The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-22
SOCIETY WANTS
|. MARSHALL HOUSE
Proposes to Preserve 1t as Mu-
scum in Memory of Great
Jurist.
MANY MATTERS CONSIDERED
Collector Agrees to Reduction Of
Fees, but Revenue Com
missioner Objects.
MANY MATTERS CONSIDERED

by the Council Committee on Finance
last night Oh many pending matters
No action was taken, though many
ordinances We're discussed The com
mittee has been called TO meet in cX-
ecutivc session on rriday night at s
O'Clock TO take action on the matters
presented. which include the proposed
James River wharf. reduction of fees
of the City Collector and Commissioner
OF the Revenue, turning over of the
John Marshall house TO the Association
for the Preservation of Virginia Ants
quities and many other matters. y
delegation Of women appeared IN be-
half OF an appropriation of $1,000 for
maintenance of tho children's ward at
the Memorial Hospital.
John Marshall House
Eppa liunton headed a delegation In
regard to the John Marshall house
Other speakers Were Murray NJ Nc
Guirc. j Taylor Ellyson. II. NJ Smith,
y. Il. C;uigon ana Mrs. j. 7. Ellyson.
Mr.. iIunton spoke OF Marshall as the
"srandest intellect this country has
produced" leaving the greatest i'm
press on the history Of the country
in the formation of the nation.
i was urged that the building be
turned over TO the Association for the
Preservation OF Virginia Antiquities
for restoration and perpetual prcscrva.
ton as monument 10 one OF the
greatest NirGinians.
superintendent j. A. c. Chandler
spoke on the attitude OF the School
Board, which lie said was divided on
the proposition, q majority being on
posed The building is now used BY
tie Valentine kindergarten, and the
board has recommended that 1t bc re-
ittcd as an administration buldin,. fur.
the public school system
IA; =. Il 2.
Tor the Association for the frcscrva-
ton Of Virginia Antiquities, OF which
lie is 4 member, and regard fo,, the
memory of Marshall, Dir. Chandler said
II should not be forgotten that IT was
| Marshalls view that the Union was
greater than tho State, and his de-
cisions which made possible the atti-
tude OF Lincoln al q later period He
field that 1t was not a des ccra ton 10
use the building as the administration
building for the education Of tho
masses, and that il would thus be seen
by as many or more people than II
converted into q museum.
llarbor Master John ~ curtis pre-.
fentcd the merits OF an ordinance al
lowing him $25 Il month for Office rent.
telephone and clerk hire.
Use of Free bridge
An ordnance fixing the conlpcnsa
ton to the city for the ,rsc ofthc I,rnc
Fridge BY the Virginia Railway and
Fower Company was discussed b. Al
- GuiSOn for the company. The nres-
ent charge is $500 per year. ana If
was proposed 10 increase 1t 10 s3ooo
Captain Guigon called attention 10 M.
franchise clause as to requiring the
company to pave and care for tho road
way between It's tracks on streets and
bridges, as being all that could no
legally be required. but said his com
pany would not obicct'to the present
charSe, winch was regarded as cuujt
able He showed that the Virginia
hallway and Power COMPANY naid ~
NE city in 1910 q total OF slol.,ooJs
IN taxes, making it by far the largest
- paSeT IN the CITY, and the only tax
payer not entitled to the free use Of ~
free Fridge
re Quoted City Engineer Boiling 10
SHOW mat the six,y-foot. rails on which
ne cars operate are a source ar
strength rather than of weakness ~
the bridge
"nnt nm Alley Opened,
NJ. ferguson headed a delegation ~
i'i"chs IN regard TO opening an alley
between Thirteenth Fourtecnt,, L,r.,,i.
I'm and Ross Streets, dcmandcd h,- sa,,
eral large wholesale houses. nayin.
taxes on an aggregate OF $500. coo AR
SaVanauSh said the Randolph 1,anor
hoN Company had been in its present
loca ton twenty years. and had eottan
one lamp post by way Of improvements
IN return for its taxes
Mr. Umlauf presented the ne,,+,o,
or the Council Committee on ReI,af
OF the Poor for funds for nurcrorn ot
SECOND motor ambulance The ono IN
use. ne said, had been oncratod 1,.t
scdr at an average cost Of S1O6.36 nor
month. and had responded to AKA
Calls an average OF nearly eight nor
gay. Inc department could not do tho
anbulanccs ''oi sc
cunningham Accepts H,cductIon.
captain Frank Cunningham offcred
70 Withdraw objection and aco,,ioeca
sracc1u lly In the ordinance reducinc
me ices OF the office OF City Collector
from o-S to IL OF per cent, providod
IL were amended so as not to to,,o
.iect .hls year, as lie had ALREADY
naen ~ some extra expense for this
e a. operation Of his department.
Una lr1nan Rogers, OF the James J,iyor
Improvement Committee ana CT,
chairman Biley urged action IN no
Trans Tor concrete WlIarf rncon,
n1tted by the Council Tho -matter
mas been pending In one form or an
o.Her ior many months. Mr.. Rogers
said mat the Atlantic Deeper Wator
WAYS association would meet in Rich
+, mono IN the fall, and that Richmond,s
privately owned and poorly euuipped
water 1acilities would make but a poor
| showing. ~
| Hawkins Objects 10 Cut,
| commissioner of Revenue O. A.
HAWKINS appeared in regard 10 the
ordinance diminishing the fees OF his
! Office from one-hulr 10 t!irce-eicbths ~
per cent. He presented many figures
| 10 show the revenue Of his Office from
! city sources, and~tilc expenses Of op-
Grafton Emphasis, however, was
| placed on the variable nature of the
commissions Of the office from year
to year, it being admitted that IN 1910
tho receipts from the city, subject To
charge for expenses, were S9,02I.5l.
| Alderman Cowardin appeared In re-
gard TO opening Thtrty-iifth Street III