The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-05
kN0TTY PROBLEM
IS UP TO COUNCIL
CITY FATHER WILL HAVE TO IN
RAvEL CITY coLaEcroR-
SHIP QUESTION.
COMPLICATIONS THlBkEN
ORDIS ANCE FROM
BOARD Is COMING BACK
THEATRE MEASURE Is
WILL BE OFFERED.

Common Council will likely find it.
self in something of q quandary when
1T meets Friday night and is called
upon to act on an amended ordinance
from the board OF aldermen allowing
the salary OF the city tax collector to
continue on d fee basis until January
! /. 1914.
This measure was amended by the
| board after the lower branch had
voted to put the city collectorship on
a salary basis of $4,000 per year with
| out delay.
Meanwhile since the shortage devel-
opments in the office the common
council has referred to the ordinance
committee another resolution fixing
/ the salary of collector at $500 per
Year. that OF his elerksat $1,000 per
year, and that OF two deputy clerks
at S12u per year each.
Still another complication arises
from the fact that tho ordinance COM
mtttee Is now ready to report fav-
orally on an ordinance recommend.
ing that steps be taken at the next
session of the legislature to abolish
the office and merge it with the city
treasurer's office.
How the counciimen will meet the
situation few of them are prepared
TO say. 1t seems assured, however.
that tho body will not adopt the
amended ordinance from the board of
aldermen who took such action. be,
lieving, they declared. that 1t would
De an injustice TO tho late Captain
Frank w. Cunningham, the veteran
collector. who died last week after
brief illness
Temporary Collector Herbert J..
Hulce Is now holding down the po-
sition at salary of $500 per month,
| especially provided by council until
his successor could be appointed. The
general belief is that he will be named
to iiil the position pending the gem
eral election in the fall
Offer Thcater Ordinance.
Included in other measures to be
considered Friday night liz the ordi-
nance which the church people viii
introduce with view Of pre-
erection OF tne proposed theater on
the southeast corner of Grace and
Elghth streets The ordinance, which
VIII undoubtedly he referred to the
ordnance committee without discus
sion. reads as follows:
l. That no license shall he issued
TO any public theatre the main en-
trance to which " the bill boards
OF which, shall be within one hun
+ dred ana fifty feet. in an air line,
- or the main entrance to anv church
ri ! u,
4 nor to any public theatre whose build
I ing or any part thereof is located
Withlh SeNenty-tve feet in an Air
e me- or any such church. except by
i. ana with the consent OF sal church.
n provided. however. that ,nis ordinance
IT snail not apply to any sucn theatre
i which Was located and licensed AS
|. such at the time said church was
built
G =. Any person who operates such
IT theatre. or any person giving d
j. pubifc theatrical or Other per4or-
nance or show in any such theatre
without Il license. as aforesaid, shall
De iyiahle to "a tine of not less thar
twenty MOI. more than two hundred
dollars for such offense
~ This ordinance shall be in forcf
from Its passage"
Act ON Bridge Contract.
- from the finance committee will
= come a report recommending tht
9 award OF the Mayo bridge contrac
e 10 /. j. Smith and Company for the
> sum or $260,s55, ana the purchase
OF Ford hetelbiaek atineaj1c shra
- OF Ford hotel block adjacent to III,
a city hall for s16s, 900. The commit
/. Toe has also recommended that tht
l. city school board be authorized Il
IT expend $4,000 for new building sites
n time, II IL likely that the hody vii
ii the papers can be prepared il
receive from the street committee I
report recommending the issuance o
bonds to the extent OF $1,000 600 fo
street. Ina pr3venfent work.
8 Council is also scheduled To tackl
the Westhampton car schedule mat
ter coming from the street commit
lie tee which has commended that til
AK schedule be changed. an suggested b
ne the Country Club and Westha ptol
n residents. This proposition is ex
a. pected to preeipitate a fight OF con