The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-20
CITY REQUESTED
TO AID HIGHWAY
Asked to Give $1,000 Toward
Permanent Road to Old
Point.
WOODEN WHARF PROPOSED
First Regiment Wants New
Armory-Finance Com
nittee Hearing.
WOODEN WHARF PROPOSED

City aid for the proposed Gordons.
Vile RichmondOld Point highway was
urged upon the Council Committee
on Finance last night by William t.
Dabney, business manager of the
Chamber of Commerce.; Preston Belvin,
OF the Travellers Protective Associa-
.aon. and several others interested IN
the good roads movement. The city
is asked to contribute $1,000. the
amount to be spent within ten miles
OF the city limits. as the State laws
require
Mr.. Belvin stated that plans had
been perfected to put the road In or
der from Richmond to Gordonsville,
but that an important link was miss
Ing about Seven Pines. within the ten
mile limit, and he recommended that
the city's appropriation be expended
there
The Finance Committee took the
papers under consideration The en-
tire night was spent in hearing from
citizens and delegations in support Of
various pending propositions. the COM
mittee adjourning to tomorrow night.
when, in executive session. 1T will con-
slider the proposition now pending
Special Accountant George S. Cren-
shaw was authorized to advertise in
financial journals in New York City
for proposals for the sale of the new
issue of Richmond city thirty-four-
year coupon refunding 4 per cent.
bonds, the issuance of which has re-
Gently been approved by the Council.
the total issue being s1,4oo.4oo.
New Wharf md Armory.
Among the propositions laid before
the Finance Committee were:
BY Chairman George Rogers. OF the
Committee on Improvement of the
James River, appropriation of $4,000
for n wooden wharf on James River,
plans for more elaborate concrete
wharf having recently been rejected
by the Council.
By Major Lawrence T. Price, asking
authority to use $4,000 already ap-
propriated for repairs to the First
Regiment Armory, In the purchase OF
sixty feet OF adjoining land on Mar
shall Street, thus opening the way to
provision for a new armory in next
years budget. The present building.
.ajor Price said. was inadequate and
obsolte: Ats. roof and ono wall had been
condemned, and he considered 1t throw
ing money away to make repairs. 1t
was erected In 1851. James n. Boyd
and General Charles j Anderson. OF
the First Regiment Association
eral Anderson suggesting that the
headquarters of the First Virginia
Regiment, now in stanton. could be
brought back to Richmond If proper
armory facilities We're provided.
Colonel II. NJ. Boykin and others ap-
peared. asking an appropriation for
smooth paving Of Laurel Street.
Councilmen and Jobs.
Chairman Graham Hobson and SUI
perintendent Cabell, OF the City Home,
asHed appropriations OF s115o0 for
fitting up the nurses quarters at the
City Hospital, and s2.50O for general
repairs to the almshouse, including
painting. Mr. Hobson said that Coun-
cilmen Wiltshire and Atkinson had
done the work and approved their own
jobs, when the City Home was last
painted, leading to the enactment of a
State law forbidding such practices.
The city was badly stuck" asserted
MIR. Hobfon, when the building was
painted by member Of the Council
who approved his own work 1t was a
job of which he should be ashamed.
and has not lasted
Members of the Board of Police
commissioners asked to be allowed to
use $4,000 of the present payroll ac-
count for purchase of an additional
automooile patrol wagon and two new
motorcycles for the Police Department.
Building Inspector Beck asked 81 :
800 as an emergency appropriation to
repair the recent fire damage OF the
city Hall, which building is not cover
ed by insurance.
superintendent Davis of the Water
department. asked $4,000 for repairs
10 Old Marshall Reservoir. One wall
ne stated. was leaking. and the entire
inferior should be lined with concrete.
~ Honson' of the committee, pre-
ctea second Johnstown flood in
that section OF the city II renairs 49,
not made, as were the earth erhan,,e
ment to give way, fully 10000, 900 gal
IONS OF water would rush over sur.
rounding houses and streets