legal right of the Washington Termi- nal Co. to absolute possession of the land under consideration. The lan- guage in the act authorizing the com- pany to secure the site, after defining its boundaries, stated: “and for the purposes of said passenger station and terminal sald terminal company is fully authorized and empowered to ac- quire, take and use all the lands and property lying within said area or so much thereof as it may deem nec- When a plan proposed by the direc- tor of traffic to control traffic condi- tions at Union Station was referred to Francis H. Stephens, the corporation counsel, he reported to the District Commissioners, as follows: “The portion on the south front of the station, which is the property of the terminal company, is not subject to trafic regulations. The Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Donavan vs. Pennsylvania Rail- road Co., 199 U. 8., 279, held that the Pennsylvania Railroad had the right to exclude from the property of the company all cabs other than those with whom it had a contract for the accommodation of passengers. Our local courts have decided the same thing with respect to the roadway in front of Union Station. Property Under Control. “Justice Stafford, under date of October 31, 1919, in the case of the ‘Washington Terminal Co. vs. Inter- national Auto Sightseeing Transit Co., Equity No. 34604, decided that the roadway in front of the Union Statfon was not a public highway, but that the title to the property and space lying between the south line of the property of the Washingon Terminal Co. and the Union Station Building was vested in the terminal company and under its control, su- pervision and direction. “Reamy vs. District of Columbia, 50 Ap. D. C., 369, decided that a taxicab standing upon private property of the ‘Washington Terminal Co. (opposite the west entrance) with the permis- sion of sald Washington Terminal Co. was not in violation of the act ef Congress of July 11, 1919 (loitering section). “It appears to me that the Commis- sioners are without authority to reg- ulate or control traffic on the property owned ‘by the Washington Terminal Co. I think the most feasible course is the one suggested by the traffic director, that is, to agree with the terminal company upon some plan of control for the convenience of the traveling public.” When Congress: gets back on the job an effort is going to be made to WARREN RETAING 7S POLICE FORCE Citizens Guarantee Pay and Then Retire Assured City Would Be Protected. By the Associated Press. WARREN, Ohlo, 31.—The July UNION STATION SHIPPING NEWS Sailings From ork, Daylight Saving Time. Arrivals at and New ARRIVED YESTERDAY. Republic—Bremen Duillo—Genoa ... Ohio—Southampton Haiti—St 40,000 citizens of Warren went to bed | El tonight assured that the police de- partment would continue to function. Early tonight the ordinance passed by the council Monday night abolish- ing the police department was still in effect, but a special council session had been called for 10 o'clock to repeal the ordinance, in accordance with a pledge made to a committee of citizens. Pay Roll Is Provided. The committee has guarenteed to |3 provide enough money to meet police and fire department pay rolls for a1 month, about $11.000, and to find a way to raise money for the balance |53 of the year. With the pledge was revealed a hitherto unannounced purpose of the councll in_passing the abolishment measure. It was to “clean up a graft | situation uncovered with the arrest of Inspector Harry E. Laukhart” on bribery charges, it was said. The ordinance declared it was because there were no funds to pay the men. The council said tonight that al- though it would repeal the abolish- ment ordinance, in view of the funds promised by the committee, it would continue its campaign against police department graft. Sheriff Offered Aid. “In view of the fact that it has been widely advertised that Warren would be without a police department to- night an invasion of crooks was fear- ed in some quarters and Sheriff John Smith said he would have his deputies patrol the streets tonight as e pre- caution, Chief of Police Gillen, how- ever, said he could handle the situ- ation, and fhe council was asked to notify the sheriff his assistance would not be necessary. Chief Gillen, although the target of attacks because of strife within the department, is not’connected with the graft charges, and council members sald they expected to ask him to co- operate in “cleaning up.” DOCTORS TO CONVENE. 500 Medical Experts to Attend Con- gress at Yale. Special Dispatch to The Star. A NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 81— Modern theorles of disease prevention and cure are to be discussed at_the three-day clinical congress at Yale September 21, 22, 23. v Some 500 leading physiclans and surgeons are to attend the congress. The leading paper will be read by Dr. Edouard A. Rist, co-director of the Laennec Hospital for Tuberculosis, Paris. ! see what Congress can do about va- cating the right of ownership thus ex- ercised by the terminal company and placing it undisputedly in the United States as a matter of grave public Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W. Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 weekly: $10.70 Toom! shower and lav: 3 more. Rooms like Mother's. rooms, $& with tollet, room. 50 % ol DUE TODAY. Carmanta—Sonthampton Adriatie—Livorpool . Sierra Ventana—Breman. Giugeope Verdi—Genoa. Cristina—Barcelos Calamares—Cristobal DUE TOMORROW. tri Samaria—Liverpool 3tavang erfjord—Oslo tonia—Danzig .. DUE TUESDAY. Majestio—Southampton . . 0—Valparalso Huron—Santo Domingo. Orizaba—Havana . 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Viscount Grey, a well known lover of birds, said the plover was becom- ing a rare bird on the Northeast coast owing to the collection of its eggs for the London market. =iy 3558 o> ._,... iz i 238 o> i 33 Z> g Hl aBEEEE g3 ui>Z> "Where Security Is a Pitl’burg Automatic Gas Water Heaters During July and August Balance 000 Easy Down T : ‘Your heater will be ready for use As a feature of the Capitol-Union Congress proposes to deal with when 3§t resumes legislative work in Decem- ber. Individual members of both Jiouse and Senate have for years vig- orously denounced suth a condition, ould any privately owned property % Congress Could Act. " The other proposal is for' Congress by special act to authorize the acquist- tTerminal Co. The Commission of Fine Arts be- Jteves that the situation in front o Tnion Station is ‘iperfectly absurd und that it is “an’ intolerakle condi- control of the property directly in front of the station entrance will have the heartiest support of the commis- slon, which Is the official mentor and Zuardian for the proper development 4he station should “cost not less than $1.000,000 and be monumental in char- ucter.” The railroad companies com- plained that they were forced to great expense to build a station far beyond uct, of its rights under the several wcts of Congress heretofore passed, £nd under its several contracts with the municipal authorities of the City of Washington, authorized by said Rallroad, which can be used for a ktreet or avenue for the public bene- fit, the sum of $1,500,000, to be paid %0 said railroad company toward the 08t of the construction and said ele- ompleted as required by this act.” Provision of Act of 1903. 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