The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-27
BRIDGE APPROACHES
MUCH DISCUSSED
STREET COMMITTEE HEARs auES.
ton THhEsHED otT NEARLY
THREE HOURS.
COMP RATlVE C OSTS
PROPERTY OWNERS ON rIF-rEENTH
AND FOURTEENTH STREETS PRE-.
SENT MERITS OF THEIR RE-
sPECTfvE PROPOSALS.
COMPARATIVE COSTS

The street committee consumed two
hours and half yesterday evening in
nearing parties interested in the
widening of Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, as approaches to Mayo bridge.
Ills Is an old question with Council
and with the street committee. ana
has been discussed time and tina
a gaih' outr OWN TO the reorganiza-
''oh OF the ST. Get committee under
the new conncilmanic administration.
the present committee must 20 over
the ground again.
Fun time was given the reuresanf
atiVes or he several interests These
representatives have heretofore adj
dressed the GO mmittee, but they each
yesterday spo'e for nearly an hour
representing property owners on
FIFTEENTH Street. between Main and
Cary and on to Dock Street, Captain
Leroy Brown, of the real estate agency
or j. Thompson Brown Il Co. dis
cussed the feasibility and the desir-
ability of widening Fifteenth Street to
the width of eighty feet
Ready to Give Away"
he stated that those he represented
stood ready to give the property
siss.sl3. He pointed out that 1t
would be vastly TO the interests of the
city TO Improve that street. rather
than Fourteenth Street. as the tax
able values now on the Fourteenth
street property were about fixed while
! those on Fifteenth Street were just
beginning. With the Fifteenth Street
improvements, Dock Street from
Fourteenth would have to be improved
also.
Captain Brown said that on last
Thursday he engaged a man to stand
all day at the corner of Main and
Fourteenth streets. and another at the
corner OF Main and Fifteenth Streets,
TO count the vehicles passing through
those streets into Main and to Cary.
and he found that 2.70e vehicles pass
ed through Fifteenth Street, while
only 1.20T passed through Fourteenth
Street
And il was not very good day
for vehicles, either" commented Cap-g
tain Brown.
This goes to show that Fifteenth
Street Is chosen by drivers, rather than
Fourteenth Street, and that is the
street to be improved by the city. for
eventually it will go through into
Shockoe Valley and on over the pro-
posed boulevard said Captain
Brown.
He gave figures bearing out his to-
tai as to the price for which the prop
erty can be secured by the city. and
urged the committee to faithfully
consider the proposition both from an
economical as well as logical stand-4
point.
FAvOrs Fourteenth Street
| Following Captain Brown. the ques-
ton was taken up by g. w. Lambert.
well-known contractor and pro-
moter. who had spent much time In
| figuring out the best way to widen
the only one which the city should
think for moment of making the
proper approach to Mayo Bridge.
He stated that he represented peo-
Pile along Fourteenth Street between
Main and Cary. who would let their
property go to the city for the fIn-3
Iprovements at $265. 900. which improve
ments included all street grading ana
curbing and the construction OF
concrete bridge sixty feet wide over
! The dock at the Southern freight of
| tices.
/ He pointed out that the city ap-
/ pra,sers hal figured that the property
! mentioned was worth $4s0.61S on
Fourteenth Street. and that on Ftf-
! teenth worth 32l6.565.
Since Captain Brown oners the
Fifteenth Street property at $1S4,413.
ga Id Mr. Lambert, after 1t had been
! appraised at a greater figure, and the
/ Fourteenth Street property can be ha6
for about half OF what II was ap-s
/ praised at, We feel that we have ~
| least done the city some good, II -
do not help ourselves
Mr.. Lambert explained that hini-
self and associates had secured ops
tions on the propert, and stood ready
to turn 1t over to the city. all told
at the low figures mentioned.
| Cther citizens desiring to speak on
the question, Mr.. Fuller moved that
the committee adjourn to meet on
Wednesday, November 4. at o'clock
to further discuss the matter.