Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-06
NEW STATION HOUSE FOR
SECOND POLICE DISTRICT
Finance Committee Asked to Provide
for Replacing Present made
quate Structure.
BUILDING WOULD COST $4,000
Station at Smith and Marshall Streets
Was Built Twenty-Eigh Years
Ago. and Contains Only Six Cells.
Want Adequate Structure.

The replacing Of the present Second
Police station with an entirely ncw
fire. proof building on the same site is
nl!ssioncrs In its estimate OF tho Police
departments budget needs In the com
Ing year. laid before the Finance Com
mitt"c last night;
According 10 the police authorities
the rrcsen; station, which was built
twenty weight years ago. is entirely IN
adequate. The Second Police Station
has been greatly enlarged BY the ad-
dition OF new territory. and Increasing
~ greater demands will he made OF
the station house. which is its head
quarters The present building con-
tains only six cells
y bond issue appropriation OF s9s
900 was made 10 the Police Department
last year FOR II proposed addition to
the SECOND Police station Tho pro-
ceeds from the sale OF the bonds
$23.o31. 30-has not been expended The
Financ" Committee was asked last
night to carry this amount forward.
aud to add To ii the sun, OF $4,000 to
make possible the construction OF an
entirely new building instead OF an
addition. AZ was first contemplated.
rLANS PREPARED FOR
$4,000 BUILDING:
At the request OF the BOARD of po-
lie" commissioners. carncai & John
ston have prepared plans for tho pro-
posed now station. They call for "a
two story brick ana concrete structure
provided with twenty cells. assembly
room. living ana bedrooms for officers
permanently chartered AT the station
mouse. Il Sarac" and shop for tho care
of police automobiles and patroI
wagons and stables for the horses used
by the mounted police
IN preparing the design the arCht-
tests. 1t IL stated. have followed tho
station house arrangements used by
several progressive Northern cities
Several bidders. tn" architects state
nav" offered To construct the building
for s5..oao. The committee was told
last night that an extra appropriation
OF only $4,000 would be needed for this
purpose this year. Tho remainder can
be provided In tho budget Of 1916.
Tho proposed new station house ac-
rordinE 10 the police authorities viii
answer the needs of the ctS. for AT
least twenty years. Tho construction
Of an addition, the committee was told
would only put on for a short limo
tn" total building. that would In the
end he unavoidabir
sI"!03o INCREASE FOR
GENERAL EXPENSES
\ total Of s33.Go1 is asked by tho
count Of 1915. During 1914 the de-
partmcnt expended under this mead
Sl'G5l.3?. Among the items asked for
that contribute" TO the S!J955.bl in
crease are new patrol wagon for the
second District. $4,000; three Ford
runabouts for the annexed territory,
S2.iOo: new revolver equipment. 5000.
and installing call bells in pawnshops
Si.250
PROVISION must he made also in the
forthcoming budget for twcnty-thrcc
priNatcS. who were added TO the force
under recent ordinance. to take care
or the annexed territory. ut an annual
pay roll charge % S25.3529O
Ihc committee was asked To include
IN the budget allotment these appro-
priauons To take care OF annexed ter
r!tory: thirty-iivc additional boxes at
Sl"o each, si,la0: Installation, over
head construction, poles, wire and
labor. 50, 100; underground cable from
the City Hall, $1,000, and storage bat
tcrics and battery racks, $500