The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-16
WESTEND TERMINAL
PROJECT IS REVIVED
Alderman Fuller Offers Resolution
to Abolish All Grade Railroad
Crossings In City Limits.
WOULD CLEAR BROAD STREET
Handsome Drawings OF Proposed
Building Were Shown to Council
Last Year, butts It's Construction
Is Now Said TO BE Fading Hone.

The West End station project prom !
is"s again TO come TO the front as :.
council issuc with the Introduction
last night In the Board OF Aldermen,
sby Alderman Ordway Fuller. OF Clay.
Ward of a resolution abolishing all,
grade railroad crossings within tho
corporate limits.
resolution calling for an in
vestieation into the feasibility or
aboiishing all grade crossings was.
of he previous Council for many
months The passage of drastioI
ordinance to this effect was TEN
porarily side-tracked by the union
citation investigation which ended by
the Council approving the plan Of tha
Richmond, Fredericksburg and po-
tonac. and Atlantic Coast Line Rail-.
road Companies to crest at $1,000, 900
'olnt passenger station on the iiermi-
tage Golf Club grounds
magnificent drawing Of tho pro-
posed West End station wax exhibited
to tho Council, and statements were
subsequently issued by the railroad
companies giving color to the belief
that the $1,000, o0G station would short
ly be built. with such an improved
mcnt promised for the near future the
agitation for the removal of grade
crossings from Broad and Belvidercs
streets was held in allegiance. although
complaints against the presence off
these crossing continued TO come in
CoUNCiLMEN DETERMINED
TO BRING MATTER TO ISSUE
Although more than a year has
passed since the two roads proposed
and promised the West End station no
effort, go far as Is known. has been
made hyeitEer road to make good the
promise, The station remains beau
tifGl thing on paper, and its construc,
ton II rapidly fading hope.
Scvera! members of the Council have
expressed their determination To bring
the matter TO an Issue. The ordinance
introduced last night by Aldermar
Pulier declares the maintenance of
Grade crossings in the city to- be .
public menace and requires their re
moval
Tie resolution presented by Alder
man Iuller reads:
Whereas. In the Judgment OF the
Council OF the city OF Richmond the
continued maintenance Of the grade
crossings OF the Richmond. Fredericks
burg and Potomac. and the Richmond
and Petersburg Railroad Connection
company. a. Cary Street. Main Street,
Franklin Street. Grace Street. and
along Belvidere Street from Cary &c
Grace Streets, and OF the tracks of the
Richmond, fredericksburg and Po-
iomac Railroad Coinpand along Broad
Street from Pine to Harrison Streets
reiards and ernbarrasses traffic upon
the Sald streets as public highways, anu
also endangers life thereon, therefore
"He ii resolved by the Board of Al
dermen of the city OF Richmond, The
Common Council concurrinE
That the said companies be, and
they are hereby, required to recon
struct ard rcarrange their said tracks
so as to avoid the crossing and use
OF The said streets at grade: plans ano
specifications for such reconstruction
or lcarra nSemant to be submitted and
approved by the City Engineer"
The resolution was referred to the
Committee on Ordinances. Alderman
Pulicr said last night that he had berp
assured by the City Attorney that the
city had ample authority to demand
and inforce the abolition OF all grade
crossings within the corporate limits
Another measure Introduced las.I
night by Alderman Fuller authorizes
and directs the Committee on Streets
10 inquire and ascertain what street
or streets should he widened in order
to give better approach from Main
street to Cary street ut Fourteenth as
widcned under the recent agreement
with the Southern Railway Company.
The ordinance was referred TO the
Communities on Streets
Alderman Fuller presented an ordi-
nance amending the present law I'm lie.
'atlon to distractions In sidewalks, SC
as TO prohibit the placing of any
show case upon the sidewalks OF the
city il IT projects beyond the prop
erty line