Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-24
FRANCHISE LAID OVER
TO JANUARY MEETING
Street Committee Awaits More Com.
plcte Information, and Invites
Public Co-Operation.
COMPILING Existing GRANTS
Laurel Street Citizens Want Tracks
Removed From Broad to Main,
Complaining Of Noise and Dust.
Want Scent Fares to Lakeside.

| W oAS oSSCht EaTCS W LNhcSkuS.
No work on tho Virginia Railway and
Power Company's application for new
blanket franchise will be done by tho
Committee on Streets this year. The
committee voted yesterday afternoon to
lay tho companys. petition on the table
until tho fret meeting In January. OF
which time It will name q date for nh
initial public hearing. 1t will meet
IN regular session for tho first time
next year, on January. IL.
was the understanding at the
meeting OF the committee two weeks
ago that date for q public hearing
would be fixed at yesterdays meeting.
mo virginia Railway and Power Com
pany had undertaken to supply to all
inc members reprints of the franchises
under which II Is now operating, but
~ reported to the committee yesterday
that the work of compiling these In
n 5na,,, was still incom2lete. Tho
members preferred to have a,csc docu-
'nents before them before deciding
upon date for n hearing.
COMPILING RECORD
OF EXISTING GRANTS
Vico-President and General Counsel
Henry w. Anderson, of, the street rail-
way company. told the committee that
nc company was making every effort
70 prepare comprehensive conpilnt ton
OF the numerous grants under which,
IL 10 now doing business. and that IL
would be ready for distribution within
ten days. The companys rccords~-on
this subject. he said. f1ll ten volumes,
and tho work. OF selecting from this
mass OF material the matter that ~
pertinent to tho pending franchise pc
titlon has proven to be an ambitious
TASK. The abstracts which will be pre-
sented to the committee, he said, will
MI volume OF 300 pages
In addition TO the reprints of tho
franchises and grants. said Mr. Ander-
son. tho company lis preparing a his
torical sketch OF the street RAILWAY
systems in this city. dating from 1860.
fhe history. he thought, Illustrated
with drawings and maps. will materi-
ally AID the Council I'm the consid err
alton OF the present probicm.
MONROE PARK PEOPLE
WANT TRACKS REMOVED
Residents and property owners n,
me Monroe Park neighborhood pre-
scented petition asking that Mn re-
routing the present street car system,
provision be made for the removal OF
me tracks on Laurel Street. between
Broad and Main
The petition sets forth that the street
railway company has suggested plan
tor consolidating the Laurel and First
street tracks between Broad and Main
2streete. with the idea OF dispensing
WIN The tracks on ono OF the north
and south streets named In tho rear
rangcment suggested By the power
company. the tracks on First Street
are eliminated. and the Laurel Street.
line between Broad md Main is LEFT
unchanged.
II is the desire OF the signors OF the
petition that the First Street tracks he
retained and the laurel Street lin. he
|elimfnated- About fifty of the best
kno wn names in the Monroe Park sec,
tion OF the city are. signed 10 The petit
ton. The paper. in part. reads:
NOISE AND DUST OF
CARS VERY OBJECTIONABLE
Ihe injury done to this portion of
Laurel Street by the car line Is Sc
r!ous. by reason of the great noise OF
moving cars. the dust with which the
lstrect Ia enveloped. the obstruction to
traffic. particularly at the crossings at
4Grace and Franklin Streets and at park
and Floyd Avenues, and the furth,r Sc
| rious obstruction OF Laurel Street be-
| tween Broad and Franklin Streets. duo
70 the narrowness of the street and
the necessary width OF the stree; car
tracks.
THE conditions are such as to cause
this particular part OF Laurel Street
| to be practically impossible during the
fuse thereof by :hc street cars TO say
nothing OF ithe irpossibilty of the use
Rof the street for necessary delivery
purposes and the danger TO persons
lcrossing the street, particularly that to
] babes and children going 20 and from
Monroe Park"
WANTS 6-CENT FARE
ON LAKESIDE LINE
J.. D. Lacy. resident OF Laburnum,
pctitioned the committee. In drafting
' any new franchise. to insert n provision
requiring 5-cent fare on the Lakeside
= line to NIL points within the new city
limits. with the privilege OF transfers
land six-for-a-quarter tickets Tho
scompany, he informed the committee.
o. still collects another fare at the limit
{ OF the old scent zone as 1t existed be-
! fore annexation. although this limit is
! now we'll within the new corporation
- line.
Councilman English offered resolu-
stion inviting BIZ name several leading
commercial and labor organizations,
: and other organizations OF similar
! character. to Cooperate actively with
the committee in considering the fran
Echise application and dcvis,ng an
Equitable solution of the problem He
fnccepted substitute offered by Alder
| man Fuller extending such an invita-
! tion to all organizations and citizens
without designating any one by name.
/ The substitute resolution was carried
unanimously.
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