The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-25
CHILDREN CQURT1
|. PLAN is APPROVED
Ordinance Committee Recon-
mends That Probation System
BE Introduced.
PROVIDES DETENTION HOME
Salaries Are Fixed for Deputies
in Office of City
Collector.

| AS q substitute for an ordinance re.
ferred providing for holding a special
! term OF the Police Court In the after.
noon twice wocK for the tria, OF
Juvenile offenders. the Council Com
| mittee on Ordinance, Charter and Re-
form last night recommended nm lordln-
ance prepared by C. v. Meredith. and
strongly recommended by the Juvenile
Protective Association and several
other societies, which conforms to
State laws recently enacted with re-
gard to delinquent children. The frst
clause provides for the appointment of
a special probation officer. preferably
woman. though the ordinance does
not SO state, the salary being placed
at $1,000.
Tho second clause provides that the
JudSe of the Hastings Court may de.
siGnate three police officers for spe-
cial service as probation officers in
ehrrSlng cut the work outlined. this
power having already been given to
the judge of the Hastings Court by
state law. The third clause provides
tnet In order that no child under
seventeen years of age when arrested
for any offense, shall be confined IN
jail previous to trial, the Finance Com
mittee is empowered to enter into =
detention and care of such childyen.
previous to trial. with some approved
nome OF detention or charitable society
having such powers under its charter
inc fourth clause provides that the
Police Justice of the city of Richmond
snail hold n special session of his
court every day at noon. whenever
necessary, for the hearing OF juvenile
and non support cases.
City Now breaking Inv.
Mr. Meredith explained that the
ordnance was carefully drawn in com
piance with state law, which the city
was Itself breaking In sending I. child
under seventeen 10 jail or police sta
ton; in failing 10 hold n separate
court for trial of childrens cases, and
In not supplying probation otticcrs
Such officers have been supplied by
private charitable organizations. DR.
James Buchanan. superintendent of the
associated Charities, and Mrs Buch.
anan have acted for several years mast
while the Police Board, unwilling To
SEND children to Jail. has committed
'hem without compensation TO the AS
sociated Charities building. Dr. Bucn-
anan spoke on the ordinance, SAVING
mat he had ct his institution last
night three girls who had ran away
from home in other cities. been arrest
cd, and were being held Tor their mr.
ents.
"A number of others spoke on the
provisions of the ordinance, represen-
tatNes OF the Instructive Visiting
Nurses Association, which has done
large work among the poor, calling at
tention TO the Importance OF having
one trained probation oficer, prefer
aoiS woman, who could do work
that police officers, whether in uni
form or not, could not undertake. TIC
measure was strongly Endorsed BY Pc
iice Commissioner Manning speaking
FOR the Police Board.
No stuble In Residential section.
The application of walton & Epps
LOT permission TO operate public
stable on North Thirty -sccond Street
was rejected on protest OF the neigh
bors. The proposition OF increasina
the pay of the two bill clerks in the
Water Department, which provoked
such a storm at the last meeting OF
the common Council, was sent back
with Recommendation that 1t 20 hrst
70 the Water Committee.
The committee unanimously recon-
meIded that the Office OF City Collec-
TOR be kept on Il salary basis until IL
can be abolished by legislative enact
iisHt as mas already been recommend
cd by this committee. The committee
recommended the following scale of
salaries Collector. $4,000 per annum.
deputy, $1,000. deputy in Washington
Ward $1,000; clerk hire, $1,000. The
lest item leaves II optional With the
Collector 10 employ number of men
in the busy seasons
The committee adjourned TO Friday
night of next week when the much
debated Westhnmpton street car
schedule will he the special order