The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-30
.POsTPONEs FIGHT ON
RAILROAD CROSSINGS
Stree Committee Tables Resolution
Aimed at Grade Tracks on
Broad Street.
FULLER FOR DISAPPOINTMENT
Patron Declares Belief That Finan-
cial Stringency Now Facing Rail-
roads Renders Pressure Mt This
Time Unwise.

Holding the time TO be altogether
inopportune for forcing the railroad
companies TO make any considerable
outlay. the Council Committee on
Streets last night, by unanimous
vote. tabled indefinitely Alderman Pull
lcr's resolution directing the recon
struction of the railroad tracks on
Broad and Belvidere Streets so as to
eliminate all crossings mt grade
me action was tnken at the earnest
recommendation of Alderman Fuller,
patron of the measure. There was no
intention on his part. he said. to give
up the fight. AZ the proper time, when
the present financial stringcncy is
past lie said, he will again press his
campaign for tho adoption of the rcso-
luton
II intend TO fight for the removal OF
the grade crossings on Broad Street
and on Belvidere street. said Mr.
Fuller. until the Couficil either adopt s
or rejects the resolution 7 have intro
duced in this committee The tracks
do not belong there, and their pres
euce Is Il menace.
COULD NOT FORESEE
ECONOMIC DISTURBANCES
when this resolution was intro
duced no one could have foreseen the
events which were to follow. The
TaliVoauS IaCe financial StrlnPenCN,
and conditions generally are in state
of disturbance. feel, therefore, that
II would not be wise to press the meas
urc at this time. If il meets the views
Of the other members of the committee
therefore, 1t will suit me. as patron
OF the resolution. If the committee
postpones action on this measure un-
til conditions improve.
II desire to make the statement that
have arrived Mt this conclusion with
out consulting any railroad man or
any person in any way connected with
the railroads affected. act Of my
own volition after careful study OF
the financial situation"
MIR. Fuller addressed the foregoing to
the committee purely as u statement
of his opinion. and declined to offer
any motion. Councilman English
moved that the resolution be laid on
the table with the understanding that
the committee will call II up for action
ut Il more propitious time. and the
motion was adopted unanimously.
The proceedings were witnessed by
President William II. White. OF the
Richmond. Fredericksburg and Poto-
mae Railroad Company: Vice President
ton, Of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road; Eppa Hinton. Jr.. and Jordan
Leake. OF the counsel for the Rich
mond. fredericksburg and Potomac,
ana w. -. Duke. assistant to IrcSi-
dent White. None of the railroad men
addressed the committee.
IMPROVEMENTS INVOLVE
COSTLY CONSTRUCTION
The resolution i'm question declared
the presence of grade crossings on
West Broad and Belvidere Streets to
be an obstruction to traffic and a
menace to life and limb. and directed
their elimination. The removal OF the
crossings could only have been. ac-
complished through expensive under
ground or overhead construction
neither of which would have been
feasible.
solution Of the problem could also
he reached through the construction of
new passenger station in the West
t.nd to which could be diverted The
passenger traffic now carried over .hv
BROAD and Rclvidere Street tracks to
the Elbn and Byrd Street Stations.
Such station was promised by the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
and Atlantic Coast Line Railroads wien
the Council was engaged more than
Il "c:,r ago In an inquiry into the
union station question. The joint sta
ton proposed by the two roads was
TO have been erected at a cost Of about
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