The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-03-28
FROM THE CITY HALL.
TIE NEW GENITAL SCHOOL WILL
SOON BE READY.
Important Meeting of tho Com miitee on
strcsts-To Protect Railroad Crossings.
Supplies for Water Department.

completion. The furniture for the same
has been ordered. and will soon be put
In the building AS soon as this is done
the building will be formally turned over
TO the school board by the Council Com
mittee on Schools. 1t is expected that
school will be ready for occupancy by
May LIST. The Davis Mansion, which Is
now used as Central School. will then be
turned over to the ladies Of the Confei-
crate Memorial Museum Association.
This organization will then at once
begin to have the building fitted up for
the purpose for which the city presented
1t to the ladies. to be used as a museum
for the preservation OF Confederate relics.
special room will be assigned to each
one of the Southern States.
Quite number of relics were secured
by the ladies' during the Confederate
bazaar, held year ago in the regimental
armory, and they will form a nucleus
for the coming museum of the South.
which will become very valuable and will
be OF great Importance for the study OF
details in connection with the late war.
10 kepai Eigh,n stree
The Committee on Streets will hold its
monthly meeting in room No. of the
session will be rather important one, and
among the business TO be transacted
Will be the awarding OF the contract for
the repairing OF Eighth street north of
Leigh, and the restoring of the tunnel
underneath In a safe condition. The APP
preparation made for that work is $4,000.
and bids Will be received until this even
ing az o'clock.
Bids for the construction of sewers
ala h.. han IN ~ I'M
and the committee will give out the
contracts for the following sewers:
sewer constructed OF brick, with dame
ter Of G6 inches, I'm Harrison street, from
Broad street to Bacon Quarter Branch;
on Broad street from Harrison 10 Lom-
hardy street sewer 80 by IS inches, in
Lombardy street from Broad to Harri-
son streets and a sewer - by 30 inches
on Hanover street from Lombardy to
Walnut street. This system of sewers is
intended TO secure the necessary drain
age for that part Of Lee district which
two years ago, by an act Of the Legisla-
ture, was taken into the limits Of the
city Of Richmond
Contracts for the following other sewers
will also be given out: On Marshall
street from Nineteenth street TO Shockoe
creek, 90 inches In diameter; I'm Twenty
ninth street from Marshall 10 Clay street.
l6 by q inches. in Randolph street from
Ashland TO Beverly street. IS inches in
diameter in Beverly street. west Of Ran
dolph street. IS inches I'm diameter; in
VI street, near Twenty-eighth street. IS
by "A inches, and sewers with diameter
OF Y inches in Twenty-ninth street, from
Clay 10 Leigh street: In Twenty-sixth
street, from Marshall to Clay street, and
in Beech street from Floyd street to
Grove avenue.
Considerable interest has been shown on
the part Of contractors In these proposed
Improvements and quite number Of
them have called at the City Engineers
Office during the past few days in order
to familiarize themselves with the plans
and specifications preparatory to the sub
hitting of proposals.
-uup 10 De Depar mem.
The Committee on Water at its monthly
meeting next Thursday evening at Z
O'Clock will give out the contract for
the furnishing OF the supplies needed |
by the department during the present |
year Proposals will be received in the |
Office Of the Water Department until noon |
on that day. These proposals call FOR hy- !
drants, gate valves of various sizes, guam I
titles of iron pipes from 4 inches 20 3S |
inches in diameter. stop-cock boxes. brass /
work OF various kinds, digging OF trenches |
and paving.
Nicotine. fa-pis.
The following committees. besides the |
Committee on Streets, will hold meetings |
to-day:
The Committee on Fire Department
in room No. T. Of the City Hall at |
F. ~. and the Committee on Cemeteries |
in room No. II, at ESQ p. NJ
" ~ Ws'chm b y cessarv?
Messrs. Allen. Bahen and Boykin. from
the subcommittee Of the Committee on
Streets appointed 10 look into the ne
cessity for night watchmen at the cross
ings Of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway !
on Marshall and Brown streets. met yes
terday afternoon az o'clock at the
Broad-street depot and inspected the
ground mentioned. They ascertained that
watehmen are stationed at both points
from 4. NJ TO =. ". and they were
informed that all the fatal accidents
In that part Of the city had occurred of
the crossings and al places which
Waterman would be unable to protect.
The railroad tracks running out Seven
teenth street are used more or less as
public highway. and any number Of men
could not easily prevent occasional acct
dents.
The subcommittee will present its re-
port to the general committee this even
ing.
Law and Equ " Court.
Judg Minor yesterday admitted the
following attorneys to the practice or law
In the Law and Equity Court: Messrs.
John y. Minor. George Ainslie. ;. ). T.
Patteson. Edmund Waddin, Jr., and
George J. Hooper, Jr.
In the case Of the Williams Lumber
T. m
vas entered providing for the sale Of the
property levied on under an attachment
Circuit out
In the Circuit Court before Judge Wei
ord Yesterday the following convicts
we're given a sentence OF an additional
i've years 70 serve in the penitentiary for
having been found guilty OF second Of
ences: James Morgan. James Braxton
md Milton Haynes.
The case Of r. r. Chaffin 6 co. against
:. 4. Hundley was removed 10 the new
law and Equity Court.
Right Rev Augustine Van de Nyver
was admitted as citizen Of the United
states.
Hu~tinr- Court.
The only criminal case tried before
fudge s. b. Witt in the Hastings Court
yesterday was that Of David Brown,
'harged with breaking and entering the
rouse of Mrs. Ethel Rice, with intent to
commit larceny. The accused was ac-
Quilted.
The balance Of the day was taken up
With the disposing Of civil cases on the
Iocket.
The clerk Of the court yesterday issued
he following marriage licenses
Mr.. Lysander B. Watson 10 Mrs Emma
|. Pace both Of Richmond.
Mr. George $. Vashon, Of Henrico, TO
liss Edmonla Barrett. OF Richmond.
Mr. Harvey A. Bawsel 10 Miss Lizzie