Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-08
COUNCIL REJECTS STREET
APPROPRIATION MEASURE
Unwilling to Spend 100000 Over
and Above Budget During an
Economy Year.
BIG BOND ISSUE KNITTED AT
Traffic Ordinance, With Nearly All
important Features Eliminated, Is
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Banner"
Ordinance Approved.

Fly Il vote of IL to 0 the Common
Council last night rejected the Finance
committees proposal ito appropriate
SoV'ooV To be used for the Improvement
OF streets. IT was the majority scnti-
heh1 mat tho city has not available
funds To make permanent i,nurovc-
mchts. The resolution Recommended
oS 'nc rlmahce Committee would take
'"n soo'ooo from the cmerE cncy fund.
ne measure was offered AS n sub
stitutc for two resolutions on, -,
when would appropriate $4,000 for
'hn Improvement OF Semmcs Aycru.
ana The other which called for AN ~
p"hd'turc Of $4,000 for paving streets
about the local plant OF tho Amort
can Locomotive Company 1'hc.tjuanro
committee deemed i, best In .nnro
pirate lump sum To be spent within
me discretion of the Administrative
Board oN''
Councilman Powell, a member OF tho
fihancc Committee. expressed hia m
qualified disapprovaI of tho
nriation. and in this he was TONED -,
councilman Mills. IF you start mai.
n'S inroads in your current row.
nucs you viii never Iiuudatc vour
hoa ting debt" the latter declared Iio
added that il was fast bccon,Iu- ,r
parent that a large bond isyna ali,
nav" To he made IN order TO take c,ro
oi street iinprorcmcnts-whi arc I'm,
pcra'ivciy needed In many sections.
INC fo'" on the adoption OF tho
measure was as follows:
Nycs-Atkinson. Chcatwood, English
iiaahon' Jones. Ladd. Moore. Roden
and Uinlauf Q '"
Nocs-Batkins. Butler, Grimes Jc,cr
s si,, foweii Powers. Rose. seaton'
sullivan and Peters II.
DENATURED TRAFFIC.
ORDINANCE ADOPTED
returned again by the Ordinance
Eoiiihittce with the recommendation
'hat II he adopted. tho now ,r.oi
ordinance. with two additional changes
was adopted. ON motion Of pro.i.
oent Peters. that section which 70
CURES drivers Of vehicles To eirnaI
"hen about 10 come 10 "A halt or IN
make n turn was amended so as NOT
-, 10 lnhkc applicable TO drivers in
Iiicioscd vehicles. On motion of
Councilman Seaton that section nrn
scrioinE speed limit Of twenty mijc,
AN hour was amended TO leave the
speed limit as IL ia now. fftccn mile,
an hour with the exception OF ouor
Gcncy vehicles which are allowoJ
maximum speed Of twenty miles an
hour. AS ii stands now tho measure
Is hardly recognizable as that which
was prepared by tho subcommittee n.
INC Ordinance Committee. Tho changes
IL makes from the present traffic code
are mcag"r.
Alderman Mitchcll's ordinance 70
pehaii%" owners OF fowls who hermit
them To destroy ncighbors' pardnns
VAS adopted. AZ was Councilman Pow
CTS measure which will regulate tho
playing OF The Star-Spaugled Eunnor.
IN public places.
Ky a rising vote tho Council CON.
Cured with the Board of AIdermc,
IN adopting III" resolution extending
VIC concentrations OF Richmond to
huss'a upon entering the family OF
republics. AS soon as II has been an
~ ny the Mayor. City Clerk Ben.
!. August will forward copy Of tho
resolution TO the president OF the
Duma.
SURVEY RESOLUTION GOES
TO FINANCE COMMITTEE
The resolution to appropriate So
ooo Tor ipunicipal survey, as recon-
inended by the Committee on Charter
Chanse. was not discussed Without
debate il was referred to the Finance
committee. Councilman Jones decided
TO defer seeking to amend il In order
10 accept the Civic Associations offer
TO pay Tor the survey until IL has
come before the latter committee.
other measures adopted by the Coun-
Gil were as follows:
Awarding the Gintcr Park.Eartan
Hcights-Hull Street franchise TO Tho
Virginia Railway and Power COMPANY
for s..
Authorizing the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway Company TO extend its tracks
III Union street. south from Grace
street, for a distance Of forty four
feet.
Relieving Richmond College. at West
hampton. from paying excessive water
rates
Appropriating $3.50 with costs ia
satisfy Judgment obtained by j. Z.
McCornack against city
Appropriating $500 with intorcs,
ana costs TO satisfy judgment obtained
by Schwarzschiid Brothers against the
city.