The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-29
WORK OF -FOUR COMMITTEES.
Contracts for Street CurblnS and PlagSinS
Awarded.
FREIGHT TRAIN DAILY OYER R. ?. And P.
rIrst-etreet yiaduet The Seventb-Street
Railway Line Wants Time-Other Mat
tiers of General Interest.

| Chancery Courtroom. Present: Messrs.
! Capers. Stratton. H. L. Carter, j. W. Carter,
! Curtis. Brauer. Gray, Thomas. Royal White
and Bahen.
A number Of bids for curbing. tagging, etc,
were opened. The bidders were James
Netberwood. Middendorf q Donald. Rich
mond Granite Company and Raney
Mcintosh. In consideration of the fact that
several of the bidders had failed to submit
samples. Mr.. Gray moved that all samples DC
rejected The motion was lost ana the con
| tract for straight curbing was awarded 10
| Niddendorf Il Donald at SO cents. The con-
/ trac,. for Aaoring. circular curling and COR
| ners was awarded 20 James NetherwOOd at
the ordinary prices tagging, So cents; circular
curbing. 81. So and corners, $3.50.
The contract for taking down the brick wall
enclosing the Adams burying- ground and
! constructing n board fence was awarded 10 4.
/ H. Hudgins at S212-19.
The committee agreed TO recommend TO the
| Council the passing OF the ordinance permit
! ting the Richmond. Fredericksburg and PO-
tomac and the Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad companies to run one freight train
daily each way between Elba and Byrd-st-eet
stations for the benefit of merchants. manu-
facturers and millers The trains are not 70
contain more than fifteen ears each. and shall
only be run between o'clock In the morning
ana SuUOOWu. lut uOulS " NC uAcu W NAD
Street Committee. Permission Is only granted
provided that the railroad companies do not
make any extra charge for the transportation
of the cars.
The committee decided to recommend the
grading of the alley between Broad and
Grace and Harrison and Shater streets.
HOUSE REMOVAL.
The petition of citizens of Fulton asking
that the house of William Adams. corner of
4 n I'V.It Vtrlsr u.a ON
croaches fourteen feet over the street, he con
demned and removed, and Seventh street be
opened to its proper width, was, on motion ct
Mr. Curtis referred TO the said committee.
City Attorney and City Engineer.
The ordinance was read providing for the
construction of an iron vaduct from FIRST
street TO Barton Heights number OF III,
terested property-Owners were present. and
the matter was thoroughly discussed.
Mr. H. NJ. Smith, Jr., who represented one
property-Owner who was opposed TO the
scheme for the reason that the yladuct would
ruin his property, asked that the matter be
laid over until the next meeting OF the COM
mittee.
Mr.. James Lyons, who represented the
bridge company. opposed further delay. and
stated that the matter had been before the
committee since April 18th. The Ward Com
mittee in connection with the City Attorney
and City Engineer. had carefully investigated
the case and recommended the adoption of
the ordinance. Any further delay would seri-
ousy impair the Improvements contemplated
for that locality.
Colonel Cutshaw stated TO question asked
by Mr.. Gray that he was in favor OF the ordi-
nance.
RECOMMEND ADOPTION.
On motion Of Mr.. Bahen it was decided TO
recommend to the Council the adoption OF
the ordinance.
MrRosewell Page appeared on behalf Of the
Seventh-street Line Railway Company, and
asked that the corporation be not pushed at
present 10 extend the line on Seventh street
to the Locomotive Works.
At the suggestion of the City Attorney Cap
tain Curtis moved that the committee recon-
mend TO the Council not TO urge the railroad
company to complete the line for the next SIX
months from June LIST.
The motion was agreed to, and the commit
tee adjourned.
Water Committee.
The Committee on Water met in the Coun-
Gil Chamber last evening. Messrs. j. W.
White, Trower. Mann, Brauer, Hargroye and
Hughes were present.
Colonel Cutshaw explained the misuuder-
standing existing between Messrs. Pierce and
Bristow, the general contractors of the West
End Market. and Captain James Phillips. the
sub-contractOr, in regard to putting up a stop
cock in front of the market building. The
specifications Of the contract provide that all
city charges are TO be paid by the contractors.
but Captain Phillips stated that he had not
estimated on it for the reason that il had been
customary for the Water Department 10 put
up all stop-cocks without any expense 10 the
contractor.
Under the circumstances the committee de-
cided, on motion of Mr.. Mann, that the
Water Department furnish the stop-cock.
WANTED WATER.
Major n. V. Randolph appeared before the
oourpittaa on bpbalf of the Norflci6o AIaiuqf
Company and stated that that corporation in
tended to construct a building at the city end
of the viaduct. which IS to be provided with
toilet rooms. The only difficulty IS the alb
sence of water, and Major Randolph request
ed the committee 10 furnish the necessary
water to the building
After some discussion the matter was re-
ferred 10 Superintendent Boiling 10 report the
probable cost of the extension of the water
main.
A number of bills and the payroll for the
month were approved.
Superintendent Boiling reported that at the
last meeting an extension of the Waterman
on Franklin 10 Thirty-first and on Ihrty-iirst
TO Main street had been asked for by in
terested property owners. There were alto
gether fourteen houses which in that way
would be supplied with water at an expense
of S5ll.5O, while the annual receipts from
waterfront would be si5 The committee or
dered the work TO be done.
The same action was taken in regard to ex-
tension OF the water mains on Twenty sixth
between and q streets and on q street
between Twenty-sixth and Twenty ninth
streets.
OBSTRUCTION OF SEWERS.
Superintendent Boiling submitted state
ment IN regard 10 the construction of sewers,
as proposed by the City Engineer. in streets
where water mains had not yet been laid. Mr..
Boiling also submitted an estimate Of the cost
for introducing water in those streets as fol-
lows:
Grace bt. 10Th and 2st $231 90
Park avenue bt Harrison and Harvie ago 90 |
Canal bit. Linden and Cherry........... 952 90 |
22d bit. Leigh and peasants. ...... 4e0 90 !
18th BIT. q and =. .................... .yI7 N |
Hill BIT. ST. Panl and ST. John. ........ I65 Cd |
Coutts bit. 81. John and st. James, 165 Oh /
Charity bt. st. Paul and ST. Peter - 100 90 |
Chaifn 20 200 H. rear OF Reservoir 14O 90 |
Shook : alley bt. Duyai and Baker .. 175 90 |
Beverly bt. Reservoir and Dodson 10
Linden eeO9 20 |
Total. 1854 10 |