The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-03
COMMON COUNCIL
HOLDS NJ EET In c
Agrees to Annual Appropriation
for tuberculosis Hos
pital.
DEATH OF FORMER CITIZEN
Episcopal Clergy and Laymen
Consider Church
Extension.
DEATH OF FORMER CITIZEN
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
100 North Sycamore Street,


The Common Council held its month
ly session last evening. making the
regular departmental appropriations
and some special ones, and transact
ing the usual routine business. AN
ordinance. reported from the Street
Committee, regulating the speed OF
automobiles in the city was passed
after much discussion. 1t allows au-
tomobiles a speed not greater than
eight miles in the streets in the bust
ness section Of the city, and twelve
miles elsewhere.
Another ordinance reported from
the Street Committee and also passed
prohibits the riding of bicycles on
any of the sidewalks in the city. The
existing ordinance on this subject is
very confusing to bicycle riders.
The City Treasurer's report shows
cash receipts in February of s12,1s6
and the Auditors report shows eapen-
dtures fer the month of s332Si. The
expenses include outlay in public JIM
provements now in progress.
The Public Property Committee,
which had under consideration the
proposal of the Petersburg Invest
ment Corporation to purchase the city
almshouse farm for $4,000. reported
! the matter to the Council without re-
Communications, and the Council after
! some discussion, referred 1t back, to
| the committee. 1t was stated by Capt
| M c. Jackson, q representative of the
Investment Corporation, that the S30,-
600 offered by the company for the
| property was the smallest part OF the
consideration. The company desires to
build a boulevard 100 feet wide from
the West End Park to Butterworth's
! Bridge, through the property and to
build handsome residences. each
dwelling TO have frontage of 100
$4,000 in Improvements in the city.
The almshouse tract embraces about
200 acres and is valuable property.
Tuberculosis Hospital.
President Patteson offered a resolu.
ton in the Council last evening. recit-
ing that: Whereas. it is proposed bs
the citizens of Petersburg to build 6
tuberculosis hospital in the city, sole
! ly for charitable purposes and non
: sectarian, and it is believed that sucl
hospital would result to the good o.
, the health of our community: there
/. fore.
Resolved. That 1t is the sense of th'
Council of the city that said hospita
should be maintained by the city. am
the finance Committee Is hereby IN
, structcd TO include in its budget 10
!, July. 1910, and in each annual pudge
hereafter, an appropriation OF s1,aV
$ for said purpose. The resolution wa
unanimously adopted
1t is understood that, apprcciatiiii'
the great need OF such hospital, ~
amount for its establishment mas occ
contributed by philanthropic citl"ens
/, 1t Is to be a real charity, nothlhS pc'"'
: charged for the admission ana ca'e
G lpatients. 1t will be open 70 men -,
: women suffering from the dlseasc' ns
ginning In a modest way. with acco"'o
dations for twelve or fifteen patlen.'
III will be added to as necessity Iequ'' %
Episcopal Church Extension.
\ meeting of clergymen ana repre
: sentative laymen of all tho Eplso1 ~
], churches in the city, was he'u 'aa
= night In ST. Paul's Church parisn-,.ous'
:, in the interest of the work OF Gnu :,
:, extension Addresses were "'auo
= tho Rev. Otis Meade, general secl1..'
of the church extension % -,
tho Rev r. w. Bramwell ana ~. -,
C. B. Bryan, D. d.. VINO ou., ,t.oa
|. work OF the diocesan con l'l... :
n MI the Episcopal churches IN t'e "
q ~ Ct paul,s church on Sunday nlgh
e March IA, at which Bishop Randoip
G Archdeacon j. J. Lloyd and w w. Ro'
+ r+son sac.ctar,, Of the Diocesan con
q ,,,it,ea Win no invited to speak IN Dc
= half OF the work.
miscellaneous News
1rt~o 7 Ar Mullen will go out
snssex county to, preside in the Gu
cult Court for Judge West IN ciV