Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-12
WANT MORE WATER.
n PETITION FROM MkDlsoN-wARD
RESIDENTS TO THE BOARD.
This and Other Papers DAILY Referred
The Fire and Poitce-Commissioner
yacanoies-Comm Orenire.

| The first regular meeting OF the new
Board Of Aldermen was held last night.
Tho members present were President
Dickerson aud Messrs. Allen, Bahen, Car
ter, Cary. Davis. GRAY, Hardwicke, Mitch
ell, Mountcastle. Moore. Reeve. Tanner.
Taylor, Turpin, and White.
There we're NJ reports from the commit
tees. as none of them had held regular
meetings Nothing came up from the
| Council and the body only heard new busl-
ness.
Mr. Carter submitted the petition Of tie
Richmond and Seven Pines railroad 10 run
an electric line on 1wenty-ninth Stree.
from the corporate limits to street. III
was referred TO the Committee on Streets.
By request OF the two gentlemen Messrs.
| Gray. o. the Grounds aud Buildings Iobl-
mittee. and Tanner. of the Street Com
| mittee, were allowed 10 change places.
| A petition for curbing on the south SIDE
Of Main street between Morris and hesfr-
vOir streets. submitted 10y Mr.. DAVIS, was
referred 10 the Committee on Streets.
WANT MORE WATER II MADISON WARD.
A Observation-Disclosures petition was
| handed in by Mr. Reeve asking for a bet
| ter supply OF water in Madison Ward. The
paper reads:
I'VE again petition your honorable body to
| afford NJ relief by giving u q reasonable supply
| OF the wAtor we arc paving for After our pe,-
| tlun 81 Inst year there was an improvement IN
that respect Tor about six weeks, which leads US
20 suppose that IL Ia possible for you 10 40 10.
| Tho comfort and health Of our families require
| that We should have plenty Of water. The Coln-
| I'll and Aldermen have heretofore failed to act
either On the recommendation Of the supern-
| tendenf % Water. or tho suggestions OF we'll
| Informed citizens"
lhi. was signed by about twenty Of the
best prOperV-Owners IN Madison Nard.
Referred to the Committeo on Water
The Board then adjourned.
FIRE and Police Commissioners.
The Board OF Public Interests met in the
| Council chamber az $50 O'clock last
night. Ii was presided over by President
| Glover, of the Common Council, and those
present were Messrs. Taylor, j. W. White,
| Trower, CARRIER. Mcdowell. Christian. and
| Straus. Clerk August read the resolution
! IN obedience 10 which the session was
called. The first matter was the nomina-
| tion Of three candidates for police cont
missioner from Marshall Ward. one Of
whom shall be elected IN the place of Mr..
| J. h. Welsh, whose term of Office expires.
| The names of Messrs. Welsh. J. X. Lamkin.
James Hayes, and A. W. Archer We're pre-
sented and the trst-named three received
| the largest number OF votes and tne,r
/ uhIlIt@ were recommended W lut ARuiANlts
| Three names were submitted tor the nre
commssionershIp in Monroe Ward and
We're voted for by each member Of the
| Board They were Messrs. Joseph l.. Levy,
| T. +. Minor. and Edward I. Eckl-s.
! For the place on the Board OF Fire Com
missioners vacated by the resignation of
Mr.. ". j. Gentry, Messrs. Thomas Byrne.
james K. Sheppard. }. /. Henshaw. and
| Edward Allen were placed IN nomination.
Messrs. Sheppard, Allen, and henshaw
were recommended to the Council and the
body adjourned.
| Committees that Organized.
| Al O'Clock yesterday afternoon the Commit
tee ON Second Market WIS organized by electing
| Mr. james +. Ferrter chairman and Mr.. }. W.
| White sub-chairmau. l.. II. Marlowe was
| elected sweeper at the market-hOuse, but his
assistant will not be chosen until the next se--
| sion OF the committee. Regular meetings VIII
| be hell at $3.50 O'Clock p. NJ. on the last Thurs
| day OF each month.
Tho Third-Market Committee met ~ o'clock
| and elected Nessrs. K. ii. Boykin chairman ani
| james III. Bahen sub-chairman. IL will meet az
| z o clock on the third Wednesday evening IN
| each month. The question ot paving around
the nnrkpf-hOuse arose and Mr. II. l.. Carter cA-
| planned that the body would have to get spe-
claI appropriation or do the work out 81 iis an
nual allowance, as tho appropriation from Tue
Committee on Streets would hardly cover THESE
| extra matters.
| The Committee on ST. Johns Burying-Ground
Organized with the election of Mr. }. ". Carter
| As chairman. aud decided 70 meet ~ $3.50 !. NJ
on the last Friday IN each month NJ the cem"'
| terry. Antonio Graffgna was reelected keeper
| Of the place.
| Mr.. j. L. Mountcaste was chosen chairman
! OF the Committee ON lire-Aarm ana fohc,
| Telegraph when IL met for organization lhs'
| evening. This body always meets SUBJECT 10 th'
call OF the chairman. go
| 4 called meeting Of the Committee on Healit
| was held yesterday evening and the mOntLll
| bills AMI pay-rOlls were approved.
TO MEET TODAY.
| There was 70 have been m organization ses
| sion Of the Committee on Retrenchment and Re
| form Yesterday afternoon, but only two mem
| berr OF the body we're present. and 1t was post
| pOned until this evening at o'clock. The Com
| mit;ee on Shockoe Greek will also assemble to
| organization az $40 o'clock this afternoon ah'
| nj Is T.. NJ. the Committee on Relief OF the roo
| will meet az the Council chamber and go'out u
| the almshouse, where the hrst regular Dhslhes
| session oi that body will be held.
Mr sheppard Resigns.
The resignation Of Captain j. r. sheppard
| frst assistant engineer OF tho fire department
| va received and accepted by the Board OF flr'
| Cornmissioncrs at their meeting last night
| THIS being the month for the annual reJrganlfa
| ton OF tie board, Mesars. John II. trschhori
| and G.. Watt Taylor, present mcumbents, were
| unanimously reelected president anu wee
| prest lent respectively for the ensuing year
| Messrs. Richard II. Tree and Matthias Molly
| were chosen substitutes In the fire department