The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-19
ADDS Fifteen MEN
TO POLICE FORGE
Ordinance, Charter and Reform
Committee Cuts Down Com
missions Estimate.
NEW SEWER HAS BUcKLED
Tax Ordinance Rcvives Echoes OF
Cunningham In
vestigation.
NEW SEWER HAS BUCkLED

AS a substitute for tho request of
the Board OF Police Commissioners for
an increase In the police force of
twenty-five men, the Council Commits
tee on Ordinance. Charter and Reform
last night recommended to the Coun-
Gil an increase in tho permanent force
of fifteen men, making tho force In
Richmond lao men of all grades. Police
Commissioners Thomas Landerkin and
the committee to urge the Importance
of increasing the fierce. They pre-
scented figures to show that in Philadel-
phia there is one policeman to every
$50 people: in New York.s one
to every 500 people: in Atlanta
one to every 500. and in Richmond at
present one to every $50. Atlanta has
twenty-siN square miles of area to
Richmond's nine square miles. Con-
dtions were shown to have material
ly changed since the last increase of
fifteen men, congestion of traffic on
crowded streets now necessitating the
constant attention OF IL number OF men.
Tho committee took the matter up
later in executive session and recon-
mended tie ordinance after reducing
the number from twenty five to fifteen.
Who Is to Dlnme:
Alderman Elicit called the attcn-
tlon of the committee to the condi-
ton of the new deep sewer in Broad
Street, at which apparently the city
is being put to some expense to rem
edy the contractors negligence. The
sewer was constructed on the south
side OF Broad, from Adams to Ninth,
last fall. at an extreme depth. in orr
cellars of Broad Street stores, 1t not
or street basins. The cost exceeded
100000.
The excavation and filling was done
by I. j. Smith e. Co. under contract
with the city, and the pipe was laid
by the city force. The work was
under the supervision OF Assistant
City Engineer Jackson Bolton. From
the statements made to the commit
tee 1t seems that the sewer was built
by series of trenches, twelve or
fifteen feet apart. tunnels being cut
from one to another at depth OF
from twenty to thirty feet in the
ground.
The earth was apparently not re-
placed in these tunnels after the pipe
was laid. with the result that the
sewer has buckled at several points
between First and Third Streets The
city hands are now at work opening
the trenches and repairing the dam.
age. On motion OF the Mr.. Elicit O
resolution was forwarded to the Coun.
Gil asking that the Street Committee
be instructed 70 Investigate condi-
lions and file report fixing the re.
sponsibility.
The committee recommended a re.
vision of tho cha r n oft IL
relative to the Gas Works. cutting out
obsolete provisions. The most mate
rial change is that hereafter the Gas
Department. will continue the connec-
ton TO the meter at the city's ex-
pense, instead of to the property line
as heretofore.
Echo of Cunningham.
An ordinance concerning the collec-
tion Of taxes was recommended re-
| quiring the Collector of Taxes to file
with the Police Justice as soon as
practicable after May l each year a
list of those delinquent in their CITY
licenses The Cunningham investi-
cation last fall showed that hereto
fore the list has been delayed, usual
| ~ until August, giving opportunity
Ito many to escape payment and al
f.! lowing the penalty to Increase to
prohibitive amount The penalty OF
81 day for doing business without
| license is changed to $40 week,
every weeks failure to be separate
| ofense
The ordinance creating the position
| of Superintendent of the City Hall
| was tabled. That increasing the sal
airy OF the Assistant City Attorney to
| s2,A00 was referred to subcommit-
| tee consisting of Mcssrs. Wise, Fuller
and Iimmermann. Several miner SAL
airy Increases were recommended. in
GLIDING that Clerk J. Taylor STRAIT
| ton, of the Street Committee. to $1,000
| a year.