The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
STATE FAIR Gets
help IN BUDGET
School Board Kindergarten De-
nland Cut Down, but $4,000
Is Provided.
STREET AMOUNTS REDUCED
All City Departments to Receive
Practically Same Appropria-
tons as Last Year.

WIN requests from various city de.
partments totaling s4,7SS,oo0, cut down
10 $2,So0.oOO. the budget for 1908, which
VIII be submitted by the Finance Com
mittee to the Common Council to-
night, Will be more interesting AK to
that which was eliminated than Ms TO
mat which 1t contains. The total aap-
preparation Is practically the same as
that of last year.
To begin with. about 100000 had to
be set aside for the pay.roIl alone
The departmental needs or demands
nave been scaled generally. so that tho
various branches of the government
VIII receive about what was given to
them n year ago. Coming In with q
request for more than 100000 the
engineering Department Will receive
considerably less. with fairly liberal
appropriations for sewers, sidewalks
and shockoe Creek improvements
Some Help for School Board.
Out OF the st25,ooo placed to the ac-
count of streets, $4,000 must be de.
Quoted for work in the annexed terri
tory. Some effort will be made on tho
floor of Council to separate these
items. SO that the outlying districts
may not be deprived OF necessary aid.
Monument Avenue will receive $4,000
for asphalt pavement, Grove Avenue
$4,000, and $4,000 Will be set aside
for the same kind of work In the East
End.
The School Boards estimate for
kindergarten ana manual training was
$4,000. and representatives of the
Richmond Education Association made
a special plea for the entire amount
to encourage and stimulate this work.
The Finance Committee could give
only $4,000. This viii enable tho
board to provide two additional kin
dergartens. The petition for $4,000 for
Seabrook Warehouse Fairgrounds did
not specify that 1t should be carried in
the budget.
Fair Association Gets $4,000.
The Virginia State Fair Associations
request FOR a loan OF 10000 for general.
fair Improvement was granted. The
sum Of $4,000 IS provided for the Me-
chanics' Institute. with $500 for each
hospital in the city. There is an mp
preparation of $4,000 to secure plans
and specifications for an electric light
plant at the Old Pump-House. An APP
preparation is made for the building to
be used as an armory for the Blues
and vegetable market combined at
Sixth and Marshall Streets. Five hun
dred dollars is get aside as a special
Niii'S' tsSANS Luiii Ioi tile use OF Tue
Mayor
There can be no special appropriation
for music in the parks. the City AZ
torney having ruled against the legality
of it. However. Councilman Graham
Il. Hobson Is still at work on a plan
whereby this amusement can he had.
His scheme Is to have $500 appro-
priated for the Blues Band. which shall
play in the parks
To Check Salary Grabbing.
Notwithstanding the fact that so per
cent. of the requests were meritorious
and % per cent absolutely necessary,
the Finance Committee was forced to
reject them in order to Keep the eN-
penditures within the income. The ex-
penses have been gradually increasing.
the salary grab last year alone amount
ing to $4,000, From now on every
effort will be made to prevent further
increases in wages. The records show
that the city pays on an average of
IS per cent. more than is paid by cor
porations for the same kind OF work.