The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-19
GRUNDY CALLS
FOR CONFERENCE
Finance Committee to Consider
Camp Site Appropriation
at Noon To-Day.
MAY GO TO GoRDoNsvILLE
War Department Insists That
Mobilization Point Be
Decided Upon.

Militia and city officials will get to-
| gcther to-day in final effort to adj
| just the summer camp site situation.
! Tho State Military Board, at a called
meeting yesterday afternoon. agreed
to postpone action for forty eight
| hours. ard its representative, mem
bcrs of tho Administrative Board and
the Finance Committee OF tho city
! Council will hold a conference at the
Office of Chairman Barton II. Grundy
ut noon to-day. Should the committee
recommend an expenditure OF $4,000 to
put the State Fair Grounds in a SAM
! tary condition for the cncampmcnt
and the possible mobilization Of troops.
Il called meeting of the City Council
/ may be held Tonight.
Tho State Military Board, which Was
called together by Governor Stuart.
/ held executive session yesterday
afternoon in the Office Of tho Governor,
! following conference at tho office Of
| .Adjutant- GENERAL W. w. Sale. Tho
! situation was reviewed from all angles.
and it WAS finally decided that in all
fairness to the city. every opportunity
should he given 1T to decide upon tho
expenditure of the necessary money.
! Only tho short length of time before
| the encalnpmcnt and the iusistcnco Of
!
selected Immediately, caused the board
/ to name a time limit of forty eight
hours.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
TO MEET Al NOON TODAY
Chairman C;rundy, OF the Council
Finance Committee, last night decided
to call tho committee together and to
/ invite the Administrative Board, or it's
! representatives, and the state Mill
tp I,ny
agreed TO the conference, and tho mill
tary authorities have been requested
! to bring blucprints showing the exact
! nature of the work which they desire
| the city to perform.
| IL tho sewers can be put in tho
! ground in such a way as TO he an as
set TO the city and not AS a temporary
make SHIFT and deaI loss, il is be
lieved that the Finance Committee will
recommend that the money la cxpcnd-
ed, and that President X. Lee Peters,
Of tile Common Council. will call the
members together and that an appro-
pri;ttion will he made.
| General Sale last might, in speaking
| OF tile action of tho state Military
! Board, said:
| I'VE do not wish TO appear in the
| light Of pushing tho city for this work.
| but it is Imperative that know
about the site. as tho War Department
| insists that the selection of suitable
grounds be made ut oncc. we picked
! Richmond as the most desirable point
for concentrations, and we have all
of our military stores here, VIC would
/ like To have the summer encampment
held here. If we are compelled to fix
up other grounds, naturally we will
I take the troops TO that point II mobili-
Zation orders are received"
tORDONSVILIE Is
SECOND CHOICE
The board. after deciding to let the
| matter rest for two days. decided that
Gordonsvillc should get the cncamp-
incnt ii Richmond does not. Tho site
at that place has already been in
spcctcd, and is said TO be a suitable
one in all respects. The Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company has agreed
10 lay spur tracks to the site and
troops aud equipment could bc han
died eNpcditiously. The military stores
now In this city would be moved there.
and would be stored until the war
department announces that the crisis
has passed.
All that remains TO he done at tic
state Fair Grounds TO make il into
IA suitable camp site is tho instalIa-
tion of sewerage system. THIS tho
Administrative Board agreed TO do,
providing tho Virginia militia WAS
called into services and modified here.
When the State authorities asked that
the inducements be renewed for "a,
summer camp, tho board referred the
matter to the city Council, on the
ground that 1t had no available funds.
y called meeting Of the Common C,oun- |
Gil was held on Wednesday night, and
the matter referred by il to the FL
nance Committee.
The cost of the work at the Fair
Grounds will be approximately $4,000 !
CITY ofiiclals last night stated that !
there would be no objection to this
expenditure if the work was TO be of |
a permanent nature, and would be OF
use IN the future, but that there would |
De objection to such an expenditure |
Just for n tcn-day encampment.
THE GROUNDS ARE
CITY PROPERTY |
IL is expected that the State will |
nave 5000 men in camp, together with |
several hundred horses and mules. |
MI OF the food, for men and beasts. |
wiii he purchased here. The total |
estimated expensA Of the camp is $50
ooo' practically all OF which will be
spent in Richmond