The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-14
Last MEETING
OF THE COUNCIL
Considerable Transacted at Last
Nights Session.
BELLS PETITION WITHDRAWN
Expert Accountant Submits His Report
as to MaurY Cemetery" Blue
Jeans to Play-Man-
chester Briefs.
Manchester Bureau. Richmond Times.

chester 6Tle1S.
Manchester Bureau Richmond Times,
No. 11G2 Hull Street.
The last regular session of what has
been and is yet known as the City Coun-
Gil was held last night in the Council
| Chamber. with eight members present.
! There will be a called meeting Of this
body on the 9th, but no other regular
meeting. The meeting was in session
| from until after Il o'clock. transacting
| all necessary business. SO the new bodies
| Board of Aldermen and City Assembly
would have their hands free when they
| begin enacting laws.
The first business transacted was the
! reading of the Expert City Accountants
report for the year Mr.. Sutton, in the
| report called attention to the books
i Of the cemetery. and said there could
be a better system inaugurated In in
| specting them he foun,. that there were
some names OF parties buried in the ceme-
| terry which did not appear on the books
| of the Board of Health. The case was
| also vice versa. This is accounted for
! as follows: Parties-mostly colored-wII
|
| and secure certificate of death to be
! presented to the keeper of the cemetery
| After obtaining this, the body would be
| inferred in. another burying-ground. The
name would appear on the records of the
! Boa rd of Health. while the keeper of the
| cemetery would never know anything of it
| 1t was suggested. and made part of the
| ordinance passed last night. to have the
| certificate of death awarded by the Board
| of Health to the keeper of the cemetery
returnable to the board after the inter-
ment of the body. The undertaken in
| charge will be neld responsible for this
| rtuhn.
STREET. COMMITTEE.
The Street Com5.:ittee expended for the
| past month S413.o3, in permanent improve
| ments
The application of Judge Haner. of the
| Richmond and Petersburg electric line.
| to defer paving a part of the Turnpike
until the city had paved its part. was
reported upon favorably by the Street
| Committee, but met stumbin block in
the shape of Mr.. w. B. Bradley. Mr..
Bradley objected to the wording of the
| application
The matter will go to the Street Com
mittee again, which will meet at the spot
| and look into the question. The amend
| n:ent to the ordinance granted to Messrs.
! Woodward & Sons the wording of which
! 1850 Si'
| Street into the lumber yards on the West
! side of Fourth Street between Stockton
! and Everett Street. was taken up. AS
there was no blue print of the proposed
spur, Mr.. Bradley kept the body waiting
| for some time in making an argument
against the recommendations 1t was
! passed with this proviso, that the blu
| print should be recorded in the city En-
| gneer's office.
WITHDREW PETITION.
The Southern Bell Telephone Company
! withdrew it's request for a, temporary
| franchise to erect poles on Eighth Street
| AS the company have no franchise now
| and are operating their lines in the city.
| Mr. Abbott asked if their present franchise
suited them.
Work on Stockton Street in front of the
| Baptist Church was ordered to be done.
Thirteenth Street from Perry to Railroad
| will be paved at once, or as soon as is
! practicable. One side Of the street is to
be paved all the way, while from Semmes
| to the Railroad is to be guttered. The
| paving of the square between Porter and
cambridge on Twelfth ordered done.
This will cost about 500. The Thirteenth
| Street work will cost on an aggregate
| of 1880.
Mr.. Bradley met with red hot foropo-
siton when he asked that Thirteenth
Street work have priority over that on
First Ward and he at once pricked up
his ears and made a short talk, car
rying his point.
The fine of $50 imposed upon W. L.
Johnson. coored undertaken. for buryins
a body without the proper certificate from
the Board of Health was ordered to be
| RENTED. There was a request from the
president OF the board asking this. as
it seems that the error was unintentional.
| The Election Committee had a report
to make relative to the payment Of the
bills of Registrars Pickett. of the Sec
ond Ward. and Porter. of the Fourth.
These bills are for copying new books.
Ten dollars for the white book and the
same for the coored. The whole matter
was referred back to the committee. to
| come up again in a better shape. All
| other bills We're paid
The ordinance presented September Is.
1901 by Mr.. J. T. Abbott for the Maury
Cemetery. was passed last night. From
| time to time this ordinance has been
| postponed and when it was called last
night. there was no opposition or argu-
ment: just the motion to adopt was put
and carried unanimously. The cemetery
now has water supply there being plugs
! down on the railroad. near the large fac
tories there and leading up to the Gene
terry.
BASEBALL TODAY
The "Blue Jeans assisted by their
nascots. will endeavor to defeat a team
OF young people from the Richmond Lo-
ccmotive Works this afternoon. The
Eses.ss[..11 :. ro:tS-l~. sEE,TI -.E.S:r..a >.
Forest Hill Park. There is so much in
terest manifested that extra cars will
b, furnished to accommodate the crowd.
Richmond crosses bats with Petersburg
this afternoon in the latter city. The
!. game is scheduled for 4:3O P NJ. The
I"Blue Jeans" will play the Pcntiacs.
from Richmond, next Saturday. Base
ball is becoming fashionable in the city