The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-19
GARAGE OWNERS
WANT HEARING
Will Oppose Ordinance Requiring
Signaling OF Cars Cross
ing Sidewalks.
ADAMS SIGNS MANY NEW LAWS
Floyd Avenue School Site PR
chased-Park Music Fund
Provided.

owners Of Broad Street garages APP
piled TO acting Mayor William RI
ADAMS Yesterday for n hearing on the
ordinance recently adopted by both
branches Of IN" City Council recurring
the signalling or tho passage OF motor
cars In and out Of public garages
when they cross city Sidewalks
Acting Mayo. Adams Indicated that
ne would hear argument on the or
uinance before either APPROVING or
vetoins T. I: is matter of record
that he voted for the ordinance when
IT was concurted in By the Board OF
Aldermen on Monday night Mayor
Ainshe rs out OF the city attending
tn" final exercises at the Virginia
Military Institute, and the enrolment
OF ordinances and resolutions was
presented rs city Clerk Ben 7 August
TO President Adams Of the Board of
Aldermen as tho acting Mayor
Nhnt Ordinance Reuuircs
me oidinance in question requires
inc Keeper Of every public garage 10
signal the passing OF every car In or
out OF hts place when II passes over
a sidewalk Many complaints have
been registered IN recent months OF
automobiles dashing out OF garages
located on West Broad Street giving
no notice 10 pedestrians. and some
serious accidents have been narrowly
'Nei tcd' ne ordnance requires such
garages 10 display red flag over the
entrance by day and red light by
night, indicating the entrance to
public SaraSe, and previous TO the
passage OF any car over the sidewalk
in or out Of such garage. tho driver
or some other employe is required to
signal by horn or otherwise as
warning 70 passers-by. The ordln-
ancc was considered most reason
"A ~
ceiNed almost unanimous approval In
both branches OF the Council. IT does
not seem to work any undue hardshil
on motorists. as all cars are already
required 10 De equipped with a horn
or other signalling device.
Acting MAJOR ADAMS signed and re-
turned 10 City Clerk August the fol-
lowing papers which are now in Ell
fect
Site for Public school.
Resolution aprropriating $4,000 to
acquire for school purposes the north
ern half OF the block bounded on the
north by Foyd Avenue, on the west 10y
Allen Avenue. OF tn" south by nm
alley, and on the cas-, by Vine Street
This half block has at present no
buildings unon il, and IL is the plan
Of The city School Board within the
next two years 10 erect a large modern
school building. containing not only
all Of the elementary grades. but
making provision also Tor the first
two years OF the high school course.
thus relieving CONGESTION at William
FoN. Stonewall Jackson and other
schools in the western part OF the
city. and at the John Marshall High
school. now filled To its capacity
Resolution appropria;ing $4,000 10
defray the expenses OF Confederate
veterans 10 and from the Gettysburg
reunion Of July IL The fund will
provide the railroad fare OF $50 vet
Grams, members Of Lee. Pickett and
Joseph T.. JOHNSTON Camps. the State
Of PENNSYLVANIA offering hospitality to
Blue and Gray in AN encampmcnt on
the field Of Gettysburg during the re-
union.
street Improvements.
Resolution lnstrucunc the city At
torney L. acquire land to widen Co.
wardin Avenue from Porter 10 Semmcs
street, and 10 acquire land TO open
Cleveland Street from Grove Avenue
10 kensinctun Street, TO "A uniform
width OF fifty feet.
Ordering the paving with grano-
lithic Of the east side Of Tnlrty-sixt
Street from Broad street To the Gov
eminent Road, the west side of Davis
Avenue from kensington 10 Park
Avenue; the south side OF Park Az
enue from Davis 10 Robinson Street,
and the granite spall paving OF alley
between Davis and Robinson, ParK
and kcnsinEton Streets.
Ordering allegations for paving an