The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-15
A pprov e Committees
Action in fastening
Erection of Building.
WATER FOR STATE
FAIR GROUNDS
Broad Street Lighting Plan Hur-
ried to Finance Committee, and
Will Come to Special Coun-
Gil Meeting Called for To-
Morrow Night-Handle
Big Docket.

On recommendation of the Commit
tee on Grounds and Buildings last
night the Board of Aldermen approved
the award of contract for the new ad-
minlstration building on the grounds
OF the Virginia State Fair Association
to Gilbert j. Hunt for $4,000, the Fair
Association to pay for any extra items
or excess cost over that amount In
order to expedite matters a call has
been issued for a meeting Of the Com
mon Council for tomorrow night to
concur in order that the nsw building
may be rushed to completion. in time
for this years fair. Mr.. Hunt has al
ready laid off the grounds. and will
begin eXcaTating the day the measure
is signed by the Mayor.
Prompt action is also to be taken on
the proposition for better illumination
for Broad Street. The Committee on
Electricity last night recommended a
special appropriation of 100000 for the
installation of ornamental lamp posts
and connections, and the matter was
referred to the Finance Committee,
That body has been called TO meet at
the City Hall tonight, and Will report
to the Common Council tomorrow
night. The Board of Aldermen will
be called early next week to concur.
The contract has already been award
ed for the main conduits in Broad
Street, and Engineer Trafford urges
prompt action so that the side con-
done at one time, saying that it will
save from $4,000 to $4,000 as well as
tearing up of the street
Water for Fair Grounds.
Another matter in which the Fair
Association is interested provoked a
somewhat heated debate on the floor
of the Board last night The measure.
which came up for concurrence, au-
thorized the Fair Association to use
city water. connecting with main
now in the Hermitage Road. Mr..
Rennolds was vef1el sat in his oppo-
sfticn. He exy,a!ned ihse some years
ago the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad the Richmond
Foundry and Manufacturing Co.. and
the Southern stove Works, in one of
which plants he said he had an inter
est. made an agreement with the city
of Richmond TO lay main in the
Hermitage Road at their own cost, the
city TO pay for all pipe laid in the city
limits whenever the limits should be
extended According to Mr.. Rennolds,
the city refused to pay the bill after
annexation, cut 1t in half and finally
compromised on $500 less than the.
pipe line had cost. He said that the
three plants would be entirely willing
TO have the Fair Association tap the.
main providing the association would
come in and pay the three parties Its
share of the cost of laying the main
beyond the city limits. Mr.. Rennolds
asserted with some heat that 1t was
.'perpetrating rank injustice" to al
low any Ito tap this main without
paying for the right
Acting Small, Says Adams
Mr. Adams defended the proposition.
He explained that the three plants IN
question lay outside of the city linz
its, and paid no city taXes--that they
came and asked as a privilege the use
OF city water outside of the city limits
q. privilege which the city could have
denied, but which it had granted to
encourage manufacturing and the en-
ployment of city labor.
1--WE should have the right assert
ed Mr.. Adams, Ito tap this main or any
main carrying city water, for any
public enterprise or for use on city
property, and the Fair Grounds be-
longs TO the city OF Richmond The
Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac and the Stove Company in my
judgment are acting in very small
way to come here and raise an objec-
tion to a public enterprise of this
character TO which people Of all parts
of the State have subscribed.
Eve didn't act small and refuse
them the right to use city water as we
might have done They reap benefits
from the fair like others, and should
be glad to aid il.
Mr. Rsnnolds replied that the city
had made a solemn contract which 1t
failed to keep, and that now it pro-
posed to perpetrate still further IN
justice by letting the fair people come
in and use the main without paying
any part Of the cost of its installation.
The Board didn't agree with him. how
ever, concurring in the ordinance by
a vote of 10 to /, Mr.. Rennolds being
the only negative.
Collectors Office All Right.
A resolution authorizing the. grad
ing of Strawberry Street with the
hands and carts from Grove Avenue
to William Byrd Park, was recommit-
ted at the request of Chairman Adams.
who hinted that it had been slipped
the committee without the
Of that body. The hands
and carts, he said, were for repairing
Streets and such an enterprise as that
would engage them tor months. and
should be done by contract by special
appropriation. The Committee on FL
nance submitted the report of the spe-
cial accountant on his examination OF
the office of the City Collector for
1909, the report showing all settle-
ments correct, save an overpayment In
one instance of s427s. which the ac-
countant recommended should be re-
funded. The paper was received and
filed. The Finance Committee recon-
the payment Of certain bills
Of the Grounds and Buildings Depart
ment incurred in 1909, out ofet the ap-
for the current yean
which was adopted.
The same committee returned the|
petition of r. A. Cary for refund Of
license tax, with the Recommendation
that 1t be rejected, and the Board re.
ieeted the petition. The Committee on
Ordinance Charter and Ref nryr, rar,nrta Al n