The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-11
CHIEF WILL BE
ELECTED TODAY.
Believed That Shaw Will Be
Made Head Of the Fire
Department..
BUSY WEEK IN CITY HALL
Board OF Health Will Meet To-
Night and Aldermen 10
Morrow.
gUsY WEEK IN CITY HALL

The week in the city Hall VIII h
marked by the regular meetings OF IN
board OF Aldermen. Board OF Fir
commissioners Board Of Health an
several OF the most important commit
,aes or the Council DOUBTLESS man
other meetings which failed OF .
quorum last week or were sPeciaii;
acalled viii be had before TINS Weei
is through. r,,,,,.
,n,ss,oners and the Board OF heat!
nra scheduled TO hold their nonthi!
n,aetincs. that OF the Fire Board nay
inr been deferred as marx OF =. ,,
snec; to the late Chief Engineer W.
&c. Fuller. .,,,
Tho meeting of the fire board VII,
he OF peculiar interest by reason %
ihe fact that fire CHIEF rs 70 De
chosen and, as II is saio 10 %
s,,raa that Acting Chief Shaw Will be
3rro,note6 TO that position. the vacancy
ssass;stant chief must be filled. out
side the elections OF these officers
nothing but routine matters are eX-
pected to come up.
The meeting OF the Board of Health
will be devoted to the current reports
and discussions, such as mark all reg
ular meetings. So far as known moth.
ms of especial interest Is scheduled
Smallpox has been almost stamped out,
ard the health of the city is very
good.
Aldermen to Meet.
Tho Board of Aldermen Will on Tues
day adopt the conference report on the
Confederate veteran appropriation, and
will take up the budget of business
disposed of by the Common Council
last week.
This includes action on the salaries
of many officials. That providing
for an extra clerk in the Treasurer's
office and several others are liable 10
encounter stiff opposition in the Board.
The ordinance increasing the salaries
OF police officers 10 per cent. will come
up and will certainly pass The
Mayors veto of the parish house or
dinance for st. Johns Church will
be laid before the body and referred
as was done in the other branch.
There is a possibility that the Dabney
electric light plant ordinance may
come UP also. This measure. now pend
ing in the Common Council. was re-
introduced in the Board and sent to
the Finance Committee. from which
1T has not yet been reported. 1t is
possible that II may be taken from
the committee and fight made to
pass it. Favorable action by the Board,
and the discussion there elected would,
1t is said, have persuasive effect
upon the other branch
On Thursday the Committee on
Water will hold Its regular meeting.
and special meeting Of the Finance
Committee to consider the budget will
be had also. The Department OF Public
Charities is about the only left of
tho various departments, from which
the committee has not yet heard.
Other matters before the committee
may also be taken up.
On Friday the regular meeting OF
the Committee on Streets, Light, and
Ordinances, Charter and Reform. three
of the most important committees of
the Council, will be had
4. At the Light Committee meeting the
subcommittee engaged in tabulating
bids for the rehabilitation of the Gas
Works is expected to report, and the
contract may be let. The usual budget
OF business will come up.
In the Street Committee the ques-
ton OF the use Of the carts and team
of the Street Committee by the Super
1ntendent of Street Cleaning will co1pe
up, and a lively discussion may ensue.
Many other matters will come up for
consideration.
numbsr-of matters referred to the
Ordinance Committee will be consid-
cred BY that body.