The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-27
FUNDS VOTED TO.PUT
ANNEXATION IN EFFECT
Finance Committee Provides Money
for Fire. Police and School
Extension. @a ,A2
SCHOOL FOR SOUTH RICHMOND
Resolution Directs Board to Prepare
Plans for Modern Fireproof Build.
ing as Educational Centre on
sonthside to Cost 100000.

Graphing with the annexation
problem In earnest, the, Council Com
mittee on Finance last night recon
mended to the Council for passage
resolutions carrying emergency appro-
Priations 20 take care OF the increased
needs of the Fire. Police. Street Clean
Ing and School Departments until they
{ permanently financed In the next
b. get. The appropriations are de-
signed to care for these. departments
| during the interim between November
5-the annexation date-and February
l. when, the new budget will become
available.
resolution was recommended car
rying an appropriation of SO. 900 for the
Police Department. Tt will provide for
the employment of sixteen additional
maintenance of eight horses. The COM
mittee took no action on the Police
Departments recommendation that tho
city install forty additional patrol
boxes and additions to the signal
system at cost of $1l,90O.
DEFERs ACTION ON
REQUEST FOR MOTOR CARS
The Police Board had recommended
also the purchase, Of Ave automobile
outlying districts Several committee
men doubted the practcability of pur-
suing malefactors across cornfields in
automobiles. and the committee de-
c!ded to withhold action for the
present. ,aNt% 'o fa
An appropriation of s16.1ao was
recommended to take care of the in
creased public school expense that an
neXation Will involve. This amount. 1t
is stated. will cover the raising Of
teachers salaries to correspond with
salaries paid teachers of the same
grade by the city, and the other en-
penses involved in raising the instruc-
ton IN the annexed schools to Rich
mond standards.
The committee recomme mended nm ap-
preparation OF S3,994 for the Fire De-
part:nent pay roll This sum, II Is
+, stated. will make possible the employ-
lnent of twelve or fifteen extra firemen,
who will be needed to afford protec-
tion to the new territory. Two of
these men will he assigned to tho s,a-
tion III Ci:nter Park.
SOUTiISIDE SCHOOL
TO COST 100000
The School Board was directed by tho
Finance Committee to secure plans for
new school building costing s1oo. 900.
TO he erected ut BainbridEe Street and
Cowardin Avenue South Richmond. on
the site recently purchased by the city.
This building Will contain twenty four
rooms. and will be OF hrcproof con-
struction. II is the plan OF tie School
Board TO make the new BainbridEe
School the centre OF the Southside. elu-
cational plant. 1t will be one of the
several intermediate schools planned ny
the board, Offering the first two Years
of high school work in addition TO the
regular grammar school courses
Upon the completion OF the new
school. the present cambridge School
will he torn down and the lot turned
over to the city The new school is,
expected to be ready for occupancy
about October l, 1915. 1t will contain
large auditorium--the first OF it's
kind south of tho river. Its erection
and occupancy VIII materially reduce
the present congestion on the South
side. and mid In the solution OF the
new school problem brought about 10y
annexation
NEW SCHOOL TO DE
<RECrED IN EAST END
The committee recommended a trans
fer of ss2,S40 from the bond Issue pro-
ceeds to be used In erecting tho now
Oakwood School, at Thirty-fifth and
n Streets. on n site acquired by the
city about eighteen months ago.