. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. oConnecticut Ave. extended. Pennsylvania Ave. Line of this Company runs the wholelength of Pennsylvania Ave., starting at the Acqueduct Bridgeat 36th & M Sts., Georgetown, passing most of the governmentdepartments and prominent hotels, and terminating at theAnacostia Branch of the Potomac River at the Bridge crossingsaid branch. Some of the cars of this service are also operatedfrom the Acqueduct Bridge to the Navy Yard Gate. Half of the cars of this line are operated over what is knownas the old F & G Sts. route and are deflected from
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. oConnecticut Ave. extended. Pennsylvania Ave. Line of this Company runs the wholelength of Pennsylvania Ave., starting at the Acqueduct Bridgeat 36th & M Sts., Georgetown, passing most of the governmentdepartments and prominent hotels, and terminating at theAnacostia Branch of the Potomac River at the Bridge crossingsaid branch. Some of the cars of this service are also operatedfrom the Acqueduct Bridge to the Navy Yard Gate. Half of the cars of this line are operated over what is knownas the old F & G Sts. route and are deflected from Pennsyl-vania Ave. at 26th St., N. W., and at 17th St., N. W. Florida Ave. Line. Operates from the Navy Yard Gate,via 8th St. & Florida Ave. to 7th St. & Florida Ave. Washington Railway and Electric Company Operates thirteen different lines. Its line to Glen Echo(summer amusement park) and Cabin John Bridge affordsone of the most delightful excursions out of Washington. Itscars leave the terminus at 36th & Prospect Sts. in Georgetown. H Street—Masonic Temple in DistancePage 34 18 RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE (now West Washington), the westerly end of the F St. Lineand taking a high course overlooking the river valley, whichbecomes much narrower and more gorge-like above the citywith the Virginia banks very steep, rocky and broken byquarries. The rails are laid through the woods, and graduallydescend to the bank of the canal which skirts the foot of thebluff. About three miles above Georgetown is the ChainBridge, so called because the earliest bridge here, where the river for some two milesis confined within a nar-row, swift and deep chan-nel on the Virginia side,was made of suspendedchains. The lofty bankis broken here by a ravinemaking a convenient placefor several roads to meetand cross the river. Thebluffs above it werecrowned with strong forts,for this was one of the prin-cipal approaches to Wash-ington. A mile and a halfabove the Chain Bridgethe river is a third of ami
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