The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-11
HENR|CO COMPANY
FILES |TS.PLANS
Route for General Distribution of
Electric Current Sent to
Street Committee.
FIRST HEARING ON MONDAY
Two Main Feeder Lines Pro-
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FIRST HEARING ON MONDAY
Two Main Feeder Lines Pro
posed From Power-House
on James River.

Plans for tho general distribution OF
light and power current were fled with
tho Council Committee on Streets by
the Richmond and Henrico Railway
Company yesterday, and wore made
the special order for meeting to be
hold next Monday night at o'clock.
The plans call for two main feeder
lines from the present power-house, at
Orleans Street and James River one
limo extending west on Marshall
Street to Bowe and the other west
ward on Cary Street to Belvidere.
There is no plan for a line to South
Richmond. or into the newer portion
Of Clay Ward. II was explained that
the two main routes proposed wero in
tended as through transmission lines.
from which there will branch service
lines along the various CROSS streets
az the demands may require
Officials of the company stated that
1t was the intention of the route filed
10 provide mt the outset electric cur
rent Tor the whole section Of the city
lying between n Street and the river.
from the eastern corporate limits
west north 10 Broad to Bowe Street.
and south o, Broad to Bclvidere
Street
Not on Brond or Main Streets.
NO plans are shown for conduits or
pole lines In either Broad or Main
Streets: In fact, except for a very short
distance. the underground district la
avoided, and the plans propose the use
OF existing poles OF the City Electric
Plant. the Chesapeake and, Potomac
Telephone Company and Virginia Rail-
way and Power Company to n large
extent. Under the terms of tho fran
chiso the route may be altered. dim
inished or extended by the Committee
on Streets. Construction work within
such route is TO begin within three
months. and be completed I'm twelve
months after final approval by the
Committee on Streets.
OF the two general trunk lines
proposed by the company for it's
initial construction. one consists
of the main feed route already
occupied by the 0ichmond and
Henrico Company for it's trolley cur
rent AS far AS Its substation. at Jail
Alley and Marshall Street, the route
heing up Orleans Street across Fulton
10 the present street car line. along
its right OF way TO Thirty-hfth and
West to B0we Street.
From the present power substation.
nj Jail Alley and Marshall Street, tho
route liz to be extended westward
along Marshall Street to Bowe Street.
the route To Fifth on already existing
b.
Virginia Railway and Power Company's
poles thence westward TO Bowe
Street. using such poles az may be
available and setting new poles where
needed. There Will be no underground
construction on this route
The second main feeder will be an
entirely new route starting from the
powcr-housc on the river. between
Louisiana and Orleans Streets, along
Wharf street TO Ash Street using
thirteen telephone poles and several
city poles. along Dock Street 10
Twenty-third street. using large
number OF existing poles: on Twenty
third Street to Franklin and west
along Franklin TO Fourteenth, using
existing poles where available and
supplying several gaps with new poles;
from Fourteenth to Twelfth Streets
along Franklin underground. and
south along Twelfth to alley between
Cary and Canal: west along said alley
overhead TO Eighth: along Eighth to
Cary. and along Cary one block under
ground to Seventh, thence overhead
westward OF Cary Street, using city
poles where available. to Relvidere
Street.
Committee Will Consider Plans.
Members of the committee discussed
the plans informally, the chief omis-
sion commented on being the lack OF
any proposed route TO South Richmond.
1t was decided that it would be better