The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-11
ALDERMEN REJECT
CITY WHARF PLAN
900 hitherto set apart for repairs t.
tho old armory building.
Some Appropriations.
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Action of the Common Council in
in:
Appropriating $500 to repair fire.
damage at City Hall.
Ordinance providing keeper fol
Washington Square. who shall serve
as janitor of Hastings Court, Part .,
at Joint salary OF 5000 per annum.
Appropriating 5000 for sewers for
the City Home.
Appropriating $3.50 for expenses OF
Chief Health officer in attending Ma
tional Public Health Association in
Cuba.
Appropriating $1,000 for entertain
ment OF convention of Daughters OF
the Confederacy.
Appropriatlng $3.50 for purchase of
lot for tool house for keeper OF Monu-
ment Avenue grass plots.
AppropriatinG $1,000 to City Home
repairs, equipment and repainting.
Increasing the salary of the book :
keeper and clerk of the Committee on
Streets to $1,000 per annum.
Authorizing the City Attorney To
acquire land to widen Hull stree,
twenty three feet from the Atlantic
Coast Line tracks to the corporate
limits.
Resolution confirming the awards
made by the Assessor of Damages for
grading Nineteenth Street, Twenty
eighth Street, West Cary Street and
Beverly Street
Awarding contract for steam coal
for the Gas Works to the Atlantic
States Coal and Coke Company.
Increasing the salary OF the clerk
of the Street Cleaning Department to
Sl,0S0 per annum.
Some smooth Paving.
on recommendation of the Commit
tee on Streets the Board adopted an
ordinance allowing the First National
Bank Building Corporation to con-
struct areas in Ninth Street beside
new skyscraper. On recommendation
of the Finance Committee $3.50 was
appropriated for smooth paving Lau-
rel Street from Grace to Broad Street
The Finance Committee recommends
rejection OF a resolution appropriating
$500 for smooth paving Belvidere
Street from Grace to Broad Street, but
notwithstanding the recommendation
II was adopted II 10 0. the four mem
bers of the Finance Committee present
voting for the appropriation amid some
laughter.
In answer to resolution adopted
by the Board directing the Finance
Committee to report plan for issu-
ing street bonds. the Finance Com
mittce replied that under the pro-
posed resolution it stood ready to
report plan for Issuing 100000 in
twenty-year bonds FOR street improve
ments as soon as list OF the pro-
posed improvements. with estimates
OF the cost, has been furnished by
the Committee on Streets. as directed
by the original resolution.
Fees Are Abolished.
On recommendation OF the Com
mittec on Ordinance. Charter and Re-
form. an ordinance was adopted ex-
tending the fire limits of the city to
include portion of Fulton. On rec
ommenda ton OF the same committee.
an ordinance was adopted as a sub
stitute for fve former propositions
fixing the salary OF the City Collector
and his clerks. as follows: City Coll
lector. $4,000 per annum. in lieu OF all
fees; hrst deputy. sl.5o0; one clerk,
main office, $1,000: one clerk. Wash
ington Ward. 5000. who may also
serve as deputy to the delinquent tax
collector and for other clerical hire
and expenses, $1,000 per annum.
A communication was received from
the Board of Police commissioners
recommending thai an ordinance be
adopted requiring all persons solicit
ing the business OF carrying parcels
or baggage from railway stations to
register at police headquarters and
wear a proper badge. The paper was
referred to the Committee on Ordi-
nance, Charter and Reform.
On roll call, Mr.. Don I.eavy offered
and had referred to the same committee
an ordinance increasing the pay OF the
Chief of Police from $4,000 to $4,000
per annum.