The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-03
CITY MONEY LOST
IN BANK FAILURE
Council Calls on Surety Company
to Make Good Municipal
Funds.
AMOUNT INVOLVED, sa,5ee.2s
Willis's Southside Plant Gets
Relief-Clean-Up Measure
Is Sent Back.
AMOUNT INVOLVED, sa,5ee.26

Under resolution offered by Sub
chairman Fuller. Of the Finance Com
mittce, the Common Council voted
unanimously last night to make i'm
mediate demand upon the MARYLAND
Deposit Company. OF Baltimore, Md,
Tor the municipal funds tied up in tho
commonwealth Bank failure. The
resolution places the balance on de-
! post in the bank at S3.56926
a surety bond to protect the city's
deposit in the Commonwealth Bank
was executed on June 30, 1918 The
resolution was passed last night un-
der suspension of the rules. and pro-
woes mat upon the payment of the
money claimed By the city. the chair
man OF the Finance Committee shall
surrogate to the surety company all
the rights and remedies Mt law that
the city now has n depositor
Hold Weary Session.
FROM S:lo o'clock until one minute
OF midnight the Legislative machinery
or the Common Council ground without
intermission. Much of the time was
| spent in wcaryinE debate which
sauged by the ultimate action on tho
| measures under discussion. brought
little apparent advantage
An hour of argument was bestowed
| 90 'SoiubicH reported from the
! FINANCE Committee appropriating n
sum sufhcient to pay the expenses of
the commission appointed by the Hust-
ings Court to appraisc the value of the
! property needed by the city for the
construction of proposed approach
TO the northern end Of the new Mayo
( Bridge, and directing that the condem-
nation proceedings be dismissed
councilman Mills wanted tho resolu-
,lon recommitted with the recommen-
daton that the Finance Committee con
fer with the Street Committee tho
City Attorney and tho City Engineer
before abandoning tho PROCEEDINGS
ne need for an approach. he thought
/ was insistcnt, and to delay grapplinp
! with the problem would mean that the
Ga| would nave TO pay more money
/ In the end for the same property 4
/ recorded vote was called and the
! Finance Committees recommendation
adopted. Mr.. Mills alone voted In the
! negative.
Give Relief to Willie.
Councilman Jones OF Madison Ward
offered an ordinance exempting from
the restrictions OF the city electrical
code. electrical testing plants OF the
| class operated by T.. j. Willis. Of South
Richmond The measure sought to re-
| licve Mr. Willis. whose testing plant
| was closed about ten days ago by the
electrical inspector on the ground that
| It's operation connictcd with several
! provisions OF the present ordinance.
| Councilmen Umlauf and Atkinson OPP
| posed the request that the relief mea-
sure be passed under a suspension OF
tho rules. on the ground that it was
J too sweeping, and should be first
passed upon by the Ordinance Commit
/ tee. The motion TO suspend was lost
ana Councilman Powell offered a reso-
! luton eXempting the Richmond Elec-
! trio Company. Mr. Williss plant from
i tho or fc
nance for a period OF ninety days II
passed unanimously.
Iccommit CIcan-Up Inv.
/ Upon motion OF Councilman Umlaur
Council took from the table the ordl-
nance amending the present street
cleaning provisions to conform with
regulations recommended by the So
ciety for the Bctterment or Living and
Housing Conditions. 1t struck n snag
/ In the section which requires each
householder TO provide himself with
two metallic receptacles for the re-
ccption Of ashes and garbage.
Several Councilmer objected that
this requirement would impose a de-
cided hardship upon the poorer classes.
Councilman Powell read "A letter from
Superintendent of Street Cleaning
Henry j. Cohn, stating that an appro-
pration of $4,000 would be necessary
to enable his forces TO carry out the
: PROVISIONS Oh lHe ordinance. Allcr
debate of more than half an hour the
measure was ordered sent back to the
Ordinance Committee for further
amendment.
inspectors Get Raise.
The Council concurred in the ord
nance providing for an increase in the
salary of sixteen deputy gas inspectors
from sI.0S0 to $1,000 n year. il con-
CURED also in the resolution directing
the city nursery to supply to the Sol
diers' Home 100 trees to be planted
in the grounds of the institution.
The Lumsdcn ordinance requiring
ice dealers to sell ice by weight in
stead OF by chunk reported favorably
by the Ordinance Committee, aroused
considerable debate, but was passed
by safe margin. Under its provi-
sions, it is unlawful for an ice dealer
to supply ice 10 consumer without
first weighing 1t. 1t compels every ice
wagon to. carry n scale and to weigh
each chunk of ice in the presence of
the customer when so desired Charges
for underweight is made punishable by
fine collectible in the Police Court.
For Police Headquarters
| a resolution was passed appropriate
I ing the sum of $500 for the rental or
new police headquarters. and confer
ring upon the Board Of Police Commits
sioners the right to sign a lease for
| three years With tHe pTiNIebe Vi hNc'
for the Florence property. on Broad
Street between Eleventh and Twelfth
Streets, TO be used for this purpose
Ordinances were passed appropriate
inE $500 to index the records Of the
Chanccry Court; to increase the salary
of the chief plumbing inspector and
assistant plumbing inspector to $500
| and $500 respectively; raising the
pay OF employees OF the street Cleaning
| Department from S2.l0 to S2.25 day;
and increa sing the salary OF the Com
| monwcalth's Attorney of Hastings
Court, Part H., from 5000 to $1,000 a
year.
Marry I'm Washington.