The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-30
MINORITY REPORT
GOING TO COUNCIL
Electrolysis Question Coming Ur
Again in Sensational
Manner.

Seven members of the joint Commit
tee on Water and Electricity, who
voted ten days ago to require the
adoption of the double overhead troll
ley system on the lines of the Virginia
Passenger and Power Company. held a
meeting yesterday and prepared a mi
nority report, which will bring the
question of damage to water pipes by
electrolEsis squarels- before Council
again BY a close vote the majority
at the former meeting killed the dou.
pie overhead ordinance and accepted
q substitute proposition, looking 10 a
settlement of the city's claim, and a
/ bonding arrangement which, 1t was
Claimed, would offer the needed pro-
lection to pipes.
This substitute plan was pushed
through the committee at a secret
session. the minority's efforts to de-
lay until the features and provisions
of it could be understood having been
| ignored.
| 1t was matter involving the vel
tare OF d Inc water pipes and cost to the
ate ear fnn comPany yarioHsSy esti
! perintendent Boiling, of the Water
1 Department, who has been giving close
st STUDY to the eleetrolyssis problem for
consistently demanding the passage
4 OF the ordinance, had no Influence.
/ apparently with the majority and his
OPINION was not regarded.
SIX nj the Meeting
4 Those who attended the minority
meeting yesterday Were Aldermen W.
Ma A. oaph leti, John Mann Jr, and David
4. Mills. +. a. Barber, Jr.. and II. o.
Gates, Councilman Don Leavy, who
stood with the minority was kept
! he was still standing firm.
In the report prepared tor the Council
4 II is set forth that already the city
4 las expended about $4,000 In making an
Investigation, the findings OF which show
that the pipes VIII still he destroyed unless
tho waste electric current is sent back 10
the power house without being permitted; Ia
escape and cut into the pipes. The over
head system, which has the approval of tho
RI Nationa! Board OF Insurance Underwriters
WAS suggested instead of the metallic un.
, dciground service for the reason that i,
was less expensive In some respects the
, 1t alleges glazing reversais of opinion by
city officers and others.
No Protection Hereafter
What the minority objects to most seri
ously is the alleged fact that while the majnr.
EsitY wanted a compromis Use there was no pr,
Nia.on for safeguarding the pipes from dam
ages hereafter I'm word" saSd mem
Der These people are willing to wipe on
q az claims with the payment of a nomlna
sum and then allow The damage by electro
lysls IN The future TO continue mt viii
n Moreover. the City Attorney has held thu
q the double system ordinance must he pass,
u TO save this city from loss
y Public in the Dark.
n Thus far the public is kept In the dari
"a as 70 the fun nature OF the substitute pro
II position. Chairman Mann, who opposed II
Al declined 10 instruct the clerk to give /
u put and In doing so he was full OF conrtes,
"a Tor that faction with which his sid
n Nfanglcd Tor four or five hours When In
y I'VE reports 80 back 10 the Council mex
- week, however there win be scrappy times
ana me minority clairas that 1t viii be ab
10 pass the original ordinance