Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-16
SHARP OPPOSITION TO
RER0UT|NC ORDINANCE
Committee Tables Measure Promising
I" Divert East Broad Street Cars
Over Vinduct.
WILL CONSULT CITY ATTORNEY,
Sullivan Warns Committee That Once
Company Is Permitted to Abandon
Service on East Broad, Ii May BE
Difficult to Get Ii Restored,

Sharp opposition developed Yesterday
| IN the Council Committee ON Streets to
! inc ordinance which proposes to relieve
! the Virginia Railway and Power Com
panS. temporarily. from tho obligation
i to reconstruct IL" East broad street
! tracks between Eleventh and Thirty
/ 'hird Streets. The same ordinance also
hn'horizes the company to suspend the
street car service over these tracks and
TO rcroutr the lines now using them
over the Marshall street viaduct
Despite the assurance of Attorney
~ ~ GuiEon and Nice-Prcsident Fritz
| SttterdinS. of the Virginia Railway and
rover Company. that the ordinance
vas sought for the sole purpose OF
| securing temporary relief pending the
! final disposition of the blanket fran
chisc application. and that il was re-
! Nocahlc at the pleasure of the Coun-
ell II the rcrouting was found to he
unsatisfactory, the committee preferred
J not to recommend the measure for
passage until il had been further con
! Sidcred
ORDINANCE Is TABLED
NTH. FEBRt AIRY 23
Upon the motion OF Councilman Eng
fish the committee laid the ordinances
on INC table for action at the meeting
on February %. The same motion di-
rooted that the ordinance be referred
Ia the City Attorney for information
temporary relief sought The CITY
Attorney was requested also to he
present at the meeting when the meas
uvc was taken up.
delegation OF East End citizens,
including James T.. Dickcrson and TO-
Z scph W. Stewart who have been promi-
ncnt in opening the pending franchise
application. was on hand to witness Tho
proceedings. The company WAS reprc-
scented by Attorney Guicon. Vice pres;-
dent Sitterdinc. and General Manager
.. u. buchanan.
Mr., iuiEon explained that the com
panN was not seeking to cvadc its duty
To Keep its roadbcd i'm good condition.
inc reconstruction of the tracks on
East Broad Street. between Eleventh
ana Ihirty-third Streets. he said. would
cost about $4,000 and the compauv
is naturally avcrSc to putting that
, much money in II track which "A new
franchise might eliminate altogether.
FRANCHISE PROPOSES
REMOVAL OF TRACKS
The blanket franchise for which the
company has applied provides for The.
abandonment OF the EaS 81 Broad Street
tracks and the routing OF the lines now
using them over the Marshall Street
raduct and the Marshall Street tracks
oi Inc former richmond and licnrico
Hallway Company. whose system is
now under the present company'S con-
troll If new franchise is granted ana
TINS ARRANGEMENT retained. u recon
StruCtion OF the East iiroad street
tracks AZ this time would be IL waste
I Of money.
Councilman sullivan presented "A pc
ti,ion signed by more than 200 citizens
protesting against the rcrouting under
consideration. The present ordinance
/, and the franchise application. he said
We're so intimately related that both
should properly he considered at the
same time. To this end he offered a
motion laying the ordinance on the
table To hc taken up at a later meeting
with the franchise. Later he withdrew
the motion in favor ot the motion made
by Councilman English