The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-19
Schools Controlled by
peanut Methods "Ac-
cording to Grundy.
CONTRACT GIVEN
FOR DOOLEY SEW Err
Aldermen Authorize Large Ex-
penditures on Many Sewers.
Automobile Fire E1gine to
Be Provided for South
Richmond-some New
Propositions.

Tha, the Council of the city
OF Richmond is 'playing peanut poll
ticst in the formation OF the city
Scnool Board. was charged IN the soard
ar Aldermen last night by Alderman
,arton II. G-undy, of fienry Ward, and
IN. charge vas not denied. In fact, the
board debated for some time ana hnal-
w racomn,lttcd an ordinance realstrlct~
ing the city in proportion TO school
population, the carelessness oil the
Council Committee on ordinance,
charter and Reform having sent to the
Council and secured the adoption IN
tho lower branch of a measure whieh
entirely omitted South Richmond from
the city.
When the paper came up Tor concur
renee last night Mr.. Patrani, Oh WASH
inCton Ward, called attention TO the
nmtssion. and offered an amendment
placing south Richmond in the FIRST
.District. whic hhe sta ted had been the
intention OF the City School BoaU,
ana tile reason for moving the iine
between the First ana Second Districts
from Seventeenth Street to Twenty
fourth street. Mr. Adams was op-
posed to changing the lines OF the
First District at all He asserted that
ii merely took Paramount ana Mar
hitherto compact, to put IN the South
Richmond schools. which are mt In any
sense adjoining. and left schools in
the East End to be grouped with
those far west of the centre of the
city.
Ordinance Hastily Drawn.
Mr.. Bliley thought that since the
paper had evidently been nastily ana
improperly drawn, with an omission
of a large section of the city, 1t should
be returned to the Ordinance Commit
tee to be put in order.
Mr.. Patram asserted that Washins-
ton War,i did not care what district
| the south Richmond schools Were
! placed in, but that the annexation
greement had called for redistrict-
ing, and sne arrangement to give South
\ Richmond representation on the City
4 School Board in proportio on to its school
| population. He said that the people
! of his ward demanded the representa-
| tion to which they are entitled.
! Mr.. Moore, also of South Richmond.
showed that it had been the evident
| intention Of the School Board to place
| the former city of Manchester in the
| First District, as with the lines so
! drawn. the school population. accord
| ing to the recent school census. would
be: First District, 9,S77; Second Dis
trict, e,a7e, and Third District, 9,212.
| Mr. Renaolds wanted to know
! the schools in their own districts, but
/ no one was able to give the informa-
4 tion.
lust Peanut Politics.
Mr. Mitchell declared that 1t was all
| a matter of representation on the
School Boarfi; that Church Hill didn't
want to be cut out of representative
| as under the new districting. Church
| Hill would have two. and South Rich
clond one of the three delegates to
come from that district. Mr.. Mitchell
asserted that the State law required
| approximately equal distritutios of the
school population and that the Coun-
| ell had been dilly-dallyIng and
monkeying" with Washington Ward
and falling TO give 1t the representa-
! tive to which it was entitled.
''Thenit's all Just peanut politics.
said Alderman Grundy. TITS all a mat.
ter OF getting Job for somebody or
the School Board. That's why there is
/ all this stir about changing The lines
of the district"
! Mr.. Powers said that it was evtden
that the resolution had not been either
properly drawn or properly considered
1 by the Committee on Ordinance, Char
! ter and Reform; that the committee
/. had left out the very thing that thu
redistricting was designed to accom-
| plsh. Mr.. Bliley's motion was adopted
and the whole paper recommitted will
instructions to the committee to "sent
in proper ordinance to be voted on.
AS to Automobiles.
South Richmond matters also cam,
to the front, when stiff fight wa.
made on the proposition to purchase
an automobile fire engine for the new
ward The resolution authorized tn
Board of Fire Commissioners to pur
chase such an engine at a cost of SIS, ,OO
out of the annual budget for 1911. Mr.
Richardson moved to strike out tn
reference to Washington Ward, max
i ing 1t for the city of Richmond, $,
4, that the Fire Board could us
it wherever desirable. He thought 1
I, a bad precedent to be making specia
appropriations for one ward, Mr.. Rem
nolds spoke ruefully of his automobil
| experiences, and said the city had bet
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