The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-19
EXPECT TO IMPROVE
CITY STREETS SOON
Business Men Appear Before Council Committee
on Streets Asking That Grove Avenue and
Cary Street Be Permanently Repaired

Louis Kaufman, chairman OF COM
mittee appointed to appear before the
council Committee on Streets. report
cd to tho Richmond Automobile Club,
at the monthly meeting held last
might, tho Improvement OF Grove Ave-
nue and Cary Street to tho now cor
Horate lines had boon loft to the Sub
committee on Streets from Clay Ward.
The question OF the Improvement Of
these two streets has been discussed
many times ut meetings of tho auto
mobile club. Every member has
agreed that these streetH were In
deplorablc condition. but not until
complfshed- III addition to Mr.. Kauf-
man. H. s, Halves and Thomas l.
Moore were on tho committee. They
told the members of the Council COM
mttee the exact condition Of tho
Streets and the action already stated
was taken.
After the committee reported to the
club another committee VIVA named,
whose duty II Will be to SEQ 6iessrs
Don Leavy and madden. forming tho
Clay Ward delegation of the Commit
teo on Streets, and lay before them
some additional facts. The plan IL TO
have a twenty-foot roadway from tile
boulevard TO tue Belt Line Bridge.
The Richmond. Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad Company has agreed
to build the road over the bridge.
distance OF 500 feet The. county will
build 1880 feet Of road leading to the
corporation lines. provided the people
OF Richmond raise s1.l50. the sum
needed To pay for the material In the
road construction.
or this S1.15Q considerable por-
tion--s350--has already been sub
ssribed. and the rest win be in hand
in g. few days. 1t will remain for
the city of Richmond TO complete the
road to the boulevard, a distance OF
1850 feet The budget contains an
appropriation OF 100000 for the i'm
proyement OF streets and roedways In
Clay Ward. 1t Is to secure O part OF
this appropriation for the proposed
road that tho committee from the auto
mobile club will confer with the Clay
Ward delegation.
Among those who have subscribed
TO the fund for completing. the road in
tho county arc; T. c. Williams. Jr..
L. W. Noting, Z. J. Willis, w NJ
Hnpilnton, r. A Patton. Isaac Conen.
Gordon Wallace. Thomas l.. Moore.
John q. Williams. l. w. Pizzin!. George
c. Gregory. 81. c. Patterson. and Hurry
{. Beattic, each $50; tho Country Club
OF Virginia, 800; II. s. Hnwes, T. @.
sydno~ and V. II. Gwathmey, $50 each.
X b. Airport offered motion that
committee OF hve be appointed for
tho purpose Of determining whether
or not It was wiec at this time for
the CLUB to buils clubhouse OF It's
own His reasons were that the club
had grown Ia membership end should
be recognized az one OF the repre-
sentative clubs In Richmond. He did
not think that the clubhouse should
be built at once. but he did think
that IL q clubhouse was 10 be built In
the future that the question should be
considered ut this tine. The motion
was adopted and the following mem
bers named on the committees: r 3.
Airport. chairman; b. D. West. George
w. Hunter. DR.. ]. Fvlmer Bright, r.
G. Williams.
a letter from c. E. Boiling city
engineer, in anawer to certain resolu-
lions recently adopted by the club was
received and read as follows
March 6. 1912.
j. Thos. Palmatury. president and