The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-04
Mr.. West Changes OF Roll Call and
the Ordinance is Agreed Upon.
TO ABATE THE DOG NUISANCE.
Mr.. BIoomberg Submits a Paper in
This Connection, Which Is Refer
redto Finance eCommittce-Pro-
position to Let City Employees
Stop Work at 2 p. NJ.
SAT- urdays.

The Common Council, during the course
Of long and tedious session last night
adopted the Glenn curfew ordinance. re-
quiring all children under fifteen years
Of ageito be off the streets by $50 P. NJ.
in winter time and by 9 P. M. in summer
time When Clerk August finished the
roll-csn ON the measure the vote stood
thirteen to thirteen, and would have been
lest had not Councilman John T. West
changed his vote from no to aye. Mr..
West was promptly followed in this re-
spect by Mr.. S. II. Cottrell, and the ballot
as announced was fifteen ayes to eleven
nays.
Tie Council first heard the report of the
Committee on Streets authorizing the hear
ing of a number of allegations for street
improvements. which We're authorized.
After some discussion the resolution pro-
y:ding for the re-establishment of a grade
on Peasants Street was recommended to
the Committee on Streets.
The City Attorney was directed to take
such action as he might deem necessary
to recover from the Richmond Traction
Company and the Richmond Passenger
and Power Company such sums as these
companies have caused in damage to crty
FOR STREET WORK.
From the Street Committee also came
some resolutions providing for street in-
provements and making appropriations for
the same as follows:
Approprating s264 from the fund for
paving alleys for owners to pave the alley
ON the east side of First Street, between
Main and Franklin Streets.
Appropriatlng $40 from the furd for
paving alleys for owners to pave the alley
on the south side of Clay Street, between
Twenty-third Street and Church Hill Ave-
nue..
Both these were adopted. but an ordi-
nance from the Committee on Relief of
the Poor, providing compensation Tor the
cook of the cotored almshouse, was. on
motion Of NJ. 4Gsunst, referred to the Com
m!1tee on Finance. This ordinance does
not create a new position, but allows pay
for AN old one, which ne heretofore has
filled without pay.
The Council agreed to resolutions ap-.
propriating S1.500 to purchase coal to be
distributed through the city mission to the
poor of the city, and appropriatins $500
to purchase coal and fuel for the colored
poor Of Richmond.
A resolution appropr.ating $50 from the
contingent fund for the purpose of satis-
flying a judgment recently obtained by T.
H Jackson against the city in the Law
and Equity Court, was adopted.
The Council agreed to give forty trees
from the city nursery to the Masonic
Home of Virginia.
F. NJ. Conner was paid 500 for the tres
pass Of the city upon his property at No.
800 West Grace Street by the location Of
tool-house upon the same.
INCREASE FOR LIGHT
From the Committee on Finance also
came the recommendation that $4,000 be
appropriated for the coal and oil account
OF the gas works. and appropriat:ng $3.50
to the electric light account of the same
department. Mr.. Caskie explained that
the deficit in the coal and oil account Of
the gas-works was due to the fact that
oil had gone up from about 315 cents per
gallon to Z cents per gallon since the
budget for 1900 was made up, and that the
committee had also had to contend with
the fact that the consumption Of gas this
year had exceeded that of last year by
about 49, 600 cubic feet. The recolmen-
dations of the Finance Committee were
approved.
FUNDS FOR NEW HOUSE.
At the solicitation of the Committee on
Water. through chairman C. w. Tanner,
the Council recommended that the Com
mittee on Finance, in making up the an
nual budget for the year 1901, reappro-
pirate, for the purpose Of erecting a house
for the keeper of Marshall Reservoir, the
sum of s.. $50, set aside for this purpose in