The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-04
.SPOTLESS TOWN
MEASURE PASSED
Umlauf's Cleanup Law Goes
Next to Upper Branch for
It's Approval.
LIGHT IN PICTURE SHOWS
Chief Of Police Designated as
Man to Say if It's Dark
Enough to Flirt.
LIGHT IN PICTURE SHOWS

The Common Council By q unanimous
vote last night passed the umlauf
cleanup ordinance and sent II on to
the board for concurrence. The fnan-
cial spectre arose again to threaten
its passage, and tho patron Of the ordi-
nance had again to come to the rescue
with warm speech. but the unaui-
nous recommendation OF the Finance
| Committee with which tho measure
was reported. steered 1t by tho rocks
| In the form In which the ordinance
was passed. 1t requires householders
TO provide separate receptacles for the
storage Of combustible and noncom-
bustible garbage. Only one receptacle
! is required TO be OF metal. The throw
| ing of refuse in the streets and va
cant lots Is intcrdicted. and violations
arc made punish;. bic by fine. When
passed by the board and approved by
/ the Mayor the law will go Into effect
on February /.
/ The "spotless town" ordinance has
the Endorsement OF the Society for the
I Improvement Of Housing and Living
Conditions In Richmond. and Is APP
proved az an advanced pieco of sani-
/ tary Legislation By authorities in New
York and other large centres.
Motion Picture Lnw Pusses.
Councilman Moores ordinance to
regulate the lighting OF motion pic
/ ture theatres was concurred in unani-
mousiy. As originally drawn 1t desig-
mated the city Electrician as the orn-
Ger to pass upon tho question OF prop
/ or lighting. The Board OF Aldermen
amended 1t by vestinY the censorship
/ in the Chief Of Police. holding that the
i purpose OF the law was not so much
! TO correct mechanical defects in light
/ ing as II was to minimize immortality
! a typicnlly police function. The Com
mon Council accepted the amendment.
Under the terms of Tie ordinance
motion picture theatres arc required TO
maintain during their performances
| sufficient light TO enable every person
! In the auu!cncc TO see distinctly with
| in his range Of vision, what every other
| person Is doing. II WAS brought out
/ during the discussion last night that
I several theatres IN the city do not
/ come UP TO this standard
4 The law IS aimed ut the nlrtatIons
/ md petty mmoralitics which, 1t is
claimed. flourish under tho protecting
| mantle OF darkness that envelopes the
auditoriums OF some Of tho smaller
! playhouses. Managers OF the higher
CLASS houses testified at previous hear
inss that they had no objection TO the
| enactment OF a law that VIII aid them
| IN stamping out the evil.
| Hospital Oncr referred
I ~ -
properties and Utilities reported its
recommendation that the city accept
/ the offer of the Medical College OF Nir-
! ginia rendering tho free use of the
/ virginia and old Dominion Hospitals
! ne report together with n Kindred
/ resolution from the Administrative
Board appropriat!nG $1,000 for tho cree
! tion OF contagious ward at the City
home, was ordered referred to the
| FINANCE Committee.
An unusually heavy docket, includ-
! ing much business from the Finance
i committee. kept the Councilmcn occu-
/. pea until 1915 o'clock Most OF the
financial measures We're rccomniitcd
I Tor further report to the Administra-
tive Board. ana other Council COM
! mittces
resolution. reported unanimously
I rs the Finance Committee fixing the
salary o. tho City Auditor, who under
the new charter, Will be elected by the
city Council. NJ $4,000 n year. was sent
10 the Administrative Board for It's
/ approval The Auditor. il is provided.
shall also act as clerk or the Finance
+! Committee
Ola Dominion. New Depository.
among the other measures passed by
! me common Council last night were
I tho following:
Designating the old Dominion Trust
'.'f-''.tS 40 u CITY depository in The
! place OF tive Commonwealth Rank no,y
| IN the hands Of receivers.
renewing tho Virginia Home Tor In
| curalies and the Home for Neady Con
iederate Women from the payment OF
paving bills amounting respectively
TO S656.35 and SSI.33.
.Appropriating $4,000 for the renaIr
| or tho lombardy Street bridge over
.he tracks of the Seaboard Air Line
| hallway Company
Appr"priating $500 for tho Church
| Ci'ic Association TO enable it to liuul
date debts incurred in CARRYING On
playground and recreation work on
| Church Hill 20
| Elect New Auditor.
Authorizing the election bv tho Conn.
Gu OF City Auditor TO serve from
January |, 1914, 10 July /. 1914. and to
provide Tor the election OF this Official
Tor 4 term of two years; on Julv /
IVA and bennially thereafter.
providing for the employment of two
new clerks In the office of City Treas.
urer, at salaries Respectively of si
/ 500 and s72o year. Tbe cinrl,s ,'.i,,
De stationed In South Richmond in
accordance with the consolidation con
tract. WI
kequestinE the city's representatives
| IN mo legislature to hecur the dedi-
cation by the State Of the nortbwast
corner of Capitol Square for atrset
purposes.
Granting the free use of the CITY
Auditorium to the Boy Scouts of Amer.
Yea on November IS. ii and Is. for ex-
| hibition purposes.
| Appropriating $2,450 for tho purchase
from the Virginia Railway and Power
company. OF certain land needed Inv
the city for widening the southern an
proach TO the Mayo Bridge.
The ordinance granting permission
TO the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
/ Company TO extend stub tracks two
feet beyond the property line in Canal
street was rejected by a vote OF to
.. 1T had been reported favorably by
the Ordinance Committed