The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-18
WEEKS SCHEDULE
IN CITY AFF AIRS.
Discussion OF Establishment Of
Emergency Hospital Will BE
Chief Matter.
QUESTION OF LIGHT PLANT
Advocates OF Measure Declare 1t
Is Not Dead Yet by Any
Means.

There will be no meeting OF tho Com
mon Council or the Board of Aldermen
,, this week, SO far ass Is how known.
Either or both branches may vet be call
cd. The two bodies have invited Mayor
Mccarthy to address the members dur
ing February, on tho fiunnces of tho city,
hut the presidents have not yet announced
n date. The Mayor is ready to comply
With the request, and only awaits the
fixing of the time.
Tho Committee OH Street Cleaning will
meet at p. NJ. to-day ut the City Hall
and the Committee on Relief of the
Poor at the same hour at the City Home.
Tho Street Cleaning Committee has Moth
ing OF special Importance or interest to
come up. The Committee on Relief OF
the Poor will hear the discussion Incl
dent to the establishment Of an emor-
gency hospital In n central portion Of the
city.
The full committee will sit with the sub
committee in this connection. DR.. En-
mon g. Williams, who Is ably and intel
ligently urging the establishment
and maintenance of such a hospital, will
present his arguments therefor and along
with them he will probably offer some
plan for q negro .almshouse. There is
some opposition In the committee to the
plan, which means a divorce Of tho
Almshouse and City Hospital. but tho
majority appear favorable to at least
a careful consideration of the matter.
on Thursday the Committee on
Grounds and Buildings will hold its regu-
lar meeting, as will also the Committee
on Ordinance, Charter and Reform.
On Friday the Committee on St. Johns
Burying Ground will meet.
Not Dead Yet.
Interest in the future of the Dabney
electric light and power plant project
has but slightly diminished since the de-
feat of the ordinance relating to 1t BY
the Board of Aldermen last Tuesday. The
identical ordinance which failed Of adop-
ton by three votes In the Board lies
on the able in the Common Council, and
may be taken therefrom at any time.
Mr. Dabney, its patron in the upper
branch, and one of its most earnest adj
vocates, is quoted as saying that tho
project is not dead by any manner Of
means. and that 1t is likely to come up
for adoption by that body at its next
meeting.
It's fate in the lower branch Is doubtful,
though its friends We're sufficiently nu-
mcrous to defer action on 1t recently
when several of its supporters were abb
sent. 1t will require twenty-four af-
nrmativc votes to insure its passage by
the lower branch and fourteen by the
upper branch. In the event the or
dinance should pass the Common Coun-
Gil without amendment 1t appears to be
a matter Of some question whether the
Board of Aldermen. after having once de-
! fcated 1t, could again take 1t up. Some
contend that if 1t were communicated
| from the other branch it would be legal
for the Board to again consider it. 9th
opposing view. l5
1t is possible that the friends .. : 3
! project may endeavor to secure n report
on the feasibility Of the plan and the
probable cost of the establishment and
! operation Of the plant. The opponents
J CT some Of them expressed themselves as
i favoring such an inquiry before voting
bond issue, and advocates Of the plan
may give them a chance to keep their
/ conditional promises. The proposition is
| certain to be heard from again before
the coroner is called to act in its case.