The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-17
BRIDGE APPROACH
SUBJECT OF CALL
Common Council to Act on
Southern Railway Ordinances
in Special Session.
WANT WIDE STREET TO BRIDGE
Plan Covers All Except Con-
gested Block From Main
to Cary Street.
WANT WIDE STREET TO BRIDGE

The Common Council will meet In
special session at o'clock next We'd
nesday night to pass upon the six
companion ordinances approved by the
Board OF Aldermen Tuesday, relating
to the terms under which the city will
receive from the Southern Railway
Company a strip of it's right of way
on the west side of Fourteenth Street,
desired for the widening of that thor
oughfare from Cary Street to the
Mayo Bridge.
petition for the special meeting
was addressed yesterday to President
Peters, of the Common Council by
Councilmen Fred II. Powell, George w.
Rogers. Gilbert Is. Pollock. Morgan X.
Mills and Jacob Umlauf. Mr.. Peters
ut once directed city Clerk August\t
notify the members that meeting
Will be held Wednesday night.
The prompt approval OF the South
crn Railway ordinances by the Board
of Aldermen, after their ratification BY
the Finance Committee, encouraged the
members of the lower branch who have
been active in pressing solution of
the bridge approach problem. An In
formal canvass OF the membership re-
vealed an overwhe lining majority I'm
favor of concurrence, and IL was de-
cided to ask for special meeting OF
the Common Council TO dispose of the
/ start on this big undertaking.
RICHMOND CEDES LAND
FOR TRACKAGE RIGHTS
The ordinances are in effect an
| agreement with the Southern Railway
Company under which the road will.
! in return for certain additional track
| concessions. cede TO the city without
| charge sufficient amount OF its right
OF way to enable the city to make
Fourteenth Street sixty feet wide from
Cary Street to the north wall OF the
dock and eighty feet wide from the
dock TO the abutment of the bridge
| The concessions are for the most part
! OF an entirely regular nature. and the
exchange is regarded by city authori-
ties as particularly fortunate.
\ separate resolution. already pass
| ed by the Board of Aldermen. directs
tne City Attorney To acquire the prop
| erty in question through condemnation
! proceedings.
This procedure was advised by the
CITY Attorney. in view OF the doubt
entertained by some authorities as to
the right of a corporation holding the
power of eminent domain TO sell or
dispose OF any part OF its right OF way
e erisnd, Through sondemns'i ion.
will be Instituted by the city against
the southern Railway Company AS soon
as the resolution authorizing ii is
| finally approved.
Unless there is an unexpected hitch,
the way will be clear in the. next
month for beginning ths widening OF
Improvement which will in large meas
urc relieve the congestion of traffic on
of the agreement with the Southern,
the city will assume complete respon :
| sibility for the bridge across the dock
wooden structure will be replaced by
q handsome concrete bridge TO cost
about $4,000.
NOT PROVIDED FOR
The widening OF Fourteenth Street
between Cary and the bridge viii still
leave unsolved the problem OF widen
nE the Fourteenth Street block be-
tween Cary anc Main Streets. y plan
for emecting this widening has been
group OF property owners who have
worked out scheme for cutting off
the fronts OF property on the east side
OF the street and allowing a compensat-
ing depth in the rear. where il is pro-
posed To open new north and south
short street between Fourteenth and
Cary Streets.
If this plan can be carried out at
a rea senable cost it will probably be
through to Main. An alternative
bridge approach plan provides for the
dock. and of the dock TO Fourteenth
Street. to a width of eighty feet In
conjunction win fourteenth street,
which will be eighty feet wide from
the dock to the bridge, this route
would offer wide approach TO the
bridge from Fifteenth and Main
| Streets.
The Common Council will take UP
also ut the special meeting the ordi :
nance relieving the Richmond and Rap
| pahannock River Railway Company
from the obligation of issuing and hon =
oring transfers on its Seven Pines
line The measure was passed by a
unanimous vote by the Board of Alder
probo bility he concurred in by the
| lower branch.