The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-08
CAR LINES ON
EIGHTH STREET
The Aldermen Concur in
Adams Ordinance.
AS TO LEGAL STATUS.
Opinion Of the City Attorney Bearing
on the Subject.
SELL ONE TRACK AT COST.
The fractions Counsel Agrees to Put
H., $40 600 Rond That This Will
Be Carried Out-I7isht OF Pass
scnger and Power Company
TO Retain it's Present
Usi.ht-Eiaht Still On.

Nisht-Ei.ht Still On.
The ordinance on the operation Of the
mule cars and the conflict between ehe
two companies as TO their Hsh's on
Eighth Street. passed the Board OF Al
dermen last night unamended by a vote
of IS TO 3.
This ordinance was introduced in the
Common Council on Monday night by MT.
Adams and after amendment passed that
BODY unanimously. 1t orders the re-
moval Of tie mule cars from ElShth
Street; authorizes the Traction Co'npsny
10 Law its tracks there. one of which
e,ha,H be sold to the Passenger and Po"er
Co,nnany and gives the Traction Com
many permission to run over this track
,rhe rsassage of the ordinance is Il de
ci6ed victory for the Traction Company,
and is very important in opGniiis the
way and removing obstruction 60 III a. .
company getting to Main street:
course. the three blocks on Elig4ith 9tieet
i, themselves are not important. com
80 - ,1a,.atfve9v soeakius but to the Traction
Company they are the gateway 10 -Nt'-'i
street and all that that means.
C1-T-y ATTORNEYS OPINION
A, interesting feature of the meeting
which in itself was far from bei1s nuli
7..as the opinion Of City Attorney Pollard
hearing on this subject me opinioi'
follows: 100,
Hon William H Turpin, President Board
of Aldermen.
S;rT an, in receipt Of your favor OF
NO 9Th instant in which you ask my at
+anaonca on a meeting of the Board OIL
Aldermen. to be held this evening at -
fo, the consideration of an oroliia!'De
ationted bv the Common Councii d lev
NIGHTS AGO as to the operation pS horses
and mules of the cars OF the fticl.iiioiit .
Passenger and Power Company, lii"' .
may be ready to submit my N4en9'
called uDon as to the right o. tile - u
Gil to adopt the proposed oruii'diioe' -
asmuch as an important ehsa5eliiei. -
call me from the city and render II I'M
,,,.,ctio,,,la for me 20 attend the meeting
Of +ba BOARD. I beg to submit 10 you my
views in regard to the pending oroliahce
r.bicl, Won are at liberty to communicate
80 the BOARD of Aldermen II you deem
it proper so TO DO: o,
Irnon an examination of the seVerai
ordinances authorizing the Rlchtiloiiu
passenger and Power Company ana lne
Richmond Traction Company 20 ope'alc
cars upon the streets OF the CITY, anu 'he
resolutions of the Committee on otfeees
nassed in pursuance of said ordinances
l find c-
OTD COMPANY'S FRANCHISES.
nl-,rbat by the ordinance approved
December %. 1899, the Richmond Pas
sencer and Power Company was gwen
the right to construct and operate d si'i-
gle track connecting with the soutiieih II
track of the Richmond Traction Company
AT Eighth and Broad Streets, south
warGlv on Eighth Street to and connect
ing with the southern track at E.lShth
and Main Streets; and was required pS
section 3 OF that ordinance to operate
its cars along all of its routes by e!ec-
tricity or such other motive power, eS-
cent steam, as may be hereafter au-
thor,zed by the Council And by section
6 of the said ordinance, all Of the privl-
leges granted, were to continue Tor the
period of thirty years from the lst DAY
OF January 1900. unless the same be
sooner voluntarily surrendered by the
Richmond Passenger and Power Com
pany'' And by subsection I of section
it was provided that the said company
should. within ninety days after the APP
proval of said ordinance, submit to the
Committee on Streets for its APP
proval, plans and specifications, showing
in detail the proposed new construction,
reconstruction and rc-equpment of the
entire railway system herein granted:
which plans and specifications We're to be
considered by the Committee on Streets
with the right to said committee ''to
make such changes and alterations in
said plans and specifications as it may
deem necessary and proper: and a.
soon as the committee shall have APP
and
specifications upon which such new
construction. reconstruction and re-
equipment shall be made and executed.
the said company shall forthwith proceed
to carry out and execute such new con-
struction, reconstruction and re-eQup
ment and shall press said work to COM
plction with speed satisfactory to the
Committee on Streets.
PLAN OF REHABILITATION.
(2l-I find that a plan OF rehabilitation,
as required by the quotation from the
ordinance above mentioned, was submit
ted to the Committee on Streets in the
spring of 1900, but no action was taken
thereon by the committee. But. on Sept.
18th, 1900 Gin the meantime q new Council
having been elected and qualified and a
new committee appointedl. an amended
plan vas submitted by the Richmond
PASSENGER and Power Company to the
it be permitted TO abandon the use of
Eighth-Street. as required by or3i-
nance. and to use the Seventll-Street
tracks in lieu thereof. On the 2Sth day of
September, 1900. the committee adopted .
plan of rehabilitation of its own Gas it
was expressly authorized to do under the
ordinance}, Il substitute for the amend
ed plan proposed by the company. and
recommended TO the Council the proposed
change of the line of the Richmond Pas
sengei' and Power Company from Eighth
Street to Seventh Street.
OIL find that the Council by an ordi-
nance approved December Tth, 1880, enti-
tied ..An ordinance to authorize the Rich.
mond Traction Company to extend it's
lines and also to operate its cars upon
certain tracks of the Richmond Passen-E
ger and Power Company" authorized the
Richmond Traction Company to CON
struct and operate a double track on
Eighth Street Between Broad and Man,.
connecting at the corner of Broad Street
Ar,o,+ t-,,,aH on. E,fa1rf X PepeA