The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-08
GIFT OF HOSPITAL
WILL LESSEN DEBT
Bond Issue for Building Fund
Will Not Be Necessary-Ot
Council Business.

1t seems to be generally conceded
that the Common Council Will adopt
tonight tho bond issue OF s1,4oo,oOo
recommended by the Committee on
Finance without amendment and prac-
tically without opposition. Tho nego-
tiations now pending for turning over
the Memorial Hospital to the city, un-
der certain conditions Will obvlate
the necessity Of adding the proposed
100000 rider to the bond issue sug-'
gested by the Committee on Relief OF
the Poor as a nucleus for a hospital
building fund.
All OF the improvements proteoteo
In the bond Issue are admitted to he
needed, and to practically all OF them
The city lis already pledged. 1t Includes
the cost of the new Mayo Bridge and
site. the acquisition OF the Ford block;
100000 to be expended on public
school buildings and sites, and water.
gas and sewer pipes for washington
Ward. In accordance with the unneSA-
ton agreement
As to Street Bonds.
In the Board of Aldermen efforts
may BIO mado to add large amount
Tor street Improvement but tho gen
Ing issue should BIO made available for
immediate work, and later Improve
ments take their turn on their own
merits-not be put through as n rider
10 the pending issue. Opinion in tho
Council and on the Street Committee
is much divided as to tho ACCESSIBILITY
of street bond issue
The present State laws provide SO
clumsy a mode OF procedure for aSIne.
6ae
Impossible for the city to proceed with
grading any street or alley except
where property owners sign releases
The annual budget this year carried
moro than one-third or million for
streets. which. according 10 members
OF the Finance Committee. is as much
as can be wisely expended, while the
engineers Office is overloaded with
sewer and bridge building operations
now under way. AS practically no
grading of new, streets can be done
until after the Legislature meets, any
bond issue for streets would be large
~ divided between smooth paving
an admitted luxury-and oiling OF tho
surface of streets. n temporary eS-
pedient in which a largo part OF the
annual appropriation for streets gen
orally is being uned this year.
Hospital Plans.
1t does not seem to have been def
nitely determined In what shape the
Memorial Hospital proposition will
come before the Council though It S
stated that the trustees stand ready
TO turn the building and equipment
over TO the city to be operated as
public free hospital II the city Will
assume the annual maintenance
charges and guarantee that 1t Will not
be made q place for political jobbery
and place-seeking.
The Council Will vote tonight on
the Westhampton street car PROPOSE
ton. which has been fully discussed
and reported favorably By the Street
Committee and unfavorably by the
Ordinance. Charter and Reform Com
mittee. The plan is that offered by
the Country Club of Virginia, and
acceded to by the street car company.
to bring the Westhampton cars down
to Ninth and Main Streets, charging
straight scent fare and with only
limited transfer eastward bound.
giving a fifteen instead OF thirty
minute schedule The opponents are
chiefly those citizens living within the
six. blocks between Robinson Street
and the new city limits at Crenshaw
Avenue.
large number OF other matters are
to come before the Council tonight,
including extended reports from each
OF the standing committees.