The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-09
RICHMOND TOPICS.
GAS WORKS INVESTIGATION.
REORGANIZATION OF the City School Board
Board OF Aldermen Meeting-The PROPOSED
Increase OF Salaries.

REORGANIZATION OF the City School Board
Board OF Aldermen Meeting-The Proposed
Increase of Salaries.
After weeks OF careful investigation.
lasting from ! until IL at night, the Board
OF Public Interests will meet on Tuesday
night TO consider their verdict in the gas
case. Their report Is looked to with much
interest. Their Judgment, whatever IL
may be, will he based upon facts obtained
from thorough and painstaking examina-
ton OF the department, and as the Board
is composed OF some Of our most promi-
nent citizens, its judgment must neces:
sariIy carry much weight with the Coun.
Gil, TO whom the report will have to be sub
mitted for action.
The Board have been assisted in their
Investigation by Captain c. +. Benson,
superintendent Of the Nassau Gas-Light
Company, Of Brooklyn. N. Y, who is rep
resented and endorsed as very able and
competent gas engineer and expert in the
manufacture Of gas.
The law recently enacted by the Legis-
lature and published in these columns on
yesterday morning requires that our City
Council shall elect an entirely new School
Board. For this purpose there will have
to he joint meeting OF the two branches
OF the Council. and Captain l.. T.. Bass,
president OF the Board OF Aldermen, who
Is vested with the authority. will convene
q Joint session for this purpose one even
ing this week. 1t is likely that Captain
Paul and the Coalition members OF the
present Board will be relieved from further
service in this direction, and their places
be filed 10y other citizens.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board OF Aldermen wilfbe held tomorrow
evening at O'Clock. Among the impor-
tant matters that will come up for consid-
Grafton will be the resolution which the
Common Council adopted at its last meet
ing, referring the question OF the salaries
OF the city officers and employees to a COM
mittee composed OF the chairmen Of the
different committees OF the Council This
committee, il the Board agrees to their ap-
pointment, will be required to report what
salaries and wages ought to be increased
and what decreased, and il those increased
will necessltate an increase OF taxes to pay
the same.
It is to be presumed that before long the
city will 90 actively to work on the new City
Hall. The first thing is to remove the
Tupper building and the church and to
dig the foundation, and then to lay the
cornerstone.
The City Council will hardly let that
occasion pass without some pageantry that
will do credit to the city and be attractive
to those visitors who may be pleased to
honor US with their presence. II we will,
we may make grand display. What
with the Masons the military-cavaIry,
artillery, and infantry-and other Organi-
cations we may have very big turnout.
There will OF course have to be an histori-
cal address on the occasion, and some great
orator ought to be selected.
The chances are that the Democratic
State Convention will be called to meet
here some time in May to elect delegates
to the National Convention, and il the two
things could be arranged it would be plea
SAINT TO have the corner-stone-laying on the
evening before the day the State Conven-
ton meets. so that the delegates who will
then be here from every part OF the State
may enjoy the sights.