Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-08-19
RICHMOND MASSED
BEHIND MOVEMENT
!. TO DEVELOP RIVER
Council Committee Recon-
mends $4,000 to Survey
Possibilities.
MAYOR HITS KEYNOTE
IN SPEECH TO BODY
Tells Brilliant Assemblage
Figures Will Guide Gov
crnment's Course.
ALDERMAN NUNNAILY rRESIDEs
ALDERMAN NuNNALLY rnEsrDEs
fr"ject HnS Indorsemcnt of Practical
~ Every Great Organization
FunctiOninS In CITY.

That the city Of Richmond is roIny
seriously into the solution OF the
problem OF James River deyelop-
ment was demonstrated last night
"hen representative citizens gather
cd In force in the Council chamber
10 discuss ways and means for for
warning the tentative plans suggested
py the Council Committee on Dork
River and Harbor.
AS result OF the conforonrn .
resolution providing for an appronrta-
tion OF $4,000 to defray the costs of
comprehensive survey Of the nos
sioilitics as outlined I'm an address
Dy Mayor Ainslie, and speech by
cornish Bailey. secretary OF the Ma
uonal Rivers and Harbors Congress-
was adopted, and efforts will be made
W nave the resolution passed by the
present council before September /.
brilliant asscmblage greeted
chair man Joseph G. Nunnally when
ne called the meeting to order. Presi-
dents of the Chamber of Commerce.
the Clearing House. Association. III.
rotary Club. the kiwanis Club, the
richmond First Club, tho League OF
omen Voters. and numerous other
organizations pledged the co-opcra-
ton OF their various bodies. and the
meeting resolved itself into an en-
thusiastic mass-mceting of peonle
who represent the financial. CONNER
ciai. engineering. social and political
sentiment of the city.
Mayor Strikes Keynote,
mayor Ainsiie set the machinery in
operation. He said that for years
every one in Richmond had rome
around declaring that the government
should spend millions of dollars in
opening the James River so deep
sea navigation. But" he asked
can We prove it?" Then he said.
III we cannot prove to the govern
ment engineers that the river should
be widened and dcepened, and can
not show why we insist upon this.
that the city needs the proposed i'm
provements. and that we are really I'm
earnest and haze figures to show
Why. we should adjourn this meeting
sine die. do not know. nor does
any man here know. what dement's
would accrue il tho river is developed.
We must have n survey as to the
possibilities now and the future pos
s!bilitieS. If that survey shows that
the James should be developed. ! am
satisfied. the engineers will agree and
The appropriation will be forthcom-
ing"
Cornish Bailey opened the discus.
sion. The Council chamber was :illed
with notable group of men and
women. including I. J. Marcuse. pres-
ident OF the Chamber of Commerce:
Ben w. Wilson. president Of
the Rotary Club: Thomas b. Howell.
president of the Kiwanis Club:
Frank Nuthan, r. McC Burlington.
Roy Dudley. president OF the Rich
mond First Club: George W. Rogers
of the Travellers Protective AsSocia.
tion; Arthur Nielsen. of the Church
Hill and Fulton Business Mems AS.
sociation; Alderman Elect Charlie
Moss. Dr. c. B. Pearson. Mrs. william
Judd, Mrs. Frank Jobson, State Sena-
tor Morgan r. Mills, NJ. ]. Fulton
representing the North Richmond or
Ganizations; Henry W. Wallerste!n.
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