Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-11


o'clock. Present: nessrs j. Il Perdue
(prcsidenH, L. ". Weisiger, c. 4.
Jones, A. G. Jones, William Walsh, II.
G. Besttie, W. 7. Hart, Robert Harris,
and John O'Brien
1t was half an hour after meeting time
before the Council got down 10 work.
and the large pile Of papers that lay IN
front of President Perdue showed that
there Was q quantity OF work to be done,
sT.rIoN-HoUsEs, Erc.
The following letter was read:
MANCHESTER, VA, August 9, 1883.
Hon. j. r.. Pcrdve, Presidenf, ard
Members Of the Cty Council Of tte
C}ty 0f Manchester:
Gentlemen, the provisions of
tho charter Of said city / sm required to
communicate to you any matter deemed
important for your consideration. II -
absolutely necessary that something
should be done to provide = station
house, the Judge OF the HustinGs Cont
having positively forbidden the im-
prisonment of prisoners in the lall ex-
cept under a commitment so that any
one arrested under ordinance, &c, by
the police cannot now be kept or he'd
by thom there beingno place 10 conhne
them until trial
would therefore recommend that as
you are building new Jail, and when
the same is finished the present Jau viii
bo practically vacant, that you viii III mp
that building, or the part now used rs lHil,
as Il station house and Mayors Court
room; or that you have the two stalls IN
the market house next the present
Mayors Court room, with the space be-
tween the two, fitted up as a station
house, and the present court room now
put in q hsbitable condition, and pro
vide some place in the same to keep the
books. papers, aud blanks. But # the
city is in q condition financially 10 make
permanent improvement / would re-
commend that your smallpox hospital
md grounds be sold lsnd | understand
purchaser can be found, and that the
building now on the Courthouse Squar9
used rs q council chamber, andltCrs
Office, jGil, engine roOm, Sc, be ,abcn
down end the material OF the Same.
together with the funds obtained
from the sale Of the smallpox hospital,
be used to build another story on your
marko.-house, which would give ample
room Tor a purposes would Do an or
namcnt 10 the citYald relieve the public
square Of an cyesore in the shape of tho
old ,ail. | understand that this plan ~
feasible from your engineer, who says
that such A building can ha made strong
and durable 10y putting buttrcss1s along
the vail.
would also recommend an increase
Of your police force, as tho present pum-
ber Of men aro too small 70 perform
properly ths increased duties OF your
growing city.
Rcspectfully submitted,
4. q. ATT6l EOS, Mayor.
Roferred TO the Committee on Build
ings and Lands
POLICE AND TELEPHONE.
The Board Of Police Commissioners
sent IN communication recommending
| that the police focce bo increased by the
addition Vi one man and that telephone
| be erected for the use OF the city, aud
especially the police department..
These recommendations we're agreed
/ 20.
PLUMBING X SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
The joiat Committee on Public-SchoOl
Buildings sent 70 the Council bids that
had been recci7ed from West & Branch,
Shask. * Barrett, and A. J. Fair FOR
doing the necessary plumbing in The two
school buildings now i'll the process OF
erection.
Mr. Pariue suggested that the matter
should be referred back 70 The committee
with power to act, and took occasion to
give the Council a gentle rap for its ac-
ton, which he characterized as exceed
ingly discoItcous, Gu q former occasion
in violating the recommendations Of the
committee and giving the contract for
! furnishing the heating apparatus for one
OF the school buildings 70 another patty
than that named by tho committee.
The meter was referred back 70 the
committee with directions 70 award the
contracts.
REPORTS
The Committee on Finence submitted
report approving bills for the past two
months amounting in the aggregate to
s80l5A. Adopted.
The report Of the Chief of Police, for
wsrded by Mayor Attkiss0n. showed that
during the month Of July fifty ar
rests were mado-onc for felony, thirty
one for misdemeanor, and eighteen for
ordinance violation The fines collected
amounted to Si355 to the city and s2D
b the State.
THE COUNTY CONTAINS.
\ letter was reld from Messrs. 2. Q.
Warwick, ". +, Victims, J. Q. Temple,
and II. $. Furdy calling the attention
OF the Council % the TACT that the dc
posting Of night-soI. &c, Of the city in
the county Of Chesterfield near the Pc
tersburg turnpike had become an out
rageous Luisauce, detrimental to tho
health Of the whole peighborhood %
well as injurious to the development cf
all the property in this portion Of the
county.
Referred 70 the Board OF aoaltD.
WANT SIDING.
4 letter was read from the Dunlop &
McCance Milling and Manufacturing
Company asking permission to have II
siding constructed liom tho east side Of
their mills in an easteriy direction for
about 200 feet, and thence in south
easterly direction across the tail-raee of
the Manchester canal to point on the
Rockets branch Of the Richmond and
Danvile rsilrcad. about l, ,o59 feet from
tho starting point, with the necessary
switches to accommodate tho traflc
in carload lots to and from their
miles. The siding in question will net
cross any OF the established streets. viii
probably proEe convenience to tho
other existing factories upon the wster-
line, and an encouragement TO any that
il may hereafter be desirable to have
erected on that line, and It has become a
necessity 10 this Arm, as their competitors
in Richmond aud elsewhere have now