The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-26
LEE DISTRICT WINS
STREET CAR FIGHT
Committee Reports Adversely or
Richmond and Henrico Fran
chise Petition.
FULTON ROW STILL RACES
Route West of Boulevard Ap-
proved, Work to Be Con-
Guided III Nine Months.

Citizens Of Lee District. banded to-
gether In an association to oDpose any
additional street railway tracks i'm the
section OF the city bounded BY Broad.
Main and Lombardy Streets and the
Boulevard won their fight Yesterday
afternoon, when the Council Commit
tee on Streets. by unanimous vote. re.
ported to the Council for rejection the
extensive plans Of the Richmond and
Henrico Railway Company for West
End track extensions. The action was
taken on report of subcommittee.
"hicn mad been over the lines and had
heard at length from the citizens of
me section To he served
me Henrico company had proposed
operation out Broad from Fifth 10
hrook Avenue. TO Marshall. TO Bowe.
10 Broad To Lombardy, along LON
nardy, crossing Monument Avenue at
me stuart Monument, to Park along
.ark Avenue TO stuart, Stuart to Null
perry. 10 kensington. and thence To
the corporate limits. with several ex-
tchslVe loops. one 10 the Roseneat IN
Road to Broad street: ono along inc
koseneath Road south to Cary or Tav-
ior street. and one south along STRAW
Merry Street from stuart Avenue to
] beverly street.
united Opposition.
me pan met with vigorous and
united opposition from The citizens az
The section affected. who stated that
they mad already ample car service.
ana mat IT additional lines were built
as proposed they would sell their
ZONES ana move elsewhere. The ac-
iion OF the committee was without de-
n"te ana was unanimous. President
Forbes, Wee President jenkins Auor-
! heN Matthew's and Chief Engineer
Saiie!' OF the Richmond and Henrico
company We're present but intcrposed
! 40 objection, seeming to realize tbat
! they could not hope 10 force T. car line
IN residential district against the
/ united and organized opposition OF the
| whole section
West End Extension Approved.
Actlhg on the report OF the same s.b-
committee. the street Committee re-
ported 10Y adoption the proposed fran
chise Tor extension of the lines OF tho
| virginia Railway and Power COMPANY
! west OF the Boulevard and Of the Hen
rico company on North Thirty-tifth
/ street, TO which extensions no obiec-
! uons nave been raised. Chairman
ordWay FULLER. OF the subcommittee
! stated that more than 900 citizens had
appeared either in person or by rem
/ resentatives in favor Of the extension
west of the Boulevard. The plan pro.
| poses single track west on Broad
/ street from the Boulevard to the cor
! porate limits, with spur southwark
! from Broad AT West Street along West
/ 10 Leonard. to Sheppard. and south on
! sheppard 10 Cary Street The fran.
ehise requires fifteen minute SEIZED
ulc, with any transfer and ticket re.
auirements OF the general franchises
OF the Virginia Railway and Power
! COMPANY. and specifies that work shall
/ be begun within three months after
approval of the franchise and completed
IN nine months thereafter
Thirty-hfth Street Line.
The extension north on Thirty NTH
! street petitioned by the Richmond and
! Henrico company is subject TO the same
| general conditions. and was recon
nended without objection OF any one
! II VIII give car service TO what Is
! known as Cowardin's Addition, and the
! franchise provides that whenever q ra
! vine shall have been filled in, that the
! line may be continued on to lakewood
Cemetery.
After disposing Of these matters the
committee spent more than an hour in
debate over tho proposed Fulton Hill
line. over which there is much diff
| ference of opinion. and many indita
| tons OF temper. Without reaching a
! fnal conclusion the committee adj.
journed TO special meeting on Mon
! day night when citizens OF that sec
| ton viii be further heard.
The subcommittee. consisting al
Messrs, Fuller. Nielsen and Mills. rec
commended that the franchise request
ed by the Richmond and Iicnrico Rail
| way Company for what is known as
! the Louisiana street route he recon
! mended. Chairman RULER explaining
/ that the committee had been positively
/ Informed that the company would build
/ that and no other. Believing that
o al
sections are in need of car service the
committee had reported the line tina,
/ the company would build.
Nielsen Defends His Action.
! The debate which followed was per.
! sonal 10 an unusual degree. notwith-
standing the efforts of Chairman Pol
| lock to keep speakers within parlia.
mentary limits. Stung by references
to the Nielsen route" Alderman
! Nielsen of Fulton. a member of the sub
committee. took the floor and in ar
| extended statement said that he did
| own valuable property along the
| Louisiana Street route recommended
J Committee he had used ward street
! funds for opening and grading Lou
isiana street. and that he had secured
! from the Richmond and Henrico Rail
way Company promise under bond
| TO build by that route.
fic Hdu uone an WIS iol WHAT ne ne
| lieYed to be the best interests OF the
| community he represents, and urged
! the committee not TO give too much
| weight to the protests OF other in
| tcrested property owners who desire
! some other route. Protesting that he
! lived in Fulton; that his interests were
! there. and that he was not only de-
! pendent OH the good will of Fulton
| people for any political preferment but
also for business patronage Mr. Mel.
! sen insisted that his actions had beer
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