Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-23
CHESAPEAKE BAY LINE
IS LOSING CORPORATION
r.. Randolph Williams Tells Council
Committee 1t Would BE Hard
ship to Relay Tracks.
REFERRED TO CONFERENCE
City Attorney, City Engineer ard
Administrative Board Asked to
Pass on Question Of Requiring
Road to Come to Grade.

ON the statement of L. Randolph
! Williams. OF counsel for the Richmond
! ana Chesapeake Bay hallway Company.
mat the company never had earned and
paid out cent to it's stockholders since
the road was built and because he be-
lieved II would work Il hardship on
| those who had invested their money i'm
inc road 70 force the company to re-
! lay It's tracks so to conform them
TO the street grades in the northern
territory, the Street Committee ycs-
| ternlY afternoon referred the whole
matter 10 conference OF the City At
torney. the City Engineer. the Admin
istratire Board and officials of the
company, that an amicable understands
Ing may be reached which will be
satisfactory TO all those concerned. The
/ motion for reference was made by AL
dermnn Powers.
! In an explanatory statement 10 the
committee. Mr.. Williams said that two
! papers had come to the company Of
! iicials. one, from the Administrative
Board. directed, he said, the company
to relay and reconstruct it's tracks
from Bacon Quarter Branch to West
brook, distance of nearly three miles.
so ms TO conform to grades establish
ed by the board. Compliance would
require reconstruction along nearly
three miles of right-of-way. forty feet
vide, which the company holds in fee
simple. having bought the property
Y.
ROAD UNSUCCESSFUL
ENTERPRISE. HE SAYS
Tho second paper was in the form
of resolution before the comnI;tee
requiring the company TO conform TO
established or proposed grades AT all
its crossings, between north side Of
Bacon Quarter Branch and the north
ern corporate limits at point loo
feet north of Raleigh Avenue.
n,, ir,, sn;J
the company would he willing to meet
the city halfway, if the city would
bear q fair share Of the cost. Al tho
outset OF the proceedings City Attor-
ney Pollard said that he had exhausted
every means possible 10 have the COM
pany perform the work required MIR
Williams replied that the matter had
never been brought TO the attention OF
any official of the company except in
an unofficial manner. He rccited thai
the company is without funds for i'm
provements. that the road has been an
unsuccessful enterprise and that tn.
only ones who had benefited from its
operation were the city and Heurico
county and the people who live in the
territory through which il opero,es
.Not cent. he said, has been returned
on the investment, and he thought the
people ought 10 be satisfied if tho com,
pan! continued TO pay its taxes and TO
furnish IT'S facilities
ne stated that when the road was
ou!It II c"nformed 20 the then es,ah
hShed grades. Since. however, the Gin
Ter Park corporation re-established ,he
GraoeS. N some places depressing ma
raiel!ins roadways 70 n distance. Of
, iouE i""'- He thought it unfair win
regard :" the company's condition. 10
$50 $50 u ~ NJ terms OF a blanket prop
"Si''"H When III. CITY may no, T., ~.
years establish its approaches
CITY ATTORNEY WOULD