The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-20
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FROM HENR|CO.
Supervisors to Consider Import
ant Road Improvements This
o.. Morning.
EXTENSION OF AVENUE
Propose Opening New Thorough
fare from Ginter Park to
City Limits.
City Limits.

Road Improvement is the order OF
The day in old Henrico. TIE Board
of Supervisors of the county Will meet
this morning al IL o'clock in special
session to consider number of propo-
sitions for improving roads and open
ing and extending new oneb Possibly
the most important proposition now
under consideration is the extension
of Chamberlayne Avenue from the city
limits to its present head at the open
ing of Ginter Park, and from the
further end of the present avenue on
to point opposite the third toll gate
on the Brook Turnpike. with which 1t
VIII connect. fhe whole road Will be
then thrown open as free county
road. Viewers We're appointed some
zine since to look into the advisability
of this step. and it is expected that
their report will be presented to the
supervisors this morning. Just what
route the road will follow is not quite
certain, nor with what street it Will
connect in it's approach to the city.
Chamberayne Avenue. as at present
opened is the street through Ginter
Park on which the street car line is
operated. 1t is proposed to extend it
south more than doubling its present
length, and making it the through
driveway from Ginter Park and the
country beyond into Richmond.
1t is not known whether the viewers
will recommend that the extension
come in to Brook Avenue about the
.tty limittl or that 1t curve westward
and connect with the extension of
Lonbardy Street, through the grounds
of the Virginia Union University the
bridge by this route having already
been constructed over the valley of
shockoe Creek and the tracks of the
seaboard Air Line Railroad.
Railroad Pays Cost.
The Richmond and Chesapeake Bay
Railroad. which owns the Brook Turn
pike. operates its new line over a con-
siderable part of that thoroughfare,
and in the belief of many people of the
county. the road has been greatly dam-
aged for driving purposes, especially
since thekcars on this line Will travel
at high speed. 1t Is understood that
n view Of this the new railroad COM
pany will pay a considerable part, If
not all of the cost of the proposed i'm
provement, and the viewers have ne
gotiated with the various property
owners with regard to the. right Of
Ray.aD The proposition will pc vigor-
ouslyf pushed in the Board of super
visors by the chairman, Mr.. w. c.
saunders, aWlio. Represents
District in the board. Mr.. Saunders
has all along advocated liberal pol
cy OF road improvement, and extern
sion as rapidly as the funds of the
county Will permit. and it Is said to
be largely his negotiation which has
produced the liberal offer from the
new railroad company.
School improvements.
The Henrico public schools will open
for their fall term on Monday, Septem-
Der 18th, in all four districts of the
county. A general Meeting of the
teachers of the county schools Will be
neld at the courthouse on Saturday,
September l4th, az which the teachers
will sign their yearly contracts and
receive their last Instructions for the
opening of the session The prospects
ire bright for the coming session, and
from ali indications the attendance
will exceed ANYTHING in past years
In fact. she schools in some OF the
districts Will he crowded to their full
capacity.
One new school building Will be pu
into use on the opening day, the High
School at Ridge Church, in Tuckahot
District. This building Is moder,
tixroom structure, and Will be oper
lted as grammar and high school
succeeding a small twosroom franz
structure which has been outgrown
school buildings throughout the coun
w are heng overhauled and nut ii
good order, repairs and painting bein,
made whenever needed.
Popular Education.
A popular gathering OF the people o
Varina District will be held at GET
,ert's Hall on Thursday, August 22t
n NJ r. NJ, in the interests of III
school work of that section cs III
county, hr r, H. Russell. the count
examiner, and MIR, Jackson Davi
kounty superintendent Of schools wi
conduct the meeting, which will b
generally In the interests of lette
Schools and more public attention /