The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-10
Eighty-Foot Street to
New Bridge Will Cost
City S241 300.
DOUGLAS E. TAYLOR
FILES DISSEN t
Commission Reports on Cost of
Land to Widen Fifteenth Street
to Eighty Feet and to Ex-
tend 1t Across Old Dock
Property to New
Mayo Bridge.

Opening an eighty foot boulevard
from Main Street 10 the northern end
of Mayo's Bridge will cost the city
OF Richmond S24l.30o52 for the prop
erty 10 be acquired and damages TO
abuttlng property. not counting thas
portion Of the Southern Railway yards
on tho west sids, OF Fourteenth Street.
according 10 the report of condenna-
ton commissioners nled yesterday In
the clerks Office OF the IIustings Court
The resolutions directing the city At
torney TO hold condemnation proceed
ings, instructed that no concluded ac-
ton be taken until the price at which
tho property can be acquired liz re
ported g the Council, for It's approval
Plan Eishty-Foot boulevard.
The street Is designed an eighty
foot thorouS hfare. from Fifteenth and
Main Streets. ~ widening the present
Fifteenth Street on its eastern side.
southwark 10 the dock; acquisition Of
the dock property between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets. and when litiga-
ton now pending with the railway
company Is completed the widening or
Fourteenth Street from ,nc dock south
ward TO the bridge. The new street
is designed not only TO give street
car and vehicle access 10 the bridge,
and 10 travel to and from the South
Cary Street, and provide q through
cross street on an alinos, levcl grade
FOR heavy hauling. Eventually, it Is
proposed 10 open Fifteenth Street
northwardly from Main under Broad
Street, and on up the Shockoe Valley,
opening up To building OF manufac-
turing plants large section now al
most entirely dependent on railroad
tracks for transportation.
~ o.. ID
place yalus on the property 10 De ac-
CURED, Douglas K. TAYLOR assents
from that part ~ the report which
allows James 7. Sloan S50,34l.e7 for
: the strip or dock property needed. and
also from the allowance Of ss.l25 to
the GORDON Metal Company
vuluc OF Dock Property.
Two years ago the entire dock prop
erty was offered the city for various
sums starting AT $4,000, and run
ming down 20 $4,000 The city nm
ally purchased from the bondholdcrs
OF the William r. Trigg Company that
portion OF .ho dock lying east or the
west line OF Seventeenth Street-alI
tho navisable part, together with the
lock gates FOR $4,000.
Mr.. Sloan has since acquired title 70
the unused portion between Fourteenth
md Seventeenth Streets. subject TO the
continuous right of water passage for
the canal. BESIDES Mr.. Taylor. the com
missioners sitting in the case were T.
-. Newell. r. y. Saunders, Jr S. T.
Bever!dgc and Norton r. Savage. The
commission was appointed by Judge
Richardson on July 10. and instructed
Ito ascertain what Will be tho Just
compensation for such part OF the land
Of the freehold whereof James r.. Can
non and others the defendants named
in the petition of the city OF Richmond,
arc tenants. and for such other prop
erty az is proposed TO he taken by the
city Of Richmond. and TO assess, the
damages. II any, resulting to the ada
cent or other property Of said tenants
or owners or to the property OF any
other person beyond the peculiar bene-
fits that will accrue TO such properties
respectively from the construction and
maintenance of the work of improve
ment proposed 10 be done by the city
OF Richmond"
Values Allowed.
The commissioners report that they
examined the land. tho limits of which
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