The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-02
RtR0UT|MG QUESTION
AGAIN DISCUSSED
Many Citizens Ask For Restoration Of
Through Car Service on
Broad Street

! A lengthy session Of the Street Com.
mittee Of City Council Wac devoted
yesterday evening To hearing citizens
of Church Hill on the question OF re-
routing street cars In that section
of the city
The committee had adjourned from
it's last t.s-ttng TO hear further from
I the 'Cstizeu. The Council chamber was
crowded with Interested persons. 4
number OF them being ladies who ia
vored the retention Of the tracks under
the original franchise held by the com
pany. They. as well az the score of
other citizens. asked that the ordi
nance granting temporary rerouting be
rescinded and the company be COM
PEELED to return TO the original routes
Henry W Rountree was the first
speaker He said that he was not en-
tireiy Interested In the matter from a
personal standpoint, although he had
several hundred men employed At his
! factory on Broad Street. below Coy
ernor, who were placed at disadvan
taEe by the removal Of cars from
Broad Street.
Car service Needed.
The committee should consider the
interests OF the general public" said
Mr. Rountree THE many business
between the two hills should be con-
sidered az well as citizens from other
sections Of the city The need for car
service in the bottom is more appar-
emf year by year.
1T seems to me that the company
m 2ht pat one Of the lakewood lines
over the vaduct. and return the Broad
and Twenty NTH street line and the
Main and Broad line TO their original
places At least one line should run
up Broad Street. and the most logical
one would he rhe Broad and Twenty
fifth street line. There is no danger
on the hills-neyer has been any"
Following Mr.. Rountree. an appeal
was made by Or. r. II, Childrey, whose
business is located In the bottom. He
said that 134 cars ran past his door
on Marshall street, above Twenty-frst
every hour In the day, and that he and
the other residents of that section
would be greatly relieved IL at least
one of the lines were taken off Mar
shall street and returned TO Broad
At the present time four lines pass
his door.
DIR. +. w. Hagerman, whose place OF
business Is III The bottom, also, urged
the return OF the cars. He said the
people of his neighborhood had no
car facilities at all, and would be
forced to wade through snow and slush
/ in winter II the cars were not brought
back along the Main and Broad line
and the Twenty-fifth and Broad.
I Major l. r Christian. member Of the
Board of Aldermen, spoke along SINH
lar lnes He said there had never
/ been any danger In the running of cars
/ on the hills. and he hoped the people
of the bottom and the eastern section
of the city would be given what they
j demanded,
I Join In Request.
Representatives of Monumental
Church. Broadus Memorial. 81. Johns
kenneseth Israel Congregation, and
the Jefferson School asked that, for tho
convenience OF the church workers, tho
Broad Streets cars be returned. The
! complaint from Jefferson School was
that the noise of an additional line
over the viaduct created an additional
disturbance to the general study of
/ the pupils.
Rev J. w Dixon. In charge of the
/ Methodist Institute at Nineteenth and
Grace. deplored the present condition
as a disadvantage to the work being
4 done by that splendid institution.
Others who spoke along similar lines
were T. F. Boyle. A. 7. Griffith. Edmund
/ Bell, President Davis, Of the East End
| Citizens Association. Henry c. Dicker-
son George Noide, Edward Eubank, J.
/ w. Tyler. Mr., Traemer. Mr.. Robertson,
/ r. j. Parrish Mrs. Snead, Mrs. Trim
! mer, r. A Haynes. J. S. Eggieston. John
Welsh. G. II. Hagan Co., Bluford A
Co. L. Wolf, Charles Epps. Jerry Hal
Than.
Charles Felyey, OF Paramount. added
his voice to that OF those who ap-
proved the present routing Of the cars
the temporary routes as agreed to
BY Council1 and Mrs, w. f. Burroughs,
said that whatever was done in the
matter she hoped the cars would still
run over the viaduct
] Adjourn to NEXT Friday.
Councilman sullivan stated that there
/ were half a hundred other citizens
who were ready TO disapprove Of the
taking OF the cars off Broad Street
but he would ask for ad ad1ournme Mt
to next Friday afternoon at $50 o'clock
at which time the committee would
t take trip over the routes and af-
! terward meet. in City Hall TO hear
/ from other citizens who cared TO ex-
I press themselves and from officials Of
! the Virginia Railway and Power Com
pany,
I Members of the committee present
Were: Chairman Pollock. Messrs
Jones, Fuller, Powers, Gunst Sullivan
Butler, Nielsen and English.