The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-09
THE CITY ASSEMBLY,
SITS BUT AN HOUR.
First Business Session Of Body
a Short One.
THE ORDINANCE is ACCEPTED
Messrs. Woodward & Son Satisfied
With that Passed by the Council.
Need OF a Y. M. c. A.-Brief
Manchester Items.
THE ORDINANCE is ACCEPTED
Messrs. Woodward & Son Satisfied
Manchester Item
Manchester Bureau, Richmond Times,

Manchester Bureau, Richmond Times,
1902 Hull Street.
A precedent for short meetings was
set last night by the City Assembly,
when the body met for the first time
to transact business. Only one hour
was consumed in the meeting.
There were but seven members present.
aud This NAV have accounted for the
brevitv Of the proceedings. President
]. S. Wakefield called the meeting 70
order 4 communication from Messrs
Woodward 6: Sons accepting the amend
ineut to an ordnance permitting the
Seai,oard Air Line Railway and Southern
Railway to jointly operate 4 track On
Stockton Street was read. This ac-
ceptancc of the ordinance comes from
the last matter which was brought De
fore the old Council about where the
spur track going into the lumber Eard
should be placed Inis was. with the
blue print of the loca,.on of the spur
track sent to the City Engineer
Tile report of the Mayor for the
month of June showed $40 collected in
fines. This is subject to ten per cent
discount for City oergeants fee
Those at the meeting were: Messrs
J S Wakefield. a. J.. Sampson, e. !,
Petit. w D. Ferguson. c. c. Cox, G.
S Grizzard and r. V. Owen.
A LAWN PARTY.
On the spacious lawn at the palatlal
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Bayley'
Twelfth and Bainbrdge Street. next Mon
day night there will he a lawn party,
which. if preparations count for aught
bids fair to be a great success. The party
is under the auspices OF a society from
Bainbridge- Street BAPTIST Church. and
will DO enjoyable III every sense. Punch
and Judy. by an unknown ventriloQuist
viii add ludicrous feature for the
children.
LOOKED SUSPICIOUS.
a phone message to the police station
last night coming from a lady living on
Eun Street between Fifteenth and Six
teenth brought Officers Smith and Jones
to the scene. The lady reported that two
negroes had been proving about the
house in manner altogether suspicious.
Whoever they were they had gone when
the minions of the law arrived
Stewart Lodge l. Q. 0. f, held a large
IL attended meeting last night IN their
hall room. talked over the memorial eA-
ercises TO be held Tuesday night and ap-
pointed a committee to meet a lodge
from PETERSBURG VIII WIZ 'A>'As >-'oiA'
within the next few days.
New South Council No. s, Jr. o. U. A
NJ. will on Friday night next celebrate
their nineteenth anniversary with a de
,ichtful banquet. at which there Will be
some of the best known Juniors in the
state. Preparations AVE been In pro-
rress for many weeks. The banquet
will be held in the lodge room at Nlnth
and Hull Streets.
A GENTLEMAN TALKS.
One gentleman interested IN 'he WEI
fare of Manchester. and who mas never
turned a deaf ear to any plan to hep
his native city. was talking yesterday
about the Old Central Church, about
which there has been so much said and
written of late. springng it is thought,
from the negotiations which were. ana
NAV vet be, pending with coloreo
organization of Met1odists from the
North to buy the property to use as a
branch church for the coored Metho-
dists of Manchester.
II think" he said "the city fathers
coming into office now, beginning as II
were. a new era for the city, couid
make no better move, nothing winch
would reflect more credit upon them, ana
certainly which would be of more I'M
portance to the coming generation than
to buy the property and use IL lor d
Y NJ c. A or rent a part Of it for en-
tertainments. A Young Mems Christ
ian Association is sadly needed in Man
chester. There have been several at
tenpts to arouse sleeping parents to the
necessity of having such a place tor
their children: the press has tried IN
every conceivable manner to bring public
sentiment to such a pitch that 1t would
clamor out for even a reading room,
where young men might congregate for
social intercourse, building up their
frames. making men. instead of wrecks
out of them. but alas, it has all been
wasted Possibly some energetic mem
Der of the new municipal government
will see it in this light.
CHILD INJURED.
The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Dowdy.
living on East Eleventh Street. was badly
injured by fall from the bed one day
last week The little one. which is about
eighteen months old. had been placed in
bed which was near a window In some
manner il rolled eff. striking first against
the window sill and then to the floor.
A horrible cash was cut across its
mouth, intlicting an exceedingly painful
while not serious. injury. The family
physician was called in and did all tina,
was possible for the little sufferer.
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.
Misses Birdie and Minnie Stone. of
Norfolk. who have for some weeks been
the charming guests of Miss Annie
Brown. of cambridge Street, left yester-
dav for Petersburg. where they will
spend some days with friends before re-
turning home.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ro-
bert Williams is critically III at the
hon1n of Mr. S. W. Wake, on Cowardln
Avenue.
Mr.. o E. Ray, the popular ice-cream
man on Hull Street. is minus one purse,
which contained. the last time he gazed
al its contents. 500. Whether the purse
was taken from some place in the store
or whether it was misplaced is not
known. One thing is certain. Mr. Ray
would like very much to see 1t again.
The Manchester team will not play the
Fulton Brownies Saturday. as was stated
Monday The Brownies have a date
with Petersburg. While the Manchesters
will try to get a game with the Elks