The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-12
Property, Including Wa
terRights, to Be Bought
f.ol. 500, 900.
. RDIN A N CE TO
LOWER GAS RATE
Reduction in Price From 90 Cents
20 90 Cents Now Before Body.
Plan Put Forward for Erec-
ton of New Free Bridge.
Many New Mat
tiers.

ACQUISITION OF tho Richmond Dock.
with It's water rights east of seven
teenth Street. at the agreed price OF
10000. was approved By the Com
mon Council last night b. vote OF
- 10 :. large amount Of other de-
"a business was transacted among
'ac new papers prevented for refer
ence being the application OF the vir-
sinla hallway and Power Company
Tor central stcam-heaiinE franchise.
. proposition looking 10 ii new free
prosc. REDUCTION of the price of gas
lrom 70 to 60 cents. and The creation
OF city employees retirement fund
Under Suspension of the rules an or
"'haHc: increasing the number OF pre-
t!hcts In Madison Ward was adopted
City TO Borrow Mouc..
nc question OF acquiring the dock
came up Oh report OF the Committee
on flnance, and provoked extended de-
pate' Inc resolution reported directs
ine CITY Attorney TO acquire title TO
All OF the property east OF the western
!ine OF Seventeenth street with us
water rights. and to pay $4,000 for
sainc. the Committee on Finance beIur
authorized to borrow that amount for
the purpose. Chairman Pollard cx.
piained that from the hearings before
desire OF many citizens that the prop
eriy be acquired; that the attention
OF the country was turning 10 water
horne commerce us a leverage agninyt
cNccss!ve railroad freight rateY, and
thut !, was not PROPOSED TO b.. {, FREE,
dock, but public dock which would
De scif-sustaining when once nut in
order II closed and turned into real
estate. lie said, tho property would
which II is offered 10 tho city.
NF. richards. WHO explained That
nc was not opposed to acqnirir,, tho
dock, thought that the whole property
SHOULD be acquired up 10 Fourteenth
street tho better 10 protect the
sources OF water. saying he was In
formed that the whole property could
DC bought for $4,000, covering all
the rights transferred 20 tine rrigs
Company b. the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway Company. Several speakers
thought the city should await the de-
termination OF pending litigation
hctween the railway company and the
owners Of Belle 1slc In regard 10 The
water rights o, tho canal, Mr.. Rich
ards protesting that ne wanted the
city to buy a dock-not q lawsuit.
further inquiry into the legal oasta-
cles. was rejected, and ON the anal
roll call Mr.. Richards and Mr.. Bow
man were the only members voting no.
More snlnry increases.
On recommends ton OF tha Commit
tee on Finance. the pay OF forty tn REQ
men employed a; the Lower Gas
Works was increased per cent. In
accordance with other Increases re-
Gently ordered,
y resolution authorizing a contract
with the Mayo Land and Bridge Com
pany In reference to grades on Mayo's
Island was approved.
The ordinance referring to the cleo
trio plant. reported by the Water Com
mittec as a substitute. was referred
10 the Committee on Finance, and the
resolution OF the Electricity Commit
tee asking that the Water Committee
be discharged from further consider
alton was tabled, OH request OF
Chairman Lynch.
The Council cnncuvrcd in the action
Of the Board OF Aldermen in closing
an alley bounded By Leonard West,
Sheppard and kenalnston Streets,
confirming new subdivision, and in
resolution Cancelled "a bill against
Alvey Brothers for s!0?.il for grain
supplied to the Grounds and Parks
Department, ordering the bill can
ceIed, the matter having been ad-
justed In court.
new subdivision OF tho tract
bounded by the Boulevard, Robinson.
Beverly and Cary Streets. rearranginv
alleys so as to make all lots front on
the Boulevard. was approved on recon-
nendation of the Committee on Streets
as was an ordinance granting permits.
sion to the Richmond, Ircdcricltsbure
and Potomac Railroad ~ construct an
overhead spur track over Leigh street
near spo.swood Avenue into a new coal
yard.
New Tobacco Factory.
Making way for the erection of a
great new tobacco factory 70: the
British American Company To which
has been assigned the options recently
secured by the Il. ~ Patterson Tobacco
Company, an ordinanc" closing Leigh
street between I.ombardy street md
Moseile street and closing AIo3cllc
street for n distance of 100 feet south
OF Leigh Street was adopted, thus CIV
ing the new plant space equivalent
Ia three blocks. beside Inc main line Of
the Richmond. Fredericksburg and 70
tomac Railroad.
The following contracts for supplies
were approved: c. I. Iathrop 60. for
cement. at Sl6S per barrel: Warner
Moore & Co, terra Gotta pipe. ut 20
yer cent. from tho list price; 4 w.
Maynard, for sewer In leonard street,
5000: I. j. Smith &: Co. Inc. for re-
pair work on streets, estimated at S25,
900.
Resolutions reported by the Commit
tee OH Light We're approved donating
100000 cubic feet of gas TO the Me.
chanics' Institute annually. and $4,000
cubic feet of gas annually to the Shelf
cling Arms Free Hospital. On recon-
n.cndation of tho Committee on
Grounds and Buildings. sale of II lot
at the southwest corner of Eleventh
and Leigh Streets was ordered, and