Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-26
JONES CALLS BOARD
STATEMENT ABSURD
Claim Of Alleged Saving, He Says, Is
Unfair to Street Com
mittee. +,
AIDED BY MODERN INVENTIONS
Administrators, Says Chairman OF
Charter-Change Committee, Make
No Mention of Exceeding Their
Appropriations.

Charter-ChanSc committee, Make
No Mention of Exceeding Their
Appropriations.
| Councilman Carter c. Jones, OF Madi-
son. Ward, chairman OF the Charter
Change Committee OF the Council. in
II statement to Il reporter for The
Times Dispatch last night in behalf Of
he old Council Committee on Streets.
l,f which he was Il member. prior to
he establishment of the Administra-
i've Board, characterized az absurd the
boards effort TO take credit for saving
he city S734lS3.43 in contracts for
}urcct-improvement work.
| table showing what was alleS ell
o have been saved was presented to
lie Council Charter-Change Committee
ut it's meeting Thursday night. Mr..
tones said last night that the Admins
| rative Board should not take the
redt for mechanical improvements. I'm
nc way of diggin" ma chimes for
Iranching. cement mixers for concrete.
t.nd Improvements that electrical com j.
I)%mics have made in street lights.
GAYS STATEMENT Is
UNFAIR TO OLD COMMITTEE
Tho statement .ssu"i by the Admin
stra;ivc Board" said Mr.. Jones, 'is
'ascd or Inc suppusi,lon that the Street
Committee, II it had been continued to
iardic tho Improvement work,
you'd nos have shown business intel
iS"ncr. % course this presumption is
.hsJrd. The members of that commit
CO were rs good business men and as
n - l,.., a,ta n
With 'he city sov"r.a:o",. | emphati-
ally dem the 1rr.' that the city
|'roUlG have surercG the extent of
lno-c than s734,0OO lie Adninistra
Two Board had not II established
"A study OF IL. element OF the
GARD shows tina, ,r taking credit
or many things IL dc not do do
'ot mean this as au attack on the
GARD; am only trying TO get at the
acts. Please get that straight.
HXING MACHINES
HAVE COME INTO USE:
so far as the board claims 10 have
aNeG the city In construction work, in
'io the cost OF cement was mu ch
iSher than II is o-day and there were
concrete 'niNinG machines such as
re In use to-day. Why, five Years ago
y la borers with wheelbarrows and
novels. Did any member OF the board
invent this machine? And IL the com
1ittee had charge Of the work to-day.
you'd not that committee also use
hcse machines"
The cost of laying water. gas and
ever pipes has been cut down by the
sc OF trenching machines. which were
Unknown i've years ago Did any
MEMBER of the board invent this ma
hine? Similar machines are being
sed for grading streets. with CORE
ponding decrease IN the cost Of the
FORK
The board claims 10 have saved the
ity in smooth paving by using sheet
sphalt in the place OF block asphalt
that was used by the Street Committee
1T that time the worth OF the sheet
avinE had not been demonstrated, and
lily Engineer Boiling appeared before
hat committee and pleaded with |, TO
lay the block paving. This sheet paw
llr costs only about half what the
= ,her kind docs. but is II worth IL:
MIEil! il stand the hard wear To which
ihe streets are subjected by heavy
Traffic?
MODERN INVENTIONS
FACILITATE STREET LIGHTING
The claim is made that the board
las saved the city on electric lights
In 1910 We were using arc lights To-
8iay the board is replacing many OF
ihese. and the installations in the
iewly acquired territory are almost
Entirely with incandesccnt lights.
ave no way of measuring the candle
lower Of the TWO lights. but are these
hitter day lights giving as much light
1is the old ones? The manufacturers
Hahn that they are. They claim to
lave made such Improvement in the
Ghts that the electric plant can be
baded with :, greater number of lights
Hind still require no more current Did
2lny member of the board make this
Invention?
Going step further in the matter
IL street cleaning. The board now
Uses automobile swecpers for cleaning
lie streets. which does away with per-
Hans ten men and carts. thereby cutting
|Hlown the expenses Il considerable
Ixt.nt. But did the members of the
foa;,i make this Improvement, and
iouid not the old Street Committee
lave acted rs the board did i'm utiliZ-
Eg this Improvement If they were in
slarge:
EOARD DOES NOT TELL OF
EXCEEDING IT'S APPROPRIATIONS
There are several other things that
would like to so into. I haven't the
Jerks and I am not in a position to
AXE the matter up in the right way.
hhe board did not say that the first
lear 1t was in existence it exceeded it's
appropriations by 100000 and that OH
HE LIST of September of the current
lear it had exceeded the appropriations