The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-04
r., F. & P. to Erect
Structure to Serve City
for Fifty Years.
TOTAL COST MAY
REACH 81, 100000
Railroad President Tells Street
Committee That Definite An
nounccment Will Be Made
Within Thirty Days-Her-
mitage Golf Club Pos
sible Site.

to be erected Weat Broad Street
adequate to provide for tho Richmond
teredericksburR and Potomac and At
lnntic Coast Line Railroads for fifty
ycars to come, and TO cost proba bly,
$1,000 900. are in contemplation. IL not
in actual preparation according 10 a
streets yesterday afternoon by VII
liam IL White. president OF the Rich
ruond. Frederick sburg and Potomac
railroad Company. Mr.. White told the
committee that within thirty DAYS he
would be able to make more definite
announcement in regard TO large I'M
provemeuts which have been under
consideration for many months
The new station may be located on
the compauy's property now occupied
by the Hermitage Golf Club or. II
found desirable TO come further down
:own; at ;Se- old baseSs" rafiS also
the property OF the company.
VIII Move Yards at Once.
Pending the contamination or the
more ambitious station plans. the corn
mittee was assured that the Shafer
Street yard, on the south side of Broad
Street, would very shortly be aban-
doned and that other obstructions TO
traffic on West Broad street would
soon he moved. With many conflicting
interests to harmonize. Mr.. White said
that such matters could not be done
IN day. but that the company was
ueeply Interested and was earnestly
ut work 10 relieve the situation as soon
and as completely az practicable.
The subcommittee. consisting OF
Messrs Vonderlehr. Mills. Pollock and
Fuller was appointed 10 consider "A
resolution offered by MIR Nonderlehr At
the laar meeting OF the Common Coun-
al looking to removal OF steam
railroad tracks now obstructinB the
westward growth and DEVELOPMENT of
Rroad Street.
At yesterdays meeting there ap-
reared for thc railroad President
White. Assistant 10 the President w. ID.
Duke, General Counsel y. caperton
Braxton and Associate Counsel j. Jor-
dan Leake,
harmonious Conference.
The conference was most harno-
nious Realizing that the whole Q'ies-
tion OF Encouragement Of tracks in the
streets was interlocked with the rob
lem of a new terminal. members OF thc
committee assured the railway omciais
that they had no desire to work any
hardship by making requirements at
this time not in line with permanent
future development
Conceding that the city probably has
not the right to order the removal of
Il the company's main line OH Broad
Street Mr. Pollock called attention to
the insufficient accommodations at Elba
station. to the blocking OF Grace Street.
Broad Street. Pine Street Laurel street
and other thoroughfares by long trains
standing on the curve at Elba, ana 10
the general nuisance of the shifting In
md out OF the freight yards now To-
Gated on the southern side OF Broad
street He thought IL would greatly
aid the development OF that street ana
TO large extent relieve the situation,
without at the same time working any
hardship on the company. II Elba sta
ton could be moved to some point on
tho north side OF Broad Street west
r,f Harrison. where trains could stop
on the company's right of way, with
nut blocking any streets. Then. IL the
long siding in Broad Street now used
BY Ashland trains were removed, and
all shifting and freight loading. and
unloading kept north OF Broad, the
question OF the entire removal OF the
main line OF the railroad from both
Broad and Belvidere Streets might
await a final decision on hew station
plans.
Inadequate and UnSntisfactory.
Mr.. Braxton said that he did not
concede the right OF the city to order
tho removal OF tho tracks now in
Broad Street. but that the company
was disposed TO meet the city half
wev. AS a. matter OF fact. ne con-
tinued the present arrangement is
very Inadequate and unsatisfactory to
the company itself. and from purely
question OF legal rights that may be
involved. needs to be improved. The
committee. he said. could have no idea
Of the Inconvenience to the company
of Attempting to do business with fre
uuent and very long trains on the
single curving track at Elba station
the long, single track connection
through Richmond to some extent
multiplying the advantages of double
tracking the road
The matter was not a new one to
tho railroad company. said President
White. All adequate Richmond passen-
ger terminal having been one Of the
most important questions taken up
since he became connected with the
company six years ago.
Growth Is Westward.
Coming to Richmond as an outsider,
Mr.. White said he had beens perhaps
more impressed with the rapid growth
of The city In the past six years than
those constantly associated with 1t.
Each year he had seen the centre of
population move westward more than
block. Now the great ma ajority OF
the population lives west of First
Street With the viaduct connecting
Church Till 1t is now more convenient
for people from that section to come
TO Blba Station than to Byrd Street.
Tn fact. the railroad which few
years ago opened Elba as a mere way
station---a stap OF moment--now
sells more tickets there than 1t does at
the Byrd Street Station. A very large
majority Of passengers going North
hoard trains there from preference.
mfr. White did not consider IL either
practicable or desirable for either his
road or the Atlantic Coast Line to at
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