Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-03
NO CHANGE OF PLAN.
MANCHESTER STREET COMMITTEE
PREFER PRESENT SYSTEM.
FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Richmond HALLWAY and Electric
Company To Furnish Them for Five
Yenrs-A Missing Boy-uarringe I'm
AIbemarIe-Othcr Items.

nj lUttllIH VI INT AidDtHtH-
ter Police Commissioners and Street Com
mittee was held last evening in the Po-
lice-Court room. The session was a joint
one, and there were present OF the Po-
lice Commissioners Hon. II. A. Maurice.
chairman. and Messrs. Hart. Utz Davis.
and Campbell; and of the Street Com
mittee, Messrs. Sims (chairman), Hart,
Morton, and Campbell. The occasion OF
this meeting lay in a motion, carried In
the Council IN its recent meeting. when
considering the report Of the Retrench-
ment Committee that. before this re-
port came before the body finally, joint
sessions be held by the several Council
committees especially affected by the
report, and afIix to the suggestions Of
the Committee on Retrenchment their
approval or dlsapproval. That Of the
Retrenchment Committees recommends
tions, which came before this joint ses-
sion. reads as follows
The employment OF competent man,
at salary not 10 exceed so per month,
TO take charge Of and superintend all
work done by the street hands NOW SUI
perintended by the City EngineeD; said
officer to be under the direction of the
chairman Of the Street Committee but
he shall have power TO employ and dis
charge for cause. and exercise all inn
mediate control over his force. The
wages for day labor shall be from II 10
u IL cents per hour.
THAT the application for clerk from
the Mayor of the city is recommended
90 e. ri ~ Dq1fqa
Commissioners, to arrange Tor the per-
Torrance of the duties of such posi-
ton by one of the policemen, TO be named
for that purpose"
These suggestions were carefully con-
sidered, and without a dissenting vote
IL was decided to recommend to the
Council, at its meeting on March 9Th,
that this part of the committees report
be rejected. and that no change what
ever be made in these departments. This
outcome will entail upon the Council
the rather perplexing problem Of decid-
ing which committees report to adopt.
THE LIGHT CONTRACT AWARDED.
The adjourned session Of the Com
mittee on Light met i'm the Council Cham
Der last evening, and awarded the con-
tract for furnishing the city with lights
10 inc INttuilDilh lkoilnoJ eAtNA A--~~N--~
Company The city Is at present get
ting its lights from this company. The
new contract is a lease for five years,
and agrees to give the city lights OF
1,2O0-candle power at 16 cents per night
each, and provides that, should the COM
pany within the five years reduce the
prices now paid for lights i'm Richmond,
Manchester shall receive a like reduc-
ton. 1t also provides that, II Manches-
ter I'm these years decides 10 have and
operate a plant Of its own, the contract
for five years shall then become void
The committee met to award the con-
tract on the evening Of February 3D.
but at the request of Mr.. A. j. Bradley
who also made a bid, action was deferred
until last night, that he might consult
those with whom he associated. That
gentleman appeared before the commit
tee last evening and withdrew his bid.
The present contract expires April lst
A BOY WANTED.
A message came to Captain Lipscomb,
Chief of Police Of Manchester, yester-
day from Petersburg. which reads as
follows: Emmett Goodwin left his
home. in Petersburg, on Wednesday
February 9th, and IS supposed TO be in
Manchester or Richmond. Aged 10
Years, HtlkHlt UDDAA - ANNA tAAN.AAt'F
large. gray eyes: light hair; full fore
head lefthanded. dark clothes, gray cap,
shoes badly worn. Arrest and phone
Chief Of Police, Petersburg, Va. j. VI.
Goodwin"
The police OF Manchester have learned
nothing 50 far about the wanderings OF
this boy, but youth who In many re-
spects answers the description in their
hands, spent Monday night in the sta
tion-house. He reached the city about
o'clock that evening. and telling Cap
tain Lipscomb he had no home, no
money, and nowhere 10 sleep. begged
to be allowed to spend the night in the
station. In talking about himself later
he was very reticent, but 1t was hnally
extracted from him that his parents were
both dead; that ne came from Pennsyl-
yania: had stopped for some time IN
Mathews county. and that he was 60
ing out in the county 10 get work on
farm. He had In his hand a corn-shuck-
ing peg. 1t is true that his infection
is decidedly Yankee, but that might
have been assumed and while it is by no
means certain that he is the boy wanted,
IL is certain that in eyes, In forehead
and hair, and in dress he fulfilled every
requirement OF the message. The police
were in hopes he would come back last
night. but he took particular pains not 10
do so.
CONDITION OF MR.. MOODY.
The condition of Mr.. e. f. Moody, the
stone-mason Of Manchester who was very
dangerously injured Monday afternoon
In Richmond in being run down by a
street-car. continues very grave. He IS
still at the Retreat for the Sick in Rich
mond, and his physicians say he is i'm
proying. and they think he will recover,
but no one outside his sons and daughters
were allowed to see him yesterday. Rev
J. o. Babcock, pastor Of the tffth-Street
church though not Mr. Moody's pastor
went to Richmond to see him yesterday,
but was turned away because 1t was
thought unwise to admit any one to see
the sick man. Mr. MOody's sons are mem
bers of Fifth-Street church, but he Is
himself a member of Meade-Memorial.
MARRIED AT wINDIKNOwE
Mr Albert Cheafe and Miss Malvina
Terrill Minor were married at Windi-
knowe, Albemarle county, last night at
o'clock Miss Mary Cox, Mr.. W. b. Cox,
and Mr.. Richard T. Minor, Of this city
were present at the nuptials, and were
of the ceremony. Miss Minor
Is n pretty and attractive young lady, and
well known in Manchester, where she mas
recently visited relatives. The groom is
and enterprising young man.
The mortuary report for February, as
submitted by DR.. Lawrence Ingram. Presi-
dent of the city's Board of Health, IS as
follows: Total number Of deaths, l0-white'
8; colored, 8. Number OF deaths-Flrst
Ward. o; Second Ward. l; Third Ward, 4;
Fourth Ward. s. Cause OF death-Conge-
tion OF stomach, i; infantile commissions
I. pneumonia, 3; phthisic pulmonalis, 2;
acute diarrhoea. L. whooping cough, /;
capillary bronchitis. l.
SAM. HALL BEFORE THE MAYOR.
The continued case of Sam. Hall was
again called before Mayor Maurice yes
terday morning, and the accused was
sent on TO the grand jury. han Is lhe
negro who shot and seriously ana ~
,,,as thought at first fatally, wounded