Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-20
CITY FURNISHES CASH
FOR N0RTHS|DE DRIVE
Finance Committee Provides 5000
to Buy Property Already
Condemned.
SHORT ROUTE TO GINTER Park
Magnificent Boulevard Planncd-Dc-
sign for Robert r.. Lee School, on
KCnsington Avenue, Approved.
- Walkup awarded Contract.

Property needed for the opcnuc and
extension OF Chamberlain" Avenue as
=. direct approach from Clutter rark
TO the hear; Of the city at Adams and
Leigh Streets will cost the city $4,000.
and tho Council Committee on Finance
last night recommended for adoption
:, Resolution appropriatine that sum.
rkc value WAS fixed by condemnation
comm Ssioners who fled their report
in the Hustinfs Court last month.
They arrived at this sum after in
spectinB the property which viii be
needed for this Improvement. and
the various parcels. City Attorney Pol
lard has approved this as a fair valua-
ton Of the land.
Action NY the committee was car
ncstly urged by Acknowledgement John
Garland Pollard who appeared as a
representative of tho Gintcr Park Cit
liens Association. He called attention
TO the fact that unless the city acted
Immediately the report OF the Condem-
nation commissioners would he value
less. because II becomes. by law. void
at the expiration Of ninety days after
it is submitted to the court.
Under the annexation agreement OF
1914 the city obligated itself to spend
100000 in Gintcr Park and in the un-
improved area which the new boulc
ward will traverse. There is now left
$4,000. and the S2S.0 needed for
the acquisition Of the land will come
from this fund All Gintcr Park cit
liens and those in the territory to tie
improved have agreed that they viii
he willing to have all of this money
spent In providing for the boulevard
as the remainder of their share of
the Improvements brought them as a
result OF annexation.
STREET CARS CAN CUT
DISTANCE BE ONE MILE
Mr.. Pollard told the committee that
the remainder of the fund Will be sur
ficient to construc; the viaduct over
Bacon Quarter Branch and the tracks
of the Seaboard Air Line Halfway.
The Seaboard has dedicated to the
city right of way across its tracks.
AS to the Improvement of the high
way after the entire right of way has
been secured, funds will have to he
provided nj future date. and that
work VIII he done under the guidance
OF the Administrative Board. which is
unusually friendly to the project and
anxious to see II developed into one Of
tho finest roadways in the South
The boulevard, which Will be eighty
fec; wide with the exception OF the
riaduct which will he Sixty feet. will
give direct and short route from
G'ntcr Park to the business district
the virginia Hallway and Power Com
pany has already indicated its intcn-
ton OF applying for a franchise to use
the boulevard as a new route for it's
cars to this suburb. BY utilizing il
and abandoning the present line, sur
Ncyors have reported. exactly "A mile
and a quarter will he saved in dis
tencc between ciintcr Park and the
city proper
ROBERT T.. LEE SCIi0OI.
PLANS ARE APPROVED
The plans adopted by the School
Board for the new Ecnsington Avenue
school were approved by the commit
tee. An appropriation Of $4,000 for
this purpose has already been made
w. Floyd Reams, chairman of the
hoard. reported to the committee that
a. N. Walkup was tho lowest bidder
Tor the work. Offering TO do IL for
$4,000 The remainder of the apnro-
priation VIII he devoted to architects
iees and for the installation of the
heating system. In addition, the
School Board asked for an aprrorria.
tion OF $500, which will bc for fire
PROBING small section. not called for
In the plans, and for ornamcntation
The committe" recommended for adop-
ZION resolution making this nddi-
tional appropriation
Mr. Rcams Informed the com,nittcc
that the board had determined to dos
ignate the'Sew building as the Robert
~ Lee sohtoE In design it Will be
similar 10 IN" cambridge School
Among other matters IN. conr,;,,.o
Also recommended for adoption reso
buttons appropriate funds with which
70 purchase two automobiles for ,bn
cry Engineers Department and one
Tor the tlun hing Inspector