The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-18
WILL FORM GULLY
ON BROAD STREET
Ugly Depression Between Third
and Foushec to Follow
Delay in Paving.
BOILING RECOMMENDS WORK
Urges City to Smooth Pave to
Keep Pace With Track
improvements.

Unless the Council authorizes an an.
preparation to smooth pave Broad
| Street from tile end of the present
smooth paving to the west side Of
Foushec street, according to informa-
ton laid before the Council Committee
] on Finance last night. the centre of
! that thoroushfare between the streets
named will, with the completion of
/ improvements now being Installed by
the Virginia Railway and Power Com
pany, form depressed gully from two
| to six inches deep.
The condition was explained by City
| Engineer Boiling in the course OF a
! public hearing on the Gunst resolution
/ appropria ting the sum of s25,O for the
work in question. Acting with the au-
thoriHation of the City Engineer, tho
| Virginia Railway and Power Company
| Is now engaged in relayinr it's tracks
on Broad Street. between Third and
I FouShec. on new concrete base and on
the permanent grade that Will be
adopted when that section of Broad
Street is smooth paved
IL would have been wrong, Mr.. Bol-
ing told the committee, to have re-
auireo me street car company TO re-
| lay It's tracks on the present grade
with the probability of being com
! PEELED to tear up the work within a few
months to conform with the new per
manent grade that has been fixed for
the smooth paved portion of the street
VIII Form Depression.
: When the street railway improve
inehts are complete that section of
\ broad street between Third and Fou-
/ shee, II was pointed out, Will show a
decided depression in the centre
/ amounting to n gully. which will be an
] impairment to traffic as we'll as a nui-
sance from the standpoint Of drain
age.
I The paving of that section of Broad
with asphalt block at an early date
] was strongly urged by MIR Boiling and
/ by George Med. Blake. who spoke for
/ the BROAD Street merchants. The lat
I ter was particularly anxious that tho
matter should not be deferred so late
/ as to interfere with the trade OF the
| busy fall season.
/ Action on the paving proposition. as
| well as OH number Of other matters
mat were discussed before the com
! mittce, was postponed until another
! meeting, which was fixed for the even
| ing of June "a. 1t is believed now that
| the Finance Committee considering the
urgent need of early action. will report
iavorabiy on the appropriation for the
| paving.
To Extend Grnce Street.
| iEcslueht boatwriEht and Chairma n
| J. Taylor Ellyson. of the board Of
trustees of Richmond College APP
pcared before the committee on be-
half OF the pending ordinance appro-
priating the sum OF si9.365 to extend
| Grace Street wcstwardly to Lombardy
| street through the Richmond College
| campus. The case was stated for the
college by Attorney Robert W. Pollard
In asking for the Improvement, said
f1fa.c a 80.
| requests the city 10 do in n lump what
1t would eventually do for the indl-
| viduals who would purchase the prop
erty unimproved. The return 10 the
| city in taxes on the property, ii was
stated. would within two or three
years compensate for tho money en-
pended In paving and improving Grace
! street extended.
Touching upon the Broad street
frontage Of the college property, Prcsi-
/ dent Boatwright told the commi :tee
that IL was the purpose of the college
to retain the entire tract for the pres
| emit and to devote ii to the use OF the
! Richmond Academy when the college
moves 10 Westhampton. Such usc, he
said, was not a suhtcrfuEc to avoid
taxation. 1t would last, he said, only
for a few years, since the financial
needs of the college will compel the
age before long. Eventually. he said.
all OF II will revert 10 public uses.
Wants Surveying Corps.
city Engineer Boiling appeared for
an ordinance appropriating the sum of
$325 month with which to employ
a surveying corps 10 plot out pro-
icctcd improvements in the Shock oe
Creek valley and other sections OF the
city Such corps said Mr.. Boiling,
by preparing necessary data in ad
vance, upon which the Council could
base its appropriations. would save
tho city large sums of money. AT pres
cnt he said. the practice is to appro-
pirate first and survey afterwards, a
procedure which Is wholly wrong from
tn" standpoint of economy. The sur
veyinE corps. under the ordinance, is
not TO be employed permanently.
James r Sloan asked the commit &c
20 recommend At once the paying over
Of sl7b1 OF the $4,000 appropriation
made available for the new Branch
public baths on West Main Street. In
order that tho baths may BIO thrown