The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-22
SCHOOL BOARD
WILL MOVE AGAIN
Permission Given for Its Return
to Former Quarters in
City Hall.
ALL DEPARTMENTS CRAMPED
Creation of Administrative Board
Will Make Big Office Shift
Necessary.

Permission was given BY the Coun-
oil Committee on Grounds and Build
ings last night for the city School
Board and superintendent to return to
their old quarters In the City Hall
Tor one year. The transfer Will be
mace during the holidays. and super
intendent Chandler and SUPERVISOR
Walford will be ready for business at
their former places by the first of the
year.
The School Board has occupied four
rooms on the top iioor of the CITY Hall
since the building was opened. In Sep
tember a lire did serious damage. de-
Btroyins the furniture and contents.
and the school officials found tempor-
airy quarters in the old John Marshall
house. recently donated by the city to
the Association for the Preservation
of virginia Antiquities. Repairs have
been about completed since the fire.
but serious objection was made to the
return of the School Board on The
ground that the CITY Hall was already
overcrowded. and efforts were made To
ind quarters in the High School, and
railing In that, in one OF the old resi-
dences recently acquired by the city
In the condemnation of the block on
wnicn Ford's Hotel Is located
Must Shift Them Around.
The ultimate plan Is that the School
Board offices be given over 10 the
! City Attorney. At present City At
torney Pollard and his stauoErapher
have two rooms adjoining the Council
chamber. while Assistant city Attor-
ney Anderson has q room on the fourth
, moor making an unfortunate division.
with the offices now assigned to the
School Board turned over to the City
Attorney and his assistant at the end
OF this year the cDntpIttaa ,t,,r
the way TO provide suitable quarters
Tor the proposed Administrative Board
"hlch VIII scGupy as courtroom for
lis public hee:ings committee room No.
3o5, used now by the Committee on
Streets and other Council committees
| which are ABOLISHED under the new
plan of government. Tho two adjoin-
Ing rooms now occupied by the City
Attorney Will be turned over to the
clerk and stenographers of the Admin
istrative Board, and IL necessary the
special Accountant will be moved
across the hall to make q private con-
sulting room adjoining the courtroom
for tho desk and Office space Of mem
bers OF the new board. who are to give
MI OF their time to the city's buBi-
| ness.
Takes Up Nursery Matter.
| subcommittee of three. consisting
! OF Messrs. Grimes, Don Leavy and At
! kinson. was appointed to consider n
! special message from the Mayor in
1 regard to the city nursery and the
| care OF the trees in the public parks.
| cemeteries. and on residence streets.
| While thi. ordinance is pending the
! committe deferred action on the regis
nation of Nurseryman Hand. who Is
! In feeble health, and who has twice
before indicated that he Is unable to
continue as the head OF tho city
! nursery. He will be continued with
/ the aid OF his son until the Council
acts on the proposed ordinance which
! VIII regulate the care and planting of
! trees throughout the city, as we'll as
! the mana cement of the nursery. Sew
! eral members of the committee c1-
( pressed their appreciation OF the long
| and faithful services of Mr.. Hand. and
! their regret that Ill health should
necessitate his retirement