The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-13
School, Labor and Cheap
Tickets Stay, With
out Transfers.
MATTER GOES NOW
TO CITY COUNCIL
Lawyers Engage in Sharp
Wrangle, Smith and Guigon
Bitterly Denouncing Meth
DDS of Opposition-Build-
ers Ready to Give Ne
cessary Bond.

After concessions had been made of
school and labor tickets and of six for
quarter tickets. and the petitioners
had agreed TO post bond of $4,000
with some surety company to complete
the new railroad to Urbanna in five
years. the Council Committee on
Streets last night recommended to the
Council the franchise authorizing the
sale OF the Seven Pines electric line
to the Richmond. Uroanna and PENN
sula Railroad Company. Tho final &C
ton did not come until half an hour
after midnight, and after the most
heated and at time acrimonious de-
bate.
BY the terms of the agreement. II
ratified BY the City Council. the Seven
Pines limo Will be transferred at once
from the Virginia Railway and Power
Company to the newly organized rail-
road. the company 10 give "A thirty
minute schedule during rush hours
and at other times Il forty-nve minute
schedule: to guarantee the sale of
tickets to lahorinG men before a. NJ
and TO school children at I-2 cents,
and Of six for quarter tickets at
all times: to begin surveys within
ninety days: begin actual construction
In nine months; TO complete the limo
eNA'so hHS lklNCT "llnln TWO
years: TO prosecute II at oil times to
the satisfaction OF the City Engineer,
and TO complete the road 10 Urbunna
within Ave years. subject to forfeiture
OF bond TO be given with some
reputable surety company in the gum
OF $4,000.
Citizens living along the present
Seven pines line lose their present
transfer privileges to and from the
m r.
Hallway and Power Company. but in
all other respects have as good SER
vice and rates as ut present. with a
better schedule in the rush hours
Lawyers Speak Sharply.
Several sharp passages between the
attorneys marked the final hearing.
Hiram NJ. Smith appearing for the
new railroad. and A. b. Gulgon. gem
eral attorney OF the Virginia Railway
and Power Company. sharply rescntinE
insinuations OF Maurice ~ Powers
question their good faith. 1--WE are
tired OF this sort of insinuation with
out one shred of evidence to support
IT," said air. Smith, and any one who
says II again says what is absolutely
untrue. Captain Guigon was more
emphatic. He was willing to give
Mr.. Powers the benefit of the doubt,
reciting certain conversations between
them and adding: "If after such state
ments he had meant further re-
Elections such as his language and
actions seemed TO imply. would be
constrained to believe that he was
both coward and liar
Mr.. Powers disclaimed any in
sention of rejecting on the integrity
OF either of the opposing attorneys.
and said Il had been the most bitterly
contested tiht in which he had evtt
been engaged, and that he had con-
sidered 1t his duty TO his clients to
use every means OF letting first hand
and not accept as final
mere unsupported statements of coun-
sell
Concessions Suggested.
The advocates of the Urbanna line
presented resolutions OF Endorsement
from the Chamber of Commerce, tho
Retail Merchants Association and the
said tnat approval of the new road
had come from every commercial
organization. and that there had been
blu. one note of opposition from any
OF influence in the city, the
News Leader He then read q letter
from John Stewart Bryan, president
of that company. who stated that were
the concessions of school and labor
tickets given, he woulu "bc most
happy to support the ordinance as
since that would meet what
Mr.. Bryan believed to be the Just
demands of people living along that
line" and MIR. Bryan therefore sub
stituted this statement for former
letter OF opposition. which he had
sent TO the committee through Judge
IT Ashbv Wickhaln.
Argument Ii Tedious.
Although the argument of counsel
occupied more than four hours last
night II developed little new ground.
The committee had patiently heard II
all before. and was most FESTIVE under
the continued repetitions. Judge
resumed his argument when
the body met, having been Interrupted
by adjournment on n previous night.
He introduced Mr.. Clark and others as
witnesses and examined them as to
conditions along the line. Judge
Wickham's concluding argument last
ed for another hour. and he was fol-
lowed by c. w. Throckmorton. who
briefly defended his course In the last
Legislature in Offering his milk bill,
designed to break up the inspect on
system of the Richmond Health Dc.
and closing with a general
attack on the virginia Railway and
Power Company as the ''chief obstEuc-
tor to the proposed new line suggest
Ing that If 1T would consent TO bring
the cars downtown-say to Ninth and
Main Strects-the fare might be put a
cents straight, with no transfer.
Mr.. Smith. for the Urbanna road, said
his clients had no assurance Of what
charge would be madc to Them for
running their. cars over the tracks OF
the other company nor could ho guar
antcc that their motive power would
be suitable for cars coming into the
heart of tho city
Rev. Mr.. Savage, of Highland Springs.
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