The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-03
'BOARD.OF CONTROL.
/ TO R PETERSBURG.
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'Will Have Charge Of Administra-
tive Affairs of
i9 City.
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DEATH OF COL. HENRY ROPER
Veil Known stonecuttcr Missing
Since Saturday Morn
ing.
DEATH OF COL. HENRY ROPER
Times-Dispatch Bureau,
100 North Sycamore Street,
Petersburg, Va. February


At It's meeting last night the Com
non Council took iritiatory steps to-
Yards securing Board of Control for
+ ne city of Petersburg. a report was
Il unlimited by the Committee on Char
Ter and Reform. Robert Gillian, Jr.,
nd r, Boiling Wilcox recommending
5t ertain changes in the city charter
\ he general laws of the state. and ac-
ompanying the report with resolu
ion requesting the Senator and Del
gate from this city in the Legislature
10 procure the passage of these amend
flents to the charter.
u Among the amendments proposed Is
ne to authorize the Common Council,
II it should be so desired. to create
s Board of Control. to have charge
the administrative affairs of the
ity, the members to he elected by the
eople, and the board to act in con-
unction with the Council. Another
a hange recommended is one to provide
4 or Increasing the terms of office of
f,embers of the Board of overseers or
he Poor from one year to four years
It present, as heretofore the over
|, GERS are elected by the Council annu-
Il lly, while all other officers are cho-
zen for terms of four years Still an
Their amendment recommended by the
omnittec is one to empower the
ouncil to provide separate parks for
shite and colored persons, each race
o be excluded from tho parks assigned
0 tho other. Public sentiment favors
division of parks.
Other Council business.
81 The Council transacted large
4 mount of business. mostly routine,
4 eng In session for some hours The
ocular appropriations We're made and
/. lany special appropriations We're
oted for public improvements in the
fay of street paving and sewer extern
Non.
IL,
I'D to contract for the installation OF
n electric pump at the Water Works,
10 pump 1880 gallons of water per
linute. and to contract with the Vir-
s.inia Railway and Power Company to
furnish the power for a period of five
fears.
The Council refused TO recede from
s stand 10 appropriate $1,000 for the
av of the two tax assessors, and ap-
ointed a committee to confer with q
ominittee of the Board of Aldermen
n the subject. The Aldermen only
oted $1,000 for this purpose.
4, A resolution WasS offered and laid
vcr FOR thirty days abolishing the
ommittee OF the Councils known as
he Purchasing Committed"
An ordinance was presented and re-
erred prohibiting the ding of bicy-
les Oh any OF the sidewalks In the
ity. An ordinance was also presented
nd referred fixing the limit OF speed
1iles an uour.
The city's cash receipts in January
iere Sh,T03 and expenditures, ST 600
Death of Colonel Hcary Roper.
Colonel Henry C.. Roper. one of
'etersburgs Vealthiest and most re-
,pected citizens. died this morning In
he Petersburg Hospital of paralysis,
tolonel Roper was stricken on No.
enber 4, 1908, while conversing with
riends, and had been practically help
ess ever since. He was never able
. leave the hospital, ard the best med
al skill failed to benefit him. Col
J mel Roper was n Confederate veteran,
sFas siXty-siS years old, and is sur
wed by two brothers and one sister,
II of this city-Bartlett Roper, Sr.,
'reston l. Roper and Mrs. Thomas H.
iond. He was n member OF A. r. Hill
amp OF Confederate Veterans. For
ANY years he was extensively en-
aged in the leaf tobacco trade and
mercantile business, and was man of
lany noble and generous traits of
haracter. Though never married, he
yas especially devoted to children and
is love for them was often shown in
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