Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-01
FAVOR $2,5OO,0OO
FOR CITY STREETS
Members of Finance Committee
Recommend Bond Issue for
Permanent Improvement.
IN RECEIPT OF RODEN PLAN
Only Change in Jones Ordinance
Is That Mohey Will Be Dis
tributed Among Wards.
IN RECEIPT OF RoDEN PLAN

After listening for hours TO adj
dresses by citizens and officials. the
city Councils Committee on Finance
last night voted to recommend favor
ably a s2.50o, 900 bond issue for the
permanent Improvement of the streets
of Richmond. BY vote of seven to
one. the Jones' ordinance. presented as
substitute for the Roden measure
was adopted.
The Roden. measure specified that the
money should be spent generally for
stitute specifies that one-fifth shall be
spent in each ward Of the City and
that the remaining one-fifth shall be
direction of the Director of Public
works. The Rodcn ordinance only re-
ceived the vote of Councilman Powell.
nance were cast by Messrs Haddon.
Jones: Melton. Mills. Powers. Seaton
and Workman.
Slight Change In Plan.
Inc ordinance recommended is prac-
LEGALLY rescript of the Roden measure
with the exception that II directs the
DIVISION or the money among the four
wards Of the City.
began when Ben w. Wilson rcpre
sentins Ginter Park committees of
CITIZENS appeared and voiced complaint
mat the money appropriated for the
Ginter Park Boulevard north of Cal
hoon Street had faded away and hnt
nue. results had been accomplished.
work. contracts concerning which had
been cancelled by the Administrative .
n0nrq i,0n h. Irsa, nfter listening to an exrana-
lins, the committee adopted resoIm-
ton, by Alderman Powers. that The
IireGtor furnish the committee with
nctais OF the amount already expended
the work. 'e'e
Roden Openx Dfscus.ion.
councilman Roden opened the discus
sion OF the bond issue question hy az
p,aa p,a1nrns nr ms plan. He declared his
s2.5oo,ooo of bonds TO be issued at the
rate OF s5oo.oo0 a year and 10 be taken
care OF by a special tax on real es.
tate estimated 10 be about lG cents on
the 500. Mr.. Roden declared tba,
Richmond had the worst streets Of any
city or Its size in. the United AL aies
sna EEsI tue ;irnc had COMO "a dc
~ Re1ding ding, from fisures furnished by
hoden gave the following fgucrs as
sG,s 10 tnf miles OF street and miles. o!
snootn paving in the wards as fol
lows: jefferson, "a and Az Madison
ai+ and 81 Lee. 1909 and 1876; CLAY
Gil and 12.2
r. Anderson, secretary of the Civic
ASSOCIATION, spoke in favor of bond
issue and declared that their organi-
Sation had approved the Roden plan
ds 5000 and fair one.
Augustine RoynlI Speaks.
Augustine Royal. president OF the
South Side Business Mems Association
declared that street improvements
were vital 10 the progress OF Rich
mono and that many streets on the
South SIDE were utterly impa ssable
He said that people were giving up
thelr homes and moving into the CEN
ter Of the city because of bad
state OF affairs and said:
NO man can live happy and con
tented like martin in a box as do
,hese apartment-house dwellers. When
makes safer citizen"
august Nolde, president OF the Eas,
Eno citizens Association said that
the streets were SO bad In his section
OF the city that the patrol wagon 20,
stuck IN the mud. He urged that ac-
zion be taken. and stated that he IA
vored the ward distribution of funds
mittse map in which there was sho wn
the fifteen main arteries of Richmonds s
rramc ] that he thought should be i'm
mat the city should expend about
bSss'oo0 ba IN putting down concrete
Dns Dnse 90 on IN ,aese Sc, 'horGughfares and later
Afns1fc Endorses Plnn
Mayor Ainslic told the committee
that, he endorsed the main principles
OF the Roden plan. He believed that
something OF this kind must be done
At this point Councilman Jones
offered his substitute. He told the
committee that ne had made up his
mind that he would not vote for a
special levy unless the funds would
be equally divided. He declared that
certain sections have not grown he
cause they did not have chance
Councilman Powell opposed the Jones
SUBSTITUTE on the ground that the
charter separated the executive and
tration Of street matters should be left
TO the Department of Public Works
on the matter be postponed for few
days. but the committee had made up
its mind and decided to dispose Of the
matter.