The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-25

the third ward, was the second speak
er, and opened his address by ssytng
that Manchester ID worse on to-day
than II ever was" Mr.. Patram laid
great stress on the question OF the
free bridge. 1T will take 100000
to put up bridge that the people
want" he declared. and the young
people of to-day want the best OF
everything. and those Of Manchester
can get II IL they vote for Richmond
and Manchester TO join hands" He
continued: Our water plant does not
measure up to what we need at this
day. 1t is not large enough. have
been told that If II was necessary to
close 1t down the people would have
on hand only supply which would
last for two hours. During the hours
from A. NJ. until 10 r. ID. the press
ure is low, so low, in fact, that In case
Of fire our department could not throw
stream Is feet high. have been
informed by our firemen that such Is
the case, ard that instead of stand
ing on the ground and throwing a
stream on top of burning building.
they must go on top and throw the
water down. We have kept things
such as these quiet in the past and
have done the best we could with
an opportunity to do away with these
things by consolidating with Richmond
The consolidation ordinance provides
that We shall have adequate fire pro-
lection. There has been some crIti-
cism OF the word adequate / have
looked II up in the dictionary. and
want all OF you to do the same. l
believe that any court In the country
would hold that adequate means
equal. or, in other words, our FIRE
protection would be equal to that Of
Richmond"
Richmond Not Bankrupt.
MIR. Carter c. Jones, OF the CONSOLE
dation committee. read to the big au-
dience letter from Mr.. II. r.. Pol
lard. city attorney Of Richmond. ex-
planning In certain details the pro-
visions of the ordinance. Mr.. Dunford
also read a letter from Mayor Rich
ardson, OF Richmond. wherein Il was
clearly shown that II Richmond wish
ed to dispose of some OF her assets
of public utilities. such as gas or wa
ter works. II could pay of Its entire
Indebtedness and leave a good bal
ance in the treasury. Does that
look like Richmond In bankrupt
Mr.. Dunford asked. Anti-annexation-
ISIS uAte asserted tHAk An lnulFluuhl
in the place of Richmond would have
been q bankrupt long ago.
Alderman John w. Moore spoke
briefly. but in no uncertain terms
I'm a few years after consolidation"
he said. Manchester will have some
thing Wen worth working for"
Councilman L. r. Brown. chairman
of the annexation COMMITTEES, denied
that he ever asserted that Manches-
ter Is now in condition to spend 90
per cent. of her revenues upon street
Improvement. He referred to a book
let published by the Anti-Consolida-
ton League, and pronounced 1t to be
misleading In many points. He con-
cluded by saying: The antis have
fired their last gun. ! don't believe
that there will be fourteen votes
against annexation on April T."
Mr.. III. NJ. McGruder. president of
the Consolidation Club, made a few
remarks In behalf OF the issue for
which his organization is working
Mr.. Augustine Royal concluded the
meeting by asking the people to assert
their manhood and when they go to
the polls on election day vote for an
nexation.