Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-01
TRACK FOR 'CYCLISTS.
STREET COMMITTEE DISPOSED TO
PROVIDE ONE ron THEM.
GETTING THEIR SYSTEM In ORDER.
Captain Pixxini Explains What the
Railway and Electric Company fs
Doing fin This Direction-Other
Work of the Committees.

The Committee on Streets met in regu-
lar semi-monthly session In the City Hall
last night, and transacted large
amount of routine business.
The question OF paving bicycle tracS
was brought UP, and after lengthy dis
cussiop was sent back TO the sub
committee with instructions to make a
more definite recommendation than the
one contained in their report. The senu-
ment OF the committee vas decidedly in
favor OF granting the petition of the
| Wheelmans League.
The committee met shortly after 5
O'Clock, Major Otyay S. Allen (chairman).
presiding Other members present were
Messrs. Bahen, Bloomberg. Pollock, Glib
son. Whittet, Burton. King, Woody, Law
der. Peters
| Allegations were heard, and the follow
| ing work recommended to the Council:
! To grade and pave the alley between
Grove avenue, Plum, Lombardy. and
Hanover streets; to pave the sidewalk
on the west side of Plum street, between
Main and Cary.
Allegations were heard for construct
ing a system of sewers in Fulton, radiat
/ Ing from oAH %NANh
olson street. The matter was laid on
the table. however, on motion of .Ar
Lawder, pending an inquiry into the
| healthfulness of the measure.
| CUTTERS FOR THE WHEELMEN.
Mr.. Pollock, of the subcommittee to
which was referred the petition of the
| Richmond League of Wheelmen, asking
| for a granolithic gutter on Grace street,
| recommended that when cutters were
| replaced on Grace or Franklin streets
granolthc or some smooth material be
used.
Mr.. Jackson Guy was granted the privi-
| leges Of the floor and spoke at some
| length Of the needs of the city's wheel
| men, and drew attention to the very
rough streets. Mr.. Guy said in view of
| the number and prominence Of the wheel
| ing community, he thought the city
| should do something for them The prob
| lem now, he said. was to get from the
| centre of the city to the country, and
once there, the riding was smooth.
Mr.. King said the suggestion had been
made to him just before entering the
meeting that a special ordinance be
framed for the wheelmen, taxing each
owner of q wheel so cents year, and
that the sum arising therefrom be used
in improving the streets for their bene-
the table pending an investigation OF the
subject
Mr.. Kings motion was lost on tie
vote Mr. Lawder then spoke in favor
of laying a track on Broad street, so
that ii might benefit the East-End people.
WANT SOME PRACTICAL BENEFIr.
Mr.. Pollock spoke in favor Of the re-
port as committing the committee to a
certain policy, while Mr.. Allen opposed II
as meaning nothing, for, he said, by SIM
ply renewing cutters with granolithic on
Grace and Franklin streets as they wore
out here and there it would be many
years before anything to practically oene-
fit the wheelmen would be accomplished.
Mr.. Guy spoke again, urging the claims
| of the wheelmen. and saying that he
| would be satisfied with track on Broad
| street, If 1t were deemed best
Mr.. King then moved that the report be
| sent back to the subcommittee with In
| structions that something be recommend
| ed that will result in practical beneht TO
the wheelmen. The motion was adopted
CARS DELAYED IN FULTON.
CAPTAIN Andrew Pizzini Jr., represent
| ing the Richmond Railway and Electro
| Company, addressed the committee, ana
| said that for some months past his COM
| DdnY naQ DtGn SlIlNlHb " 6ifN 9"
minute schedule on Main street, but had
found II impossible On account of the de-
! Law caused to their cars in Fulton. They
| had addressed letters to the Chesapeake
| and Ohio Railway Company several times,
| and a remedy had been promised, but had
amounted to nothing practical. There
were only two ways TO prevent TINS, ne
said; one was to prevent the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway from causing these de-
| laws and the other to stop the cars before
| they reached the Chesapeake and ONO
crossing. He showed that delays ranging
| from two to ten minutes had occurred III
less than half a day. He asked that
| committee be appointed TO look into the
matter and called attention to the orol-
nance providing that the tracks at Seventh
and Byrd shall not be blocked more than
three minutes at a time.
TO BE LOOKED INTO.
CAPTAIN Guigon reinforced what Cap
tain Pizzini said, and stated that delays
| amounting to as much as twenty-three
minutes had occurred there during the
busiest portion Of the DAY.
Mr.. Lawder also conceded In what had
been said, and on motion of Mr.. Pollock
| a subcommittee, consisting or Messrs
| Lawder, Whittet, and Pollock, was ap-
! pointed to look into the question
| Captain Pizzini further said that an
/ extra car had been placed on Seventeenth
street; that tickets had been placed on
sale at a central point in Fulton, and
that the work along their lines under the
3 charge of Mr.. Gasser, who had added his
force to the companys, would soon be
! put in excellent condition.
RETAIN THE PRESENT SCHEDULE.
/ In regard to the request Of the commit
| tee that a ffteen-minute schedule be
| given on the First-street line, Captain
Pizzini said that this being single
| street line, with turnouts. 1t would be
impossible TO make the schedule asked.
| At present, he said, a twenty-minute
schedule was given, which was satisfac-
| tory to people living on the line.
! on motion of Mr. Pollock IL was deter
| mined to allow the company to continue
| its present schedule.
In regard to the delay In the work on
Fourteenth street, Captain Pizzini said
| II had been delayed for various reasons
one OF them inability to get the proper
rails The work, he said, he was almost
sure would be completed in a month.
He would get specific promise. he said,
| by the meeting on November 4th as TO
| what date the work would be completed.
THE RUMOR IS DENIED.
! Mr.. King, the railway matter having
been disposed Of. asked Captain Guigon
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