Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-11
BUDGET Goes THROUGH
With SLIGHT AMENDMENT
Council Transfers $4,000 to Street
Cleaning Pay Roll to Save
Men Their Jobs.
TAKE 1T FROM BILLS PAYABLE
Usual Wranglc Over Music in Parks
Ends in Retention OF That Item
After Jones Pleads for More "Goo!
Old Rag

| oLu y.
| On tho recommendation OF tho FL
nance Committee, tho Common Coun-
| ell last night cut tho budget appro-
priation TO bills payable down to
| 100000. and transferred $4,000 to the
pay roll OF the Street Cleaning Depart
| mcnt, including the crcmatory and in
| GENERATOR. giving to the pay roll n total
of $4,000. Effort was made by Clyde
| Fl. Ratclffe to have the appropriation
| of $4,000 for music in the parks also
transferred to the trect-ClcaninE De-
partmcnt, saying it was more impera-
tive to keep the streets clean than to
| give Il few people music in the parks
There was Immediate and strenuous
opposition, Carter G. Jones. the South
side member, pleading that a little of
tho dear old rag" now and then gave
many II weary man and woman pleas
ant surccasc from their days long toll
Councilman Fred II. Powell did not
attempt to Introduce his ordinance to
| reduce the membership of the Admin
istrativc Board to four, though there
was q suspension of rules for several
resolutions and proposed ordinances
Mr.. Powell said afterwards. However.
that he had not given up the fight and
| that new scheme would soon be
evolved to have his measure put
through.
SAVES SEVERAL STREET. CLEANERS
FROM REING DROPPED FROM roll.
Tho transfer of a fund from bills
payable to the STRENGTHENING Depart
mcnt was practically the only charge
made In the budget. 1t will have the
effect of saving TO the department a
number of men who superintendent
Cohn said would have to he Discharge cd
If the appropriation were kept ut it's
original figure. At his instance the
Finance Committee held n meeting at
1880 o'clock and decided to recommend
the transfer.
When the item of $4,000 for music in
the parks was reached. Mr. Ratcliffe
objected not. lie explained, because he
was opposed to music, but because he
believed 1t 10 he a luxury, whereas
street cleaning is 4 necessity of tho
first order Tic moved that tho Item
hc eliminated and that tho appropria-
ton be placed to the credit OF the
Strct-Clcaninis Department.
MIR. IaddoI said lie believed II rho
from tho budget tho paper would not
he passed, anu said that music IN tho
parks was necessity for those who
could not leave tho city In the hot
summer mouths.
JONES PLEADS FOR
GOOD OLD "RAG" MTSJC
Eut IT remained for the Southside
member to play upon tho heartstrings
and TO stir the chamber with his clo-
Qucnco
II have only one objection" said NJ.
Jones. ito tho music they give us
They play too much classical stuff and
not enough old rag When tired
imam hears the dear old rag lie gets a
motion on him that makes him
forget he's tired. You've al heard
about tho charms of music. It re-
Loves the poor workingman moro than
anything else. You may wine and
dine him. but I. won't do him rs much
good rs little rag In the park. Let's
have the music. good old rag music"
Ccuncilmcn Sullivan and Atkinson
MISC spoke IN favor Of the item, and
Mr.. Ratclinc's motion was lost Tho
people viii have their music. and
probably plenty OF rag"
Mr.. Sullivan objected to the appro-
prlation Of, $1,000 as n contingent fund
for the CITY Auditors office. but his
motion that 81 he stricken from tho
budget was lost The expense item
FOR electrical inspection was amended
so that an automobile might he pur-
chased from tho fund.
FAILS no GET RAISE IN PAY
ioH POLICE: CAPTAIN.
Under n susucucicn ~, tho rrio. NJ
English attempted 10 place on lis
passage an ordnance increasing tho
pay Of police captains from $i.4iO to
$500 year. This would have re-
uuircd Il further suspension. which the
Councilman failed to obtain. and the
measure was referred 10 the Finance
Committee, where IT had already been
tabled. q second ordinance introduced
by Mr.. English, 10 permit the Police
Department 10 purchase an automobile
from its expense accounts. was also
referred to the ltnuncc COMMITTEES
On the motion of MIR. sullivan, tho
body reconsidered its ordinance TO
close the alley between Th!rty-nrth
and Thirty sixth Streets ana between
BROAD and Marshall. and the matter
was referred back 10 the street Com
m!ttce.
Tho error discovered in the ordi
nance increasing the police force bv
twenty-five men was corrected bv
amendment. IT was found that the
Increase had been added to the mum
ber Of men permitted in an ordinance
OF 1911.
Mr.. Jones introduced an opinion rem
dcred by the City Attorney that the