The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-02-16
Schedule Of Electric Road to
Petersburg in Effect To-Day.
BRING PROSPERITY TO ALL
Dev lop chesterfield aud Enrich Rich
mond, Manchester and Peters.
burg-N-ws from he
Souln Side.
Manchester Bureau, Richmond Times, l


No. llU2 Hull Street
The regular schedule OF the electric
railroad from Manchester to Petersburg
goes into effect to-day.
People will be able to leave Manches-
ter every hour in the day over the Rlcll-
mond and Petersburg Electric road ici.
the Cockade City. The first car leaves
This end at 6 a. NJ. The time between
the cities will be forty minutes. The
cars are new, large, comfortable; the
road-bed is solid and level. 1t is doubt
full if the Importance of this road in the
development of Chesterfield county and
what it will mean to Richmond, Man
chester and Peter sburg has been fully
appreciated.
Even at this time quantity of milk
and butter are daily sent to Manchester
and Petersburg. Tho cars are so con-
structed that there is special apart
ment for freight.
Cars will be run every hour, and mer-
chants who do business on the route
will be able to send their products to
Richmond, Manchester and Petersburg
markets often and promptly. thereby
getting the best prices for them.
Tho road will pay a large amount OF
taxes to Chesterfield, the exact sum not
having been fixed as yet, but it will be
sufficient to help the improvements of
the county ROADS and numerous other
things that can be looked into with the
revenue gained from these taxes. The
line will serve to make capitalists build
large and costly houses along the track,
which will increase tho amount of tax
able property in the county.
These improvements are a, Certainty,
and at this early date, when the road
has just been completed, there have been
me.s who intend to build along the line
looking over the ground and picking out
sites for homes.
a park is being laid off near Drewrys
Bluff
ACCOMMODATION TO MANY.
The line passes Centralia and Chester,
two villages between Manchester and Pc
tcrsburS. These will receive the benefits
Of the travel. There is q, stage line from
Centralia, which carries passengers to
Chesterfield Courthouse, and this will
meet all the cars, thereby atfor0ing per-
sons who have to attend the court to
reach that place at every hour.
TO the citizens of Manchester the road
affords an opportunity of taking the cars
at their doors at any hour Of the day,
and going direct to the Cockade City.
1t also adds considerably to the taxes
OF tho city, and the people are Just begin
ming to realize the good that the road
will do for them in a few years.
PETERSBURG ALSO BENEFITED.
These statements apply to Petersburg,
for the citizens of that city will get the
benefit or the line, as well as those of
Manchester, the people who live nearest
TO that city going there TO trade, thereby
making their market better. That city
will especially feel tho effects Of the line,
3rJ,, ,1,I-o& ~
while there is very little of this raised
III Chesterfield at this time, yet when the
farmers find that they have the market
SO close to them they will raise the crop.
While the line is a good thing for Man
chester ad Petersburg, yet the people
Of the county are the ones most bene-
litcd, and they arc showing their aIopre-
citation.
The faro for the round trip will be
reduced in the summer when the travel
becomes heavier and the new park is
opened.
One OF the most enjoyable evenings Of
the season was spent Friday night at the
home of Miss Katie Strader, No. 1923 Nc
DonouSh Street, when The ladies of the
Presbyterian Church save a Valentine
tea.
After the committee appointed from
the church had finished their work
of selling the Valentines, and there
were lot of them Sold the young people
enjoyed a social hour. The parlors were
decorated in pink and green, mantcls
being banked with ferns and pink roses.
groups of palms being placed at intervals
throughout the rooms, and vases of Tes-
tout roses and carnations carrying out
the Valentine colors.
The young ladies in the dining-room
were Misses Katie Strader, Mabel Crooks.
and Agnes Craig. The church realized q
good sum from the tea, and much OF the
praise is due to the efforts of the three
Young ladies, who have worked untiringly
to make it the success that It was.
IMPROVE THE CHURCH.
Before the sumner arrives there will be
an improvem ent made to the Bainbridse-
Street Baptist Church. The committee
appointed from the church to collect the
are now at work. and have been for the
subscriptions amounting to six thousand
dollars The improvements will only cost
seven thousand The church will be made
more beautiful and the congregation will
have more room. This church is one of
;he Oldest in the city.
The Rev. j. S. Crowley, of the Southern
Presbyterian Mission. who has just ar
rived from Africa, where he has been for
four years. will preach: ar the Presbyte
riar Church to-day.
CHURCH SERVICES.
At Oak Grove Baptist Church to-day
Rev. c. L. * Tune vii! preach 10th SER
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