The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-19
Fine MEETING
ON CHESTNUT HILL.
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The Mayor Speaks.
Mayor Carlton Mccarthy was called
on; and responded. prefacing the speech
by the statement hat unless objection
was made he proposes TO answer all the
arguments that had been made at Barton
Heights Friday night. II g declared that
Mr.. Wendenburg had made a speech
which could have answered iii every
statement had time remained zen st f9F
some one 10 do 1t. He stated that Mr..
tW'endenburg speech was full Bof tfallaa
ac;es and sophistry and errors from be-.
ginning X to end, and charged that some
%of the Statement Is he made were hurtful
TO Richmond and were false.
what right said he, have YOU
morally or any other way to say to the
city OF Richmond for purely selfish rea-5
sons that this city shall not grow? IT
is as necessary and as inevitable as sum.
rise and sunset ga
Addressing himself to the city finances
Mayor Mccarthy stated that the citySss
debt Is about seven Millions WHICH he
characterized as q. mere bagatelle. The
city has Just adopted a budget for the
ensuing years, carrying two and a quarter
millions, and the city has half a million
III, cash In the bank. This money had been;
raised IN current revenues, and not By
bond issue. The city had Issued no
+ bonds In twelve years, and was reducing
Its bonded debt constantly. The speaker
told the people of Chestnut Hill that the
privilege of the public schools would alone
more than compensate them for what
they would pay. He declared that he,
could sell either the water or gas plant
of the city for seven millions IN ten.
days. ss
Value Of Land.
The Mayor then proceeded toSshow. that
the causes ofEthe variation of the value
oil lands. The value OF land. said he, Is
measured by the number of people who
pass 1t every day. The value Of Rich
mond lands was due to tho uncounted.
millions expended in urban improven1e
and in It's business. In one hundred
years Richmond has not spent eighteen
per cent. OF Its assessed value, yet they
offer you twelve per cent of the value g OF
yours in Improvements Immediately. and
the people of Richmond must go down in
their pockets and pay the interest on.
tho bonds of the territory ann eXed. AZ
any we're issued, and also provide u sink
Ink fund to extingu!sh the principal. The.
city has seventy millions OF values, all
OF which was pledged to pay The bonded
5delt II necessary.
Answering questions asked 4 by Mr..
Dunn and others, the Mayor stated that
the people OF the territory to be annexed
would become citizens and residents Of
the wards to which the territory wa 3
added and that they would have repre-,
sentatives in tho Council. and II they
could not send log rollers to the Scolln-
eli 70 look out for their interests It was
their own fault. The difference In taxa
ton now and under tho proposed annex.
alton would be but DO cents on the 500
and for this they would get water, f1re
and police protection. schools and lights.
some ql,estioner asked II the people
OF tho annexed territory would not have
to pay for what they do not now pa y
and the mayor did not understand the
query. Somebody suggested salaries OF
city officers, whereupon. the Mayor res
sttorted TINT Richmond did not pay much
until he got the job and worked u w,
Discussing the Typographical difficult y
ties presented, on Which several Dues
$toncrs had hung adverse arguments, the
Mayor declared that he remembered
when tho present city had gullies longer
and deeper than that separating Chest
MT IIil!3nld parton le!ghts from Rlcl'-
RmDnd. Ono of these extended from :
Slrpugtlli1n thirteenth Street, Richmond
WAS made OF Enllies and hlla III de- {
3clarad that creek was q blessing aud
city do without one. God Is the arclii-s
stect N the universe and rs Landscape
gardner; lot slls not criticise him for his
Elandiworkl said tho Mayor The Mayor
declared Ok The natural difficulties In
the way af closer union between city
and suburbs that tho wish WAS father,
ia tho thought with those making the
sobjections, II IN
I'M A Converted Nam
Mr. sltterding declared that the May \.
or had evidently misunderstood him, He
was not objecting to annexa ton. was
dead against you three week ago, but
wow l have changed nay mind"