Norfolk Southern
Officials Meet Elizabeth City Men About Pennsylvania Avenue Play Ground
Proposition
The movement to secure a public playground for the children
of Elizabeth City took reassuring form yesterday with the appearance here of
leading officials of the Norfolk Southern Railroad in a conference with the
directors of the Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce.
The Norfolk Southern rail road yards are 700 feet long on
Pennsylvania Avenue. There is an unused strip 90 feet wide between the street
line and the rail road tracks. This unused property is at present serving no
purpose and is an eyesore to the town. It is overgrown with weeds and harbors
vast pools of stagnant water, breeding places for mosquitoes. To improve and beautify
this property would involve considerable expense for the rail road company,
without showing a profit. Elizabeth city has offered to drain, fill improve and
equip this property for a public park and playground if the Norfolk Southern
will lend or lease the property to the city for a nominal sum for a definite
period of years.
E.D. Kyle, vice president; Morris S. Hawkins, assistant to
the president, and F.L. Nicholson, chief engineer of the Norfolk Southern came
to Elizabeth City yesterday especially to view the situation and confer with
interested citizens. Directors of the Chamber of Commerce took them over the
ground and entertained them at an informal luncheon at Dinty Moore’s Place.
Being rail road officials, the visitors would not commit
themselves on the spot but they said many things to indicate that they are
inclined to favor the proposition. Mr. Hawkins, assistant to President Young,
stated that the officials would give the matter immediate consideration and
probably give the city an answer within 10 days.
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