Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1927, Page 20

20 HUGE AREA OPENED 0D BYBSKES Ready Access to Rich, Fertile Sections of Great Eco- nomic Importance. ! BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. i Characterized by an ever-increasing egree of stability, bringing in its ake more lines and rapidly expand- {ing patronage, the metwork of motor {bus lines which has grown up in {Washington to connect the National iCapital with points outside the Dis- ftrict of Columbia mow constitutes a funit in the transportation chain whose ¢ import s of the most outstanding ican: i Through these lines operating from {Washington and penetrating often iquite deeply into surrounding countr: }the National Capital is placed in close fcommunication with areas rich, fertile iand of definite economic importance in itheir relationship to the District of Columbia and its people. Sometimes sthese lines are supplemental to other Jexisting forms of transportation, either frail or water, while in other ins ithe motor bus forms the onl Ibetween a small but growing com- imunity and the Capital City. Somewhat more than a iThe Star made a survey of the bus isystems operating from Washington “to points outside. the boundaries of the seity. Today The Star publishes the cresults of a second such survey, and ithe facts disclosed form a highly in- teresting and valuable commentary on the progress of the motor bus in its srelation to the National Capital. Trend of Motor Bus. Before outlining in considerable de- tail the precise situation in which ‘Washington finds jtself in this whole connection, there are several main points which are indidative of the trend the interurban motor bus is taking. They are as follow: (1) There are fewer long-distance Jines operating out of Washington to- “day than there were a year ago, but fthe number of short lines ha ‘an appreciable advance. Th opment, it is understood, has taken place in many. other centers through- out the country. (2) The number of passengers car- iried is very considerably larger at this “time than ever before, and the gain lover, just a year ago is quite impor- ‘tant. @) Much new equipment has been purchased by Washington interurban motor bus operators and added to their lines. In general, the individual ‘operator is using a greater number of usses. ’ The three points here listed cover the broad trend as indicated by The #Star’s survey, in the organization of swhich it has had the helpful co- operation of officials of the Public Utilities Commlss’Yn. The reason why jthere are fewer long lines, as, for in- stance, to New York, is that the op- ‘erators learned frem expericnce that despite the luxurious appointment of $heir de luxe busses, relatively few per- ms found them comfortable for 12 ;‘o’urs of continuous riding. In adai- tion, many were unwilling to give up year ago try to the north of the city, these busses are performing an important service and it seems likely that as time goes on this route will become more.-and more intensively cultivated. Another line whose busses do not leave from the terminal are those of the Burns organization, whose motor coaches traverse the territory between the National Capital and Ashton and Brookeville, Md., going by way of Wheaton and Olney. They leave from Ninth and K streets and make two round trips a day. Three busses are operated by this company, and the daily passenger total is estimated at 5. The growing demands for transpor- tation service in the region known as Hyattsville Hills are being met through the operation of a line from the bus terminal in downtown Wash- ington to that point via Mount Rain- jer. The Harry Hopkins Transporta- tion Co. is the line in question, and its five busses make 23 trips daily, carry- ing an of about 22 nother line running out of Cheverly, d., is operated by the Washington uburban Realty Co., which has one vehicle, making five daily trips and ge of 45 pas- bus is sta- ton bus termi- M streets and make' 24 round trips rving e of 265 per- sons. The W Virginia & ryland Coach Co., whose busses also fifth and M streets, ehicles on a_very ve schedule, making §7 trips ay to Cherrydale, Va.: 89 tr Ballston and 38 to Fort Mye other bus of the Cherrydale line goes to the Washington Goif and Country Club. On the first-mentioned runs, an average of 740 persons are carried; 1,070 is the estimated total between here and Ballston, while 120 are car- ried on the Fort Myer trips. operates A line known as the Virginia Tran- sit Company runs its two busses on s to Fairfax by way of Church” and Tysons, and the mated number of pd gers car- ried is 53. There is still another company, which operates under the name of Lee Highway Motor Coach, which runs over to Falls Church and Fairf: According to late figures, this line has six vehicles at its dis- posal, and with them runs 27 round trips ‘a_day to Falls Church and goes through to Fairfax for five trips. The figures on approximate number of passengers carried read 162 and 40, respectively. These busses are sta- tioned at Twelfth street and Pennsyl- vania avenue. Apparently there is some demand for a bus line to Luray, Va., for the Laurence Garage Company has two busses in this service. They leave from the regular terminal, and make the trip via Warrenton once a day. The daily estimated average number of persons using this bus is put at nine by authorities of the local Pub- lic Utilities Commission. Quantico, | Va., is another destination of a bus line out of Washington. The Quan- tico-Washington line has one bus in | service that makes two trips a day for the convenience of approximately 19 persons. The Quantico bus may be boarded at its starting point, the established bus_terminal. Returning to Luray, it is noted that trips a day to Luray and also two trips to Winchester. The four busses used carry 17 and 36 persons, respec- tively, on the average. Extensive service is furnished by An entire day to the trip, since the busses left at 8'a.m. and