Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-15
NO NEW POSITIONS.
STRONG FEELING AMONG ALDER
MEN AGAINST THEIR CREATION.
SALARIES WON'T Be ADVANCED.
There VIII lie a strong Fight
Against ANY RESOLUTIONS to This
End-prcsident TuFpiu Throws
Down the Gauntlet.
Down the Gauntlet.

The Board Of Aldermen met in the City
Hall last night and concurred in a num-
Der Of resolutions passed by the Common
Council providing for street Improvements.
But little new business was transacted.
The president Of the Board took very
decided stand against the creation Of new
offices or the increase of present salaries.
a lively debate along these lines was pro-
vokcd by the proposed amendment TO the
ordinance regulating the Board Of Health
and creating the position OF clerk 10 the
Board at a salary Of $500 a year. The
amendment was snatched from the fire
after # had been defeated. ana was thon
laid upon the table. but the one thing
clearly demonstrated by the argument
ana the .osult of it was that the Board is
not IN sympathy with the applications for
advances" that Mr.. Turpin feels care
In the air.
The following members OF the Board
were present at the meeting: Messrs.
Allen. Bahcn. Burton. Donahoe, Drewry.
ferriter. Hardwcke, King. Lawder.
Mosby, Montgomery, Seay. Snead, Smith,
Nmttet, Gordon. ana Turpin.
The Board concurred in appropriations
Tor the following street improvements:
TWO hundred dollars for granite curbing
on the east side of Foushee street, be-
tween Broad and Grace; $l25 reset curb
and gutter. west side Of Fifth street, from
Franklin to alley; 800 granite tagging,
east side Twenty-seventh street, crossing
Clay; 500 tagging south side Clay. cross
ing Twenty-seventh 800 Tagging. west
side Twenty-ninth, crossing Grace; 1882
granite curb and gutter, south side OF
pleasant street. from Scott TO Randolph;
S2OO0 pave rOad-bed of Cary street, Tween
sy-second TO Twenty-fOurth; $3.50 granite
curb. etc, north side OF Lowndes street.
seventeenth 10 Concord; $40 reset curb
and gutter on east and west sides of
Nineteenth street. from Main 20 Frank
lin: $50 pave sidewalk, west side Seventh
street, Fulton. orleans to Louisiana; 81 ,l2j
pave road-bed of Nicholson street. from
1lobson to Fifth Qultom; $3.50 granite
curb and gutter west side Thirtieth
street, Leigh TO NJ; $i56 granite curb and
gutter. east side Thrtieth street, VI TO
y; Si5o granite curb and gutter. north
eide Tweaty-eIghth street, Leigh to NJ;
1896 curb and gutter north side of Mar
shall street, Thirty-second TO Thirty-third;
$50 curb and gutter, north side Of
Broad. Thrty-second TO Thirty-third;
1896 curb and gutter. south side of Mar
shall street. Thirty-iirst 10 Thirty-second;
500 reset curb and gutter. north side of
Franklin street. Twenty-seventh to Twen-
ty-eighth; Si.S2O to pave road-bed Main
street, Beech TO Short; 81, 100 TO pave
Ioad-bed Cary street. BelVidere 10 Laurel;
$40 TO pave road-bed Cherry street, Albe-
marie TO Beverly; 1875 TO lay road-bed
on Clay street Madison 10 Henry; $500
curb and gutter north side of rank
lin. Henry tosliyland; sos curb and gut
ter north side of China street, Cherry TO
LAUREL 1890 curb and gutter south side
Beverly. Beividerc 70 Pine $40 curb ana
gutter east side OF Reservoir street. from
Main TO Cary; 500 curb and gutter west
side OF Beech street. Main 20 Cary, SO
To lay Tagging on north side of Floyd
avenue, crossing Morris street 500 flag
gng, west side OF Morris street. crossing
Grove avenue; SO Tagging. south side Of
Cumberland. crossing Cherry; ST.. flag
ing on west side of Beech. crossing Cary.
HEALTH BOARDS CLERK.
The amendment TO the ordinance which
governs the Board OF Health. creating the
position Of clerk TO the board at a salary
OF $500 a year, was strongly opposed by
President Turpin. Hitherto. he said. the
clerk had appeared upon the payroll as
strect-sweeper. and had received $50 a
day. There was not a bank in Richmond
he argued. that PAID it's clerks an aver
age OF $500 a year. and he was in favor OF
bringing the city salaries down 10 the
level of salaries paid by business concerns
in the city. This amendment he said
was the logical result of the newspaper
boom in city finances, and was the thin
end OF the wedge for multitude of SINH
lar applications.
Mr.. HardwiclNe and Mr.. Burton favored
the amendment. The clerk they said.
was required 10 be in the health Office
every day in the week: his duties are ar
ducus and cXacting. and the sum OF $l5 a
month. which he now receives il deemed
inadequate.
Dir. Allen took the president 10 task for
advocating day labor. and said he might
nave saved the city great deal more
money by opposing day labor than by OPP
posing this increase. There is a MOVE
ment all along the line for mcreasos in
the salaries OF city officials" said Mr. Al
len, ana he declared that he would GER
fainiy resist such increases but IN the
present instance he had learned that the
once ought TO be created, and that the
salary proposed would not be too much.
The Board refused 10 concur in tho
amendment BY vote OF ayes, ); noes. G.
its adoption requiring two thirds vote.