The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-29
COMPLETE BRIDGE
! WITHIN ONE YEAR
ON WORK ON NEW MAYO
STRUCTURE
w ILL c O S T $500, 900
COMMITTEE FAvoRs DESIGN WITH
PROVISION FOR STATUES Of
FERED nv SIR MOSES
EZEKIEL.
WILL OST $500, 900

IL all goes well, the proposed new
Mayo's bridge across the James
ought to be ready for traffic some
time next spring, the understanding
being that the work shall be COM
pleted within year after the oon-
tract In let. The cost of the struc-
ture estimated at 100000, including
expenditure for sites, approaches and
actual construction, will be betrayed
by city bonds to be placed on the
market after the contract Is let
Plans submitted for the structure
have narrowed dovn to five designs
and that of Stamper. Ragland g. Co.
is to be given the preference, 1t is
stated. because It contains provision
for the several bronze statues which
Sir Moses Ezekiel offered to present
to the city for ornamentation of the
bridge. Tho other competitors, how
ever. have been given an opportunity
to revise their plans. and it may be
that another design will be selected
before final award IL made.
VIII Revise Plans.
Revised plans will be submitted to
the council bridge committee next
Friday night, when the question OF
approaches will also be discussed In
further detail. At the same time the
committee with hear from City At
torney Pollard as to any !, possible
rights the Virginia Railway and Pow
er Company may have over ths bridge
and as to the advisability OF the city
laying and owning rails across the
bridge.
The supplemental report of the
board OF engineers submitted to the
committee Tuesday afternoon In con-
nection with the bridge plans is as
follows:
TN the event that the subcommittee
on streets should desire an express
sion OF opinion from us as to which
OF the Ave designs and propositions
submitted TO us is most desirable. we
would classify them In the following
order. provided such notifications are
included as described in our detail
and general report, and also as speci-
fed below:
One. No. 1s--Stamper. Ragland
& Company. of Richmond, provided
that the cantilever sidewalk be elimi-
mated.
Two. No. l0-Mckay Engineering
Company, of Baltimore. provided that
length or bridge be increased to OBJ
| tain the same length as In the other
! designs and to provide the required
waterway area.
Three. No. 81 J. Smith & Com
pany. of Richmond, provided that de-
t sign only be considered. and The
thickness OF arch rings he increased.
Four No. Carolina Concrete
Company. provided that design A be
used with concrete spindle railing.
Five. No. Al. NJ. Airport g. Son.
Richmond. providing that the saftlt
| arch and the spandrei wall be securely
ceiled.
How Figures Run.
The Stamper. Ragland q Company
bid was SETTLE; that OF Mckay En-
cheering Company. $216,47T: !. j.
Smith & Company. S230,061; Carolina
Concrete Company. $23s,se8; Fl. Nj.
Airport g. Son. s23S,b4s.s0. All are
subject to certain conditions and
extras for various kinds OF paving.
street car tracks, lamp posts and
similar items.
Over the protest of the ward dele
/ CATION, the council committee on
streets Tuesday night authorized GER
| tain grading work along Thirty-fifth
| and other streets to be done out OF
the Marshall ward street fund at an
estimated cost of s2,100. This action
was taken at the suggestion of Alder
man S. p. Cowardin, who donated
land to the city some months ago for
certain streets and alleys provided the
city would grade Thirty-fifth and
other streets.
Grimes Wins Point.
The Marshall Ward fund was again
made to carry the load when Alder
man John r. Grimes asked what was
going to be done about his house at
the southeast corner of Twenty-ntnth
and Franklin streets. The street has
been graded at one side, and tffc
earth is washing from under the
house. putting 1t In a dangerous con-
dition. He asked that the sidewalk
be graded. retaining wall be erect
ed. and the house underpinned. As
ststant City Engineer Charles l.. Todd,
Jr. estimated the total cost at ss4s.22.
Mr.. Grimes said he did not ask the
city to give him anything. but to keen
his property from falling into the
street as result Of city work.