The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-12
CLAIM STREET
MONEY IS WASTED
Clay Ward Citizens Want to
Know About Harrison
Street Cut.
WORK BENEFITS NO ONE
Improvement League Formed to
Fight for School, Sewers
and Streets.
WORK BENEFITS NO ONE

Plans have been perfected during the
past week fer the formation of the
Southwest Improvement League, an
organization which Will make a fight
for tho comprehensive Improvement OF
the southwestern section of the an
nexed section OF Richmond lying In
Clay Ward. tho chief objects being the
development OF streets. a new school
building and sanitary improvements.
The ofrfsers of the league are l. I.
Branch. president; c. II. Dunaway, sec.
rotary: w. NJ. Miller, treasurer, and
c. e. Chandler. sergeant-at-arms.
Two Of the objects Of the league
seem In fair way to be consummated
within reasonable time-a school
building and sanitation. Tho street
improvements tho members expect to
fight for. The plan presented by the
School Board lost year for tho erection
of two school buildings a year until
the school population is provided for,
contemplates the beginning next year
OF an adequate school building to re-
place old Sidney School. now at tho
corner OF Sycamore and Cary Streets
School md Sewers.
Tho city owns a half-block OF prop
erty in handsome grove OF trees,
we'll located and set apart for school
purposes. Under the present plan
work will begin on the new building
as soon as new Madison School, now in
course of erection, is opened and &C.
cupied.
The sanitation OF the district af-
fected Is well under way, the section
being served by the great Virginia
avenue trunk sewer. now reaching com
pietion. the total cost OF which, with
It's branches. will aggregate s25O,OO0.
Many lateral branches and house con.
nections are yet to be laid. and within
one year fully 1000 nuisances will be
eliminated. Wherever sewers are pro-
Vided the law requires connection with
city water. thus cutting out also q
number OF unhealthy old wells ana
springs and further benehting health
conditions in large section capable
OF much Improvement
Think Money Is Wasted
But 1t is to the condition of streets
that the league will give its atten-
uon. II wants 10 have some say as to
where the improvements will GO The
Street Committee apportioned $4,000
to Clay Ward this year. and many
handsome improvements. such as the
grading Of Cary Street and Grove
Avenue west of the Boulevard, have
been accomplished. But the section
/ Houth of Main Street believes that II
has not received Its full share in the
distribution. Promoters of the league
| want to know the object Of the Coun-
ell In spending a large sum in cutting
South Harrison Street from Ashland
Street south toward Riverview Gene
terry. The distance Is about two
blocks. and the cut is an average OF
fourteen feet OF solid clay. On one
side is the undeyeloped Clark. SprInc
property. belonging to the city. and on
the other the grounds of the Marshall
| Reservoir. No house fronts or will
front on the new street The enormous
cut-two blocks long. forty feet wide
and fourteen feet deep-leads but to
q dump. The Clay Ward citizens as
, sert with some justice that the amour,
expended would have laid curb and gut
ter on Cary Street from Lombardy
! Street to the Boulevard. all closely
built up, or would have furnished MANY
other much needed improvements.