Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-30
HEARS LONG DEBATE
ON BRIDGE APPROACH
Finance Committee Defcrs Vote on
Fourteenth Street
Route.
ATTORNEY SANDS is BITTER
oenounces All Alternative PROPOSE
tions, and Is Sharply Called to
Halt by City Engineer and Chair.
man OF Committee

For more than three hours last nigh,
the Council Committee on Finance
gave ear to advocates OF the WIDEN
ing OF Fourteenth Street, between
Main and Cary Streets, ne part OF the
general scheme to provide the New
Mayo Bridge with an ADEQUATE direct
approach Shortly before midnight the
committee adjourned without taking
action. 1t Will meet again in executive
session at o'clock this afternoon. and
VIII make nm effort then to agree on
a recommendation.
Inc matter is before the committee
IN the form of resolution approved
by the street Committee. authorizing
inc CITY Attorney to acquire the prop
ertF needed 30 widen Fourteenth
IN accordance with the general plan
submitted TO T.. :. Rose and associates
ms plan provides for Wheeling tho
Fourteenth Street block by taking
from the properties fronting Oh the
east side Of Fourteenth street. be-
wen cary ana Main Streets, strip
sutncientiy wid" TO increase the width
or Fourteenth Street to sixty fee.
PLAN CALLS FOR OPENING
Up OF NEW STREET
The loss to the property on the
front Is TO he made good bv the add
uoh OF conpensatinc strip on the
rear. This Is to be accommodated nv
opening up "a new short street, be-
tween Fourteenth ana Fifteenth. run
QUESTION and leveling of two Main
street stores The entire improvement
Is estimated TO cost $3.50
attorney Conway r. Sands. repre-
6enting MIR. Rose and ASSOCIATES. in the
course or an hours presentation Of
.ne,r proposition. reviewed the long
aeithton Tor an adequate approach TO
the Mayo Bridge, and the viciss,trdes
the several plans had suffered in their
course through the Council channels
he laid emphasis on the fact that after
careful comparison of all the plans
enat mad been suggested the Street
committee has given its approval to
tho widening of Fourteenth street as
the logical approach.
SANDS MAKES SHARP
ATTACK ON SLOAN
MT. Sands characterized as ATTEMPTS
10 c1rcumvent and defeat the Four
teenth street plan. the measures nov
before the Committee providing for
an exchange of property between tho
Seaboard Air Line Railway Comnanv
and the city. and for the widening of
DOCK street, between Fourteenth and
seventeenth Streets. by the acquisition
Oh strip of land from James T
Sloan.
Both of these propositions. charged
same interests that tried to commit
the city to the Fifteenth Street route
TO obtain peacemeal what the Street
committee had rejected In favor of the
Fourteenth Street plan. when the FIJI
teenth street proposition was offered
as Its rival.
The lawyer frequently referred to
Mt Sloan, who was one Of the spec
tators, attributing to him a carefully
laid design to bring about the adoption
OF his own plans to the detriment Of
the pending proposition for the widen
ing OF Fourteenth Street. He admitted
Mr.. Sloan, he said, for his pertinac CITY
ana his effective press-agency work.
Qualities which, he said. did not sur
prise him when he considered who had
been his tutor.
boiling CALLS SANDS
SHARPLY TO TASK
AZ one point when he had denounced
the Sloan Dock street widening plan
as part OF the general scheme TO secure
the Improvement of Fifteenth instead
OF Fourteenth street, and had ventured
the guess that such plan would have
the support of the City Engineer Mr..
Boiling called MIR. Sands sharply to
task for making such a statement, de-
handing TO know BY what authority
he did so.
Mr. Sands replied that he had been