The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-11
Positive Assurance that Work
Will Be Done Promptly.
NEW LINE THROUGH CITY
To Build from Brook Avenue
Down to Fulton.
WILL USE JENKINS SYSTEM
This One of the Conditions Upon
Which the Franchise is Granted.
Preparatory Work A'ready
Done and Company
Proposes to i~ush
a h e d.
WILL USE JENKINS SYSTEM

Yes sir the Marshall-Street yiaduct
viii be built without Oelay ana cars viii
be running over it TO Church Hill within
a year or such a matter aLter the fran
chlse is made enectlve by the approval
CT the Mayor
This. assuring reply was made 20 a
Times writer last ulgnt by Mr. Samuel
L. Kelley, counsel tor the Citizens Rapid
Transit Company, wEo vas asked
whether the proposed yiaduct would Ger
talIly be Dui.L. noW tEat me boafu OF
Aldermen has ConuurTeu III LAe U4u4l'duGe
q glanLlns the lratIcA-se Inc attorney,
VINO mas conducted sucH q ESotouS dttd
successful ngnt 1or tne tfaiIcn1se, sald
there was auSUlL.,eiy no dVuVt @DouI tite
buIIdirg Of the vluuuct WItnln the Tune
prescribed
AuST BUILD IN y YEAR.
The ordinance. which has been pending
for a long tlne, has now received tie
sanction OF both BRANCHES of the CouliciI
and only awaits the approra Q. tAe
Mayor The paper will reaeh LIS Honor
in a few days, and tAsre IS !ltle oouot
that he will approve il, tnough tnete las
been a good ueal OF opposition Oh 'iie
part OF pi iu.,ertS owners
work on the structure shaH De COM
merced within six months, and De COM
oIeed in one year Tne v-2duct Is 70 De
hLilr over Marshall Street, extending from
a point near College Street 10 Twenty
second Street.
The route Of the Transit Company sys-
TEN is 10 be from a point foe-f on 6Fooh
Avenue to Duval Street, anu thehce "
F.ftn, WITH a return track on Baker from
n r !
Broad. along Broad On the tracks or 1Ae
fraction Company to Eleventh., thence
to Marshall and to the viaduct: ont Mar
shall Tor several squares beyond twenty
second and thence to Broad, along broat,
70 Chimborazo Park, around tie psath
and TO Fulton, where there VIII De
loop with a return track. The system
does not propose, fer the present al ieas' =
to try to reach Main Street.
TO USE JENKINS SYSTEM.
One interesting thing about the building
- ne. ranid transit line, which, as, viii
be seen, will be several miles Il! lehSth'
will be that it will afford the first prac-
tical test of the jenkins underground
system for the operation OF electric raj
v-ays This system has been tried IN
an experimental way and found to possess
decided merit. but it has not been used
on any car line in full and regular oper-
alton. 1t is expressly pToElued III TIE
franchise just granted that this system
shall be used on a portion of the road.
1t is proposed to install it on the viaduct
and out Eleventh Street to Broad. and ii
its operation there is found satisfactory
its uso may be extended.
The Citizens Rapid Transit Company
has a charter from the Legislature. but
has net yet organized under it. Most Of
the money back of the enterprise is TO
come from the North. though number
OF Richmond people are interested in the
undertaking The company paid tie
charter tax on a capital Of $50030.
The engineers have already made the
surveys and measurements for the via
duct and the plans have been fled with
the City Engineer Mr.. Kelley thinks
the actual work OF construction on the
railway will begin in two or three months.
The system. it is stated. is to be operated
entirely independent of the lines of the
Passenger and Power Company.