Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-04-02
EMPLOYEES PETITION
COUNCIL FOR INCREASE
McmhcrS OF Police Department Want
Wages Advanced 20 Per
Cent.
r.Anll CRY HALL PETITION
Action again delayed in Order to
Set Date of Election June II.
Want $4,000 to Increase Sal
aries.

Petitions ashinr FOR Increased wages
for members or the Police Department:
and employees OF the Gas Works were
reserved last night ut ,hc regular
meeting Of the Common Council. anc
Captain Morgan L. Mills offered Il res-
ulution arpropria,ins $4,000 to care
.or the increase. All petitions were
referred to the Finance Committee. as
was The resolution. Members OF the
Council declared tina. the city was
losing many employees and believed
some 'c!icf should hc granted If such
a course could bc followed.
The resolution offered by Couurtlnan
Mills provides that the money shau
I've taken FROM the emergency fu1d.
II. declared that this sum should he
distributed among the various depart
rTcuts ~ the city. and II II WAS found
hat S50.0Vo WAS not suilicicm, to meet
the situation th,n additional FUNDS
should I've appropriated
rol:Co officers sough; an increase o.
20 ncr cent There were nearly @00
names To the petition. including prac-
;:culy every mar Ia the department
their pay having been increased las.
nctuht: when tho Council granite. Il
% per cent bonus. rwcniy-tour Syv.
;.cnnts IL lhr department. presented Il
separate petition skiing FOR an Increase
from sil".ic 20 'I:9 prr month
- y -
tCrIuN on ClrN UtII. PETITION
One petition ror Gas Works c:T
rlovccS came from tho Adniristra.'
hoard. thvoiGh IA" Mayor. ls did
Nctition from certain "mpl""c@s OF TN"
street Cleaning pcrartm"nt whll@
Councilman tmlaIf offered al the re-
;iues; Of Crunri,',au English. :, rcso-
Mtioa increasing IN" pay OF certain
Gas Works employees.
Since i; had been mutuallv acr' 81
Ivy m.ntcrs 10 rosfpou" the chnrtc"
election forced by tho CITY Hall pc
'iti"n" until the regular election on
lure u, the Council again tabled :hr
petition last night. No action on The
paper viii I've rak.r until nest month.
~ order that the day car Gc fixed IN
III" date OF tho general election
The Council adopted the two yes
!"ttonS from tho street Committee In
struct!ni: ,nr Administrative board 20
rcQair" the Virginia halfway and Pow.
or Company 10 maintain Drop"r .scr,I.
uloS "n tn" Ginscr Paris -liull Street
line. and % rake the necessary 70
pairs TO its lines on tho North Sid
III" resolution providing for the un-
uoiOtricnt Of Snccia' committee "a
investigate the financial affairs of Jhc
city. On"re" some time aEo by il.;cr-
man |, Y Christian. was "on.urrcd ir.
NEtR0ES WANT INPRONn:NENTS
~ PROVIDENCE PARK
Tho resolution authorizing Mayor
'i""rCs Ain~i. 10 enter INFO an agree
,acnt With The Southern Railway Com
hany for Tho necessary land t. no
Tide an outlet for Tho Canoe Run sewer
"aS adopted. as WAS the resolution
authorizing him TO enter inro ucrn-
tiationS with Major Jam"r ~ Docicy
for needed land for the widening o"
.lamNtpu street
The Finance Committee -rcommcnH-
ed an appropriation ur 81 900 for The
purchase Of tic Kuhn property for an
addition 20 Dakwcod Ceinetorv, and the
matter was tabled under the rules The
committee ais" recommended IN 7ppro-
nrEttl"n of So. To pay fcr tho print
INK Of the rcpor, OF tho Now Nur.>
;urcau of Municipal Research. wE,c,:
was adortcd.
Councilman roSc offered resolution
aprronriatina Sl.3c0 10 the Legal Aid
society "f!ck was referred 10 tho
tNnanc" Committee. while q petition
:or colorcd citizens of Providence.
Park. requesting water. sewers and
electric lights, was referred to the
committee ON Streets.