The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-17
TRY NEW TYPE
OF CAR TRACK
Company Proposes Experiment
on West Main
Street.
BIDS OPENED FOR SEWERS
Referred to Subcommittee for
Tabulation and
Report.
BIDS OPENED FOR SEWERS

In long and tedious session.
closing shortly before IL o'clock last
night. the Committee on Streets went
through with a vast amount OF un-
| important but necessary work.
Through its general attorney, A. B.
Guigon, the Virginia Railway and
Power Company presented petition
asking that the company be allowed
to experiment on Main Street, between
Vine and Rowland Streets where the
city has directed the paving between
the tracks, with different type OF
construction. The new rail, 1t is
claimed by the company, will prove
better for the city and itself, and II
permitted to make the test on the
four blocks the street car company
obligates itself at the expiration Of
one or two years, If the construction
Is not satisfactory to both parties, to
remove the road bed and restore the
tracks and paving in ACCORDANCE with
the methods now prevailing, and VIII,
If necessary, repave the street from
curb to curb along the four blocks.
The company proposes to substitute
on the four blocks a "T' rail with q
retaining place in place of the sirder
rail now In use, claiming that 1t VIII
be less injurious to the paving. AT
the request of the petitioners, the
paper was referred to the Ward Com
mittee and the City Engineer to re-
port at the next meeting. or to
special meeting if necessary
Want Car Fare Paid.
Bills of s35 each rendered to the
Engineering Department for seven
months street car fare for Engineers
presented to the committee. having
been returned by the City Auditor.
who said that there was no fund from
which they might legally be paid. the
CITY Attorney having so ruled The
committee decided to deduct the
amounts from the sewer account and
hereafter to charge the necessary car
fare to such work as the engineers
happen to be engaged on at the times
of the expenditure No vehicles are
provided for these assistants.
The American Terminal Warehouse
COMPANY asked that 1t be allowed to
close the alley which now runs into
the property which extends from
Seventeenth to Eighteenth Streets, on
Broad Street, and back, covering two
blocks to Clay. and also to lower the
sewer at Seventeenth and Broad
Streets so as to drain the cellars of
new buildings of the company. Both
matters We're referred to the City
Engineer.
Condition of Government Road.
a letter from CAPTAIN C. f. Humph-
reNs to Mayor D. c. Richardson In re-
gard to improvements on the Govern
ment Road was referred to the City
Engineer for estimates. Commissioners
appointed to assess me damages to
Paramount property owners reported
the damages s7,e2O.3o, with s12o for
the services of each of the three COM
missioners.
City Engineer Boiling recommended
the expenditure of $3.50 for the con-
struct1on OF twenty-foot highway on
\ hirtY-fifth Street at n Street, in ac-
cordance with the contract made with
the owners of the Cowardin property.
The application of the American Ma
tional Bank for s4s2 refund on sewer
connections was referred to the City
Engineer for report
Alderman Grimes complained that
his property at Twenty ninth and
FRANKLIN Streets was being ruined on
account of the fact that the street had
peen graded and curbed but no side
walk laid. He said that the house was
about to fall down, and was backed up
IN his statements by Mr.. Boiling 1t is
estimated that the repairs will amount
TO s73l50. Mr.. Boiling will report the
matter to the next meeting of the COM
mittee