The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-01
NEWS GATHERED
FROM SOUTHS|DE
Superintendent Pulliam Discusses
the City School Sys-
tenn.
INCREASE THE INSURANCE TAX
Councilmen Discuss the Feast
bility OF Making Industrial
Companies Pay More.
Manchester Bureau. Times Dispatch,

NO. 1lU2 Hull street.
Mr.. D. L. Pulllam, superintendent of
schools Of Manchester is very much
pleased with the work of the schools
this session. He has been an untlrng
worker in the interest Of higher educa-
tion in the city, and his efforts have
to great extent been the means of bet
tering the system and increasing the
facilities for handling the pupils. Mr..
Pnlliam in discussing the school term
said
THE schools this session Just ending
have been admirably conducted and were
IN n fine condition. The results are cx-
cclcnt and highly gratifying. Taking
into consideration the fact that we only
have n small per capita Of money to
run the school, We should congratulate
ourselves on our schools. The principals
and teachers have worked hard faiths
fully and efficiently, and deserve much
credit for the condition Of the schools
The hoard is one of the finest in the
State having at heart the good of the
z schools and striving with slngleness OF
purpose to improve them. The Council
gave us more money, for which we
thank them. We need more funds, and
will have to ask them for X, and we
believe they will help us We arc sat
isiied they will do I'll they can.
Education Association.
we hope to organize in this city a
fine. wide-awake education association
and that we may keep pace with tho
alert, aggressive and progressive educa-
tional movement that Is arousng the en-
thusiasm and prompt cooperation of all
OF the education folk of tho State ana
the people at large. Manchester must
fall in line and aid us to make our
schools the best of all.
The children deserve praise for what
they have done during the session. The
examinations elbow marked advancement
and proficiency" and the commandments
We're admirable In every way.
Everybody should aid our schools and
feel a deep and abiding interest in them
and then they would BOOM to use the
expressive parliance of the day
A Colored Organization.
From the Corporation Court charter
mas 'peen granted 10 the Manchester
Cemetery and Park Company. an organi-
cation to be controlled by coored men of
the city. The corporators named are
j. b. johnson, president; Albert Moon,
vice-president; c. c. Burgess secretary;
robert j. Morris, treasurer; J. II. Gun
bingham. general manager; Cornelius
Mimms, general counsel. NJ D. Cooper
W. A Harris and r. II. Branch, to-
Eethcr with the officers named, are to
compose the board of directors.
u. OF L. Entertainment.
Members of Select Council, Daughters
OF Liberty, OF the city, are making great
preparations for the entertainment, en-.
titled 'Finnegan's Fortune" at the Leader
Hall Tomorrow night There are two
councils of Daughters of Liberty in tn,
city, and a friendly rivalry exists between
the two. Members of Lily Council vii
DO present in large numbers at the en-.
terlainlnent in Leader Hall under the
auspices of Select Council.
Equalize the Tax.
Members of the City Council have 70,
several weeks been discussing informall,
the feasibility of increasing the tax upoi
lie insurance companies doing bushes
in the city According to one who is 1,
a position TO know, ii Is said that old
line companies that take out Of Man
chester less than a hundred dollars ne
week are taxed ;25 per year, or upol
the same scale as industrial companic
that weekly carry from Manchester some
thing Ike 5000. 1t is held that thes
companies doing an industrial bushes
should pay an amount that would in som
measure be commensurate with III
amount of business done by them, Tn
Council may refer the matter TO a com
mittee for investigation within the nea
future.
Fire Committees.
Fire committee meetings have hec,
called for Tonight. The Cemetery Com
mittee is scheduled to meet at 1880 O'Clock
and fifteen minutes later the Election
Health and Fire Committees Will Assem-
bile IN the Council chamber. AT 5 o'cloc
the Street Committee has been callo
by Chairman r. l., Patram
Before the members of the Flre Com
mittee there We're to be a lot of routin
work 10 he forwarded TO the Council a
the next session and several matters o
great Importance to the citizens are sal
10 he on the docket. aVE.
Under the supervision Of the member
OF tho Street Committee Everett Stree
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth