Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-12

city, reaching specially Libby and Church
Hills, Chimborazo Park and lakewood
cemetery, and crossing nj point between
the Chesapeake and Ohio depot and shops to
Shockoe nm, &c. II Il proposed, moreover,
TO embrace In this plan connection witb
Manchester over bridge to be built In
view Of the foregoing facts, and inasmuch
MS this scheme would necessarily embrace
the use OF certain streets In Richmond
which cannot now be designated, because
The plan proposd Is not yet perfected, you
are hereby respectfully pctitioped to post
none the consideration OF applications Tor
railroad privileges TIL your regular meeting
in January next, when We will furnish de.
finite route Of this proposed road and
make application In form. IL may be proper
10 saw the use Of dummy-engines" Is
contemplated till electricity Is perfected,
which Is now nearly done.
J. b PACE,
+. ID. CHRISTIAN,
and others.
Besides these two propositions there are
before the City Council petition from the
Richmond City Railway Company and one
from Joseph Bryan, the owner OF the
Richmond and Manchester Railway Com
pany. All these gentlemen wish franchises,
and u will be bard luck II We do not get
an acceptable offer from some one OF them.
At present the city OF Richmond Is d.
yided into half dozen sections, II not
factions. A good streetcar service VIII
bring our population together, allow them
TO become acquainted with each other, ana
make them think less Of their own narrow
neighborhood interests and more OF the
city as whole. Richmond Is growing
t,.N xrtn mako hGr loan fOF-
ward so vigorously as an extensive and
well.conducted street railway service. IL
Is A shame that the people have no street.
cars running TO Holly wood and the Old re.
seryoir 10 carry visitors TO these much
visited places, and to serve the needs OF
the fa.t-increasing population OF that IA
p,dly improving section. There ought,
100. TO be a line OF ears running from end
10 end OF either Third or Fourth street.
The grain elevator ought TO be reached 10y
street.cars. As for the people OF Church
ard Union Hills, they have so long been
ignored that, now that their uander is up.
thew will never consent TO grant any new
street.car franchises In which they are not
10 be among the benefciares. II anything
in city legislation can be said to be fixed,
that 10. and the statement OF II here Is the
statement Of well-kpown fact. The Man
chester line pays well, and yet that plucsy
little city hasn't more than the population
OF Church and Union Hills. Build new
lines! Bring the people together! With
cables our hills ought to present no great
obstacles. With steam.power and cables,
q line OF ears could be run as easily from
Richmond College to Chimborazo as from
Elbs to Ninth street. When the new City
Hall is built and all the courts put there
the Church. and Union.H Hill people will
want to reach it quickly, and Broad street
line will then be demanded.
The Leigh or Clay-street line and the
belt line are also hopeful possibilities OF
the near future.
All these improvements cannot be Sc.
cured at once; but Cburch-llill line aud
a line down Reservoir street would be
good beginning to make in the spring.