The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-24
Peters. PLAA|.FOR WARD
LINES is ARP QvED

1 !
All Northern Suburbs Are Made
Part Of Lee Ward-Clay =
Ward Kept Intact. ~
NO CHANGE IN REPRESENTATION
Close Estimates Give Richmond on
November s, Official Day of AM
nexation, Population of 155,TO8.
|, No Increase in Size OF Council.
By n, unanimous vote the special
Council Committee on Redistricting
last night adopted a plan presented by
President r. Lee Peters. of the Common
Council. dividing the city. as it will be
|enlargediby annexation, Unto four wards
EACH of approximately the same popu-
lation. The lines of the new wards
met with the approval of every mem
Der of the committee, and che plan will
be recommended to tho Council for
A resolution which became law yes
terdaS with the signature of the Mayor
enlarged the powers o the RedistrictinE
Committee by directing 1t to report
with the new ward plan q supple
mentary plan dividing the new, wards
into election precincts, authorizing it
to create now precincts If 1t was fonnd
necessary to do so.
At the suggestion of Alderman Chris
tfan. the committee adopted q motion
appointing the ward members, who
are members of the committee, subcom-
mittces to confer with their ward col
leagues and submit recommendations
for the creation of new precincts and
the location of voting places. These
reports will be submitted to the Rcdis-
tricting Committee mt. u meeting, to be
held at s o'clock on the evening OF
November 10. Tho committee will then
pass upon the reports and recommend n
Joint ward and precinct redistricting
plan to the Council for passage.
NORTHERN SUBURBS
ALL IN LEE WARD
The plan. approved last night gives
Lee Ward all the northwestern Sec
ton of the enlarged city, north of the
centre lines of Patterson Avenue.
Park Avenue and Main Street. between
the western and northern corporation
lines and tho eastern boundary of the
ward, which will he North First Street
Hospital Street and the Chesapeake and
Ohio tracks to the city limits.
Territorially. Lee Ward Will be by
far the largest of the four. 1t will
embrace all the northern suburbs which
VIII become part of the city on No
vember 5. including Barton Heights,
Highland Park, Ginter Park and North
Richmond. So constituted the ward will
nave population of 3S,oSS. The only
Internal change from the present ward
lines VIII be the shifting of the east
ern boundary north of Main Street from
the centre line of Third Street, two
blocks. TO the centre line of First
Street.
the present city limits are concerned,
remains absolutely unchanged. 1t re-
ccives an addition OH the west in the
| form of all new territory south of Pat
terson Avenue. The ward will have a
population of 3S,023.
1.-THE integrity of Clay Ward, like
| that of Belgium, Is preserved" COM
| mented Alderman Ordway Fuller last
| night. after registering his vote in
favor of the rcdistricting plan.
ALL sOUTHsIDE REMAINS
IN MADISON WARD
Madison Ward, as now. is given all
of tho territory south of the river, in
Heights. Iii addition IT Receives the
central portion of the city north of the
river, embraced by South Third Street,
\ Main Street and North First Street
and Bacon Quarter Branch and Hospital
Street on the west and north, and
\ Seventeenth Street to the river on the
| east.
The only changes from the present
lines north of the river will he the
| shifting of the eastern boundary from
Eighteenth to Seventeenth Street, and
| the shifting of the western bounda Ey
north of Main Street, from Third to
First Street. The new ward will have
population of 3S.62S.
The rest OF the city is assigned TO
Jefferson Ward. The sole change in
Son Ward is formed BY, Eighteenth
| the northern corporation line. The new
plan shifts the western boundary to
Seyenteenth Street and the Chesapeake
and Ohio line to the northern limits.
giving the ward considerable new terri
/ tory In the northwest. Otherwise. JEFF
ferSon Ward is changed only by the
addition Of the territory embraced be-
tween it's present boundary and the
| new annexation line.
jefferson Ward will have a popula-
ton of 4o;967, and will be numerically
| the largest ward in the city. The ward
was purposely given the largest popu-
lation TO allow for it's slower rate of
Growth ahcs~ u,a as compared with the other
MUCH residential territory. which will,
In the next few years, be developed and
| settled.
| DOES NOT DISTURB
REPRESENTATION IN COUNCIL
The new ward plan in no way dis
turDs the present representation in the
City Council. The balance OF popula :
tion Is preserved, and no member is
! thrown into II new ward. This circum-
stance, 1t is agreed, will go long
way towards. securing for the plan
favorable action by The Council.
| According to the mdpmakers, the
city will, upon annexation. on Novem
Der D. have population of 155,7O6
! me new plan, as required by law
divides this population into tho four
| wards, so that no one ward will have
] as many as 5000 inhabitants more
/ than any other.
ThrouChOut tho redict riot;,,o ,,o,;1
erations the committee was unanimous
on one point, namely, that the four
ward plan must be retained. An in
crease in the number of wards would
have meant m AUTOMATIC lncrnn Go L.,