The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-08

NUMBER. IDeSe -lI!iS green SiocelSj-
he said, paid their taxes,. gas and water
bills and in other ways contributed to
the support OF the city government. He
Thought the green grocars deserved some
protection at tic hands of the city gov
crnment The ordinance. Nh Caskie said,
did not apply to a countryman selling
the products from his cWn farm or one
VITO sells the products from a neigllbor's
fa---
Mr.. Grimes asked if the ordinance would
apply to hawkers of coal and wood
Mr.. Caskic replied in the affirmative.
and Mr. Grimes said he thought this
would be u great hardship upon the poor
people. He stated that there We're people
unable to go to the coal yards and make
purchases. while they could buy bushef
of coal or Il few sticks of wood from ped
dlers
Mr. Winston said he thought it was the
duty of the Council to protect both the
regular dealer and the pedder. He
in favor of a, system by which person
could take out a monthly license.
SHOULD CALI a HALT
Mr. Hobson said it was time to call q
halt in the matter of peddling goods. He
said often some one would buy out the
entire contents of q country cart and
pcddle them He was in favor of making
the pedu4ers' and hawkers' license 500.
Mr. Blanks advocated the protection Of
the legitimate dealers and so did Mr..
Glenn The latter made an impassi0ncd
speech in behalf of the ordinance He
SAID the proposed law was designed to
protect the people against impostors-peo-
pie who buy up stale goods and pass them
off as fresh articles from the country.
Mr. Hobson's motion 70 make the license
500 per year was adopted by a vote of l3
10 L.
,Mr. Caskte announced that at the next
regular meeting OF tine Finance Commit
tee the work of making up the annual
budget would begin. He stated that the
committee desired to have representatives
of all departments of the city government
come before the body and make known
their needs.
BIG OIL TANK.
When the ordinance from the Committee
on Light authorizing the Standard Oil
Companv to erect Il tank for the storage
of oil at the lower Gas Works came up
AIR. Miner opposed it. He thought this
would mean the giving of this company a
monopoly OF furnishing oil to the city.
Mr.. Grimes replied that there were four
bidders when the contract was given the
Standard company. The object of the or
dinance was simply to afford the com
pany better facilities to carry out its
contract The company desired to bring
oil here in barge loads instead of in car
loads
Mr.. CARRIER was not exactly satisfied
with the ordinance. Iie feared that IN
case of fire property on the river front
would suffer and that recovery for dam
ages could not be made.
MI BIoomberg moved to so amend as
to require the company to give bond in
the sum of $2GOG00 to save harmless the
city from any damages to person or prop
erty. This was agreed to. ayes. ii; noes,
9. and the ordinance was passed.
There was a lively debate when the
resolutions from the Retrenchment and
Reform Committee increasing the pay
of a number of city officials came up
Mr.. Hobson moved to recommit and to
require the committee to carry out the
spirit of the original resolution, which
was that the committee should so into
the various departments and investigate
each individual case.
Mr. Gunst, a, member of the committee,
earnestly advoca.e eC3 recommittal in order
that careful investigation might be made
of each case.
MIR. Caskie proposed an amendment in
atructing the committee to also inyesti-
gate and report as to whether or not the
salaries of any officials should be re-
duced The amendment was agreed 10
and the motion to recomuit was adopted
CARS AND ENGINES.
Mr.. Peters offered ordinance compell-
ing street car companies to require their
cars to come to d stand-still when cross
ing a railway track upon which cars are
propelled by steam. and that the conduc-
tor shall go forward when an engine is
passing and notify the motornan who
shall keep his car standing until said en-
gine shall have passed. The ordinance
fixes the penalty for the violation thereof
al from $40 to S10O for each offensc. This