Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-24
WOULD TAKE CARS
OFF STEEP HILLS
Street Committee Recommends
Rerouting Ordinance After
Stormy Session.
USE OLD HENRlCO VlADUCT
Ordinance Bitterly Opposed by
Some East End Citizens and
Favored by Others.
USE OLD HENRICO VlADUCT

nearly three hours, the Council Com
mittee on Streets last night. by 4
vote of To ., recommended TO tho
Council for passage the ordinance
granting To tho Virginia Railway and
Power Company temporary permission
to suspend its car service on East Broad
Street, between Eleventh and Twenty
fourth Streets. and to divert the cars
now using these tracks over other
routes
Under the ordinance as recommended.
the Broad and Main cars will proceed
down Main to Tweo'y-arst Street.
Here they will turn north and pro-
coed 10 Marshall, along which street
they will rontinu" east to Twenty
fourth. Al this street they will turn
south and, returning TO Broad Street.
proceed along the present route TO
Chimborazo Park. The return will be
made along the same route
OAK WOOD AND BROAD LINE
To RUN Ir MAIN TO NINTH
Tin" Oakwood aud Broad cars. in
stead "f turning into Broad for the
uptown trip at Eighteenth. will con
'inuc south on Eighteenth to Main,
down Main To Ninth. north on Ninth to
broad. and mp Broad along tn. pres
ont route to Hollywood. The same
,
except that castbound cars will us"
Eighth instead of ninth street
Hroad ana Twenty stree; cars
will he diverted at Eleventh street. ana
viii proceed east over the Marshall
street Niaduc; TO Twenty fourth Street;
Here they viii turn south and proceed
10 Broad. going down Broad for one
block 10 Twenty-hfth Street. into which
they will turn ANA proceed northward
along the present route to tho end OF
the line. Tn" return viii be made the
same way.
In order 10 take care ot the rcrou,-
ing ju-' described the ordinance pro-
Nidcs for the construction OF tenn
porary single track on Twenty fourth
stree, connecting the Rroad street with
tho Marshall street tracks Provision
Is made also for the construction OF a
connection at Twonty-nrst and Mar
shall Street, In order 20 bring Broad
and Main cars upon the Marshall street
tracks, there being at presrn. no
double track connection M this point
ORDINANCE: nITTERLN OPPOSED
iN DELEGATION FROM EAST END
The Ordinanc" was hittcriy opposed
i'y large delceatiou of East End
citizens, vino demanded thr rctcn,iou
without change OF the present car lines
Another large delegation from approxi-
matcly the same section az the city an
proved the reroutinE suggested by the
operating company. Petitions. with
sisncrs running into The thousands.
were presented. about equally divided
in support OF the two plans
The committee voted as follows.
For the Aldermen Powers
and pullcr and councilm.n Butler
English. Jones and Pollock-6
Agains, the ordinance - alderman
Nelson and Councilman SulIiyan-2
Widespread interest in the suggested
r"routing scheme brought a crowd OF
citizens that swampcd the committee
room and tho meeting was transferred
TO the Council Chamber. IN order to
accommodate all who desired to Wit
ness the proceedings. Here the crowd
occupied every available seat and over
flowed inio the corridor
FIRST CLASH OF ARMS
OVER FRANCHISE APPLICATION
Unusual significance attached to tho
ordinance because IL represented in a
measure the first clash of arms he
tween the Virginia Railway and Power
Company and the East End organiza-
t!ons and other interests that have
taken active part in condcmning the
for blanket franchise Idcntically
the same interests that have declared
against the provisions of the proposed
blanket grant lined up TO oppose the
temporary reroutinE provided in the
ordinance
The point was made by Attorney l..
O. WcndenburE. speaking for the oppos-
Ing interests. that the reasons now as
signed for making the temporary re-
routing Will apply with the same force
when 1T becomes a question of making
the roroutinE permanent. The com
pany. in It's blanket franchise applica-
ton, asks to be permitted to eliminate
the East Broad Street tracks The re-
routing, given approval yesterday by
the street Committee. will give East
Enders n foretaste Of what such a plan
would mean.
RECONSTRUCTION SIMPLY
BLOCKED OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
The Immediate occasion for the ordi-
nance. said Henry w. Anderson. vice
president and general counsel for the
Virginia Railway and Power Company.
who presented his company's case. was
the fact that the tracks on the Broad
street Hills arc in a dangerous condi-
tion. Cars, he said. were being opar-
ated over them with peril to the lives
of lasacnGers. The only remedy, he
told tie committee, was a rcconstruc-
tion of the East Broad Street tracks
from Eleventh to Thirty-f fourth Streets,
a; an approximate cost of $120.0OO.
Since there was possibility that
the tracks may be eliminated altogether
III Il new franchise, he said the com
nany naturally wished to be relieved
OF possibly useless expenditure of
this sum. lie warned the committee
tha. to force the company to recou-
s:rcct the line would merely mean that
the public would suffer to the extent