arrived in New York at 8 p.m. £ On the other hand, the bus is be- foming strongly entrenched where it s enabled to make a multiplicity of rips h day. where the haul is rela- gively short ani, of course, where tn insistent demand exisits for addi- ional transportation service. The nd, apparently, is toward com- tness and solidity in bus operation, ther than toward far-flung lines. It is not to be gathered, however, that Washington'’ nterurban bus rvice extends'on! o poirits within 0 or 15 miles of the city. That ig ar from the case. While it is tru@ that at the present there aré no'véhi tles making daily trips to -‘venters #everal hundred miles distant, there a regular service as far as Phila- lelphia and_over to Hagerstown, as ell as to Leonardtown, Luray and lown to Richmond. The territory be- ween Washington and those points, ut particularly within a circle of, say 0 miles, is intensively cultivated from & motor bus point of view. { No Absolute Figures Available. In explanation ‘of the detailed in- ormation to be set forth, it should pointed out that in speaking of trips, “round trips” thus are indi- €ated throughout, and in giving the estimated passenger totals, “round trips” also are meant. In connection ith these figures, it is emphasized jhat they are estimates, made by the blic Utilities Commission, and are ot inflexible. The reason there are to absolute figures available is that he interurban lines do an interstate business, and as such the Public Utilities Commission cannot require he companies to submit reports, as do_the local traction companies. i Furthermore, the figures cited do !:t include such business as may be rried between local points outside the District, for example, as between Alexandria and Potomac Yards. While the passenger statistics, therefore, are pot final ones, they. are extremely aluable in giving a. reasonably defi- te insight into the trend of interur- n bus traflic. » Points between Washington and Alkexandria @re blanketed by the busses of the Alexandria, Barcroft & ‘Washington lne, a eompany which, sccording to recent figures, operates 8 busses. These vehicles go over to he Virginia town, passing Potomac ards, Rosemont, Del Ray and other ints en route, for a total of 117 round trips daily, with an estimated fotal of 3,952 passengers. This same company, which“operates the largest Dumber of interburban busses, also Tuns to Barcroft and Balleys Cross Roads, Va., making 26 trips a day to the former place and 5 to the latter. In addition to the two lnes already ted, the Alexandria, Barcroft & vashington Company operates a bus Richmond over the new Washing- ton - Richmond Boulevard, passing through Alexandria and Fredericks- burg. Four round trips are made daily between the capital of Virginia &nd the National Capital. An esti- mated average of 150 passengers ily are carried, as against 680 on he Barcroft trips. The busses of this eompany leave the Washington bus terminal, located at Little Ninth street and Louisiana avenue. In connection with this terminal, it the Washington, Marlboro & An- napolis line, which operates busses to Capitol Heights, Marlboro and the Maryland capital. To Capitol Heights, this company, which owns six busses, makes 31 trips a day, carrying about 720 passengers, a rather sizable total. The Marlboro bus of this .company makes six trips a day, conveying 52 persons, “while the Naval Academy city is the destination on two trips. An average of 21 passengers travel the latter. The terminal at Little Ninth. street is the starting point for the W. M, & A. line's carriers. “The Baltimore bus,” so-called, is operated by the Washington Motor oach Co., Inc., which has_its stand t Fourteenth street and Pennsyl- Vania avenue. A total of 14 trips a day are made to the Monumental City by this organization’s fleet, while two round-trip runs are made be- tween the National Capital and An- napolis. An average of 228 persons are carried on the Baltmiore trips, with an estimated total of 45 taking the runs down to Annapolis. The company owns 12 busses, A great many trips are made each day by the interurban carriers of the ‘Washington Rapid Transit Co., which pied. The same holds true on other lines. According to unofficial information, for example, there is a New York-to- leave from Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue. For instance, 15 trips are made to Linden, Md., while a total of 38 are registered each day to Forest Glen and return. Tiwenty- two is the total number of round trips between Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue and Four Corners. Other Suburban Lines. Southern Maryland points are the objectives of the Tidewater Lines, Inc, a company which owns four busses. Two round trips are made each day from Twelfth street and New York avenue in Washington to Leonardtown, two to Brandywine; and, during the Summer, a trip is made daily to Scotland Beach, which is a considerable distance below Leonard- town. From October 1 to May 24 one trip is made to Rock Point, while during the Summer the schedule is stepped up to two trips a day. The same holds true for Coltons Point. It is estimated that on these runs about 46 persons are served each day. An addition ‘which should be made to the lines alteady named as running to Annapolis is the bus service of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway, which makes three round trips to the Maryland capital. As previously stated, these busses leave from the W. B. & A.’s station at Twelfth and New York avenue, from whence its trains depart. While the line runs trains to Baltimore, it concentrates its bus service on Annap- olis alone. Continuous service from 5:10 a.m. to 12:45 a.m. is afforded by the interurban busses of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., which, leaving from Fifteenth and H streets northeast, run out as far as Laurel, via Hyatts- ville. The number of persons served by this line is quite large. A line known as the Red Belt, and