The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-09
WANT HULL STREET CARS
IN BROAD Street LOOP
Council subcommittee to Hear All
Interested Parties This
Afternoon.
WORKMAN SUGGESTS NEW PLAN
Would Have Alternating Service
Over Free and Mayo Bridge. Con-
Meeting Hull and Forest Hill Lines.
Preparing for Conventions.

The proposal to rcroutc the Hull
Street cars AROUND a loop which shall
touch Broad street, or to change. In
some other manner the present plan,
which makes Fourteenth and Main
Streets the terminus of the Hull Street
llne.. will engross the attention of a
special subcommittee from the Com
mittee on Streets. which will meet TO
take up the matter at o'clock this
Since tho proposition was first
preached by Alderman Powers more
than month ago. the plan for a change
from the present arrangement has re-
ceived wide discussion. Southside citi-
zens have become deeply Interested.
since they. more than other residents
fearrange
The subcommittee held It's first meet
ing last Thursday, defcrring final re-
CONNIE ndat!on In the matter until after
to-day's hearing. Besides tho members
OF the subcommittee-Alder Powers
and Councilman Moore and liaddon-
representatives OF the Virginia Railway
and Power Company, as well as City
Attorney Pollard, Will be in attendance.
OBJECTIONS ARE PRESENTED
TO PLANS FOR LOOP SERVICE
Objections TO the loop plan were Of
fered at the last meeting by I; !.
MaS and Pewsr cempany nnd neis
cation of merchants whose places or
business are located on East Main
teenth MIR. Moore thought that the
plan to route all the Fourteenth Street
cars around a loop, which would run
partly through Broad Street, would be
impracticable. since It would further
congcst Broad Street traffic.
The objection OF the Main Street mer-
proposed loop would orrer no net relief
10 congestion In Fourteenth Street.
They were opposed, moreover. TO rclin-
gushing the business advantages ac-
tecnth and Main Streets.
Alderman elect w. W. Workman. OF
appears to meet with moro favor. 1t
provides that every other Hull Street
car run through Seventh Street. South
Richmond. across the Free Bridge. and
up to Seventh and Broad Streets. the
present terminus OF the Forest Hill
line. and thatN every other Forest Hill
Ont terminus OF the Hull Street line.
ALTERNATING SERVICE
HAS MANY SUPPORTERS
Such an arrangement. IL Is point cd
out. would not impair the valuo or
Fourteenth and Main Streets as a
formerly would operate to this point
as a terminus. On the other hand, the
arrangement would meet the chief com
plant OF the Southsidc. that residents
along the Hull street line are unable,
under present conditions. TO reach For
est Hill. except at the expense of a
in the case OF residents on the Fores,
IIill line, who desire 10 reach point
on the Hull Street line
The subcommittee will at its meeting
to-day hear testimony from all citizens
interested I'm the adjustment of the
street car traffic Mt Fourteenth and
Main Streets. and Will decide upon a
definite recommendation to the general
committee.
The Committee on Advertising and
Enterprises will meet at o'clock to-
night to consider several important
pending matters. Among other things
that Will cngross this committees at
tention are requests for convention APP
propriationa from the State Pharma ecu
teal Association and the Southern Med
ical Association. The first named body
Will hold It's annual meeting In Rich :
mond September 1917, and the last
named organization will meet here the
second week in November.
ENTERTAINMENT OF
DIG BANKERS CONVENTION
Ii Is probable that|the committee will
take up tonight the question OF as
sisting In the entertainment of tho
bankers, who will meet in Richmond
next October to attend the annual con-
vcntion of tho American Bankers AS
ISOLATION.
An invitation has been extended the
Association for the Preservation OF Vir-
ginia Antiquities TO appear before the
committee tonight and confer with 4,
about historic sites and buildings tina,
are TO be marked under an ordinance
appropriating $1,000 for this purpose