The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-19
POLICE BOARD
CALLED To MEET
Will Settle Question of lncreas-
Ing Force Tomorrow.
coUNCILmEN TO RIDE FREE.
Every Member Ether Fire or Police
nissioner-Many Deaths in the
Ci,y-sih to Enforce Atten-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES News.
coUNCILMEN TO RIDE FREE
Manchester Bureau. Richmond Times,


beginning about next Tuesday. or extra
men TO work for eight or ten days. Mayor
II. a. Maurice will preside over the meet
ing. and in his hands is the power to
employ many men as the necessity re-
CURES. though through courtesy TO the
Council he left it to them some days
ago.
The Assembly recommended two regu-
lar men. The Board practically defeated
this. and made a recommendation LOT siA
extra men for the holidays. Inc .asSenlpiS
IN called session unanimously oeAeateo
this recommendation.
Whether the Police Commissioners VIII
place two regular men on duty Tor
month, at a cost Of $40. or will employ
six extras at a cost OF 500. who vii only
work for ten days. is something that
every citizen Is taking an active interest
in. and il is safe to predict that the meet
.nc saturday night viii be largely attend
ed
ALL RIDE FREE.
when the new Constitution prohibited
any person holding office to accept free
Transportation from any corporation
Manchester City Gonncilnen had to give
.p their books. Slice that time only nine
members of the Council have ridden
free this nine being Police and Fire Com
Tnissioners. The number of Fire Commits
Eioners was al a meeting of the Council
sixteen, which makes every member Of
the Council a commissioner, and gtres
each and every member the privilege OF
riding free
COMPEL ATTENDANCE.
Special interest is shown among MEM
bers of the City Council Of Manchester
in a resolution offered in the Legisla-
.ure yesterday by MI Jennings. of
lyncnburg, destnged to compel attend
ancs Of members. as such a resolution
was onered in the Board Of Aldermen
here last week urgently requesting. II
not compelling, attendance of members
both at committees and in the Board.
While there is a difference between the
bodies. the legislators receiving zap. yet
there is 4 degree of similarity between
The two resolutions lat makes both IN
teresting
ENJOYABLE DANCE.
Until half-past nine last night Leader
Hall presented a barren appearance,
ladies being very few in number at the
usual dance Of the Leader Hall Private
Dancing ScS--ol. From this time until
ten. though. there was a perfect stream
of The fair sex from Richmond and Man
chester and in short order the scene was
one of dazzling beauty. Over eighty
couples were dancing II one time, the
music being the very best.
ii is the earnest desire OF the man
agement that there be full attendance
Monday night, when cards for the sea-
son will be given out There will be
dance THURSDAY night of next week. but
on New Years night a german will be
given.
PROPERTY SOLD.
Messrs. 4. l.. lAdamson and Company.
real estate dealers. sold yesterday the
brick store house at Cowardin Avenue
and Hull Street to Mr.. Gus Merno.un,
the price paid being $500 The property
IS one of the best sites for 4 grocery or
merchandise store in the city.
Mr. Meredith will for some time to
come rent the building for cafe
SAD DEATH.
One of the saddest deaths in Manches-
ter fer months was that yesterday morn
irs of Mrs Annie May Walthall young
wife OF Mr.. c. r. Walthall. OF Hull
ftreet, between Eleventh and Twelfth.
Mrs Walthall was only twenty-one years
cid. having been marrisd fourteen months
ago. a little babe was buried three
months ago. and from the shock Of this.
together with the first hold Of the dread
disease. consumption. she gradually grew
worse until yesterday morning. when she
,,assed peacefully away. Around the bed
stood the husband. the mother. father
.trd a small brother, besides many
friends She was a pure and Christian
woman and in her death her relatives
suffer sn irreparable loss.
The funeral will be this afternoon at
2 O'Clock from Stockton Street Baptis,
Church. and interment will be in MaurE
Cemetery. Rev. Nh kinchloe will con-
Cuct the services.
FUNERALS YESTERDAY.
TIL funeral OF little seven-year-old
Cara Wright. daughter of Mr.. Samuel
Wright, took place yesterday afternoon
fr,sn the home No 40. cambridge Street,
ttr Ieev. Asa Driecoll officiating Inter
:,ent Was in Meury Cemetery.
The remains of Mrs. Parthena Smith.
g.. old resident OF Manchester, who died
Wednesday night We're buried in Maury
Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The fun
era; WAS from the home on Fifth Street.
Rev +. NJ. Chandler conducted the SER
vices.
The funeral Of Mr.. J. NJ. Ford Will take
place this morning at II O'clock from the
Stockton Street Raotist Church. Rev.
NJ Kinchlne Officiating. Mr.. Ford had
been a resident OF Manchester for four
Se5rs. and leaves four children and a
widow and one sister.
y Manchester negro IS out Just s14 and
the man who got the money. The old
game % securing n lob was worked or
Wrr Middleton, OF No Sl4 Pocahontas
Street.
The strange negro told Middleton that
he could get him q job in n store near
The postoffice. but that he'd have TO give
him sli 10 buy uniform:
Inc si-'rnle negro handed over the SlA
but he 8iA~'t cot the job nor has he seen
the other negro since
BOTH FINED.
Befor" Mayor Maurice yesterday Ier-
fcrson Mann a white man Of possibly for
fy year. and Ann Rrodnax. negro wo-
man. seemingly about fftv. were ar
raiEned unon the specific charge of be-
ing disordcrly IN the street Testimony
was conclusive that the negro woman
.brashed the white man. He said
that he did nothing TO make the
wcrr,an cY1a@''se him. and that he was
afraid TO strike back because negro men
were standing around. She said that he
had insul,ed her and that she beat him.
and no one !nterfered Each paid IS to
the court
rTI1R MONEY GONE.
Rony Howard (colored). treasurer of
,on,e kind of a negro club in New Town.
residing at No. 22s East Seventeenth
st-eet was the victim OF robbers last