Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-02
COMMON COUNCIL PASSES
REROUT|NC ORDINANCE
Approves Measure Removing Tracks
From Broad Street by Vote
OF 10 to ;.
ASKS WELLS RESIGNATION
Pitcher Introduces Resolution Call
ing for Retirement, and Paper Is
Referred to Ordinance Committee.
Relief for Fircmen's Dependents.

Defeating every effort directed to-
wards securing the measures amend
mcnt or reconmit,al. the Common
Council last night by a vote Of 10 to >.
passed the ordinance rerouting the
Broad ana Main and Clay Street car
lines. and authorizing the Virginia
Railway and Power Company 10 remove
temporarily all tracks and trolley poles
and wires on Broad Stree, eastwardly
from Eleventh Street to the present
terminus at Thirty fourth Street.
The ordnance provides for the re-
tcntion on Broad Street OF a single
block Of track between Twenty fourth
and Twcnty-ffth Streets. Broad and
Main cars will come into Broad Street
over this single block loop. returning
by way OF Twenty Street To Mar
shall. and proceeding along Marshall
TO the end Of the line. Clay Street cars
Will under the new ordinance. he OPP
Grated as at present, to Twenty fifth
and VI sSfects, Al this point the cars
Will be diverted castwardiy along NJ
to Twenty-nin;h. proceeding north
wardly on Twenty ninth. AS at present
TO the end of the line At + Street.
HOW COUNCIL VOTED
ON REROuTING ORDINANCE
The vote on the passage of the ordi-
nance was as follows:
Ayes: Councilmen Atkinson. Butler
Cheatwood. English, FerGusson, Fuller
Pollock. Powell RatClifc and Peters
10.
Noes: Councilmcn Pitcher. Powers
Seaton, sullivan and Welsh-5
Mr.. Scaton explained on the roll call
that while he was In favor Of recon-
mitting the ordinance and considering
a general rearrangemcnt of the street
railway tracks over the whole city, he
was not prepared now to vote on the
measure before the body. Since his
motion TO recommit had been defeated,
he said, he was left no option but TO
vote against the ordinance.
The ordinance binds the Virginia
Railway and Power Company TO throw
open free to pedestrians the Marshall
Street Niaduct. and TO construct two
elevators at the intersection of Seven
teenth Street and the viaduct for the
from the elevated lines TO the Eigh-
teenth and Seventeenth Street cross
town surface lines, and vice versa.
ALL MOTIONS TO RECoMMIT
ORDINANCE ARE RIiJECTED
Mr.. Seaton's motion to recommit the
ordinance with instructions that the
Street Committee consider II in connec-
tion with the general rerouting asked
for by the pending franchise applica-
ton. was defeated by n vote OF 10 to g.
The five members who voted against
the ordinance on its final passage
voted for Mr.. Seaton's motion. and the
other ten voted against It,
Councilman Radcliffe moved the re-
committal OF the ordinance for the pur-
pose of allowing the committee an op-
portunity to ascertain from the COM
pany whether or not 1t would agree to
open the viaduct free also to all
vehicles except those CARRYING mas
scngers for hire. Chairman Pollock. of
the Street Committee, told the bodv
that the committee had made this re.
quest of the company. but had been
told that such n concession would not
be possible. Mr.. Ratcliffe, neverthe-
less. thought that a further conference
this point. and insisted in his motion.
1t was defeated by a vote of . to 6.
with the Ratcliffe motion defeated,
Councilman Powell moved an amend.
ment to the ordinance, making il one
OF the provisions that the Marshall
Street Viaduct shall be opened to
vehicles not carrying passengers for
hire. This. he said would leave it
fatty up to the company. to accept
or rejecl.
Mr.. Powall's amendment was put and
defeated by vote OF to Z, the
members voting as follows:
Ayes-Councilmen Cheatwood, Eng
lish. Powell. Ratcliffo, Senton, Welsh
and Peters,.
Noes-Councilmen Atkinson, Butler.
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