The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23
WESTERN LINE IS
IN DUTCH AGAIN
Boundary Definition Ties Up
Two-Hour Session of
Committee.
is PLACED TOO FAR WEST
Committee viii Hold Special
Meeting To-Morrow to
Adjust Difficulty.
IS PLACED TOO FAR WEST

me western boundary line OF the
proposed new city limits is in Dutch
again. 1t Is permissible for once to
substitute the termlnolosy of the
marts for tho purcr diction of the
etiquette books. for the line lin Ques-
tioh mas been in Dutch for more than
TWO months. is liable to stay in Dutch
for some time longer and no other
description fits it more aptiy.
Chairman Powers, OF the Annexation
committee, called meeting OF mis-
scptet last night to adjust diinculty
that had arisen about supplying the
Council with suitable maps OF the
amended city, to be considered by that
body in connection with the annexation
ordinance.
When tho committee adjourned at
1880 o'clock. after two hours of de-
bate, the parties to the wrangle agreed
that they had accomplished nothing,
apd that the question OF the western
boundary had better DO left for another
meeting. to be held ut O'Clock to-
morrow afternoon. Zen minutes be-
fore adjourning, the committee took
up the map question and settled IT.
Too Far West Again.
The western boundary. in n manner
most mysterious, and apparently with
out the knowledge or consent Of the
committee, has been shifted a block
too far west The shift was discoy-
cred when the clerk read the minutes
OF the last meeting, and the City Engi-
neer displayed the map amended in
accordance with the same minutes.
Councilman Butler, who was not pres
ent at the last previous meeting, de-
clined last night to express an opinion.
The other four members OF the COM
mittee in attendance refused to recog-
nizc their handiwork in the descrip-
ton OF the line as laid down in the
record.
At the last previous meeting the
owners of Colonial Place asked the
committee to shift the western line,
which had been placed lb0 feet west of
Westmoreland Street. fifty feet and
four inches still farther west, to In
clude all OF Section A OF their de-
velopment To satisfy this request
Councilman Mills moved that the west
ern boundary be placed Approximately
200 feet and four inches west OF West
moreland Avenue. between Cary street
Road and Monument Avenue extended,
and that north of Monument Avenue
the western boundary be placed $50
feet west Of and parallel with the
nearest north and south street through
Monument Avenue Park.
MILLS Motion Recorded.
In the absence OF the regular clerk,
who was in attendance upon the meet
ing of the Union Station Committee.
the acting clerk noted Captain Mills's
motion In his temporary minutes. The
regular clerk, to eliminate any posi-
bility OF mistake, submitted the nota-
ton to the author OF the motion, who
approved 1t. simplifying tho scant notes
with an explicit restatement In this
form II was presented to the committee
last night.
When the matter was reopened a
motion to approve the minutes as read
Jailed OF majority vote. Opposition
TO their approval was led by Council
man Umlauf who held that the Mills
motion he had voted for at the pre-
vious meeting did not contemplate the
shifting of the line In Monument Ave-
nue. Park as far west as II had been
placed. 1t was the intent OF the mo-
lion. he thought, that the line in Mon
ument Avenue Park be placed 100 feet
west OF the nearest inside north and
south street No member OF tho com
mittee was clenr as to the exact Ian
guaSe of Captain Mills's motion, al
though everybody admitted that the
new line as presented by the City En-
gineer was in accordance with the mo-
ton as recorded.
No One Is Blamed.
a parliamentary battle followed in
which various motions TO amend the
Mills motion. to amend the minutes, to
approve the minutes, to reconsider the
line as laid down. and to describe a
new western boundary were made. de-
Dated and ruled out or lost Members
OF the committee finished by exonerat-
ing each other as we'll as the clerk and
acting clerk for any blame In the mud
die. which was admitted to be a gen
eral Misunderstanding all around. and
set tomorrow afternoon to straighten
the matter out.
Councilman Jones proposed that the
committee go at once into the straight
ening out business. since 1t had then
all the information that it would have
tomorrow, but Chairman Powers
thought il advisable to wait for n fuller
attendance
The committee voted to purchase
map from T. Crawford Redd for the
sum of $40, and to mako sixty copies
from it for the use of the members of
the Council. Under the terms OF the
offer made by tho owners OF the copy
right, the reproductions are to be
made at the expense of the committee
without additional payment
r. w. Royal asked the committee TO
amend the line north OF Highland Park
10 include his x-acre tract, and the
owners or hermitage Park asned thar
the boundary be changed to include
all of their development, instead OF
one-third of it, but the committee de-
clined to reconsider the annexation
plan for the purpose OF Incorporating
the desired changes