Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-05
NORFOLK BELT LINE.
THE WORK STARTED AND WILL BE
PUSHED TO COMPLETION,
Obstrucsing Property-Hoiders In Ports
neutrality-suspicious. WIN Take Care OF
Themseives--Judgc Hughes.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch,

Correspondence Of the Richmond DIspa.ch.I
NORFOLK, March 4--The Belt Line isnow
practically started. and will be pushed to
completion this summer according to the
original plan. starting at Lambert's Point
and crossing the river Just below the navy
yard and passing around Portsmouth to the
Seaboard Airline, Atlantic and Danville.
and Norfolk and Carolina roads. BY this
arrangement there will be seven railway
lines running out of Norfolk. Mahone's
Lake. at the extension of Cove street. is to
be filed in and piled and trestled over,
and the Union passenger depot erected on
the pilIng, with train-shed $50 feet long
and a freight station adjoining. These
improvements have been III contemplation
for some time, and will be of great COM
mercial advantage to Norfolk.
NOT EXACTLY
The extensive improvements Of the Sea-
board Airline in Portsmouth for the Atlan-
tic traffic, to cost 100000 are not exactly
at a stand-still, but are seriously INSTRUCTED
by the Injunction of certain property
holders, and now pending in the Court of
Appeals, to prevent the running of trains
through Crawford street. Work is going
ahead steadily, and the finest docks and
largest and most substantial warehouses
on the harbor have just been completed,
and the dredges and pile-driverso of the Bal
timore contractors are hard at work build
ing the additional double-track branch
road from the edge of the city down the
Gosport marshes to the Fiyer-front. In the
matter of the Union passenger depot at
the Bav-Line wharf only the site has been
cleared away as yet.
IGNORED PORTSMOUTH.
The City Council of Danville entirely ig-
nored the proposition of the City Council
of Portsmouth TO unite interests in the
matter of the subscription to the Atlantic
and Danville railroad when the United
States Circuit Court takes up the case:
The Danvillians wish IT TO be understood
that they will take care of themselves IN
the matter, and stated to the Portsmouth
committee that they will get their sub
scription to the Atlantic and Danviile out
of the western extension.
The head of the Merritt wrecklng hrm,
Captain l. J. Merritt, arrived from New
York yesterday. and left for the stranded
steamship Craigside. The wreckers are
having more trouble with the steamship
than they anticipated.
INDICATES PROGRESS.
Salaries amounting TO $1,000 per annum
tor additional force in the City Engineers
Office have been ordered by the Councils.
The police Taided pollcy-shop at No;
113 Cove street yesterday afternoon, and
captured the proprietor and four players
and oil the paTaphernalia OF the estab-
lisbment.
Judge r. w. Hughes, of this city, saws
he has no intention of resigning his posi-;
ton of United States District Judge and
has not paid visit TO the White House on
any such errand.
Mr.. @. c. Peed, merchant of Ports
mouth, was elected police commissioner
last night.
TIE HEAVIEST.
The Atlantic and Danville railway is
now doing the heaviest freight, business
since the construction of tho road.
The funeral of Mr.. Richard Webb, n
lieutenant in Grlmess battery during the
war, took place in Portsmouth tins after
noon.
MIR. r. NJ. Stuart-Wortley, president of
the Atlantic and Danville railroad, and
Mrs. Wortley have gone to New York. Mr..
Wortley has been sick ever since his
bridal-trip to Florida.