The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-29
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BOARD ENDORSES
URBAN N A LIN {
business Mems Club as Whole
VIII Be Asked to Act Now
on Resolutions.
KICK ON TRANSFER LOSS
Citizens Near Seven Pines De
nand That Privilege Be
Continued.
KICK ON TRANSFER LOSS

Unanimous Endorsement of tic prop
osition TO build Il railway from this
city to Urbanna. on the Rappahannock
River. In Middlcscx county, was given
by the board OF directors OF the Bust
ness Mems Club at IL special meeting
last night. The board recommended
that the club ns Il whole approve the
plans which will enable the Richmond
Urbanna and Peninsula Railway Com
pany to purchase the Seven Pines
branch from the Virginia hallway and
Power Company.
This branch the promoters of the
proposition intend TO use as the basis
from which the line will be extended
to the Rappahannock River
Attorney Hiram Smith represented
the purchasing company. and Attor-
ncyS Maurice Powers and Kirk Ma
thews represented those citizens of
Hcnrico county who live on or near
the Seven Pines branch.
1t was shown, according to MIR
Smiths argument, that the line to Ur-
hanna can be built only I'm the event
that the Seven Fines branch can be
bought free of limitations. Especially,
he said, the general transfer privilege
part of the county will have to be dis
continued, though the purchasing COM
pany proposes to continue the opera
ton OF the line on an even more lib
eral schedule.
CnIls ii Bonn-i'idc Deal.
Mr.. Powers and MIR. Mathews de-
clarcd that tho residents of Henrico
who now enjoy the transfers will be
bankrupt and ruined if the privilege
is discontinued. and some question
was raised as to whether the TRANSACT
ton Yas really bona-f ide one
Captain y. L. Guigon, general coun-
Sci for the Virginia Railway and Pow
cr Company, who was present, was
called upon to answer the question
lie stated in Il very emphatic manner
that the sale would he bona iide, and
that his company except AS a party
to the sale, had and would have abso-
lutciy no interest In the new line cX-
ccpt insofar as II would benent Rich
mond, from which the Virginia Rail
way and Power Company receives
large and valuable patronage.
The board of directors IL executive
session decided that the benefits which
would accrue to the city would far
outweigh any personal discomforts
certain residents of the county might
be subjected 10. and consequently re-
commended that the plan which will
make possible the sale of Lac Seven
Pines line and the construction OF the
line to urbanna-that is, abolition of
the Seven Pines transfer privilcge-be
approved by the club and forwarded
to the City Council, to which the ordi-
nance providing for the segregation of
the Seven Pines line will shortly BIO
referred
Boards Resolutions.
The resolutions adopted by the board
are as follows:
BE it resolved. Thn the board of
directors of the Business Mems Club
recommend to the members of tho
club the adoption of suitable and prop
err action, asking that the City Council
of the city of Richmond adopt such
ordinance as will enable the project
ors of the Richmond, Urbanna and Pc
ninsuln Railroad to carry out their
plan for the building OF tho proposed
road
And, further Tt the secretary
be instructed to call a meeting OF
the members of tho club at an early
date (to be fixed by the prcsidenD for
the consideration of this recommen
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