The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-30
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Those Who Appeared.
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All the institutions appearing asked for
more than they are likely to secure but all
doubtless anticipated that their requests
would be scaled in amount when the
committee comes to take up the budget.
Those appearing for the various institu-
lions and organizations were:
Home for Needy Confederate Women,
Mr.. II. R. Pollard. Jr.
Retreat for Sick and Infants Home,
desires presented in letters showing the
work done there.
Rosemary Library. no representative.
Sheltering Arms Hospital. Captain A.
B. Gugon and Mrs. G. T. King.
Nurses Settlement and Visiting Nurses
Association. by Miss A. Gulley and MIR.
John B. Minor.
Home for Incurables, by Mr.. Arthur B.
Clarke.
Belle Bryan Day Nursery, Mrs. c. P.
Walford.
Memorial Hospital. Dr. C. r. Robins.
Virginia Hospital. Dr. Hugh Taylor
tuberculosis Institute. DR.. w. II. Par
ker.
Spring Street Home. Mr.. T. II Elicit.
Richmond building at the jamestown
Exposition. Mr.. James R. Gordon.
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. Captain A. B. Guigon
A subcommittee on the application Of
the Blues for an armory was appointed.
consisting OF Messrs. Mills, Elicit and
Spence. They will inquire into the matter
of site and the cost of an armory.
The committee adjourned until Thurs
day to hear from the Water Committee,
the Street Cleaning Department and the
Board OF Health as to its needs for the
ensuing fiscal year.
Fulton Improvements.
The Committees on Finance and James
River Improvement met jointly. together
with City Engineer Cutshaw and Assist
ant City Engineer Beck, on the City
Dock yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
and went over the ground, which the
city Is urged to purchase and fill by
means Of dredgings from the river, so as
to raise It above high water mark.
An incident of the proposed plan is
the raising of Lester Street so that it
will be above tho freshet level, thereby
maintaining communication with Full
ton.
Greater than tho mere filling of a
low tract of land. which will thereby
be greatly enhanced in value. and
greater than the raising and widening
Of Lester Street, is the fact that the
proposed Improvement will give the
city about 1900 feet of water front on
deep water, thus affording ample room
for extensive docks. This, itself, is of
peculiar value and Importance. by rea-
son of the fact that 1t Will provide
Richmond for all time to come with a
water transportation route and COM
petitlve freight rates to the sea, thus
assuring most advantageous freight
rate for all the business OF the city
and Its people.
The Improvement contemplates the fill
ing of tract Of about twenty acres OF
land now practically worthless and I'M
productive, lying between the city dock
at Ash Street and Nicholson Street and
between the Chesapeake and Ohio via
duct and the river, Incidentally, the
margin OF the river will be Strengthened
and the channel narrowed slightly and
deepened considerably. Already eighteen
the water front it is proposed to acquire.
Lester Street along which the cars run
to Fulton, Is to be wldened from forty
one to sixty-five feet and raised to Il
level above the highest foods,
With the committee was Mr., o. II.
Funston. a. real estate man, who, togeth-
err with Chairman Morton, urged the wis
dom and feasibility of the proposed plan
The city must have place to dunn
the dredgings from the river or else haul
the mud down to Warwick Park, and the
United States government. which is
dredging Just below, must also have n
convenient place to dump. and the city
can secure it's deposits at nominal cost.
If the city leased the land It would be
merely comforting upon the owner favor
and benefit and paying for this service.
whereas II the land were purchased the
city would be improving Its own prop
erty, and the enhancement that would
result would more than defray the ex-
pense involved.
Chairman Morton is very much in ear,
nest In the matter and is pressing 1t upon
the attention of the city, and is making
the point that. now Is the most opportune
time the city will ever have to dn the
work acknowledgements. He favors con-
demning the necessary land Immediately,
The committees and those accompanying
them merely went over the ground and
we're shown n tract Of two or more acres.
already filled to the proposed level. Some