Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-20
SALE OF A CAR LINE.
-ue wARsHkLL-sTReET PROPERTY
eouGHT sY THE CITY RAILWAY.
r,a General Terms Of Purchase Agreed
Tpon. But some Details Yet
To Bc Arranged.

ia Niarshall-Street horse-car line has
- rBrrhased bv the City Railway Com
panr ,sn
..,.el upon and the contract drawn, and
n~rbaps rcged. but there are some details
lotto bc arranged.
I.erharce OF ownership has not yet
,tu.llv occurred. nor has the purchase
.o,e, been paid. but the management
.r hc transferred 20 the City Railway
C,r,psuv IN few days--perhaps this week.
Tscdeal, for prudential reasons, has been
t.,f very quiet. Although the necotis-
,,,,s were practically cOnsummated several
J..s AGO. the fact has not yet become gene
,,pv known. and the Dispatch has the salts
olteh this bis of interesting news Is now
lsii before the public.
BORROWED CAR.
Tho appearance Of one Of the Broad
e,r.e. cars on the Marshall-Street Line
,,4s.rdsv morning was the first intimation
~ fho existence of more cordial relations
l.tVcru the two concerns than formerly.
u WAS only borrowed ear, but neyerthe-
les. served as q reliable indication that new
r.ntous had been or were about TO be as
sumcd.
fllF TI iNf fNNpNFlt llItSfI hAlNf0 WIZ
eqyy the visiting car guessed what was IN
,ha a,r and bis surmise vas confirmed
when gentlemen connected with both
ylads were seen ard admitted that sale
bad been agreed upon and satisfactory ar
raccomcnts made.
THE TERMS.
Very little could be learned either about
the terms of the sale or tho plans OF the
fffrchasrUu cOmpanN.
The fact Is that some details are yet TO be
agreed upon. and the plans for the iuture
ero lu an incipient state. Al least three
schemes are under consideration looking
e. leyclouing the property.
n could not be learned yesterday whe-
thor the Manchester Railway aud Improve,
frrIt Company, by which the purchased
road was built and operated, will have any
interest iu the consolidated streot-car and
electric company soon 80 hc formed. but 1t
Is believed that such Will not be the case.
rITrER BroAp-sTRrCr SERVICE.
one of the ideas Of the City Railway
Company is 10 better its Broad-street ser
VICE. II is proposed 10 do tins bv con-
Meeting the tworoads al some point near
tac Mae0nic Temple and having all OF the
N4r-hail-street cars gong east pass down
Broad street instead Of Marshall from TINS
Ioiu..
II this plan. which az yet Is only. adj
vanrci MS "a suggestion and has not been
adoutod. is carried out the idea IS TO let
IN. Marshall street cars continue down the
,olfe now tageu.bv the BrOad-street cars
and at Fourteenth street 70 turn IN ana
go 10 the bridge. Going westward II Is
proposed that the present route shall be
followed.
GOOD SUGGESTION.
II has been suggested that 1t would be a
rood move. and II Is certainly one that
would tend TO better the Richmond car
service, 10 take mp the track on Marshall
street ani use the material 10 bet
Ter the road-bed on broad street
and TO place all the cars on Broad street
'Tbeu "A much closer schedule could be run
and cars might be made 10 pass gwen
uoint at very short intervals.
Whether the CItv-RHllW0y people VIII lOOk
81, the matter in this light remains to be
.aen. The change seems 10 be practical
on.. as the CITY Railway and Union fas-
,.rrsr companies, which are now owned
pretty much by the same people. ana are
fo br merged into one corporation, VIII
hardly care 10 operate three parallel roads
only "A square apart. The Marshall street
track removed. and there will still be but
two squares space between tho horse ana
electric roads.
TIVE NEw PROPERTY.
The mareball-Strcet road was built by
the Manchester Railway and Improvement
Company. OF which Mr.. Charles ". Turner
ia president The road runs from the
northeast side OF the EXposltion-Grounds
bv a route through Henrico county 70
Marshall street, and thence 10 Fourteenth
and 10 the Richmond end OF Mayo's
bridge
The company has built its track from
the south end of Mayo's bridge up Hull
street 10 Seventh in Manchester and holds
NE franchise for "a valuable line Of railway
through the most thckly-settled portions
Of that city. The track that has been lald
on that side of the river has never been
operated.