Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-08
JACKSON MONUMENT WILL
Be PLACED At BOULEVARD
Ordinance Passed by Common Coun-
Gil Expressly Designatcs
This Location.
ALDERMEN TO ACT TUESDAY
Controversy Over Site Settled by
Making Appropriation Conditional
Upon Selection of Location Rec
commended by Organization.

! Citizens interested IN the "Stoncwall"
| jackson Monument were necdlessly ex-
! erciscd yesterday over report that in
! the ordinance passed Monday night by
the Common Council appropriating
$4,000 to the monument fund. the in
terscction OF Monument Avenue and
foscneath Road was designated as the
site for the memorial
AS matter OF fact. the ordinance,
! which was passed by the lower branch,
ana viii come up for concurrence By
The Board of Alderman Tuesday night.
expressly makes il Il condition of the
appropriation that the monument be
placed At the intersection OF Monument
Avenue ana tn" Houlcvar.l--thc site ap-
proved Ivy the Stonewall Jackson Monu-
mcnt Corporation.
The first ordinances appropriatinr
$4,000 for the monument fund was
approved on August Is. 1t made this
amount available upon the submission
of proof that total of 100000 had
/ been collected for the monument from
other sources 1t carried no restric-
lions as To site.
7 FINANCE, COMMITTEE.
! AMENDS ORDINANCE:
D The Stonewali jackson Monument
corporation found later that the inonu-
incnt could be- constructed for much
. less than the original 5000 estimate.
ana pctitioncd the Finance Committee
To amend the original ordinance so as
10 make the $4,000 contribution of the
city aratlablc upon proof that $40 900
had been collected from other sources,
asking ii 1T tho same time to dcsig-
! mat" the Monument Avenue and Boulc-
/ ward location.
/ After hearing from n committee com
/ posed of Rev James Power Smith u. d b.
/ :'ndEe tcorC" l.. Christian and Judge
/ u. c. Richardson, the Finance Com
n,ttee approved new ordinance com
/ plying with the monument corporate ion s
! request. This measure repeats the for
/ mer ordinance. in which no site Is
, designated. and makes the location of
, the memorial at Monument Avenue and
the boulevard one OF the conditions of
+. the appropriation. The now ordinance
( was introduced by President H. l.. Pc
tcrs. of the Common Council
SUBCOMMITTEE WILL.
HOLD no MEETING
! Prior To the passage of the new or
! dinanCc by the Common Council the
! Committee on Streets had appointed n
subcommittee 10 consider the several
offers OF free sites that had been sub
United to the committee. with instruc-
tons to report at an early date The
subcommittee, of which Councilman
English is chairman. was to have met
Tor rms purpose next Thursday night
In view Of the passage of the ortii-
nance in which the site OF the monu-
nent is fixed. there Will be no meet
ing of the subcommittee.
Among III" other sites that were
suggested was the one at Monument
Avenue and Roscncath Road, and an
other at Monument Avenue extended
and Libby Street. in Westvicw At
! the latter site the WeStview Land Com
pany offered TO dedicate 4 siXtecn-acrc
! park II the monument were located
here.
The site designated in tho ordinance
has the undivided support of the stone.
, wall jackson Monument Corporation
which had submitted to the Street
Conmittc" and To the Council 4 petit
t!on asking that this site be selected
There was general objection to locat.
ing the monument in the western
suburbs, where ii would be moro oil
less inaccessible and hidden from gen
"ral view.