The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-19
Latter Wanted to Arrest
Him for Using Sand
Belonging to City
COMMITTEE SACKS
UP SUPERINTENDENT
Street Cleaning Department Will
Get Enough Water Hereafter
to Wash Mud Away.
Discussion Of Hos
pital Plan To
Day.

At a meeting of the Committee OH
street Cleaning last night an arrange
ment was tentatively agreed upon as u
result OF which Superintendent Henry
7 Coin, OF the street cleaning de-
partmcnt. will be able to secure ample
water with which to flush the streets
most requiring It, Considerable frlc-
ton among the departments OF me
city government has arisen from time
to time as a result OF the efforts OF
Mr.. Cohn to secure the means with
which to wash the cobblestones or to
do other things required OF his force.
It developed last night that the City
Engineer has even gone SO far as to
threaten the arrest OF the Superin-
tendent for "unauthorzed use Of sand
on slippery streets"
The objection to the use OF the
water-plugs in times of mud and slu5h
came from Superintendent Boiling, who
| Is anxious at all tines to guard the
lefty against any danger by fire. He
| feared that the wear and tear on the
iplugs would prove injurious, and that
| the fir. hydrants might not be left in
| the same condition after use as before.
lie was before the Committee on Street
Cleaning last night, by invitation, and
suggested that series OF and-pipcs,
connecting with the water main, be placed
| In the middle of certain downtown blocks.
and that the hose be attached TO these
| when water was needed. He explained
| that they would cost about S35 each, and
! that twenty-five or thirty OF them, To-
| Gated on Main, Cary and Broad Streets.
would answer the purpose. Mr.. Boiling
| expressed the belief that by the use OF
| these stand-pipe connections and few
| sections OF hose. the streets could be
more effectively washed than by street
hushers as the superintendent pf street
! cleaning suggested. ssEiss
l Finally Councilman Ferguson offered
"a resolution appropriatlng $1,000. or SO
i much thereof as may be necessary, Will,
& which to install about thirty stand pipes
on Main, Cary and Broad Streets from
Seventh Street to Seventeenth. The res
olution was adopted.
Threatened With Arrest.
1 Superintendent Cohn laid before the
committee 4 letter received from Col
Ionel w. f. Cutshaw, City Engineer,
4! threatening him with arrest and fine
for taking sand belonging to the City
1 Engineers department: without author
ity. The sand was stored near the
chesapeake and Ohio trestlc, on East
Marshall Street and was used by Mr..
Il Cohn during the recent severe sleet
storm to prevent horses slipping and
falling. Several horses had fallen and
had been crippled a. some of the most
i dangerous places. and the superinten-
4 dent OF street cleaning took matters
& into his own hands la the interest
of humanity to beasts and hauled eigh-
+ Iteen or twenty loads OF sand, with
(which he minimized the danger at
those points The letter from the
|Clty Engineer had reference to the
unauthorized taking Of this sand be-
longing to another department
4 The Street Cleaning Committee laid the
letter on the table without reading it
and there was no discussion whatever
save that Mr.. Gates moved that the ac-
tion Of the superintendent be commend
ed, which motion prevailed.
The committee approved the MONTH,
payroll and adjourned.
Emergency Hospital.
The Committee on Relief of the Poo
will sit to-day with the subcommittee re-
! Gently appointed to inquire into the fens
ibllity OF establishing an emergency hos
. pltal In this city. The meeting will b,
! held at p. NJ. at the City Hall, ane
. promises to be decidedly interesting.
DIR. Ennion c. Williams, the advocat
OF the establishment of such hosplta
and tho divorce Of the City Hospital from
the almshouse. will present his views o.
tho subject In some de,ail. as will ais
the opponents of the plan. The final
tion Of the committee cannot be forccas
with any accuracy.
: The idea OF the advocates OF the ener
; rency plan is to construct the negr
alrnshouso on the city farm, near tn
city, and to utilize the remainder
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