Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-11
FOR COMPASSIONATE
ALDERMEN CONCUR IN ORDINANCE
GRANTING THE PRIVILEGE.
MR.. 1URPIN ON PUBLIC OFFICES.
He Opposes Dook-kecper for the
Engineers Department.. and Urges
Dining Away With Some other
pIaces-Hold Their Places Open.

Piaces-HoId Their Places Open.
The Board OF Aldermen held spirited
meeting last night, and concurred in
large batch of ordinances that passed the
Council at it's last session. The franchise
granting the use Of surplus water at the
New pump-house to Joseph II. Hoadley
and others, for a compressed-air plant,
was concurred in. AMI it was also agreed
TO give certain city employees half holt
day on Saturdays, and permit all who so
desired to enlist I'm the United States
army. without sacrificing their positions.
The Board was slow in getting to work.
and It was half after o'clock when Mr..
Turpin raped the members to order.
Clerk August called the roll, and the fol-
lowing responded to their names:
Messrs. Allen, Bahen, Burton. Carter,
Cutchins, Hardwicke. King, Montgomery,
Moore, Iawder, Noble, Smith, Vaughan
zimmerman. and Turpin.
WATER AT BALL PARK.
The recommendation from the Commit
tee on Water. to permit the Richmond
! Baseball and Athletic Association to
| connect its park, on Broad street. with
the city water main. was adopted, not
withstandng that Mr.. Allen objected
thereto.
on recommendation of the Finance
Committee S105 was appropriated for the
purpose Of insuring the elevators in the
city Hall.
The Board concurred in the numerous
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agreed upon by the Common Council at
its last session.
The ordinance authorizing the Commit
tee on Streets TO pave Broad street in
front of the City Hall with asphalt
blocks or vitrihed bricks was called up,
having been passed by the Council. Mr..
Turpin called attention to the fact that
no amount was specified in the resolu-
ton as a limit to the expenditure, and
said he would not vote for such a sweep
ing resolution, no matter how much he
respected the committee to whom the
power was delegated.
Messrs. Carter and Allen reassured the
President by the statement that S,4O0 had
been appropriated for the work, and that
amount could not be exceeded. Upon this
statement the ordinance was concurred in.
THE ENGINEER's FORCE.
The ordinance to provide book-keeper
and accountant for the City Engineers
Department was taken up. Mr. Noble
asked the reason for an additional man in
The Engineers office, and Mr.. Allen re-
piled that the additional work placed on
the department necessitated ii. Mr.. Tur-
pin Olr Hardwcke i'm the chair spoke
against the ordinance asserting that If
the five men now i'm the Engineering De-
partment would attend TO their work like
h.
done without an extra man. The Council
is dropping back into its old slip-shOd
ways he said. and he was opposed 10 IT,
He thought the city finances could well
be handled by a city treasurer without
The aid Of a city collector, and thought
II would be as well for the city to abolish
the offices OF Superintendent Of Gas and
superintendent OF Water and merge them
under one great head with the Engineers
Department He was violently opposed TO
giving the City Engineer any more help;
he would prefer to make the men now
employed in his department do more
work.
MR.. MCARTHY'S EXPLANATION.
BY request Mr.. Mccarthy, the City Ac-
,ountant explained the workings of the
engineers Department, and clearly set
forth the necessity, as he saw it, of Gre
engineer. Mr.. Turpin Intercepted him,
and asked what the entire annual dis
3ursement Of the Engineers Department
was. Mr. Mccarthy said ii was about
$4,000.
Then Mr.. Turpin figured out that 10 per
cent. of the entire expenditures of the
Office was expended for clerical purposes
lie thought this was wrong.
Mr.. Carter favored the ordinance, and
- ri
Of the department. A recorded vote re-
sulted-ayes, 10; noes, sand the Ordi-
nance was declared lost, a two-thrds
vote being necessary to its passage. BY
motion Of Mr.. Cutchlns the vote was re-
considered. and the matter was laid on
the table.
The ordinance appropriating 1929 for i'm
provements 10 the city Jail was concur
red in.
The amended ordinance fixing the meter
rate TO be charged for water to con-
sumers, was called up. Mr.. Noble OPP
posed the whole thing. asserting that IL
was unjust TO charge those who had
purchased their own meters with the
cost thereof as would be done by this
ordinance Mr.. Allen suggested that il
would be well to adopt the ordinance and
then introduce a resolution 10 reimburse
the owners Of meters for the money thus
expended by them. The ordinance was
adopted by a vote OF 10 TO 6. Mr. Brock
having entered the hall.
II was agreed 10 grant Mrs. Ann T..
Grant the right 10 connect her flower
gardens with the city mains, and free
water was granted 10 the United States
Government at the camp. on west Broad
street. for the use OF the soldiers therein
eucamped.
COMPRESSED AIR.
At this juncture the ordinance grant
ing To Joseph III. Hoodley and others the
right TO use the waste water from the
new pump house for the purpose OF maxi
ing compressed afr for refrigerating pur-
poses, was called up.
A communication was read from the
Old Dominion Iron and Nail-Works pro-
testing against the franchise being grant
ed. II was contended In the COM
munication that 10 utilize the water as
contemplated by Mr.. Hoodley would ex-
tend the diversion of water from the
river. and would be prejudicial to the
Old Dominion company's riparian rights.