The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-01
SALARY PAPERS co
BACK TO COUNCIL
Administrative Board Returns
Them, but Without Recon-
mendation.
TO GRADE HARRISON STREET
City Engineer Will Make Tenn
porary Road to Mount Calvary
and Riverview Cemeteries.
TO GRADE HARRISON STREET

ordinances increasing the pay of
flremen, policemen, the Mayor. certa,,
employees OF the Health Department
ana other salary papers referred by the
Council to tho Administrative Board
Tor report. were yesterday returned
10 the Council by the Administrative
Honrd without recommendation.
inc ordinances relating to tho po,ice
men, iiremen and the Mayor have hoo,
reported for adoption by the Council
committee on Finance. The point NJ
order was raised that the charter re-
qulres the reference of all salary mat
.ers 10 the Administrative Board for
report, and they were so referred
In lieu OF report con the proprietv
OF such Increase" the Administrative
Board sent letter to the Counc,I
ASKING where the funds were to come
from. The board took the ground that
the estimated income of the CITY md
been apporttoned In the annual budget
anu, as the Increases entail an
annual chhrGe on the city of more than
$1,000, the members wanted to know
now they were TO be financed especial
lE as tho board has pending a larre
number OF applications for increase
from the employees OF departments un
der ats supervision.
Called for Return of Pnpers.
Members of the Council took great
exception to this letter, and n some
what stormy debate took place on the
iioor or tho Board of Aldermen some
weeks ago, I'm which IL was the sense
OF several speakers that such financial
matters were tho province of the
rihahce committee. and that the Ad-
ministrntive Board had no right TO re-
view and reverse It's work. The Alder
men wanted to pass the ordinano.
forthwith but the papers had not been
returned by tho Administrative Roard
and resolution was therefore adopted
calling for the return OF the papers.
in regard to the suggested further
extension of the Church Hill tunneu
to Improve Chimborazo Park, City EN-
glneer Boiling reported to the Adj
ministrative Board yesterday that tho
contract with the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway Company requires the con-
| Struction OF concrete portals at the ter
Ininal OF the tunnel. The CITY Engineer,
was instructed not TO comply with that
portion of the contract, as the board
contemplatcs tho further eastward OK
| tension of the tunnel
city Engineer Boiling reported that
The contractor was ready to begin
/ york on the bitulithic paving of Ram
doiph Street, and that during the pro
gress of the work it would he necessary
TO close the street from Ashland
! street to the entrance to Mt Calvary
and Rivervicw Cemeteries He asked
permission to use city hands and carts
70 grade an entrance from South Har-
rison Street to the cemeteries, which
can be used By funerals during the
work on Randolph Street, which was
! approved.
Position Abolished.
/ Superintendent Knowles OF the Gas
/ Works reported that james s. Moore,
clerk OF the Gas Inspector, had re-
| signed. and recommended that the po-
sition be abolished Tho recommends
ton was adopted.
| Tho application of tho B. w. Wilson
Paper Company to store lumber in
! Governor Street during construction
OF new building was rejected. SUI
| pcrintendent OF Street Cleaning Cohn
reported the appointment OF G. l.. Cole
man in his department, vice Henry
Lauterbach resigned.
| City Engineer Boiling informed the
board that 1t had awarded contract
| for sewer in Allen Avenue from
/ Main Street to some new houses near
| by. which he had found impurcticable
to build, the sewer in Main Street at
tho point indicated not being. deep
| enough to make the connection. He
alley to Vine Street, costing S1,S3S.
which was ordered. The City Engineer
was instructed to get bids for grano-
/ lithic sidewalks around the grass plots
/ at Thirty-fourth and p Streets, and for
an iron fence around the fountain at
| that point.