The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-26


of of streets.
a petition from mass meeting of
the citizens OF Forest Hill. Oak Grove.
Swansboro and Woodland Heights was
read Mayor w. L. Ragland, of Barton
Heights. said that suburb had been
waiting for more than n year. having
applied for admission last March. DR..
X. w. Miller, OF tho Barton Heights
Citizens Association, said that when
Barton Heights asked for annexation
In 1906. about so per cent favored It:
now ruby 80 per cent arc in favor.
Barton Heights wanted to Join In a
sunera, movement to make Richmond a
city of moro than 100000 before tho
next census. S. p. Jones suggested
that II Richmond didn't move promptly.
Barton Heights would undertake to an
mex both Richmond and Gntcr Park.
A petition from tho property owners of
Scotts Addition was read
Gfnter Parks Attitude.
John Garland Pollard. Mayor OF Gin
ter Park, said he was not authorized
TO speak for his community. tho new
township not having yet considered tho
matter. but tho mere invisible line or
separation did not make the people of
Glnter Park any less Richmonders and
he believed they would unanimously
1cauiesce in any proposition for the
good OF the whole community Irving
Il. Campbell appeared for Chamber
layne Court Chamberlayne Place.
Highland Park Addition and Gintcr
Park Terrace, stating that the corpo-
i"tions promoting these subdivisions
were all favorable to immediate annex
alton. Augustine Royal spoke for
Swansboro. Oak Grove. Woodland
Heights and Forest. Hill. telling of a
largely attended mass meeting. where
annexation was petitioned by a unan-
imous vote.
His faith in Richmond evidenced in
the consolidation fight had been yeri-
having fulfilled every pledge to the
Southside and made II a happy. pros
porous and contcndcd people
Pulliam nnd Blair Oppose.
David l. Pulliam opened for the op-
position, speaking AS a resident OF
Forest Hill. EIe presented petition
against annexation, signed by Police
Justice John ]. Crutchheld and about
thirty other property owners of Forest
Hill II Richmond would agree 10
classify the section into city property,
suburban property. and agricultural
property. and lay the taxes according
~, he would not oppose annexation
but he did not believe in taking In
negro sections and taking the taxes
paid by highly developed sections and
dump It down there"
y. Beirne Blair. a former member of
the Board of Aldermen, cheerfully &C.
copied responsibility for the restricted
lines of 1896. The city, he said was
nearing danger point IL was not
able TO pave Broad Street and provide
proper schools for lack OF money. He
would look after Richmond first be-
fore paying off the debt of Barton
xtfr.l. Ill.
gotten used he said. to the criticism
heaped on him because OF the lines
adopted in 1906, which the papers de-
Scribed ''shoestring." and said he
had rthrottled" Richmond's growth
He preferred annexation by degrees. as
ii could be digested, and told of having
been stuck IN the mud In his motor
car within the corporate limits. Mr.
Easley called attention to the fact
that the street he mentioned had Just
had sewer laid In It,
Two Cttizens Want Streets Improved.
w. y. Worth. a member Of the Citi-
zens' Association OF Fairmount. said
that many people over there We're sorry
they had been annexed. They needed
school room and had lived Oh promises
The city has paid Fairmounts debt
and rebuilt it's sewers and had finally
given 1t some streets. but the work
was never completed and until 1t was
done. he was opposed to any further
annexation. Mr.. Corley called atten-
ton 10 the fact that the school facili-
ties in Fairmount had been more than
doubled since annexation, n $4,000
wing having been erected to the school
house.
NJ. II. Omohundro. Of tho West End
Citizens League. wanted tho commit
tee 10 go slowly and improve present
territory. He also had been stalled
in his motor car in the city limits on
n cross street west of the Boulevard,
and insisted that the city was not treat
ing the annexed portion OF Clay Ward
fairly.
In reply, Mr.. Anderson said that the
city would never be completed, and
that, a matter of fact, enormous
sums have been spent in sewerage
water mains, and other improvements
in the very section aEiuded to, the Ad-
Board having awarded
contracts within the past two weeks
for more than 100000 of street paw
ing In Clay Ward alone. The trouble
Mr.. Anderson said. was that that sec
ton was not annexed soon enough. If
il had been, the grading could have
been done in advance of building. and
Wider streets would have been laid
out on better lines. and better de-
veiopmcnt would have followed
After asking the Special Accountant
and City Engineer for certain data. the
the chair when an inspection tour
OF the surroundings of the city will
be arranged