The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-06

Issue for electric pumping machinery
TO the accoun of standpipe was au-
thorized, to install an additional pump
for the Lee District standpipe. An
ordinance creating the Office of AS.
SCISSOR of Damages, at Il salary of $500
u year, was adopted. as was an ordi-
nance. providing for a keeper of JOS
eph Bryan Park, at a salary OF. 5000 9
year. The latter provoked some de.
bate. the Finance Committee favoring
cutting the pay to $500. Mr.. Blake.
Mr.. Umlauf, Mr.. Bowman and others
argued that the time had come to i'm
prove the property, and that a compe-
tent superintendent should be elected
who could direct the work, even
though laid off by a landscape en-
gineer. Messrs. Boschen, Lumsden,
Richards and Peters voted against the
resolution.
south Rfchrnond Liquor Licenses.
An ordinance to regulate the grant
ing of liquor licenses in Washington
Ward was adopted, changing the time
of paying the annual license and in
other respects making the conditions
agree with those In Richmond. A petit
ton from the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company to have Its
franchise extended SO as to cover
Washington Ward was referred to the
Street Committee. An appropriation
of S2.501.43 was made to the redemp-
ton account to buy in city bonds fall
ing due January 1. On recommendation
of the Light Committee allowances
were made aggregating about $500,
to five men injured in an explosion at
the lower gas works in October. The
award of contract for patent gas lamps
was referred to the Finance Commit
tee. there being no appropriation for
the purpose.
Clean Out RESERVOIRS.
On recommendation of the Commit
tee on Water, a transfer of $4,000 from
the water works construction account
was made for the purpose of cleaning
out the New reservoir hairma n Mills
explained that 1t would probably re-
quire as much as $4,000 additional,
but that in view of the emergency ex-
listing over the draining OF the east
basin. the Committee on Water recon-
mended hat the work be done at once.
Chairman Mills said that there had
been unnecessary alarm over selisa-
tional reports about finding things
in the reservoirs.
The Marshall Reservoir. he said, was
eighty years DID. and there had been
but two cascs-once when the body OF
a child was found in it. more tGan fifty
years ago, and when Cluverius threw
Lillian Madison into 1t about twenty.
five years ago. The New Reservoir, he
said, was thirty-fve years old; one
dog had been pulled out of it a MINUS
after 1t fell in: one negro man mao
been drowned in 1t many years ago
and one deer had run out of the woods
startled at the activity of the park
and drowned in the reservoir. Until
the BODY of Mrs. Brown had been found
last week these were the only cases
in eighty years. he asserted. Tha'
Marshall Reservoir has been cleaned
III the past w months to the brick
flooring, and no improper substance OF
any kind whatever had been FOUND
In the tons of mud hauled out, no
was there any evidence of anything
of the sort when the New Reservoir
was cleaned of nearly ton feet of mud
ten years ago. The rules We're sus-
pended and the transfer ordered, sew
cral members taking occasion to say
that it was a shame to pump clean
water from the settling basin mi a
dirty reservoir.
WATER for South Richmond.
The Water Committee asked an p
pr]opriation of s70.l00 for supplying
Washington Ward from the Richmond
reservoirs, including a system OF mains
for fire protection, which went TO the
Finance Committee. An ordinance en-
tending the use of city water to the
American Tobacco Company, at It's new
plant In Chesterfield county. just out
of South Richmond. at nonresident
rates, was adopted. On recommended
ton of the Committee on Ordinance,
-, ..I roForp, TIM Movor'S veto
was sustained and a new ordinance
with correct date adopted fixing the
corporate seal OF the city. An ordi-
nance was also adopted regulating the
running of street cars at transfer