The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-13
WANT LARGE SUMS
!. FOR PUBLIC ARKS
Boiling Would Improve and
Enlarge City's Breathing
Spaces.
BUDGET FOR BUILDINGS
Electric Wiring Of City Hail
TO Prove Expensive
Item.
FOR BUILDINGS
BUDGET

tee on Finance MS an outline for tba
annual budget. Building Inspector
Seek asks total OF s65.0iS.l3 for
maintenance and Improvement of rub
lie buildings. and 5I5,76S for ray roll
| or 1anitors. City Engineer Boiling
asks Slio.a72 for public park improve
hents and maintenance. and SG.370 for
Fairgrounds. the items Including slT.-
"o' Tor payment of regularly employed
| parkkecpers. Building Inspector I3eck
| recommends an extensive ovcrhouIiny
ana repairing of the City Hall, includ-
ing new electric wiring. and chansint-
elevator and heating systems Tbe
park budget proposes The enlargement
OF riverside Park. purchase OF addi.
tlonal property at William Byrd Park
| extensive work on driveways IN tho
| shields Grove annex to William Byrd
| Park. and large improvements MT TO-
| scph Bryan Park on which tho civ
| mas up to this time spent nothing
Whatever. In last years budget tho
| total appropriation for grounds and
parks, including pay roll and improve
mcnts. was but si2T26?2 while for
buildings there was appropriated last
year s53.25o.33. The city added TO the
| budget of last year S23.3g5 for final
payments on the Blues Armory. and
| $4,000 for construction of the admin
| istration building at Fair Grounds
| In each instance tho new list OF wants
includes contemplated improvements
| IN south richmond.
Improve City IInu
| On the City Hall building. Inspector
| Beck proposes spending s3l,033l5 this
year. That amount includes muIntc-
nance and supplies OF all kinds, and
| the following items of Improvement:
Improvement to boilers. si,SOO; new
furniture. $1,000: electric wiring and
repairs to fixtures. s9.iS5: replacing
| tile flooring with terrace. slaI1:
| hel
| chutes. $1,000; repairs to elevators So
| 3i5: painting, $1,000: repairing stone
| $1,000.
For improvements to the clerks Of
fec, liustings Court Part ,, metal
| filing cases and general repairs. $4,000
Washington Ward station House
Repairs, already under contract. $1,000
| Chemical Laboratory-Rcnt extra
help and chemicals sl.50O.
| City Auditorium--Pain new noor
| on stage. 19S opera chairs in balcony.
| and general repairs. s2,GGG.20.
First Regiment Administrators and
repair. s2.375.i9. Roof to be made safe
and building remodelcd on separate es-
| innate.
Howitzers' Armory-Metal lockers
and repairs s2.6S2.76
Blues Armory-2eo opera chairs.
gymnasium fittings. rifle racks and
other repairs. s4.3Ii.
Paramount Town Hall--GencraI re-
| pairs. SluU.
| City Jail-Repairing vcntilator sys-
tenn and interloclsing mechanism. sl.5ov:
Legislative requirements. coal, bedding
and hospital supplies. Si,50o.
City IIall-Mcchanical stokers for
| boilers. $4,000
Building Inspectors Fund-Teams and
extra help $1,000.
Building Experimentation. water
| and power. s5,l76; fuel and ice, $500.
| Park budget.
| City Engineer Bolling's budget for
| parks is follows:
Chimborazo Park. slO.31o; Marshall
| Square, $685.; Jefferson Park $3,a15;
Taylors Hin, s7.lSO; Monroe PARK,
$4,000; Candles Hill. sli5o; riverside.
| $3.50; Cutshaw Place. $3.50; Monument
Avenue grass plots. sl.550 small
squares $3.50; William Byrd Park. SiG-
mortal Park, sS2,7so; Washington
Square, s7.o9I; miscellaneous accounts.
s2.3So; payroll, S17.957.
| Playsrounds--Fulton. S1.035; Sea-
brook. sl,S35; Shoclsoe, 5000; Moore
street $3.50; six school Fairgrounds,
Improve Bryan Park.
improvements proposed Mt Bryan
Park. for which the city has just elect
| ed n park keeper, TO take office Feb
ruary !, include:
Fencing around entire park. with
gates. $1,000: memorial gate at main
| entrance, $4,000; repairs to houses
$1,000; opening and graveling roads.
| $4,000; new concrete dam and lake,
| $4,000; boathouse and six boats. 500;
100 park benches. $3.50; extra labor,sT3o;
| drainage, $1,000
At Chimborazo Park it is proposed TO
continue the grading OF the hillside at
| a cost Of $1,000. and 10 purchase ad-
| joining property to enlarge the park,
at a cost of $4,000.
at Taylor's Hill 1t is proposed to ex-
pend $4,000 in grading along the hill
/ side OF Twenty-first Street.
| In Monroe Park granolithic walkways
are asked AT cost of $1,000.
In Candles Hill Park 1t is proposed
to erect a retaining wall to cost 81, 900.
In Riverside Park an item is incud-
| ed for purchase of several adjoining
| lots to enlarge the property, costing
| $500.
At william Byrd Park.
| At William Byrd Park besides tito
| usual Items of the maintenance and
care of the largest and most frequent
| cd of the city's parks. there are special
| items as follows: Teams, s925; extr;,
labor, $500; curbinE and guttering.
$4,000; oiling roads, $1,000; graveling
| and opening driveway around lake in
Shields Grove annex. $4,000; oilinG
| Shields Grove roadways $1,000; new
park house. $500; iron pipe through
dam in Shields Grove lake 5000:
granolithic curb and guttering in
Shields Grove roadways, $4,000; pur-
chase of Pizzini property between Elm
| Street and Davis Avenue, to connect
Reservoir with Shields Grove property.
$500
In South Richmond.
The original budget for Washington
Square was enlarged. ut the request OF
Mr.. Brown. to include the following
items: Granolithic coping, S1,1Si;
granolithic walks. 1897; fountain, $500;
fountain basin and connections. $500;
fence around fountain, 500; fifty park
benches, 5000; surfacing, soilinS and
seeding park. s2.410; trees and labor.
ST 900: total STOOL