The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-15
MAY CONSOLIDATE
THEIR INTERESTS
Significant Ordinance Goes to the
Street Committee.
TO BE DISCUSSED TOMORROW
Gives Passenger and Power Company the
Right to Buy Up or Sell Outlay Be
Absorbed by the Richmond aud
Petersburg Line,
TO BE DISCUSSED TOMORROW

At the meeting o. the Committee on
Streets tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock
an ordinance that was introduced in the
Board OF Aldermen at it's last meeting by
Mr.. Thomson, entitled AN ordinance
to allow the Richmond Passenger and
Power Company to consolidate or merge
into any other company OF similar char
acter," will be presented. Tho ordinance
was referred to this committee by the
board.
This ordinance gives the Passenger and
Power Company the right to buy out any
other company, or to sell out to any other
company and it is said that 1t IS the
first step to 9. consolidation of the Pas
sepeer and Power Company with the
Richmond and Petersburg Electrical
Railway Company. the latter company IS
owned by a Cleveland corporation of Srea;
wealth. and the former is pretty heaFliy
bonded, and it is said that the Passer-
Der and Power Company would De gao
to dispose OF its property, While the
Richmond and Petersburg Electrical
Company is anxious to set control Of the
Passe r,,er and Power Company.
Attorneys for the two lines were IN
conference. last week, and everything was
kept sub rosa, but it was said YESTERDAY
by a gentleman who knows something
of the movements of the electric railway
the Richmond and Petersburg Electrical
line would be bonded to the extend OF 81
600 600 at a date rot far distant.
\ consolidation OF the two lines would
mean a. quick service between the Two
cities and an improved service here. ana
tbe ;,+rod,-ction of the ordinance into the
Board Of Aldermen Tuesday night ana
tic reference to the Street Committee Is
tho first step to the proposed consollda-
ion.
After giving the matter careful STUDY
and reading the conclusion mat the foi-
lock resolution would place the Carnegie
l1hra,-,- no more ir politics than would
any other. resolution Mayor Taylor yes
ter(]av afternoon returned the resolution
10 the city clerk with his approval,
,rhe resolution provides for q board
Of trustees to consist OF TWO 1Aiaerinsi''
three from the Common Council the gu
.,arin tandent of Public Schools, and three
citizens. one from cdcn o. ~
school districts.
The trustees will be chosen at the next
meeting of the two branches OF the CltS
Council
Tbo Council Committee on Accounts ana
printine AT it's meeting to-morro" d.
+arnoon will award contracts Tor std
tionerv. printing and advertising.
Councilman Harry Glenn ana n
stein returned from Washington
day after a study of the plan u9e,, 40
l,ilIiner dogs in that city. Ihey VIII ~
800 - the Police Committee at meet
mo ia he called in the early part OF TINS
vel, and the Washington scheme VIII
ho recommended. 1t provides ior eA'e.
,nination bv charcoal fumes, ana Tue an
mails die painlessly in from ten 10 '"en's
seconds after being placed in the Don tlla'
holds the fumes.
Alderman NJ Fill Seay, OF Gay "aro
will before the spring elections. agar.
;ntroduce the question of the DIVISION OIL
Clav Ward. He favors a division begin
Ming ar Relyidere Street on the east, go
ing through Monroe Park to Park Ave
nue., that thoroughfare being the po4n-
dary line between the two WARDS. ne
suggests that the south SIDE retain Tue
old name ard that the north sue De
known as Lee Ward
The subcommittee on streets VIII go
over the proposed route for the Traction
line extension at o'clock tomorrow at
ternoon and hold meeting Immediately
thereafter in the City Hall.
THE Passenger and Power Co. will ask
the right to extend its lines along
Street from the intersection OIL SHui.h
Hill Avenue to the city limits. The
company will also ask the right 10 oo"-
b,e track on Church Hill Avenue.
The Board of Directors OF the company.
il, session at the general offices yesterday
morning, instructed attorneys to prepare
necessary petition and ordinances, grant
ing the right to the company to double
track Church Hill Avenue and extend the
lines along NJ Street, as stated above.
This extension and double tracking VIII
give the company about one and han
miles more track.
Such petition and ordinance Will pc pre-
sented to the Council at ITS next meet
ing VII hr.
;s oxnecte,, in Richmond within the next