The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-29
FURTHER DELAY ARISES
IN NEW BUILDING PLANS
More Complications Over Erection of
Municipal Structure Come
to Light.
NO AUTHORITY TO GIVE PRIZES
Special Committee Discovers for First
Time II Can't Pay Sums Offered
to Winners Without Appropriation
ny City Council.

by City Council.
complications connected with tho
,,'ii1i OF the PROPOSED municipal
brought to light last night y, q meet.
'nr OF the special joint COMMITTEES in
Iharsc OF The enterprise viii further
delay the delivery of the buil,iinr pro-
grams To the competing architects 1t
appc"rs improbahlc now thar iii" pro-
grams VIII b" ready for distribution in
Tess IMAM three weeks.
The COMMITTEES discovered for tho
hrst time that ii was whollv without
'u'hofitj to guarantee the pnyin.ut of
any. prizes awarded for drawings sub
VIM ol IN" PROGRAM as prcp;tich ny
AhEisor% Architect Alfred =. Bosom
oil New YORK;. the committee bound it
SELF 10 pay three prizes Of $1,000. $500
and $3.50. rcspcctiVely Tor tn, FIRST
second and third best designs sub
United.
-, nothing IN the resolution creating
its part 10 establish such prizes The
committees weakness in This respect
was brought 10 the attention uf chair
man Seaton hy member OF tho iioard
OF Aldermen not on tn. coninittcc and
he applied to the CITY Attorney Tor an
npinion a. 10 the committees powers
In this direction
SAYS 'oUNCIL MUST
APPROPRIATE MONEY
~ an opinion read TO tho committees
Assistant Guy ATTORNEY George WAYNE
Anuers"n held that no power is con.
lcrrcd upon the committee to establish
the prizes, ana that tn" money FOR The
payment OF such priZcs will have 10 be
appropriated by Gc Council
Win this Information before i, tho
committee debated a motion offered by
Councilman Peters amending Tho nro-
gram so ar 10 bind tho committee in
I" icc"inncnu 10 tho Council for pas
sage resolution appropriatiur the
necessary prize money. The motion
MAINS VII" thought thai the whole
matter should be hello NJ until an an.
preparation Is actually secured
solution vas found In Il motion Of
Tered by Alderman Gruudy striking
from the program all rcfcrcnccs to
prizes and prize money. Alderman
ErumdN motion carried unanimously.
As me matter stands. tho competition
Tor the proposed municipal Building
VIII carry no reward except the reg
ular professional fee 10 the winning
architect
The question OF eligibility as regards
the three architects who have failed TO
pay their State licenses was settled bv
the adoption Of a motion offered by
Councilman Mills, declaring every al
chitcct qua lihed 10 compete who has
motion the committee DECLARED its opiu-
ion that all architects vho could COM
ply with this condition We're "estab-
lishcd' and. therefore. eligible under
C0MMITTEE HAS RIGHT
TO AMEND IT'S MOTION
AZ the last meeting Of the committee
n motion was adopted admitting TO the
competition all applying architects who
were licensed TO do business i'm the
city Colonel Anderson held that in
order to comply with this description
an architect must have paid both his
city and State licenses He admitted
the committees right TO amend the
motion Of the last meeting. ana the
committee rcconsdered II. adopting as
"a substitute for II the motion offered
by Councilman Mills, which was de-
clared 10y Colonel Anderson to lie en-
tirely regular.
Of the committee proceeded to prune
the program OF several sections which
appeared objcctionabie. Colonel An
derson drew attention to difficulties
that may be encountered under the
section binding the city to pay certain
parts of the total fee TO the successful
architect before the letting of the CON
tract for construction.
Councilman Mills concurred in the
objection, and upon his motion the
whole section was stricken out. He Of
fcred AS a substitute, which was adopt
ed, new section requiring each archi-
tcct To submit with his design a state
planned by him. the manner OF pay
ment of the winning architects remu-
neration TO be made matter of con-
tract upon him and the city.
Upon the motion of Alderman Grun-
dy the committee struck from the pro-
gram the section requiring all plans
and designs submitted In the COMPETE
ton TO be drawn in Richmond. The
provision was regarded as imposing as
unnecessary restriction.
Another section providing that the
committee may make use Of any part
Of design not winning the first prize
upon full compensation to the architect
for such features as may be used, was
stricken from the program. Objection
was made by Colonel Anderson TO the
term full compensation" as not def
mite and capable of too many interpre-
tations. The committee held that this
feature of the competition may safely
be ignored.
Justice Turpin Of the Civil Court,
objected to the provisions coptaincd in
the program for his court, and the
committee adopted motion directing
the advisory architect to consult per
sonally the Judges OF every court with
regard to the space they Will require,
and to recast the program accordingly.
With the program thus amended the
committee voted to instruct Mr.. Dos.
som to prepare at the earliest moment
Il revised program embodying an
changes. to be submitted TO the COM
mittec for ratification before being re-
duced to blue print.
Reports Daughter MissinR.
Thelma Craig. fifteen. years old.
danohtar of MrS e T. Craig, OF 3O9