The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-04
NEWS GATHERED
FROM SOUTHSIDE
Police Commissioners Meet and
Talk Over Important
Matters.
MAYOR FOR FOURTEEN YEARS
His Honor Celebrated His Birth
day Yesterday-Personals
and Briefs.

Manchester Bureau. Times Dispatch.
No 1l02 Hull street.
/ The Police Commissioners last night
/ had what might be termed an informal
meeting. Vet very interesting one.
Several matters OF particular interest 10
/ tho city al this time were discussed
Among other things. the Mayor said
/ that he would give positive instructions
/ to-day that any person caught throwing
/ waste paper I'm the streets OF alleys
I would bo prosecuted. He will inform his
officers 20 be particularly diugent along
/ This line.
The matter was brought % tho atten-
/ ton Of the commissioners some time
ago. Waste paper from many homes
ANA business houses was being prOmiscu-
ously thrown I'm the streets. thereby
/ creating tho nuisanoe. An ordinance
prohibits the throwing OF paper on the
streets or in alleys.
About the Firecrackers.
! ono ordinance IN the city prohibits
the sale Of fireworks that contain nitro
| glycorine. Another ordinance is also on
the books entirely prohibiting the sale
! of fireworks AL dealers are selling the
| popcrackers and Roman candles. etc.
] now, but the purchaser cannot fire these
/ Christmas toys until the Mayor gives his
| permission.
And on Christmas Eve and Christmas
/ Day the children can shoot them all
/ they want TO-" said Mayor Maurice last
/ night, for / was once boy"
Those present at the meeting were
Messrs. Ferguson Abbott Campbell and
Rudd- The Mayor presided.
Mayor Maurice.
! Mayor Henry a. Maurice was born al
! No. 10 West Twelfth street. Manchester.
December 3. 1857. He was forty-nine years
/ old yesterday and he looks as young as
/ he did ten years ago.
| Tn June OF 1922 His Honor defeated Mr..
! Charles Turner for the position. and for
the fourteen years since be has been the
/ city's chief executive ofiices
lie has made most excellent Mayor
/ Always alert. always vigorous, ever pleas
/ ant and agreeable, he has endeared him
/ self 70 MISUNDERSTANDING IA perhaps 10
| other man has Time and time again has
| he been opposed. but as often has been
/ victorious.
I've lived here all my lie. and am
/ proud Of my city. T arm conscious OF tho
! honors conferred upon me. The best
people IN the world live on the south
bank OF the James. 7 was born ga the
/ house that IT. w T. Mathews for a
| long time lived I'm. and where Dr. Hml
| now lives He told Of many 81 The
/ changes OF the city since his boyhood
/ The first Mayor OF this city was DIT.
/ Chles. now ~ Norfolk Following him
was Mayor James n Clark MI James
/ II Gentry was the third Mr. John Tay-
/ Tor the fourth, Mr.. Carter Atkinson the
/ nth. and His Honor. Mayor II a. Afau-
| vice the sixth
| Incidentally. st may he said that az
! the time Of Mr.. Atklnson's death he was
] "a candidate against the Mayor for elec-
! ton TO the Office.
Since that election the Mayor has been
opposed twice. once by Mr.. j. L. Toney
| and once Ivy Mr.. Davidson Ills term OF
! office viii not expire for two years. and
/ This viii have made him a Mayor who
served sixteen years. seven times has
he been elected.
Ordinance Not Clear.
| There is considerable confusion over tho
ordinance prohibiting boys from entering
saloons The Language OF the new law
is that it shall be unlawful for any minor
20 enter or to remain ia q saloon.
Whether this applies 10 minors who are
employed in saloons is matter of dis
/ cussion. AS 10 whether proprietor OF q
saloon has a right 10 allow his son 70
/ come into his place OF business is another
/ matter for thought
! II was brought up last night in a meet
/ ing of tue Councilmen and the policemen
! In one saloon there is "a negro boy who
1 is working for the saloonist An
officer was going to arrest him. bat was
told that he had a permit 10 work there.
The law viii be investigated. and ths
City Attorney Will bee asked 10 furnish an
opinion regarding IT,
In the event that the Brown early
closing ordinance becomes "a law. there
VIII bee no necessity for any argument.
for in this latter measure all females and
minors are forbidden TO enter or 70 be en-
/ pioyed boy proprictors OF saloons
Corporation Court.