Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-10
COMMITTEE FAVORs
WIDENING DOCK STREET
votes to Accept Dedication of Strip
20 by 800 Feet, From
Sloan.
FULLER MAKES SHARP SPEECH
Says He Will Oppose Expenditure of
100000 for Dock Street Improve
ment Until Provision Is Made for
Widening Fourteenth Street.

eS's'on ny the street Committee
Monday afternoon to recommend for
passage a resolution directing the ac-
ceptancc from James T. Sloan OF tho
dedication Of strip Of property on the
south side OF Dock Street. twenty feet
wide. stretching from Fourteenth to
seventeenth Street. caused Alderman
Fuller, member OF the committee, {,
cumstances consent to this improve
mcnt until the widening OF Fourteenth
street IL provided for
me CITY Attorneys report showing
the price at which the proper,y on
Fourteenth Street, needed for tho rro
posed widening. can he acquired has
been on file for some time with tho
FINANCE Committee. II is estimated
that this Improvement will cost about
S25o,ooo. According to the estimate OF
City Engineer Boiling, II will cos, the
CITY about $4,000 to construct, the re-
tanning wall on the southern line of
the proposed dedication on Dock stree,
which is demanded by Mr.. Sloan as the
sole condition OF the free transfer
HECK AND BOILING
FAVOR ACCEPTING OFFER
Henry +. Beck. OF the Administrative
Board. and City Engineer Boiling both
advised the acceptance OF Mr.. Sloan's
offer. The dedication OF the twenty
foot strip would give Dock Street
siNty-foot width from Fourteenth to
Seventeenth Streets. instead OF the
thirty-nine feet IT has now. and would
contribute 10 the solution OF the traffic
problem in this section of the city. The
committee recommended the acceptance
Of the dedication, subject TO the APP
proval OF the Finance Committee and
the Council
Il want 10 serve notice" said Alder
man Fuller, arising for n statement
after the motion to recommend the ac-
ceptance of the dedication had pissed,
that | Will oppose the expenditure of
$4,000 for this Improvement before
money is provided for the widening Of
Fourtccnth Street. The Fourteenth
Street improvement has been unreal
sonably delayed
GUNST AND JONES
SIDE WITH FULLER
1T is my intention to oppose this and
every other move that appears TO be
part OF the scheme to widen Fifteenth
Strect-a proposition that the Council
has laid aside In favor OF the widening
OF Fourteenth Street. If the appropri-
alton for the acceptance OF the Dock
street dedication Is reported by tho
Finance Committee before 1t reports the
appropriation for the Fourteenth Street
! improvement. shall do my best and
use such influence as I have to de-
! feat H."
Mr.. Fuller spoke with considers 81 e
! feeling. Several other members of the
committee Endorsed Mr. Puller's stand
as regards the priority Of the two i'm
provements, notably Councilman Jones.
OF Madison. and Alderman Gunnt. Of Leo
| City Attorney Pollard told the com
mfttee that the expenditure for the con-
! struction OF the wall on the south line
OF tho proposed dedication would be
amply justified by the benefits that
would accrue to the city from the i'm
provement The widening Of the street.
he said, would be followed by the crec-
| ton OF warehouses which would yield
| In taxes more than the interest that
would be needed to take care OF the in
| veStment.