The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-09
NEWS GATHERED
FROM S0UTHS|D.E
The Special Investigation Com
mittee Meets To
right.
DWELLINGS BEING ERECTED
Street Committee Did Not Have
Quoruin-Personals and
Briefs.
DWELLINGS BEING ERECTED
Manchester Bureau. Times Dispatch.
No 1102 Hull Street

s NO. Luz Hull SlTeel.
The committee Of five. two Aldermen
and three Assemblymen. will meet to-
/ night in the office of City Collector a.
k. Reid and investigate the system of
| bookkeeping there.
| The appointment of this special COM
| mltteo grew out of the reading of Il
| letter in the Council from Mr. Johnson,
| OF the Johnson Iron Works, in which u
] strenuous protest was made against nj
| legged Irregularities In the bookkeeping
Mr.. Johnson cited several cases where
the salaries OF his men had been gar
nisheed and the time of the officials of
the company taken up when later 1t
would develop, through the men. that
they had paid their taxes and had re-
| ceipts for the same Mr.. johnson cited.
| and gave the names of the parties. of
| no less than four cases.
Mr.. Reid, who has teen indisposed FOR
some time, was at his Office yesterday
| and is confident that the committee will
| be satisfied with the explanation that he
has to make. In one case he admitted
that he had issued II garnishee against
the wrong man, but the names We're
similar and the accounts appearing side
by side the mistake was a natural and
an exctsable one.
Mr.. G. G. Jones, member of the Coln-
Gil from the First Ward to whom the
letter from Mr.. Johnson was written, is
chairman of the committee which is
called for Il session Tonight.
Quorum Not There.
There was no quorum of the Street
COMMITTEES last night and after waiting
for more than half an hour the three
members present decided to wend their,
way home through the driving snow
storm. The meeting promised to be
Very Important one, and business was
to be transacted that Is very Imperative.
Those who responded to the summons
were Messrs r. L. Patram. chairman:
A. r. Hooker and Mr. Lindsay 1t re-
qures five to constitute a quorum in
this committee.
Two Handsome Dwellings.
Messrs. B. A. and w. e. GILL members
of the firm of Gill Brothers, wood dealers
and lumberrnen of the city, are having
erected two handsome brick residence
buildings on McDonough Street, near the
corner of Eleventh Street. Each building
Will be n nine-room structure and will,
standing close together as they do make
this section of the city much more beau
tiful. Behind these houses the Messrs.
GIL are having erected large brick
stable that will be large enough for
twenty horses.
Mr.. w. e. Gill was formerly member
of the City Assembly from the Second
Ward and made an efficient city official.
He Is out of the city for a good part of
his time now buying timber in different
parts of the country.
Speaking on annexation yesterday af-
ternoon, Mr.. Gill said that he was ORR
ginaly opposed to the scheme. but at
this time was much in favor of it. and
that he would vote for the consolidation
of Manchester and Richmond If the Dues
| ton came to the people.
| But there's one thing I want settled
| in my mind first" he exclaimed laugh
| ingly. II want to know whether this
| Washington Ward Is named after George
| or Booker IT,"
| Mr.. John Driver, ST.. reported TO the
| police yesterday that the house In which
| he was living was in danger of being
| crushed by the walls of the house next
| door. No. 30S East Fifth Street A part
| of the walls of the adjoining house, so
| Mr.. Driver said had already fallen, and
the bricks might tumble down at any
1 time.
Il
property, and will make a report on It,
There is no immediate danger of any
accident by falling walls.
In Police Court.
4 Several small boys. charged with
throwing rocks, were in Police Court
yesterday morning, and each one was
dismissed with the warning that here
| after no stones should be thrown at any
| one.
James King and James Taylor, two
negro boys. We're arrested by Chief of
Police Lipscomb, and charged with be-
| ing disorderly on the street. They paid
| $3.50 each.
| A. NJ. Lake was assessed $3.50 for be-
Ing dlsorderly.
| Not to Pay the Fines.
| Bessie Gibbons. the woman who was
convicted June 10, 1904, for blaclinail.
will be released from the Manchester
| jail on the 18th Of this month. Judge
Clopton has said that he will lot hold
her the additional sixty days for the
fines that We're imposed upon her. The
woman was the only woman In the Jail
at the time that Mrs. Estelle Smith, con-
vlctcd OF infanticide, was taken to the
prison. Manchester citizens. and espe-
cially the business men of Manchester,
remember Bessie Gibbons and her black
mailing schemes in the city
Personals and Briefs.
Messrs ]. G. Snellings. r. c.. Broaddus
and r. G.. Saunders left yesterday fol
Chesterfield county to spend day al
the club house of the Licking Creek
Hunting and Fishing Association.
Miss Alice Snead who has been Ill fol
some time, Is reported as being some.
what better.