The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-25
EXPECTS SOLUTION
OF BRIDGE PUZZLE
Committee Promises Definite Re
port on Northern Approach
at Early Date.
WAITING NOW ON SOUTHERN
Road Is Asked to Name Its Price
for Fourteenth Street
Property.

! The adoption OF a definite plan for
opening northern approach to tho
Mayo Bridge Is promised within The
next few days BY the subcommittee OF
the Council Committee on Streets
which met At Fifteenth ana Main
streets yesterday afternoon ana went
over inc several proposed routes. The
I ch'et delay at present IL caused by
the Southern Railway, which has so
iar submitted no definite statement of
me terms upon which It VIII part with
me strip Of property the citv win need
All tie widening OF Fourteenth Street
attorneys for the Southern RniIwn> -.
were notified yesterday by Ihni,,un, >,
MoiSHn X. Mills, OF the subcoinmIft,.n
.iat me committee viii hold another
meeting at o'clock tomorrow nrt..,
noon Ion the express putpos, Of Ln,r
ms the railroads. proposition Wr
NILS was told that the local Office
.hc Committcc's desires to hcadurI,r
,sih washington. and tina, rcplGsun-
aa'ivos oi the southern VIII be on hand
At to-tuorroWs meeting
- TWO Rival ApprOnch Pinps
| me committee has before II now
Two plans for the solution OF the bridge
schemes proposed since tho bridge an'
ntonch puzzle was attacked by tho
Councli more than Il year ago ~, 80
now before the committee alone hnve
survived objections. ana ono or tSo ny n,,
or VII IN all probability he chosen.
~ engineer BollinGs plan and the
III "hIch appears to stand strongest
Win the committee, proposes an Ugh
ty-ioot thorouGhfarc TO Dock street
70 be secured BY the widening OF iSir
tcenth street, to be contlnund to ia
bridge By widening Dock street h..
tween Fifteenth and Fourteenth Streets.
! anu widening Fourteenth stree, fr.t,
| Dock street To the bridge
Inc rival plan is urged by a svndi-
cafe OF real estate men who propose
TO open "A direct sixty root th6ro,i.gh-
iate ny widening Fourteenth street
from Main street 10 the bridge As
an auNsi4ry thoroughfarc tho plan
pror.oes Tor the opening OF new
snort street between Fourteenth and
J Fifteenth Streets, extending, from Main
TO Cary Streets
Committee members decline To dis
advance OF the orcr OF tito Souihorn
i ,y' The Fourteenth street route
nf9uires the acquisition Of consider
an!N more property from the southern
| IMAM Is demanded by tho boiling plan.
ana The price at which the property
may be had VIII have ain innnrt,n,
bearing on tho com,ni,t,".s dnc.s ~.
Tho subcommittee Is conDosod Of
Council Imam Mills. chairman: Council
man Moore and Alderman Guust
Mills for Boiling PInn.
the Fifteenth street plan OF Mr. Boi :
llnE,' said Chairman Mills Yesterday
at appeals TO me for several reasons.
The Southern Railway has already an
nouhCed lts purpose TO build large
ireisht houses on IL Fourteenth street
property. The traffic 1T thcs. freight
warehouses viii always be heavy ana
viii terd 10 keep Fourteenth street IL.
i contested condition.
Wh2i we arr after IS an outlet for
IL" bridge traffic. Fourteenth street.
even If 1t should be w!dened. VIII al
ways be too crowded for comfort Tho
Fifteenth street route. moreover. viii
lead directly to the Scaboard Air Line
freight depot ana the lower mnnufac.
turing district and will NJ the same
time be in direct line with The pro-
posed roadway that Is planned for
Shockoc Valley. Until | am convinced
that tho other plan Is better or more
economical. SHALL support the FIJI
tc"nth street route. Tho Ideal sulu-
tion. of course. would b. 10 widen both
fcurtccnth ana Fifteenth Streets"
The committee was accompanied on
It's inspection tour yesterday afternoon
by a large crowd OF Interested citizens.
K, . Lambert, OF South Richmond. was
present a. the representative OF the
real estate syndicate that holds tho
options on tie Fourteenth street prop
crty, which would have 10 BE- acquired
in the event the second plan is adopt
ed. city Engineer Boiling Was one OF
the official party.