The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-14
VOTES TO RELIEVE
NEW RAILWAY LINE
Street. Committee Reports Ordi-
nance Abolislling Transfers on
Seven Pines Road.
CONDITION is BURDENSOME
Will Put New Rappahannock
Railroad on Par With Chesa-
pcakc Bay Line.

The Council Committee on Streets
voted yesterday afternoon to recon-
mend TO the Board of Aldermen for
passage the ordinance relieving the
Kichmond aud Happahannocll River
Hallway Company from the OBLIGATION
OF giving and hor"riug transfers to
and from its Seven pincs line Alder
man Powers sought a short postpone
mcnt Of action to permit residents
along the Seven FINES route another
opportunity to express their views on
the proposed change, but the commit
tee voted for an immediate recon-
mcHdation.
The Rappahannock Company's pres
ent franchise requires il to accept
transfers from the city lines good for
passage over the Seven Pines line TO
the corporate limits. or to any future
extension OF the limits Under the
pending annexation plan the corpo-
rate line would bc moved 900 feet
further along the Seven Pines route
extending the free transfer zone an.
proximatcly half u mile
Attorney Thomas T. BRYAN. present
tnG the petition of the Happahannoc,i
Company, asking for relief from the
transfer obligation, pointed out that
residents along the Seven Pines line
beyond the city limits would in no way
suffer from the change. There is az
porate limits and the terminus at
Twenty and T. Streets-three
blocks away-and II is used by only
a negligible percentage Of the passen-
gers. The effect OF the proposed or
dinance. he said. would he TO abolish
stop No !. and the few patrons in tho
habit OF using this stop would he ac-
commodated ut the nearby terminus
LESLIE T.. WATSON
LEADS OPPOSITION
The ordinance was opposed by Les
lie r. Watson. who thought that the
company should be made to live up to
its agreement to issue transfers from
any point on its line within the city
limits. To relieve the company from
It's transfer obligations would. he said
he unfair to residents on the urban
portion OF the Seven Fines line, who
would he Disseminated against AS COM
pared with the residents along the car
lines In Highland Park. Westhampton
and other suburbs, which enjoy free
transfers TO every part Of the city.
petition, prepared by his wife. was
presented to the committee by MIR. Wat
son, which pictured In an effective man
ncr the hardshipS that Il Withdrawal OF
free transfers would impose upon girls
and women employed uptown, who de-
pend upon tho cars to take them TO and
tanned an imputation that the Virginia
Hallway and Power Company was not
without interest in the proposed
change.
Captain Alex. r. GuiEon. who was
present in the interest Of another mat
ter, arose immediately after the petit
ton was read, to reply sharply to the
insinuation that the Virginia Hallway
and Power Company WAS interested in
the ordinance under discussion. The
suggestion that there was collision be-
tween the two companies. he said. was
unworthy. and could only he charac-
terized as untrue The fact that !, was
made by a woman, he said, forbade him
from employing harsher designation.
ASK RtI.IEF FROM
nURDENsOMI; SITUATION
Mr.. Bryan made a plea for relief
from a situation that was burdenso,nc.
and which brought no benefit TO resi-
dents dependent upon the Seven Pines
lines for transportation. The company.
he said, is at present carrying ali
passengers free from Twenty ninth and
I Streets To the corporate limits, pre-
ferrinG to do this rather than under
take the additional burden OF issuing
and receiving transfers for the short
distance of five or SIX blocks. The
It's owners about 500 n month. and
with the additional hardship OF free
transfers to Tho proposed new corpo-
rate limit would show net annual
operating loss OF more than $4,000
a year.
the ordinance be recommended to the
Board Of Aldermen for passage. Alder
man Powers thought II would be un-
fair to the residents along the Seven
Pines line to railroad the measure
through without hearing further from
them the proposal to withdraw
transfers. and suggested that another
opportunity be given them 10 appear
before tho committee. MIR. Wonder
lchrs motion was put and was adopted.
Alderman Powers alone declining to
vote.
The committee rocomm ended unani-
rnously an ordinance extending nine
months the time limit within which the
Virginia Railway and Power Company
is to complete the extension of its West
Broad street line to Roseneath Road.
The extension WAS to have been com
plctcd Ivy September II of this year.