Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-08
.C|NTER PARK CITIZENS
DEMAND PROMPT ACTION
Wants Direct Thoroughfare Into City
as Provided For I'm Annex
ton Agreement.
TIME WILL EXPIRE ON JUNE /.
City Engaged to Provide Thorough
fare in Three Years, and Has Now
But Ten Months in Which to DO
Work.

Citizens of Gtnter Park last night
unanimously adopted resolution
calling the attention Of the members
Of the Administrative Board to the
bad condition of Chamberlayne Ave-
nue. from the limits OF the old town
Of Gintor Park to Brook Avenue. and
urging that necessary repairs be made
ut once, provided the money may now
be spent, with due regard to the needs
of other communities and without post
poninG the early construction of n di-
rect approach from Ginter Park to
the city of Richmond. The resolution
was offered by Attorney-General John
Garland Pollard.
Mr.. Pollard offered this resolution
in competition with another, expressing
the conviction that the community
OF Richmond for the expenditure OF
public money, IL such expenditure
postponcs or interferes with the build
ing Of the direct approach within the
period fixed by court in annexation
proceedings. The period named in the
annexation decree expires on June 81
1917.
The meeting. which was called for
the specific purpose Of considering
means for lettering the communiiys
present condition and taking steps to
insure it's future welfare, was held in
the old school building. and was pre-
sided over by c. p. CABOT. Speakers
had been assigned by tho chairman to
speak on those subjects touching the
community's welfare with which they
were most familiar. When these had
finished there was general discus
sion.
RELIEVES PROMISED VANTAGES
HAVE NOT MATERIAIIZED
Mr.. CABOT was outspoken in his he
lief that all the advantages promised
Ginter Park by the city through an
ncXation have not matcrialized.
Richmond" no declared, has not
done anything for us since annexation
hut built the school house. don't
mean by this that we have been entire
" ignored but we have nothing now
that we did not have as town. dis
tinct from the city OF Richmond ard
its government"
Though other subjects were touch cd
upon. the meeting was called especial
~ to consider tho proposed connection
of Chamberlaync Avenue with the city,
az a direct approach. The extension
Of the boulevard. they say. as provided
for in the annexation decree, is i'm
pcrative to the best interests Of tho
anncxcd territory. THE greatest need
Of the community" Mr.. PoIlard's rcso-
luton declares. lis a direct and adc-
Quatc approach Ia the city OF Rich
mond."
Citizens Of Ginter Park chafc under
the apparent slowness Of the city to
comply with the courts decree. Money
for the extension was appropriated
under those proceedings. There are
only ten months left in which to com
plete the contract. and little has been
done. in moro than two years, they
say, by the city toward fulfilling II.
Health conditions also were COM
planned Of Carlton Jackson. who adj
dressed himself to this subject. declar
ed that the city must pass an ordi-
nance adequate for keeping vacant lots
clear OF weeds and rubbish. Such lots.
he said, arc n positive menace to
health The present ordinance. he
said, is inadequate. for the reason that
il places the authority for such clear
ancc upon the Health Department
rather than upon the Police Depart
mcnt. II is. he said,.t Ito keep sewer caps
in proper condition.
The meeting adopted motion to
request the city to build an engine
house at the southeast corner OF Pol
lard Park.