The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-25
COL. CUTSHAW' s
INF 0RMING TALK
Points Out to Travelling Men
What is Being Done to I'M
prove Their City.
is VERY RAPIDLY ADVANCING

Members of the Travellers Protective
Association met last night at their head
tllarters TO listen to an address by
Colonel Cutshhw, city engineer.
Previous to this they went through
routine BUSINESS A resolution to invite
thu Printers International Association
to hold their annual session here next
year was adopted. The membership OF
the association was reported as 64s
strong. President G. B. Cook telegraphed
his regrets that he could not be present
to hear Colonel Cutshaw speak.
n feel that this Is one OF the most
important bodies In the city,, said
Colonel Cutshaw, In opening his address,
"and Il can exert great Influence In
promoting tho welfare Of Richmond.
Your order is san:.ar to the Atlanta
IIustlers, who are doing 80 much for
that city,"
In Atlanta the people spent 100000 II,
one year on asphalt streets. Richmond
has never spent over 10000 In an an
nual Improvement OF that sort. The
speaker went on to say, however. that
Richmond was making as many civic Inn
provements, If not more than the city IN
Georgia.
This city has II public parks, whose
grounds cover from 90 acres down to lcas
than 1-s OF an acre. The total Is over
43o acres, not counting the Capitol
Square. which Is State property. Only
few years ago Louisville did not have
one single public park. That city sent
delegates to Richmond to get Ideas OF
its system, and now has outdono It's
teacher
In the last 80 years Richmond has built
its water works, pumping stations ana
water mains.
It has in view forty-acre lake adja-
4. +. T1o,. tt,a n ~
which will be completed in about two
wears. A driveway, over mile long, will
surround this lake. It will be sixty feet
vide. with two ten foot sidewalks. This
lake Will be fifty times larger than the
present lake. It will be stocked with fish
for the angler, and large enough for sail
craft and launches.
Planting of Trees.
Colonel Cutshaw went on to speak OF the
city's nursery and the planting Of trees.
Richmond was selling trees from Its nur-
sery to other cities. The speaker said
that the civic Improvement authorities
were doing an in their power to prevent
the cutting down of old trees. On Broad.
between Ryland Street and Boulevard 416
willow oaks have been planted In three
continuous rows. From Boulevapl to the
Reservoir have been planted rows Of Eu-
| rOpean llnuenS, the same trees db dooVi
Berln's best avenues. About the Res
ervor have been planted pin oaks and
sugar naples. The great point about
street tree planting Is the grouping. Reg
ular grouping will educate all In the
Identification of different trees. What
Europe has done in ages in scientific
tree planting is being done here In a
few years.
The speaker then went on to tell Of
street Improvement. He said many peo-
pie had objected to the Improvement. OF
lsChurch Hill Avenue, but since It has beer
completed, they would have 1t no other
! way.
Richmond has been very much alive in
the last thirty years. In thirty years
more the city will cover twenty-five
square miles. The speaker urged his
hearers in their travels to induce their
friends to come to Richmond
Colonel Cutshaw finished by prophe-
sizing that in thirty years moro Rich
mond would he ,ten-fold in advance OF
what 1t is now.