Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-23
BOARD APPROVES FUND To
AID DISABLED EMPLOYEES
Concurs in Passage of Resolution APP
propriating $4,000 for Re-Em-
ployment Purposes.
LITTLE BUDGET" REPORTED
Much-Buffeted Resolution Is Laid on
Table Under Rules for Considera-
ton at Next Acknowledgements
Criticizes Clyde Wharf Item.


ton of the Board of Aldermen. the
Common Council I'm special session last
night. passed the resolution creating n
| fund OF $4,000 to be used in rc-employ-
ing MEN who have been dropped from
the pay rolls of the several city de-
partments because of disability due to
Old age. The measure will probably
go to the Mayor for his signature
| o-day.
Under the terms of tho resolution
creating the fund. only employees who
have served the city continuously for
| ten years will be eligible to It's bene-
fits. Their complement is to take
place under the direction of the Ad-
minstrative Board. and their salary is
| fixed at $3.50 n day.
WILL AID MEN WHO
WE'RE RECENTLY DISCHARGED
The resolution was introduced by
Alderman Joseph L. Powers, Of Madi-
| son Ward. to mitigate the hardships
facing number of men recently dis
charged from the city's employ after
long years of service. Its direct In
spra ton was the discharge recently
of thirteen men from the Street Clean
ing Department, because they were no
| longer able, on account of disability
The money is TO be provided by
transferring $4,000 from the balance
remaining from the slo5.OOO special
| Improvement appropriation made last
! December in the interest OF the unem-
| ployed. to Il new fund for re-employ-
| ment purposes. II is designed TO take
care OF the situation until the Council
creates permanent pension ftind for
tho benefit of supcrannuatcd en-
F, ployees. Authority for the creation
of such pension fund was conferred
upon the Council by charter amend
ment authorized by the General AS
scmbly OF 1914.
| 81 am very much gratiied at the
| promptness with which the Council
made this temporary provision" said
Alderman Powers. patron of the re-
employment fund resolution, last
night. 1T is a step in the right dircc-
tion--thc creation OF n permanent pen
sion fund"
"LITTIE BUDGET" MEASURE
Is LAID on TABLE
! The Council suspended the rules last
| night to allow tho Finance Committee
to report the little budget" rcsolu-
ton. making appropriations aEgrc-
eating s3S5.O00 for school and other
purposes. including the purchase of the
| Clyde Line Wharf property. Under
= the rules. it was laid on the table for
consideration at the next meeting
Councilman Lumsden made the mo-
| ton to suspend the rules
Does this little budget resolution
include the appropriation for the
Clyde Line Wharf. or is that item en-
bodied in separate paper?" asked
Councilman FERGUSON
| The clyde Line Wharf item Is in
cluded I'm the resolution" Mr.. Lums-
den replied.
do you mean to say that thing is
still stuck In the resolution after all
that has been said about it?" demanded
! Mr. Ferguson, apparently very much
aggrieved.
1T Is" replied Mr.. Lumsden.
WOULD PAY COMMISSION
AND AVOID PURCHASE
Then. Mr.. Chairman" Mr. Fergus
son turned and addressed President
Peters In the chair. II would like to
know what commission the gentlemen
who are pushing this matter want
Let's find out the commission they
want and let's pay It and get rid of
them. That's the only way we'll get
out Of buying that property"
MIR. FERGUSON spoke with every evil
! dence of impatience, and the Council
smiled indulgently at his grievance
Nevertheless. IT voted unanimously to
suspend the rules and lay the resoIu-
ton on the table.
The measure In the form in which
1t was reported makes these appropria-
tons: Fulton School. 100000: Fulton
school site. $4,000; Ginter Park
School, $4,000: Fairmount School.
$4,000; Maury School. $4,000; coiored
school. West End $4,000: Brookland
School bonds. $4,000 storage ware
house building. $4,000; smallpox hos
pital building, $4,000. and Clyde Line
Wharf, $4,000.
The Council concurred unanimously
! In the passage Of an ordinance estab-
fishing the building line on the north
side Of Main Street. between Sycamore
and Addison Streets, fifteen feet south