Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-18
WORK ON TIE BUDGET
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE ENTERS
UPON THIS IMPORTANT MATTER.
The NEEDS OF The DEPARTMENTS.
NenrIy All Of Them Ask for More
Money Than They Had Last Year
Streets Make an Appenl Tor over
800, OOO-The Charities.

The Finance Committee listened for
three hours last night to the pleas OF the
heads of various departments OF the city
government and others who have an IN
terest in~the budget which Is now being
framed.
Not a single department represented
before the committee last night appeared
| TO be content with last years appropria-
| ton. and In every instance an increase
was asked for-and very material In
creases some OF them were.
| IL IS the ambition and hope Of the COM
mittee to frame such budget as will
readily pass both branches of the Coun-
ell. but with the conviction abroad that
the citys treasury is in very healthy
and affuent condition, it seems prob
able that the progress of the budget
through both branches will be stubbornly
contested.
The work of framing It has been divided
amongst subcommittee, which VIII go
TO work at once. and the regular COM
mittee will meet again next TUESDAY
night TO accomplish the task, If posslple
A strenuous effort will be made to SUD
NIT the budget at the February meeting
Of the Council.
MANY PRESENT THEIR CLAIMS.
Every member of the committee was
present at last nights meeting eAcep'
Mr.. COttrell. -. l.,
DIR. J. A. White appeared in the III
terest of the Eye and Ear lniirmary' MISE
Mary Greenhow for the Home lor III
curabes, and Mrs. Charles T. W aloI'
asked that the appropriation LOT III
= Belle Bryan Day Nursery shouiu DC e'"
tinued. -.
Mr. Marx Gunst pressed the claims OF
D | the Grounds and Buildings Committee
( and asked for $40 49, 20, very consider
9 able increase. Colonel Cutshaw also
: spoke in support of this petition lie out
Q lined improvements under contemplated
l. AT Reservoir Park and TO the lake HI
s advocated at some length the necessl,'
II Of completing the road from fulton L
.-himborazo Park, at cost or httl'
Is over $500
" Mr.. Mann s. Quarles represented tn
= Mechanics Institute. and asked an In
re crease OF 81. 900. making the approp1au
e Sc 600 for the year, so as to help the insti
" tuition to found school Of technology.
:" Mr.. G.. g. Bosher asked for an increas
D. for the Police Patrol making the apprc
priatoiJ $500 to meet needs estimate
at 1858
st FRAGMENT OF THE REGIMENT.
p Captain Crawford, OF Company ID, Fir:
20 Virginia Regiment, appeared before II
% committee I'm the interest of the two r.
- naming companies of the old ESTABLISH
~ ment. Since the regiment would IN a
H. probability be disbanoed, he asked TN
ch these two Notwithstanding fort
10
IL at the present time-should each recei'
a from the city the sum Of sos for miital
us purposes. These companies, he sal
Is would constitute the only infantry In q
es' city and would hold themselves in rea
| mess for any service.
XII CAPTAIN Curtis advocated the Apr
ne priation OF s29, $50 for the Department
ne James-River Improvement, the MAJ
Oh portion OF which-sl5,Wo- be used
M dykeing the harbor. The different Wa
res i'm which II is intended TO spend Il
We money were outlined by Colonel Cutsha
Sergeant Shinberger appeared for
Police Department. and asked for $40
ditional to meet water bills which W.
now being forced upon them.
uit DR.. Chris. Tompkins asked for llbe
aid for the City Dispensary and the
Dominion Hospital. and Mr.. Edgar
IN Taylor pleaded the cause of the Virgil
on, | Hospital.
go Or. Oppenhimer took as the text OF
address before the committee, Clear
MS ness Means Health" and he asked Tor
elk, | increase of 5000 over last year.
cen MUST HAVE BETTER STREETS.
tn. Major Allen made an earnest app
70 for the Street Department. The CT
he said, cannot exist without impro'
oi streets; they are the veins and arteI
ex- of the corporation. and they turn i
the treasury C6 2-S Of the whole revenu
the Colonel Cutshaw followed. The !
needs Of the department were sSl5'
en- but il had been decided to ask Tor $i5''
ore Even with such an appropriation
,rk. would still take two years to do the W
6 Il that is badly needed.
,ost Mr.. John Frischkorn asked for the SO
az ries Of eighteen men of the FIRE Depa
no ment to be increased from $50 to $40,
Inr. 500 a year extra for each OF the
ono chiefs. and for s. a month more for IN
nre-telegraph men.
Ion Mr. Charles HutZler, who represen
r,' the schools, asked for an increase
LII 3 100. The items of the appropria'
az asked for are: Payroll $4,000; gene
the | "A. 81 1 40,