The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-02-21
The City and it's Neighbors. >

We published yesterday communication
Directing to the passage of the bill now
pending In the General Assembly which pro-
vides for notifying suburban landowners as
TO where the lines Of the streets of this city
will run in clse its limits should hereafter be
extended. To state the case as we have
stated it in the above sentence is TO rcrute all
objections to the bill as we understand it.
The people Of Sidney and those of Church
and Union hills bitterly opposed for years
the annexation of those suburbs to Rich
mond. What would now induce them 10 re-
turn to their former condition. 1t were
idle to undertake to show iilut whenever
such course shall lie necessary the limits of
this city will be extended. Nobody doubts
this. 1t were as easy TO keep all the boys of
the present day In their roundabouts forever
as 70 confne Richmond within her prcseu,
boundaries. Every prosperous city, such as
phe undoubtedly is, must grow. This being
conceded, 1t seems TO us strange that any,
body should object to being told iu advance,
at tho expense of the city, where the lines Of
the streets will be when protractcd. II we
owned land near the city we should take it Us
great Favor to be made the recipient of
such information. Western and other lul. d
Spectators lay off towns ut their own ex-
pense, and cause maps Of them to be made
10 order TO enhance the value of the lots.
Such enhancement would immediately fol.
low the marking out of the lines of the streets
upon the land lying around Richmond.
If such law us the one we are now adyo.
eating bad existed twenty years ago the
streets In Sidney would now be the SAME rs
those In Richmond md ut right angles with
them. A person Starting to the country
would not have to defect to the lett TO oct
out of the city. That large, awkward sec
ton of the city between Emwood Tor Main)
and franklin streets, now in incxtricalle
confusion, would never have been In its pre-
sent condition. Between the two streets
named where they both touch Henry street
there Is space Of only one square but tii,
distance increases constantly, so that half a
mile from the point indicated there is q space
OF four or five hundred yards between them.
and when they shall be protlactcd a mile
further there will be more than a dozen
streets between two streets which in this
part of the city are only one square apart.
The bill before the Legislature proposes to
have no more such blurs upon the face of
the capital of Virginia.
We are always found upon the side of
" the right" If we know where that is. We
would, therefore, oppose the Sill in question
II we understood it to infringe upon any
body's rights. We are not surprised, how.
ever, that it finds opponents amungs: those
who should be its friends. WASHINGTON
IRVING tells Of man-not WorTrR Won
TwnLER, we believe; we cannot now exam
inc "the record "-who went to bed sick
almost unto death because railroad com.
pany had been authorized to run It's road
through his cabbage patch, but who soon
segained his health and spirits when he
learned that be vas to be made rich BY what
he had supposed was to make him poor, We
hope that our correspondent may have SINH
lar good luck, and gil his pockets as con-
sequence Of the extension Of the limits Of
the city.