The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-06
Anti-L License NJ ca sure
for Lyric Goes Through
by Big Vote.
TRAFFIC MEASURE
BACK TO BOARD
Overwhelming Majority Cast in
Lower Branch to Prevent
Opening of Playhouse at
Eighth and Grace-Nine
laa Hours for City
Employees.

III ~NANsinS ~ concur In the meaning
less resolution az to street tramc sent
over from the Board of Aldermen. the
Common Council last night adopted az
q substitute practically the original
ordnance. with a slight verbal amend.
ment. thus putting again sQuarely be.
Ioie the upper branch the responBi-
hiiity for regulating street trafic IL
Richmond.
Assistant City Attorney Georg.
wayne Anderson having called atten-
ton to certain defects in the pro.
Posed Lyric Theatre ordinance, a sub.
stitute was offered by Councilman
Mills. which was claimed TO meet the
objections. and II was adopted 80 to z.
preventing hereafter the issuance OF
license TO any theatre within 15a
feet OF any church. and making no
exceptions.
nine-hour day was hxed for cit,
employes engaged in manual labor or
the etreets and alleys OF the city
without reaching the proposed bond
Issue ordinance. or the bulk OF the
monthly routine business. the Council
adjourned to Thursday night
Must Provide Fish Lndders.
a communications was presented from
Mayor Richardson calling attention to
State laws requiring any person own.
ing dam or obstructing any stream
above tidewater, TO construct and
maintain fish ladders. the law making
II the duty OF the Councils OF cities
to make personal inspection TO sec
that the Law Is enforced. The Mayor
stated that he was Informed that both
the city and private corporations main
tanned dams in James River not prop
erly equipped with Hsh ladders. TIL.
paper was referred to the Committee
on Water.
The Board OF Aldermen. bv com
munication. informed the Council that
u mad amended q Council resolution
making the rate of toll for street car.
on the Free Bridge $4,000 a year. in. j,
sorting inilleu the present figure. 81 600
year. The Council refused to concur
IN the amendment by a. vote of ii &c
"a. ,.f, -
4 refund of s25sss to w. II. schwarz.
child for a sewer was approved. as
was resolution authorizing the con
struction OF a. sewer in Cowardip
Street. from Dickerson to Oakwood
Avenue. to cost 5000. Award of con.
tract to l. j. Smith & CO., Inc, was
confirmed for the deep sewer in the
north side OF Broad Street, from Ninth
TO Adams Street. to cost s6,346.7o An
ordinance fixing a ninehour day for
employees of this city engaged in
manual labor on the streets and alleys
OF the city In the Engineers, gas and
water departments was concurred In.
T the suggestion being made that Il
should include members OF the Coun-
ell. Permission was given to the Fair
mount Presbyterian Church to erect a
+ frame building at Twenty-third and
Paramount Avenue over the protest OF
Mr.. Lynch, who asked that the meas
ure be recommitted that 1t might be
!. put In proper shape,
Trnmc Law ARnin Adopted.
ID 1, G1,,s ~ b.
months ago by the Council. embracing
tor,y-eight clauses or provisions as &,
traffic, came back amended so that It's
patron. Mr.. 'Umlauf, did not recognize
i Ii. II carried but one clause. gen
eral and almost meaningless provision,
With the penalty and enacting clauses
Mr.. Umlauf offered rs n substitute for
the whole the original ordinance. with
single amendment in cIanse ~, pro-
vIding for the safety OF persons allght-
Ing from street cars at crossings,
making vehicles give them standing
room. Mr.. umlauf said he had gone
over the traffic laws OF New York.
Bostonl Baltimore and Pittsburg, and
that not a city had as plain and simple
series of regulations as had been
L proposed.
lie had been informed, he stated.
( that the Board had acted as joke
mot taking the traffic law seriously
that the amendments cutting out for.
ty-seven of the forty-cight clauses
had been offered In a spirit of levity
and the Board merely carried out the
joke members having admitted that
they had not read the ordinance, and
didn't know what II was about. He
did not believe that the Board WOULD
again trife with SO serious a matter.
involving as II has in a number OF
recent cases, the lives OF citizens, and
he advocated giving the Board an
other chance to set Itself right before
the community. The substitute was
adopted unanimously.
Theatre Ordinance.
The regular order of business was
then changed to take up the theatre
ordnance. in which many spectators
were interested. The patron. Mr.. Mills.
stated that while the original ordin-
ance covered the ground sought by the
applicanis-the prohibition OF open
Ing a theatre at Eighth and Grace
streets-it had worked hardship on
existing playhouses, to which there
i. was no objection. and the Ordinance
Committee had reported a substitute
with clause providing that the ordi-
nance should not apply to existing
theatres licensed at the time OF Its
passage. Mr.. Mills said he understood
the City Attorney seriously question:
ed thellegallty OF that amendment and
he offered a substitute for the whole.
as follows: ili8
Te1ttof New Ordinances.
4 J. That no license shall be issued
TO any public theatre which shall be
f within so feet. in an air line, OF the
main entrance to any church devoted
to regular religious worship, nor shall
i any such license be granted to any
j public theatre whose building, or any
4. part thereof, Is located within fifty