The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-11-18


was held last night with the following
members present: Boehm. Clingenpeel,
Crabill, Davies, Dickerson, Duggan,
Fackenthall, Graves. Groves. McClell-
and, Hough, johnson, Moomaw, Pattie,
Stevenson, Strickland, Terry and Presi.
dent Buckner.
Council took up the regular order of
business, which was reading the calen-
dar. The first bill on the calender was
bill No. SO, which is an ordinance
guaranteeing interest on bonds Of SlO,-
900 for the city hospital. On motion of
s. Hamilton Graves the bill was passed
by.
The clerk then read bill No. "a, which
is an ordinance providing rules and
regulations governing City Council.
These rules are similar to the ones by
which Council is now governed. On
motion this was adopted.
The next ordinance was bill No. s.,
providing for the opening of Chestnut
street and urcbasing property necessary
thereto. On motion of Mr. Pattie this
was laid on the table.
Bill No. GO was next read, which pro-
vides fines to be imposed on any one
clinRing to the street cars for the pur-
pose OF surreptitiously stealing a ride.
On motion OF Mr.. Stevenson the penalty
was fixed at S. and the bill was adopted
The next bill taken up was bill No.
So, prohibiting anyone from making use
OF obscene or profane language or post
ing obsce ne pictui on the street or die
tributing obscene literature or obscene
pictures on the streets or in public.
This was offered by Mr.. Groves at a
previous meeting. The penalty attached
is not less than $40 or more than $50
Mr.. McClelland and Mr.. Groves spoke
in favor of the bill. The bill was
amended by striking out the section
relating to pictures and adopted.
The next bill was an ordinance offered
by Mr.. Groves requiring. interest on
daily balances OF city money in banks
and named as city repositories the
First National Bank, the Commercial
Bank and the Exchange Bank, This
was placed on the calendar.
The street committee made a report
on bill SO, which was offered by Mr..
Groves, to employ one hundred men at
fifty cents q day to do street work. The
Committee thought the bill very i'm
prac ttcable, would run the city to q
great expense, and not halfsthe money
expended would reach the benefioiaries,
as 1t would cost great deal to furnish
material, tools and foremen. The COM
mittee embodied in the report resolu-
ton that when anyone received aid
from the Overseers of the poor and
wanted to repay the city, the board of
public works could employ them to
work on the streets.
A petition from the Y. M. G. A. that
an electric light be placed at the inter
section OF Kirk avenue and Jefferson
street was read by Mr.. Groves and re-
ferred to the light committee.
The report of the street committee
was again read and discussed. Mr..
Buckner, Mr.. Pattie in the chair, spoke
in favor Of the adoption of the report,
and said bill SO was really in favor OF
the moneyed men of the city. He
showed how the laborer would only get
about S6.25 after shaving his script, how
1t would establish standard Of SO cents
day for labor; 1t would bankrupt the
city and inundate the treasury with
script run in by capitalists. who would
purchase 1t at ruinous prices with which
to pay taxes. He would vote to sustain
the report Of the street committee.
On the vote being taken the vote stood
ayes, II, and noes, /; Mr.. Groves being
the only one to vote in the negative.
Mr.. Groves then offered another bill
which is to the effect that during the
winter months the board of public works
be empowered to employ twenty-five
men with families at 81 day to work
On the streets, the money to come out of
the recent tag bill offered by himself,
taxing corporations of various kinos as
long as there was any money of that
kind in the treasury. Mr.. Moomaw
moved that this bill also be referred to
the street committee.
Mr.. Hough made speech rejecting
on the charity of the Council because it
refused to refund pound fine of 81 re-
commended by himself at q former
meeting. Mr. Fackenthall said that state.
ment was fsliacious and that he would
ten times over rather give the 81 him
self than to vote 1t on the city, which
ne thought would be illegal. Mr..
Moomaw also thought the remarks of
the gentleman from the Fourth ward
were unjust.
The vote was on the motion to refer
to the street committee. The result
was Is to 8. The three negative votes
were Boehm, Groves and Hough.
A communication was read from Sewer
Constructors Dyer, Vaughan & Co. say
ing they would be willing to continue
work If the city would issue to them
warrants for the amount, and the war
rants would not be hooked about the
street, but they had made arrangements
to place the warrants with monied
people. This was referred to the finance
and street committees.
The fire and water committee re-
ported resolution asking for hydrant
to be placed on Bullitt street g. @. They
recommended that the Armour Packing
Company be allowed to build a CORFU.
gated iron building in rear of their
place on Norfolk avenue. The report