The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-09
WOULD BLOCK GATE
|. T0COLORED PEOPLE
COUNCILMAN Jones Offers Amend
ment to Segregation Ordinance
to Fit Emmanuel Church Case.
WANTS CITY TO BUY BRIDGES
Rogers Resolution Proposes Pur-
chase of Three Toll Viaducts
in Corporate Limits.

If The activity Of tho opening meet
the new Common Council Will do in The
! next two years, the lower branch Of the
| city's Legislative machine will write a
new efficiency record III Hichmonds
/ municipal annals. More than n score
of new ordinances and resolutions
! many OF them of the first Importance
! were sent to the desk last night whom
/ the Common Council met for tho first
/ regular business session Of the new
| term.
! Councilman Jones. Of Madison Ward.
/ introduced an ordinance carrying an
! amendment to the segregation law
\ which. il adopted. will effectively bar
! the sale OF Emmanuel Baptist Church.
I ti;th and Leigh Streets, To a negro
+ congregation. The proposed sale Of
/ tins property recently caused 4 number
/ Of property owners in the vicinity to
rise III protest, and an ordinances. " hich
/ has been introduced. susp"ndng the
segregation law 10 permit the sale, had
i TO be withdrawn.
DEPENDS oS WHETHER
/ iNrf:USECriNt: STREET COUNTS
The Fifth street block between Leigh
and Jackson Streets contains white
residents IN the majority. Jackson
| street. however. does not intcrscct
! Fifth street, and the Emmanuel Baptist
/ Church congregation made the point
| that the entire l'ifu street stretch.
/ between Lcigh and Duval Streets
\ should. therefore. be considered Il single
continuous block between adjacent
streets. Thus considered the block
/ would contain colorcd residents in the
| majority. and Tho church could be us"d
1 hy colorcd congregation under the
! segregation law. In order to take adj
vantage Of this circumstance. however
/ hc cba
! entrance of tho church from Leigh
| Street to Fifth Street.
/ Tn" amended ordinance offered bv
/ Councilman Jones forcstalls and bars
| this proceed urc with 4 provision that:
! In easel any street is intcrScctcd or
| crossed by ono street and merely cu
/ tered but not !ntcrsectcd or crossed by
! an adjacent street. all houses on amy
| such street between the intcrscctinc
/ or crossing street and the middle line Of
! the adjacent and noniutcrscctnIc street
rs cNtcndcd. shall be deemed and held
10 be as being between two adjacent
/ streets. and in the event that the mid
I dlc line OF such intcrsccting street so
Il extended. shall lac found TO intcrscct
any house. such house shall be deemed
\ 10 be between the interScctinc and the
1 Notwithstanding street"
/ AMENDMENT DESTINED
I'H BLOCK SALE OF CHURCH,
/ This amendment. if adopted. would
I prevent the Fifth Street long block
between Leigh and Duval Streets from
bcinG considered single continuous
hiock within the meaning of the scgrc-
/ CATION law, ana would bar the use Of
| tho write church as 4 place OF public
assembly" by co!ored people.
I II WAS announced recently, notwith-
| standing the objection Of property 4
| owners and the structures OF the scrrr
1 cation Law. that the congregation of
Emmanuel baptist has practically con
I a. H.1 - u. n t.a ~ ~
/ church to th. colored conpr.oation II,
| is understood that the actual transfer
I is being deferred pcndinc AN order from
the civ Circuit court Amounting Ger
tain additional trustees and authorizing
the sale
Co.ac.l,nan lIaddon introduced again
an ord;nanc. providing for the crea
tion OF municipal employment bureau
The provisions OF thn ordin,ncr ar.
same as thns. OF me ordinance which
failed OF passage last month. except
that the salaries of the manager and
clerk are left blank. To he nxed bv
the Council
! WANTS CITY ru MY
ALI. THREE TOLt BRIDGES
The purchase of the three toll bridges
T In the city is contemplated in the fol-
+ loving resolution introduced by Coun-
Gilman Rogers:
That the CITY Attorney be- and is
/ hereby authorized and directed 10 as
I certain AT what ii.urc the three toll
! bridges or vtaducts. known as the Mar
/ shall street Viaduct the First street
/ Niadtirt and the Firth street Viaduct
/ can hc acquired bv the city and in
! the alternatives al what sum the said
/ bridges or viaducts may be leased nv
Y the city lol VARYING periods of time.
Il which Information when secured by
I him Shall h, reportcd hv the Commit
i tee on Finance and hv il reported TO
I either branch of the CIV Council with
! lis recommendation thereon"
A resolution introduced by Council
man ENGLISH appgopriales sJoUnD for
I William Iiyrd Park shields Lake and
( shields Grove ood onothcr rnSnfutjon
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