The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-03
IIOlk IS RESUMED
I0n BROAD Street
But Contractor for Main Street
I Paving Is Still Play
|; ing With Job.
FIRE ENGINE CAMPING OUT
Department Lives Under Trees
< While New Paving Is Laid
81 on Broad Street.

Work was resumed yesterday in
,earnest on the paving Of Broad
Street and in a half-hearted fashion in
preparing for the repaving OF Main
street between Fifth and Seventh
Streets. both Jobs having been laying
idle for some time The special COM
nirtee on investigation OF delays in
rarrying forward street paving Will
meet this afternoon at o'clock On
the Main Street job. where one OF the
heaviest traffic streets in the city has
been blocked since early in July. Con-
tractor Cheatwood had five negro men
IL work yesterday preparing the
Ground for laying the concrete bed
No concrete has been laid. nor has any
having been done on the cfty's part
Of this street.
Good Force On Broad Street.
Relyinx on the promise Of the VIZ
~,nta Railway and Power Company to
hurrv forward the conduit work on
R,oad street. the contractors for paw
ting that street resumed work yeste@.
day with q good force OF hands ana
esrts-she nrst really vigorous looking
korcS that has yet been on the Joo'
ahs old paving was removed from tne
6orta side Of Broad street po"
Ninth to Eighth and excavation oesuh
for thu concrete bed for the new psN-
lng. An improved machanicai con
80. nixer and spreader is ready for
- ana ths PAYERS promise to push
-. eiecer1c company hard to keep
shead Nothing has been done as yer
an ,eulacinK the tracks west OF sew
enth. an the south track from Seventh
81 Tsnth. and this work Will prop
.n,v he deferred until after the falr.
The Fire Department abandone"
r,rcad Street Engine House YESTERDAY
ana - camping out in Marshaii stEee'
vhi,e the paving Is being replaced IN
frcnt OF the engine house. AS soon
:. the concrete bed is poured a piat-
Sor,n win be laid by which the engine
nonse can be used Building Contrac-
tor Atkinson has not yet removed tns
tack CT brick and building ma'e!ial
: hich stands in the way OF repaEns
the south side Of Broad street IN
front of the new Lyric Iheatre' az
though report Of this ordinance vio-
Iat,on has been made to the roiiee
Court.
TO Give Car Company Ample Notiee.
Although it has been generally un-
Aerstood that the annual budget OF
next year will contain a second APP
IaopriaI,on of $4,000 to carry the
fepavns OF Broad street westward
from Third to Adams Street. 1t Is
expected that a resolution instructing
HE Finance Committee to that effort
uiil be introduced in the Council next
Monday night. Notice would at once
be given in that evont to the street
ear company and the departments
saving pipes and conduits under Broad
sAreet to secure material and pre-
sare for the work The virginia
Raiiway and Power Company mas
known. or might have known. since
March IS. when the budget was
signed. that Broad Street was to De
rSnaved from Tenth to Third: but only
YESTERDAY did the material arrive for
renIacing the old Edison tube con-
auits with modern requirements the
MAJ, of repaving Robinson Street mas
b+.n abandoned as impossible OF con-
Spnn,ation. The street car company
r,onises to replace its tracks on Nest
Je;sh street during fair week. "Heh
work on Broad Street will be irnprsc-
tics Bile. Repaving is going on In MAN
street opposite the Jefferson hotei.
after the street had been open SO long
that grass and weeds had begun 10
ennout in the trenches.