operating two busses from the Wash- ington terminal, makes six round trips a day between the Natlonal Capital and Rockville, over the Rock- ville Pike. Twenty-five is the esti- mated passenger list. The line operating busses to the farthest point is the Peoples’ Transit may be pointed out that while many pt Washington’s interburban bus lines now start from that point, there are some which take their departure from other places for reasons of their own. For instance, the Annapolis bus operated by the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Rail- way Jeaves from that road’s own ter- minal at Twelfth street and New York avenue. But in the mailn, the inter- urban busses now are centered at the regularly established terminal,. mak- ing for greater convenlence for- pa. trons as well as operators, and having 8 salutary effect upon traffic condi- tions generally. Maryland Busses. ' Washingtonians _have _available, through the Blue Ridge Transporta- tion Co., a bus to Frederick, Md., and one to Hagerstown. The five busses ;flermed by this organization make ve trips daily to the former place, and one through trip daily to the latter. The .Hagerstown bus leaves this company's stand at Twelfth street nd Pennsylvania avenue at 4 p.m. $1'%s catimated that approximately 68 passengers make use of the Frederick Co., subsidiary of the Philadelphia Rapld Transit Co., which plies be- tween Washington and - Philadelphia. This run is made regularly twice each day, and the company has four busses in this service. According to estl- mates, the average number of pas- sengers carried each day I8 eight. The Philadelphia busses may be boarded at scveral hotels. With this line, the list of Interurban | bus companies operating vehicles reg- ularly from the National Capital to points outside its boundaries is com plete, in so far as a careful check re- veals. However, there s another con- dition which should be pointed out in order to round out the picture of hew Washington is situated with regard to interurban bus service. Lengthy Bus Trips. There are several lines which come through and stop in Washington regu- larly on their way to more distant points, and, it is sald, these are avail- able provided there are empty chairs. For instance, a line comes through from Chicago about every fortnight, usually stopping here on its way through to New York or beyond. Should a Washingtonian desire to and Hagerstown busses each day, Con- pecting Washington with the rich, Prosperous and fertile Maryland coun- 1 make the trip from here to New York, it probably could be arranged unless, of course, the bus was top well occu- \ LURAY % O Q HAGERSTOWN —— NOTE us lines: operating on various routes indicated by figures. | % Boonsibaro one bus| FREDERICK Middletown Q 2 o ), Urbana AN %o q Clarksburg ingle, thinline shows Olney KVILLER O \ > N\ Bethesca N / Middleburg F"‘],l:.h \.; 3 Chi G W ,g, (‘aflerv1 jille 2 O g 1ctn ? o 0 B‘,’:H‘" L ALEXANDRIA Manassas Pohick % »& O JARRENTON ¥ Washington FOccoquan ) Work: ... - 2 routes fo Quanirco 1 route to Richmond I Dumfries g Copyright 1927 wankco (Tn: EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER 00)5 RI(?HMOND or southbound once a week. However. gt.vernon Ashton Four Cors. .9 @D ¢ Laurel o N Ne e " A ) O Brandywine { Waldorf Miami motor line which stops here to| these and strictly local enterprises is| negligible from the point of view of Along pick up pagsengers either northbound | readily apparent, and while they must [ Washington's more individualistic in- be borne in mind in a complete sur- the difference hetween lines such as' vey, their influence naturally is rather terurban bus development. P Interurban busses plying out of' the eity is rather interesting. The Wash- ington-Frederick run is made in about two hours, while the Alexandria busses make the trip in approximately 25 ninutes. The busses that ply be- tween the Capital and Baltimore make the trip In about an hour and thres quarters. The Leonardtown run is put down at about three hours and ten minutes. server of recent local interurban bus developments is that the motor as a common carrier gr u surely is settling into its rightful place in the nsportation t Experience is provi ashion fits a peeulfariti apabilitie Happenings field proved equally wrong those claimed the bus a panacea who derided it Developme | pecially “have sh i~hm"tl'h|\'c heen outs s, definite f have who and those apparent that is that in its ¢ occupies a | uniqueiy rtant, strategic an | helptul position, but that its sphere | cannot hope to ‘cover the whole field |of interurban transit r the reason, the trend aw from long hauls and toward the m of the sk o A similar transitio course, it ¢ hort” understond that *d ina Th that > interurhan indicates that are of more than a very few duratior As emphasized v, runs around the 100 or seem to be holding on 1sonably . but ahove that the | field is very much more sparsely culti- vated. sense, the trips Mutes’ Service Well Developed. Now, this not sense, that concerned t doomed. U of this char and while th | 18 mo daily bus to New York, for in- stance, it is not to be supposed that this prechides the possibility of a line instituting such a service in the future. Just at present there is none; vear it is within the m_of possibility that there will be several in peration with the longer trips noticeable decline in the as come a highly W, B, Moses & S F Street at Eleventh Beginning Tomorrow—in the Linen Shop A Special Selling Blankets Every woman in Washington who keeps house will be interested in the exceptional values that this selling offers. Particular attention is directed to the fact that cotton has advanced greatly in price since we placed our orders for sheets and cases—and the savings on these Linens are most unusual. Regular $3 Linen Pillowcases $1 .79 Pair Splendid quality all-linen hemstitched pil- lowcases that are regularly marked at $3. 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