The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-26
BUSY WEEK AHEAD
IN CITY AFFAIRS
Charges Against Jackson Bolton
VIII BE investigated
To Morrow.
DEBATE RACE SEGREGATION
Citizens Invited to Express Their
Views Before Ordinance
Committee.

This week bids fair to be ono OF the
busiest on record at the city Hall. an
unusually largo number OF matters in
which the public Is interested being
up for discussion, Including the Won
Jerlchr race segregation ordinance.
concurrence in the budget and school
resolution by tic Board Of Aldermen.
nearing of the charges OF Contractor
Clarence g. burton against First AZ
sistant City Engineer jackson Bolton
sor discrimination ard double spccin-
cations In sewer bids. and Scycra
other matters.
The schedule will begin with meet
ing of n subcommittee on streets at
l;"Q Tomorrow afternoon, to go into
the burton charges. At tho last meet
ing OF the street Committee. Ccntrac-
TOR burton presented written state
mcnt TO the effect that gross errors
had been made In figuring OH, who was
the lowest bidder on a certain sewer,
no less than three contracts having
been made out before the work was
iinally awarded TO the proper party.
He also alleges that he was Kept in
Ignorance Of the fact that bids would
be received either by the uni. system
or per linear foot, and that he vas
misinformed b. Engineer Jackson Bol-
ton as to whether the city curnished
T..
has lost several contracts through cr-
rork in the Engineers Office
The Lynch Investigating Commit
tees report, Just adopted. SHARPLY
cansHred Mr.. Bolton, the First Assist
ant Engineer, for being .dcrelict in
tho discharge of his duties and at a
recent meeting or the Street Commit
tee MIR Lynch stated that had tina
committee known before dra wing Its
N ma I,,N 4,
come TO his attention, there would
lave been q still more drastic recon-
niendation. Mr.. Lynch told tho COM
mittco without reservation that io be.
.ercd there was incompetence among
certain OF the assistant engineers, and
that they should he weeJed out at
once for the sake both OF the depart:
ment and ot the citS
Rncc Segregation.
Tomorrow night there Will be
rublic hearing before the Comet Com
mittec on Ordinances, Charter and Re-
form on tho Nondcrlchr race seErega.
ton ordinance. Former Aldermen
John Mitchell .Jr.. who owns several
houses on Clay street. rented to white
ii, opposition 10 the proposed law.
There viii also be present many white
property owners in It's favor.
The ordinance has been declared
valid IN a written opinion By City
Attorney Pollard. who quotes many
Supreme Court decisions II provides,
in brief, that no colored citizens snail
live on block the majority OF resi-
dents on whcn are White, and that no
white citizen shall live on any block
Tic majority Of the residents OF which
are coiored. It does not applS- to ser
Wants or employees living on the prem
Ses OF their employers, nor Is 1t re-
troactivc. Those white people now
living In sections mainly colored may
remain and those co!ored people iiv-
ing on streets mainly white may re-
Is adopted, no white people may move
into colorcd section. and no co!ore1
PEOPLE into i white section.
Clay street Done OF Contention.
Clay street has for several years
been a bone OF contention. II has al
way; hcen white street. but the great
colored population, overcrowdinS the
section 10 the north and west. has
pushed along the cross streets In some
cases out to Broad. Some time ago a
colore,l congregation secured the old
Quaker Church, near First and Clay,
anu later colored bank erected
handsome business building at Third
and Clay.
So far no negroes live on the street.
tnohSh 4 nNmDeT Oh houses arc sal
TO b. owned by negroes and rented to
white families through agents. The
section known as Africa" IS much
.ovcrcrowdcd. and weli-to-1o negroes
are looking about for more comfort
able living section.
The COMMITTEES Will also hear peti.
ton in regard to the erection of n
stable in an alley near jefferson and
Cary Streets.
OtEcr Meetings.
The Committee on Water VIII meet
to- morrow night in regular session
and the Committee on Printing and
Claims at The same hour. The latter
Will receive n report on the progress
Of printing tile now City Code. which
has hccn In process OF publication since
last November
The schedule for the remainder or
the week follows:
Tuesda Committee OH Streets. r.
NJ: Committee on Markets. S ?. NJ
cdnesday--Committee Oh Light,
Committee on Street Cleaning. both ut
s o'clock: Committee on Relief OF tho
Poor $50 o'clock.
Thnrsda y-Board OF Aldermen, T..
NJ: Committee on Electricity, S p. NJ;
Committee on Grounds and Buildings,
is r. NJ; Committee on Cemeteries, 5
+. NJ.
stu Alarm OF fire.
\ still alarm of fire was sent in ycster-
ciav afternoon from the residence or Gilbert
Hunt, Dol Floyd Avenue where falling ashes
49,. lit I,