The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-11
DRIOGE APPROACH
QUITE EXPENSIVE
COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO AS
sEss. DAMAGES FILE REPORT
IN COURT
NOW UP TO COUNCIL
DOT BIT is. EXPRESSED THAT THAT
BODY WILL AUTHORIZE ANY
FURTHER PROCEEDINGS
IN THIS LINE.
NOW UP TO COUNCIL

According to the report filed In the
Hastings court by the commissioners
appointed TO assess the damages to
property holders, the opening of an
eightyfoot street from Mayos bridge
to Main street will cost the city
s241, 3oo.5 No action of condemna-
tory proceedings can be taken until
this report is given 10 the city coun-
ell. and doubt has. already been ex-
pressed that the council will agree
to expend this amount to open up
the street
The plan is to open a street from
Fifteenth and Main by widening Fiji
tee,nth street on its eastern side
s0Ethward to the dock; acquisition of
the dock property between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets. and, when liti-
cation with the Southern Railway
company now pending is finished,
widening Fourteenth street from the
dock southwark to the bridge.
! The street is designed TO relieve con-
gestion on Cary street and to give
easy access to and from the new
bridge by providing an almost level
grade for heavy hauling.
I Mr.. Taylor Dissents.
/ Douglas f. Taylor. one of the com
m issioners, dissented from that part
,of the report which allows James r.
iSioan $50,341.s7 for the strip of dock
allowance of sS.125 to the Gordon
Metal company. Two years ago the
whole of the dock property could have
been purchased by the city for sums
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000.
The city finally purchased from the
bondholders of the William X Trigg
Company that portion of the dock
lying east of the west line of Seven
teenth street, that is, all the naviga-
BILE part, with the lock gates, for
$4,000.
The commission was appointed on
fully 18th. and consisted of T. d
Newell. f. A. Saunders, Jr., 8. T.
4 Beveridge and Norton X, Savage, IT
I was instructed to ascertain what
z would be just compensation for land
which ii was proposed to condemn
and to assess the damages, IL any, to
property adjacent to that needed
for opening up the street proposed.
Compensation Assessed.
| COMPENSATION and damages assessed
are as follows: James e. Cannon. Eliz-
aaeth l.. Price. Arthur M. Cannon aud
4 Margaret G Spalding, 1901 East Main
street. s21.t5s34: Esther Elsner. 1903
East Main street sls,b04.26, Essie
, Manning, devisee of c. Manning Jr,
. South Fifteenth street, $9,597.s6; Ida T.
si O'Neil. South Fifteenth street sl4,-
. 456.iS: Starke's Dixie Plow works. I
e Il and A. +. Temple. South Fifteenth
2 street S6,4i1.67, W. Ashby Jones. !!
[ South Fifteenth street. S6,706.s3; John
II. and William s., grantees of ii V
y pretlow IS South Fifteenth street, 81
els. SO. II. w. Evans and A. l.. sharp
Is South Fifteenth street. $s,s75.s3
kingan Packing company, II, 10 and II
: south Fifteenth street. s54, 544.05, Sea
l board Air Line Railway company
! Fifteenth street, between Cary and
III Dock. $2s.393.Te James T. Sloan, dock
\ ! property from eastern line of proposed
I'll extension of Fifteenth street and
thence in a westwaroiiy direction to the
present line of Fourteenth street, $50,
3&1 81: ID. j OSullivan. leasehold es
y tate of that defendant in property oil
the Seaboard Air Line Railway com
pany 81 zoo: Gordon Metal company
. property adjacent to the dock and 65
feet on Fourteenth street. sS.125.
Douglas Il. Taylor, one of the com
missioners bases the difference be.
tween his valuation of $75 per font
, foot for the Sloan property upon the
fact that no basement can be built on
this property and on the excessive cost
Of foundation for any class of strue
water across the property. The differ
E enee as to the valuation of the prop
, erty of the Gordon Metal company Ia
based on the irregularity of the shapt
Of the property, due to railroad en-.
9 croachment and undesirable founda-
| tions.