Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-14
THE NEW CITY HALL.
A Structure That WIZ Answer Rich
mond's Needs for a Century to Come.

A Structure That VIII Answer Rich-
mond's Needs for a Century to Come.
Now that all the outer work on the new
CITY Hall is about completed much specu-
lation is rife as TO when IT Will be ready
for occupancy and where the various Of
fees will be located.
In order to be able to answer correctly
all the questions that have been asked
him DISPATCH man yesterday made a
careful study of the plans which, by the
way, cost the city about $4,000.
The building will be practically fire.
proof. The foorings in front of the
counters in the various offices and in the
corridors will be laid with encaustic tiles.
Behind the counters and in the compare,
lively private rooms wooden flooring Will
be used.
STRONG AND LIGHT.
The floors will be very strong and light.
Terra-cotta arching, supported on iron
beams, will be filed in with concrete until
perfectly level, and on tins the flooring
will be laid. This work has been COM
pleted on the fourth and third floors, ana
Is now being pushed ahead on the second.
Counting apartments of all kinds there
will be about 125 rooms IN the building.
While the hall will have about 100000
square feet of hoor-room in the basement
and four stories, only some 60 per cent. OF
rooms. In order to light the offices pro
perry 1t will be necessary TO have a great
many skylights and corridors.
Three elevators side by side at the north
western corner of the main Broad:street
entrance will insure easy access to all por-
tlons of the building.
The only outside work not yet finished is
the roofing TO the high tower on the Tenth
street end of the structure.
10 "a the prppctatiOp of those IN control
that by July 1, 1892, the building will be
finished, furnished, and ready for occu-
pancy.
DOWN IN THK CELLAR.
The allotment of offices is at present
about as follows:
BASEMENT.
Police-Court room on the Broad-street
side with Office for Clerk and Police Justice
adjoining at either end. Here will also be
located the Superintendent of Public
Charities, Coroner, Board of Health, and
cells for the temporary confinement OF
prisoners who are to be tried in either the
Hastings or Police Courts.
FIRST FLOOR.
Broad-Street Side: Chief of Police,
Mayor, Auditor. Treasurer.
Tenth Street Treasurer. Collector.
Capitol Street Collector, Assessor, Su.
perintendent of Gas-WoTks, Superlntend-
ent of Water Works.
Eleventh Street: Police Commissioners
SECOND FLOOR.
Broad-Street side: Clerk Of Hastings
Court, record room OF Chancery Court
Clerk and Judge of Chancey Court.
Tenth Street; Chancery Court room
Sheriff's office.
Capitol Street: Judge of Hastings
Court, Judge of City Circuit Court. Cir
cuit-Court room.
Eleventh Street: Witness room, Hus-
ting-Court room.
Each of the court-rooms has consulta
ton room for attorneys and clients at
tached.
THIRD FLOOR.
Broad-Street Side Engineer and assist
ants, drawing-room, petit Jury Hastings
Court room, Council committee rooms
Sergeant-at-Arms.
Tenth-Street: Clerk of Council, Council
chamber. president of Council.
Capitol-Street: City Attorney, grand
jury rooms, witness rooms, jury OF Circuit
Court.
Eleventh Street Sheriff g room, jury o.
Circuit Court, City Engineers clerks.
The fourth floor Is mostly unassigned
II is proposed 20 have a large library OIL
the Broad-street front. A good deal of Il
will be occupied by the hre-alaIm depart
ment.
The School Board will have it's room a
the Tenth and Capitol corner OF this story
Every official Will have an Office for th'
transaction of business which demands
secrecy.