Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-30
G|NTER PARK GETS
DIRECT DRIVEWAY
Council Finance Committee Rec
ommends $178,Oo0 Be Spent to
Buy Land Condemned.
DEPOSIT FUND BY OCTOBER Fl
Means Broad Avenue From
Heart Of City to Great
Northern Suburbs.
DEPOSIT FUND BY OCTOBER Fl

Appropriation by the City Council of
sl7s.ooo to pay for property to be con-
demned for the extension Of Cham
berlayne Avenue from Ginter Park to
Leigh Street was recommended last
night by the City Councils Committee
on Finance after the committee had
held an open session to hear from
citizens and had later considered the
matter in executive session.
Ginter Park citizens crowded the
room in which the committee held it's
meeting and urged that the committee
recommend either appropriation OF
sl23,oo0 or sl7s.oo0 to purchase the
ro to
TO Leigh Street. connecting Ginter
Park with the central part OF Rich
mond. The matter was taken under
consideration by the committee.
Must Act Before October 81.
AS the situation stands action must
be taken by the City Council before
October 2l, to deposit in the custody
OF the Hastings Court the money
awarded by the commissioners who
assessed the damages to persons
whose property would have to be con-
demned in order to provide for the
extension.
Unless action is taken by that time.
any property owner may go into court
and have the proceedings dismissed
and suit would have to be again insti-
tuted and the whole matter gone over
SO far have been only of tentative
nature. mainly for the purpose OF CIV
ing the city an estimate of. the cost,
The Iasasa sisaeIs 1sRS
damages to abutting owners. a,
each lot the street Dresses. ,I7s.ooo.
Prompt Action Urged
Ben w. Wilson headed the Ginter
Park committee last night and urged
would never again be able to get the
property within so cents on the dollar
or the price at which it could now
be secured. He said that the taking
800 negroes TO move. but that they
would have practically two years in
which to get out and that the i'm
provement of their section would be
beneficial to them.
Father Charles F. Hannigan told the
committee that $4,000 negroes We're
and
through their section. and ne thought
the street was due to the negroes of
pie Of Ginter PARK. He declared that
there was no city in the United States
where the relations between the races
are as harmonious as in Richmond and
that the negroes are hoping that the
street will be constructed
Says Delay Would lie Error.
H w. Schwarzschild said that to
delay the matter would be a mistake.
II the opportunity was permitted to
pass now the cost to the city in the
future would be much greater.
Charles T. Norman told the commit
tee that there could be no greater
boon to the merchants and other
dealers than to construct the drive
liveries have to be made by circuitous
route.
NJ. ]. Fulton declared that fully 90
per cent OF deliveries by Richmond
merchants are made in the North Side.
and that the new street would give a
direct route. He said that Richmond
was too much Of shoestring CITY.
being stretched from Fulton to West,
hampton. In his opinion the city
needed broadening out and this could
be done by giving direct routes to
other sections than the cast and west
TO Help Entertain Doctors.
committee of Richmond physicians
appeared before the committee and
asked that the city appropriate $1,000
lot itS part OF the expenses Of enter
tanning the Medical Society of Vir
Einia. which meets here October 1881.
me me Physicians expect to add $4,000 to
TINS $1,000 1t was explained that
these visiting physicians practically
supported the hospitals OF Richmond
by sending their patients here and n
was stated in this connection that moi
over 10 per cent of the patients treated
at the local hospitals are from Rich
Following its custom the committee
early went into executive session.