The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-29
ANCIENT CONTRACT
CAUSES AN UPRR00AAFR|
Sunday Afternoon Crowds Did
Not Understand Discrimina-
ton at Lakeside.
QUESTION OF GATES NOW.
Those Who Go Over New Rail
way Line Must Pay Dou-
bic Price.

4 + . !. tH
Sunday afternoon golfers at Lake
side Park were divided into two classes
yesterday like the sheep and the goats
of the famous serlnon--the ten-ccnt
class and the l.vc-cent class. The dis.
t;nction lay not in the appearance or
the skill Of the Ilayer, but in the gate
by which he reached the links In other
words those strictly up date and
bon-ton paid ten cents and came in
at the big gate, slightly out In cash,
4 but proud in being as good as the best
on the grounds.
Many staid and sober people, ac-
customed to go by the old and cstab-
lished route, and to enter the park
down by the lake at the gate nearest to
the beer garden, gotfin for a nickel,
and spent the afternoon trying to look
@as naughty ten-centcrs on the
grounds
sS 1t was all a matter Of the railroad
by which one went to the park.'Those
who wandered out to the park in a
leisurely manner, taking the cool air
as the car wound its way through the
curves Of Barton Heights and the
hedge rows of Gintcr Park, after many
delays on sidings, eventually arrived
at Lakeside, paid their nickels and went
+ in, as they have been accustomed to
do for the past ten years, more or less.
.5 Loud Protests.
Those active and ambitious citizens,
who felt that they must keep right
in with the puxr' made their way up
the staircase. :o,.tAe Crowded platform
of the new Richmond and Chesapeake
& Bay Road station. squeezed tllrougl.
the gates We're Fwhizzcd over six or
eight miles of roadbed and We're met
at the main gate to the park with
printed sign-boa demanding ten
cents per capita for admission TO tn q
haunts Of the waterfowls. the monkeys
and the mosquitoes. The ambitious
citizen. who had paid his car fare III
town without the privilege of a trans
fer, had paid his ten cents for car
ticket to Lakeside, with the prospect
of the same returning, was loud in
his protests at what he promptly desig-
mated as a "hold-up"
Upon inquiry it was learned that
when the street car line now operated
by the Virginia Passenger and Power
4 Company was extended from the head
of Chamberlaync Avenue in C;inter
Park to Lakeside Park. the right of
way was almost entirely over the
property of Major Lewis Ginter, who
was also the owner of Lakeside Park
A definite contract was entered into
in 1897 between Mr.. George r. FISH
way and Electric Company. and Major
Ginter, by which for an annual rental
and a percentage OF the fares taken
upon the outer end of the Lakeside
line from the place where 1t enters
the Gintcr land, Major Ginter gave the
right Of way over his properly. and
agreed that the passengers over the
ear line should have the right TO en-
ter Lakeside Park at oneshalf price
the contract running for definite
.crm of years,
For the past ten years The old line,
now the property Of the Passenger and
Power Company, has been tic only
one reaching the park, and it hns gem
orally been taken for granted that all
people, not coming IN carriages were
the passengers of the car company.
and have been admitted at all the
gates at half price. or iYe cents a
head.
The contract expressly stipulated
that should amy other line touch the
park their passengers should pay The
FIJI admission fee. 50 that at lie gate
where the passengers from the Rich
mond 'nnd Chesapeake Bay line are
landed the admission Is now ten cents
each. ss.a
some doubt has been expressed aa
to- the legality of The arrangement hut
1t IL pointed ont that The park ii
entirely a private one, standing on
Its own land. ana thst the question OF
admission at all IS one for the owners
the Giptet estate, TO decide, The Off
cials Of tlle Passenger and Power Com
pany declare that though they have
1 no oficiai connection wifi. the Chesa.
peake Bay Railroad. they are closely
allied to II in ownership and would
much rather that ali Should be treatet
ALIKE in the matter of admission, SC
that the traftic 10 the park Nigh, be
evenly distributed between the two
lines.
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