The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-16
WANT THEM TO HUSTLE.
Street Committee "Goas After" the
Power Company.

Power Company.
The Street Committee ran afoul Of the
Passenger and Power Company again
last night, and, as result, several reso-
lutons tending to hasten the speed Of the
railway company in their rehabilitation
scheme were adopted.
From the unanimity in which the COM
mittee acted, it is quite evident mat they
mean to take drastic measures to com
pei the Passenger and Power ComplnyEto
go forward in their work with more APP
parent energy than the committee THINKS
they are now exercising.
The City Engineer was instructed to
make a tour of inspection Of the road at
once, with the view of recommending
what action might be taken by the com
mittee in the matter. He IS TO so over
al lines of the road, and to make his
report on next Tuesday night ms &C
ton of the committee was taken as tne
result of a, report made by the City t.nsl-
neer in reference to the manner in which
work was proceeding. on the road, ard
the way in which the instructions from
The committee were apparently being DIS
regarded.
ASKED FOR TIME.
N1r. Miles NJ. Martin, representing the
Passenger and Power Company, was
present. He asked ttat the committee
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carry out the sense of the resolutions
recently adopted in reference to work on
the Seventeenth Street branch, the river
view extension and the crosS-oVer at
Beech and Main Streets. He said the
work on the two extensions could not
go on, until the tracks which had been or.
dered arrived. He thought they would
certainly be here by the first of sFe bruarE,
ana he asked that the City Engineer and
the eoDlpany's engineer be permitted to
confer about what to do in reference to
the crOsS-Oyer.
In his report as submitted. the City
Engineer was severe in his reference to
the manner in which the company had
disregarded the committees directions
and said that something should be done
at once to compel the company to push
the work to completion. and the City
Attorney should be asked to act IN TINS
matter.
Mr.. Pollock made the motion that the
City Engineer inspect the lines with the
view of recommending what method
should be pursued in the speedy rehabili-
tation and equipment of the system.
MUST TAKE UP TRACKS
Mr. King offered a resolution directing
that the tracks from Ninth to Seven
teenth Streets, on Bank ana franknh
Streets. be removed within forty working
A letter from the Passenger and Power
Company in reference to the withdrawal
of their request to put the fare on the
Main-Street lire to three cents was laid
on the table.
A number OF allegations We're acted
upon, and when the question of paving
the Fourteenth Street sidewalk between
.,lain and Cary Streets came up, nearly
every property holdrer .on the block OBJ
iected. Mr. Mills, who suggested the
work. and Colonel Cutshaw, expressed
themselves to the effect that the pave
ment was in a dangerous condition at
that point, and after some discussion the
resolution was adopted.
Another resolution requiring the paving
of the pavement on Main Street between
Fifteenth and Seventeenth was also re-
commended.
The payroll and bills We're approved,
and the chairman and the City Engineer
were instructed to appear before the
Finance Committee to ask for the same
appropriation that was allowed the COM.
mittee last year for the current year.
With the exception Of Mr.. Burton the
entire committee was present. including
Messrs Allen chairman, Pollock. Glib
son. Whttet, King, Lawder, Woody.
Bahen Glenn, Mills and Peters.
COMMITTEE ON CEMETERIES.
The Committee on Cemeteries received
the estimates of expenditures for the en-
suing year at the various cemeteries, as