The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-23
UNION STATION PUZZLE
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yesterday, will be accompanied by
statement of the position of the
Chambers directorate.
Up to Membership.
This statement reads:
ITO the Members of the Richmond
Chamber of Commerce;
1.-The Chamber Is on record by res
olution of It's board of April -, 1912,
favoring a union passenger station at
Fifteenth and Main Streets. for all
railroads entering Richmond. This
action was confirmed by resolution of
a subsequent board June is. 1918.
At meeting of the present board,
held February 3, 1915, 1t being con.
sidered by a majority of the directors
present almost If not entirely impos-
sible TO induce the Richmond. Freder-
icksburg and Potomac Railroad and
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to
join in the use of station at the loca-
ton stated above, and the board be.
ing informed that the Coast Line and
the Richmond. Fredericksburg and
Potomac had determined to erect an
uptown passenger station and were
undecided as to whether it should be
located on the Hermitage Golf
Grounds or at Broad Street and tn~
Belt Line Road. and being further in
formed that the opinion OF the cham
Der as to preference for one of these
sites over the other would be appre-
ciated by the two railroads. passed a
resolution favoring the location of the
proposed depot at Broad Street and
the Belt Line Road, in preference TO
the Hermitage station. The Rich
mond, fredericksburg and Potomac
and the Atlantic Coast Line roads, at
a meeting Of their directors held April
30. determined TO build the depot
on the HERMITAGE site.
The directors of the chamber think
1t best for this whole question to be
considered by the entire membership
OF our organization. thus affordins an
opportunity for a full and free ex-
preston OF opinion on the part OF
every member. and having given
above all the information in its pos
session. the board hopes that some
definite and final conclusion will be
reached at the meeting on the 26th,
which, being the action of a mai or-
ity of our members, would deserve
and should receive the support OF
every member OF the chamber
The statement bears the signatures
OF Coleman workman. president. and
Of F, D. Dunlop. secretary OF the
chamber.
A Step Toward Solution.
The meeting Of the chambers board
OF directors held yesterday morning
at 1890 O'Clock was attended by
President Workman. Business Man
ager Dabney, Secretary Dunlop. Traf-'
fc Manager Goodman and <. c.
Laird, John c. Easley. Hugh Antrim.
W. r. Broaddus. A. NJ. Cannon. ]. @.
Corley. Il. NJ. Crutchfield. Peyton
Giles. Fl. J. Jackson, I. J. Marcuse J.
T. Paimatary, Scott Parrish. John B.
Pinder. ". F. Powers. o. J. Sands,
Fritz Sitterding, Warren P. Taylor. r
NJ Darlington, W. r. Reed. George l..
Christian and s. W. Travers.
A motion made to revoke the call
for the meeting OF the chamber MEM
bership next Wednesday, which had
previously been called for April 10.
and was postponed TO the 2sth. was
defeated. II was presented because
it's author felt that the Developments
OF the last few days might make an
expression by the membership un-
necessary. and that the decision to
build joint station at the Hermitage
site was a step toward the Main
Street Union Station. Those who
voted against the motion to revoke
declared that the chamber should ex.
press itself through its membership.
after which the directors would up
hold such position, and insist that the
chamhe rs actions have some weight
In guiding the railroads in their set
Element of the passenger station prob
lem.
The directors as a body. and most
of them individually. are firm In their
stand for a union station for all rail-
roads at Fifteenth and Main Streets.
They believe also that a second station
to take care of local travel should he
erected somewhere near the present
Elba station, probably on the Hermit
tage site, not far distant from F.lba.
and taking care of the large business
that develops in that section Of the
city,
Believe r.. r. & r. Willing.
1t is believed that the r. + & Y.
will be willing To go into the Main
Street station. into which II now runs,
over the Seaboard tracks several trains
daily. These are the through North
and South trains interchauged by the
r., r. & p. and the s. A. l. at Rich
mond, The r., r. & F. also desires and
needs a station for its local business
in the western and central portions OF
the city. Little r, F. 4 p. passenger
business originates at Byrd Street.
The Atlantic Coast Line, which
operates from the South. delivering it's
through trains TO the r., F. 4 P. here
could. It Is declared easily deliver those
trains at Main Street, and could as
easily handle its local business at Main
Street as at Byrd Street station,
The Byrd Street station will have to
be abandoned eventually and the
tracks which run through South Rich
mond, crossing several important
streets in that section at grade, also
will have to be abandoned. The Coast
Line uses the Byrd Street station by
permission of the city OF Richmond.
which closed Eighth Street below Byrd
and part of Byrd Street to give the
Richmond & Petersburg Railway, pre-
decessor of the A. c. l.. terminal facil-
tiles. The city can compel the re-
opening Of these streets.
Not Difficult for A. G. L.
BY the Frazier plan, which puts
all railway lines entering Richmond
into the Main Street station and which
the handling of all traf-
fio down the ShockoJ Creek valley,
shows that It Is practicable for the
Coast Line to make physical connec-
ton near Clopton with the Seaboard
and enter Main Street station. The
trains delivered at Main Street to the
r., r. and p, 1t Is declared, could be
more easily handled out OF that sta
ton over the s. A. L. tracks to the
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