The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-09
FAVORS CONDEMNATION
OF E|CHTY-FOOT ROADWAY
Street Committee Takes Action Fa.
ci'itating Widening OF Four
tecnth Street.
no MONEY FOR COUNTY ROAD
proposition of Chamber of Commerce
Tor City Aid in Maintaining Peters
burg Turnpike Promptly Rejected.
Want Loop Car Service.

IN order to facilitate tho pending ne
t"'i'tlonS, between the city and the
southern Railway Company for the
strip of land needed for tho widening
OF Fourteenth street. the Council Com
Hittcc on Streets yesterday afternoon
recommended for passage an ordin,nrc
directing the City Attorney to acouire
through the usual channels sufficient
land to make Fourteenth street eighty
rect wide from the abutment of the
Mayo bridge to the north wall of the
DOCK, and sixty feet wide from tho
Dock to Cary Street
~ proposition cmbodytnC the TRIMS
Ter OF enough of the railroads prop-
crtE to effect this widening, was sun
m'tted 10 the southern Railway Com
nany by tho subcommittee on Mayo
brihEc approach about ten DAYS AFRO
The city proposed that the road decd
the property to the city without cost
In return for certain concessions de-
sired by the Southern Railway. no an
swer from the road has as yet been
received.
The ordinance recommended vcster-
day by the Streets Committee was In
troduccd by Councilman Morgan y
NILS ut tho last meeting of the Conn
mon Council II is designed to place
INC city in position to acccp, the
rniiroads offer without the delay in
cidcnt to the passage of a sr.ci,l ar
dihahcc cmbodying the Southern Rail
ways proposition. No deal will under
any circumstances be final until the
terms or the transfer are approved bv
the Financ" Committee and Council
after the City Attorney has concluded
his negotiations for the propcr,y
PLAN TO AID COUNTY
ROAD Is REJECTED
The committee voted 10 reject "A reso-
luton sent to 1t by the Richmond
Chanber OF Commerce recomnc nding
AN appropriation to aid in the rcpair
and maintenance of part of the Rich
mond -to-Petersburg highway. The
committee was OF the opinion that il
was beyond the city's province to an
propriatc money from the treasury in
the aid of roads outside the city limits
From the Administrative Board was
reported II resolution recommending
that the Council make an appropria
tion OF $4,000 to grade, gravel. curb
ana gutter certain proposed streets
through tho Sheppard tract bounded
by West Street. Eoscncath Road
broad street and Monument Avenue.
Ihe matter OF opening streets through
ms property has been agitated before
the street Committee several times
during the past two years. In each
case tho city and the owners of the
property found II impossible to agree
on terms and plans. The boards reso-
luton yesterday was laid on the
table.
Alderman Powers and Councilmen
Moore and Haddon were appointed on
II subcommittee to confer with the au-
thorities Of the Virginia Railway and
Power Company with tho iden OF se-
curing an adjustment of the street car
traffic across the new bridge and down
Fourteenth Street. The chief com
plant is against the congestion In
Fourteenth Street caused by tho rout-
ing of tho Hull Street cars to Four
tccnth and Main. Alderman Powers
favors some loop arrangement which
will bring the Hull Street cars TO
Broad Street