The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-16
A|NSL|E VETOES ACT
MULTIPLYING FIRE LINES
Declines TO Approve Ordinance
Granting Special Privilege to
l.. Stacy Powell.
MAYOR SIGNS MANY NEW LAWS
Funds Provided for New Public
School OH Floyd Avenue, to Cost
f52,0G+-Spur Track Permit Is
Revoked.

Mayor George Ainalie Yesterday cx-
ercsed the privilege of veto for the
first time. vctoing the ordinance grant
ing to i. Stage Powell :; permit to
erect 4 two-story frame Tenement con-
taining two dwelling houses ~bn Tween
ty-fourth Street, al the corner of tho
alley. between Marshall and Clay
Streets.
The question has been before the
City Council for some time. The lots
arc just within the fire lines Within
which. under the Building Code. only
brick construction is permitted. Mr.
Powell claimed that because of the
nature OF the ground il would he very
expensive To lay foundations for brick
structures. and asked that an cxcep-
ton be made in his case. Building
Inspector Butler appeared before tn.
Ordinance Committee In opposition TO
the permit, taking the ground that
once such permisSions were granted
the city's fire regulations would soon
be generally ignored and frame con-
struction would become general in the
heart of the city. In the argument
before the committee several members
took the ground that the fire lines
should be extended rather than re-
strIctcd.
FUNDS PROVIDED
FOR RIG NEW SCHOOL.
\ large enrolment OF ordinances and
resolutions. approved by the Mayor,
was returned to City Clerk Ben T.
August. Among the acts of the City
Council which were approved were the
following:
An ordinance appropriating sl5o.-
o6i.3o To build the Floyd Avenue Pub
lie School, In accordance with the plans
of Charles NJ Robinson. Incorporated,
architects, and the bid of \. NJ. Walkup
Company, the amount to he provided
by bond issue.
resolution authorizing the City At
torney to acquire by purchase, con-
dcmnation or otherwise the old Clyde
Line Wharf property. providing he
fore final action be taken the price be
approved by the Committee on Finance
and by the city Council.
Resolution authorizing the payment
Of grading damages. as follows: \. Il.
billiard, Sl75. Cary Street; Miss Mary
Doran, $1S36o y Street; William H.
Scott, $500. Nicholson Street.
Ordinance authorizing the City At
torney to acquire the triangle lying
between Ashland Street. Elm Street
and William Byrd Park. at IL cost OF
$4,000. the amount TO be charged TO
the bond issue in the account for OPEN
ing streets.
RAILROAD WILL ABANDON
SIIAFER STREET. YARDS
Ordnance rcvokine the permit given
the Richmond. Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad Company to construct
n switch track siding into its lot
on the south side of Broad Street, be-
tween Shafcr and Laurel Streets.
Ordinance granting the George L.
Newsom Company, Incorporated, permit
10 erect concrete platform in front
OF it's building on Cary Street, be-
tween seventeenth and Eighteenth
Streets.
Ordinance granting stable permits as
follows: the Royal Laundry, 1l2 South
Adams Street; Thomas II. Duke, SO2
Brook Avenue; y. r. and ID. II. Griffith,
202 20i and 200 Central Street
Ordinance fixing the salary OF the
Second Assistant City Engineer at
$4,000 year