The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-11
CITY WILL HAVE
ITS OWN GARAGE
Board Plans to Convert Old
Meat Market Into Home
for Motors.
SHAREHOLDERS MUST MOVE
Notified That Leases Will Not
Be Renewed After Janu-
airy l.

Richmond is to have a municipal
garage. 1t will be located in the
building on Marshall Street, between
Sixth and Seventh Streets at present
used by the city as meat market
Holders of stalls were notified yes
terday that their leases will not be re-
newed on January /, and that tho
rental OF space In the building will be
discontinued. Occupants will have the
privilege OF removing from the prem
iscs all improvements Installed by
them, as we'll as all fixtures.
| The action was taken at the instance
OF E. c. Folkes. who, undor the now
division OF duties, has supervision over
Ell markets. Mr.. Folkes is one OF the
chief supporters of tho municipal gar
nge idea and is in favor OF converting
the old meat market into a home for
the motor trucks and automobiles
which have in the past year or two
been added to the equipment OF several
Of the city departments.
unrkct Losing Ont.
While II has not officially been de-
cided TO establish city garage at this
point, IT was freely admitted by mem
hcrs OF the board yesterday that the
vacatinG notice served upon stallhold-
ers yesterday is the preliminary move
toward this end The board looks with
favor upon the plan of utilizing the
old meat market for this purpose, most
| Of the members holding the belief that
It's usefulness In the present capacity
is daily growing less.
The market is gradually losing out"
said Henry Z. Beck yesterday. discuss
ing the plan. 1T served a good pur-
mary for the head of the household to
get up early in the morning and go to
the market to lay in stock of pro-
visions for the days consumption
Mnrketers are growing fewer and
fewer every year now. This is par
ticularly true of the Sixth Street Mar
ket. The telephone and the green
grocer have worked a revolution. Peo-
pie do their marketing at the corner
grocery"
sixteen stallholders who will be taken
care of in the vegetable and fish mar
tet under the Blues Armory. At pres
cnt the vegetable and meat markets
both have empty stalls. The CONSOLE
dalton Will do away with the empty
stalls In the vegetable market that
now go TO waste. and the old meat
market will be put to full use.
House Electrical Department.
II the present tentative plans are
carried out the old meat market will
be subdividcd to take care of the office
and storage rooms of the city electri-
cal department, for which outside
quarters are now rented at s720 a year.
! The only objection to the plan of
converting OF the building into a
municipal garage is its high value as
business property. The garage service
could he secured at a much smaller
investment BY purchasing and build
ing on unimprored land further out
For the present however, the building
Will be put to this use. When the
citys motor equipment becomes large
enough to demand more capacious
quarters the board will probably rec
ommcnd the building of a large NUM-
cipal garage In the outskirts. In that
event the present market building
could be sold for use Is stores or re-
modelled to take care of some other
more important municipal activity.