Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-04
COUNCIL APPROVES
cHAMBERtAYNE V|ADUCT
"ooPts Resolution Authorizing Adj
ministrative Board to Proceed
With Improvement.
skIP-sTop PLAN is ADOPTED
over Slight Objection, Lower Branch
raVorS Trial for Ninety Days OH
rarts OF Main Street Linc-Ap-
preparations Arc Given Approval.

over slight objection. tho Common
council last night adopted the ordI-
nance allowing the Virginia Railway
ana Power Company to inaugurate the
akip-s,op system on it's Main Street
Zinc for a period Of ninety days, and
also adopted the resolution authoriz-
Ing the Administrative Board 10 award
az once contract for the construc-
ton OF rc-enforced concrete viaduct
Tor continuation of the Chamber
Jayne Avenue driveway.
several members OF the Council be-
lieVcd the skip stop ordinance should
DC held In allegiance, pending the trial
OF the plan on the Barton Heights line,
which began Sunday. Councilman Rose
said he had heard several complaints
against the plan because ears were not
stopping at the designated corners.
councilman Jones moved that the meas
ure be recommittcd to tho Street
committee for a further hearing. after
the north side had given the plan
trial. This motion was voted down.
however. as WAS motion to table.
Vote OH tho adoption OF tho ordinance
was then taken. those opposing IL be-
ing Messrs. Grimes. Jones and Rose.
Letters had been presented to every
member of the Council from the Iuter-
national Association OF Machinlsts,
Local No. 10. opposing the plan Oh
any street In or near the city. and
also straight 5-ccnt fare No ono
appeared at the meeting to explain tho
associations resolution. which was
adopted at It's Last meeting.
GrN'rER PARK MUCH
INTERESTED IN CIADUCT
Ginter Park citizens attended the
meeting in the interest of the Cham
bcrlaync Avenue project. which was
adopted without dissenting vote. II
Is expected that tho contract for the
Hiaduct VIII be awarded by the Ad-
ministrativc Board In the next few
days. The entire Improvement will cost
Sl23.ooo of which amount $4,000 has
already been expended.
The ordinance authorizing the Mayor
10 Invite representatives OF the cities
aad towns OF Virginia to attend a
tax conference In Richmond and an
propriating $3.50 for their entertain
mcn'. was adopted. All papers in con-
ncction with the schedules of the Viz
GINA Railway and Power Company.
which have been sent from the Street
Committee to the Administrative Board
and back several times recently. were
rccommitted to the Street Committee.
The ordinance prohibiting the stor-
ing OF material or debris within thirty
feet OF an open sewer without Il permit
from tho building Inspector was re-
fcrrcd TO the Committee on Ordinances.
HALF MILLION DOLLARS
TO BE BORROWED ny CITY
Measures adopted were AS follows:
authorizing the Finance Committee
to, borrow 100000 In anticipation OF
revenues: authoriztnE: the, payment OF
1875 to T. T.. lIo&ic for7three months
vacation because OF III health: appro-
prtatinS 10000 to the account of dis
count and interest: 1886 for the pay
mcnt OF Judgment in favor of Vaughan
Robertson Drug Company against j.
III. Metcaf: transferring $1,000 from
the payroll TO the expense account OF
James River improvements appropri-
ating $4,000 TO Electrical Department
expenses and transferring sl6.5O0 from
the storehousc account to Shockoe
Creek improvement. Several other or
dinances carrying appropriations were
tabled under the rules.
Mayor George .Ainslie was authorized
10 enter into an agreement allowing
the Richmond. Fredericksburg and Po-
;onac and the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Companies to build a concrete
pier on the canal. On the recommen-
dation of the Street Committee the
ordinances providing for the acQuisi-
ton of land for the opening OF b and
G Streets. adjacent TO the Belt Line.
were referred to the Finance Commit
tee. City Auditor Crenshaw was au-
thorized to mark satisfied the claim
for sle99s against the Virginia Rail-
way and Power Company for track
age rights over tho Mayo Bridge, the
Supreme Court having recently held
this to be a public thoroughfare, for
which no charges could I've made.
Virginia congressman and represent
tatives were urged to use their best
efforts to secure an appropriation for
adequate improvements TO the James