The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-20
|CALl HALT ON
c HEAPER GAS
Finance Committee Says There Is
No Popular Demand
for Cut.
SOME MORE SALARIES RAISED
Smiths Proposition to Advance
Money for Grading Is
Rejected.
SOME MORE SALARIES RAISED

Plans for reduction in the price o
gas from 80 cents tots cents pc
1000 cubic feet were tabled by tn
Council Committee on Finance Ias
! night, 1t being held that there wa
no sufficient popular demand to maxi
a reduction which would mean ~
annual cut In the revenues OF the city
OF from 350.O to $4,000. Immediate
ly thereafter the committee recon-
mended q considerable list OF Increases
in salaries Of city employees. entaihns
an annual charge for the increases o.
s2,Ss460 The names OF the employees
obtaining the increases were not maze
public.
Reject snaltA,s Proposition.
The proposition of H. NJ. Smith. Field
Wilburn and others for improvement,
OF the Pollard tract in William BYRD
Park was reported to the Council TOT
rejection The former owners onereo
to sell to the city many times. out no
action was taken. though city Ens'-
neer Boiling again and again recon-
mended the acquisition as an improve
ment to the park. Recently the tract
which embraces thirteen and one-haif
acres. was purchased by q syndicate
headed by Mr.. Smith. and plans pre-
pared for Its elopment into building
sites. The promoters offered to dedl.
cate certain land for the opening Of
streets along both sides OF the tract
and to advance $4,000 for the grading
of these streets. they to be reimbursed
in two annual instalments.
There was some feeling in the COM
mittee over. the proposition. which was
reported for rejection by q vote OF 5
to 2. some members OF the commit
tee being Of opinion that other Sec
tons Of the city were more In need
OF improvement. and that 1t was not
good policy to encourage building on
this tract. which is almost in tho cen
tire of William Byrd Park.
Some Appropriations.
The committee recommended to the
Council an appropriation Of $1,000 to
acquire from the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
and to open an alley, the amount hav'
ing been hxed by condemnation com
missioners. Mr.. Caskie. Of the COM
mission. reported that 5000 would Be
a sufficient compensation for the land
to be acquired. An appropriation OF
! $1,165 was recommended for payment
of alleged damages to AUDITING prop
erty for the grading Of Floyd Avenue
between Park and Meadow Streets.
An appropriation Of $3.50 was rec
, commended to pave In front Of the
Home for Incurables on West Broad
! Street and Of $1.100 to pave sidewalk:
around the William F. Fox public
school on Hanover Avenue.
Ordinances prepared by Special Ac
countant Crenshaw. regulating tn
method of paying into the Treasury
money for deposits on gas and FOL
| the use Of such deposits in payment
Of delinquent gas bills were recon-
me nded to the Council. An appropria
! ton Of $1,525 was recommended to pay
grading damages to the property OF
, McSweeney. Lacy and others. between
Leigh and NJ Streets, Thirty-third ant
Thirty-fourth Streets.
An appropriation Of $4.716 was rec
: commended for grading streets in the
Cowardin Annex. east Of Thirty-fourtf
I Street, under the contract by which
! streets in this section were dedicated