The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-20

position TO any car line in the district.
and protested against the DISSERTATION
OF the Stuart Monument by having it
surrounded by cars, poles and wires
Ben August Breaks His Ituie.
city Clerk Ben r. August, breaking a
rule of thirty years ia regard to advo-
cacy or opposition OF matters pending
before the Council. spoke In strong on
position, saying that IL car line reach
Ing no new territory, but simply seek
ing to divide the patronage In order
that some men might mako few dol
lars by the free use of the public
streets, WAS reaching it's ends by de-
stroEinE the peace OF homes, by cir
cling the monument to General j. r
Il. Stuart with poles and wires marring
The appearance of Monument Avenue,
disturbing the churches at their wor-
ship. the sick in the hospitals and tho
children in the schooIrooms seeking TO
pass by three public Fairgrounds used
by tho smallest children, and deprcci-
ating the value OF homes purchase
with the savings of a lifetime simply
because the promoters of street car
line want to make some more money
People Stand Together.
Mr.. iiundley. of Hanover Avenue,
told OF the fight made three years ago
when the Virginia Railway and Power
Company sought to come up that thor
oughfare, and said that the people of
posed to any car line In Lee District.
They didn't want ii on their ncighbors'
streets. as had been asserted-in fact.
they did not want il at all. But if
the Council was determined to grant
a franchise for line in this section
he would favor going back to the offer
Of the Virginia Railway and Power
Company of three years ago and Civ
ing the concession to the company
which had given service to the whole
n fri Nl-l,i rI, oh
citation OF the desires OF tho citizens
by Withdrawing it's former application.
l. II. Jenkins opposed all additional
street car tracks crossing Monument
Avenue. calling attention To the CON
slant danger OF motor car accidents at
Harrison and Robinson Streets at
present. Not a word was said in ad-
vocacy of the proposed Stuart Avenue
line.
West of tho Boulevard.
j. Kent Rawley appeared for proper
ty-owners in Lee Annex. advocating
the petition of the Virginia Railway
and Power Company for a line out
Broad Street to the Roscncath Road,
with n branch line along west of Shep-
pard street across to Cary. bisectinE
the entire district west or the Bcule-
ward. There had been no western en-
tension OF street car service, he point
ed out, since the Robinson Street line
was built sixteen years ago He was
not particular as TO which company
built this line. but wanted car service
for a section not now served High
Constable William II. Wyatt favored
the Virginia Railway and Power Com
pany's plan for All extension west of
the Boulevard and on the call of Chair
man Fuller for the opposition, no voice
was heard.
The Fulton Hill Extension.
Pcaple of Fulton Hill are evidently
ri flaafl
for a line to the National Cemetery,
which the Richmond and Henrico Com
pany promised Alderman Nielsen to
build, the promise having, IT is stated,
been given with bond as n condition
of securing his vote for the recent
light and power franchise.
Former Councilman CARRIER appeared
in opposition to the Louisiana Street
route. substituted by the company for
Its original plan at the suggestion or
request of Alderman Nelson. of the
committee. Mr.. O'Conner favored tho
original plan OF the railway engineers
for a car line UP the ravine TO Gill
liam Street He did not see why the
city was spending $4,000 in i,nprov.
ing two blocks that only colored people
live on. merely to open up the way for
tie Nelson route. and claimed to have
petition from eve.y resident of Full
ton Hill for the original route.
City Engineer Boiling. answering
proposed or objected TO any route. save
to double track in ] louisiana Street,
where the roadway is too marrow for
tao tracks Mr. Leonard. a siyner Of
the petition was nov OF opinion that
the CARRIER route served larger num-
Der of people. Henry CARRIER. who had
prepared maps for the williamsburg
Avenue route, claimed that it put ev-
cry one in four blocks of a car line.
Must Build It Their Way.
\ large delegation OF men. women
and children from the neighborhood
OF the National Cemetery in the coun-
~. were utterly Indifferent as to the
way the cars went up Fulton HILL They
wanted car line and all routes lead
ent said that General Manager Bailey,
of tho Richmond and Henrico Company,
had stated that unless allowed to go
the way now planncd--the Nielsen
route--his company will not build at
all Walking is bad in their section
they ire mile and a half from the car
line-and irrespective of the property
CARRIER. they hoped the committee
would give the company Whatever 1t
wanted. so long as it would build the
line--they were in favor OF any route
the company would build
Mr.. Hodges, member OF the City
democratic Committee said that no
ono believed that Fulton Hill line
would be 81 paying proposition--that
everybody knew how and why the
company was being forced to build it.
He did not blame either Mr.. Nelson or
Mr.. CARRIER for wanting the best end
of it, but the people needed the street
car service. ana the line up Louisiana
Street was the most direct. and would
not hurt anybody. "If they say sthey
won't run 1t any other way, then for
Heavens sake let them run it there"
he concluded
BIg Crowd at City Hall.
Between the delegations from the
East End demanding car service at any
price, and from the West End prepared
to resist the multiplication of tracks
to the last ditch, the City Hall was
crowded as 1T has not been in years,
people packing the corridors, siaircases
and anterooms. some Of those who Fame
To L Mt hat, So