Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-10
EXEMPTION BOARDS WILL
/, SOON Be FORCED TO MOVE.
All Five Local Boards Arc Now
CHARTERED In School.
Houses.
SEEKING OTHER QUARTERS
Chairmen Express Their Gratitude to
School Authorities for Aid Already
Extended-Suitablo Quarters Are
Hard to Find.

All of the fve local exemption board
ofhces, which are now housed in school
houses throughout the city, will havo
to vacate their quarters in few days.
owing to the fact that the Richmond
schools Will reopen for their fall and
winter sessions in a few days. Heads
Of all the boards are up against seri-
Gus proposition, and not one of them
right now can tell where his headQuar-
ters will be located permanently.
Division No. 1. OF which James e.
Phillips, Jr. is chairman. has moved
from the Richmond City Normal School.
at Lombardy and Main Streets. to the
Old Dominion Beverage Corporation. at
90 Broad Street. The beverage corpo-
ration has given this board the use OF
adequate quarters temporarily. but
when the board is forced to vacate these
quarters 1t is not known where they
will be located.
Divisions 2, 3. 4 and face an even
more serious proposition. for they have
as yet made no arrangements as to
where they will be located when they
are forced to move out of the schools.
II. w. Ellcrson. chairman OF Division
No. 2. stated last night that his board
would not be forced to leave the Rich
mond Academy offices, on the old Rich
mond College campus. until September
Is. as the academy school session will
not begin before September 90. Sew
eral tentative sitee have been offered
by various members OF this board, but
no definite conclusion has been reached.
DIVISION NO. q SEEKS
USE OF BLUES ARMORY
William A. Clarke. Jr.. head Of d.
vision No. 8, which has been using the
John Marshall High School since tho
examination of the mon began, has
filed An application with the Admins
trative Board for the use OF the Blues
trfd
trative Board heartily approved Of the
move, but stated that 1t would have
| to turn the matter over TO the Rich
mond Blues Association for Its approval
Efforts TO secure the Blues Armory
| for this board will be made tomorrow.
| Harvey T. Atkinson. head of Diyis-
| ion No. 3. which has been using the
Virginia Mechanics Institute AS head
quarters. will also make an effort to
| secure the use of the Blues Armory for
headquarters. Mr.. Atkinson announced
last night that no would try to make
arrangements for the use OF the armory
| tomorrow.
George w. Rogers. head Of Division
| No. I. now located in the Prevocational
School building at Twenty-second and
Broad Streets. Is out of the city at this
| time. and 1t is not known what arrange
ments have been made by this board
| in the way OF securing new headquar-
| ters. IT Is understood, however. that
efforts will be made to move this d.
visions headquarters to the First
Police Station on East Broad Street.
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
| Streets
EXPRESS THANKS TO
SCHOOL AUTHORITIES
The question has arisen as to who
! should pay the rent for office, light and
, heat for the exemption boards. The
government has made no allowances
for paying office rent for the exemp.
| ton boards, evidently acting on the
assumption that people would gladly
give space for the headquarters.
! The schools that have furnished the
exemption boards with headquarters for
the past two months have been unusu-
| ally accommodating and have aided In
the huge undertaking greatly. The
School Board has furnished quarters
for three of the boards and granted
| them the use OF the Offices until the
very last minute. The Virginia Me-
chanics Institute and the Richmond
Academy. private Institutions Of learn
ing. have also rendered invaluable as
| sistance to the board located in their
buildings.