Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-20
STREET CAR AFFAIRS
A QUESTION or RENT BEING CON-
siDeREO BY ARBITRATORS.
No Meeting Yesterday of the City and
Electric Companies Electricity
on Main Street.

The terms upon which tho southslde Land
and improvement Company may run Its cleo
iric-cars over tho Union Passenger Companys
tracks on Seventh street from Franklin 10 Clay
will be decided upo1 to-day.
The matter Is In the hands Of q board OF srbl-
{ alton composed OF Colonel w. +. Cutsoaw and
NJ essr.. Charles E. Boiling and Charles seldom
These gentlemen have spent tso days hearing
evidence bearing on tho subject aud all OF the
witnesses having been examined aud the case
submitted as O'Clock yesterday afternoon. hey
are expected 10 reach decision In fe" days
COUNSEL AND WITNESSES.
This proceeding Is pursuant 10 nn ordinance
os the Council which designated arbitration as
tho proper method by which 10 determine tne
proper com mneusation for the Southside company
20 pay the other one for tho use OF its tracks
The southside Company was represented Do
fore the board by rutherford & Page; the
Richmond Union Passenger Company by MT W.
K. Meredith. Mr.. p. W. Christian, snd Mr. Ton-
coy. Captain Pizzini and others familiar with
the affairs of the Electric Company were mo
witnesses for this city, and smcng those on the
other side we're Manager John G. Robertson aud
Engineer A. Langstsn Johnston.
NO BUSINESS MEETING YESTERDAY.
The stockholders OF the Union Passenger-Rall.
way Company, pursuant 20 Adjournment met
at noon yesterday in the Bank-street Office, but
without transactng any business whateyor ad-
iourned over until 10 O'Clock this morning
ono reason why this WAS done was that Mr.
Gibson Puizel, one OF the New York attorneys
who has taken an active and leading part IN mo
consolidation negotiations was not present. ne
Is expected to arrive this morning In time Tor
tc-day's meeting. MessrA Fisher and toucoy
were present yesterday.
Messrs Fisher, roucey, Meredith, and others
wsrc I'm conference yesterday with refercnce 10
the consolidation proceedings. lt Ia understood
that they discussed chiefly legal matters. IL IA
probable that at the meeting of tho Union fas-
renger Company to-day tho transfer OF the cnni-
panys stock and bonds 20 the name OF me ltich'
monf Railway aud Electric Company VIII he
formally made Tha CITY railway may also
make the transfer to-day or authorize Il 10 Do
made.
ELECTRICITY on MAIN STREET.
II now really appears as though tho cars on the
Main-Street line arc soon 20 be propeller 0y
electricity Tho track Ia being changed where
ever necessary, aud the poles and wifea are
boing put up on the New-reseryOir extension.
The wires tor the underground current aro also
boing put In.
yesterday. ami some parts Of tho new dynamos
recently ordered for the power-houso are also
here, aud tho other parts are expected In a day
or two. Two al iltionaI boilers have been re-
Gently put IN, largely Increasing the iaci Ties OF
the plant for generating power.
BRIEF FONTS.
On the City railway yesterday all the Broad.
street cars won't through. The loop soryice
a. Siuth ami Main streets has been abandoned.
There Is no truth. II IS said, in the report tnat
| the electric branch from Cary aud Reservoir
streets will be- sbandonod No matter what
change IA malo som0 cars will have TO run Oh
that line 20 comply with tho charter.
Ties wero being distributed yes terday on tho
line of the Ryer-Niew railway. The reils ara
expected daily. and President Chsnln expects
10 have cars running pretty soon.
Tho connections et this end Of the Free bridge
between the SOuthssdc Compeny's tracks with
/ those Of Mr. Brysn's road hays nearly boon conn.,
pieted. and tho underground wires are boiug
| put In on seventh street, In Manchester.
! Captain rizzini, IN cOnverHation with Dis
patch reporter yesterday afternoon. said he CITY
I Railway Company has until the &th instant {,
/ obey the mandate 81 the Council directing thn
/ the track running from Twenty-eighth street oi
4 Main 70 the sheds be removed and laid on Poplar
street.