Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-01-14
THREE school.
TRUSTEES CHOSEN
C. E. Tennesson, C. E. Dare
and T. E.. Dyson Elected
by Council
ROAD IS DISCUSSED
Firemen Pay Boosted $40 a Month
q Health Department Asks Permission
!. to Collect $4,000 Due for Sewers.

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\. a joint session Of the city coun,
Gil held last night the following wer;
elected school trustee: Charles E. Ten.
ylesson, first ward; Charles E. Dare
third ward; Thomas Z. Dyson, fourth
ward. They take the places of George
E. Warficld, Harry Hammond and T.
. Clifton Howard, who were recently
elected, but who declined to serve.
Councilman Ticer nominated Mr.,
Tennesson and Councilman McCaffrey
nominated ]. Frank Pettey. The vote
on the first ballot was eighteen to
one in favor of Mr.. Tennesson.
Councilman Baggett nominated
Charles E. Dare from the third ward
and he was chosen without oppos:: ion.
4 Councilman Lawler nominated
iThcmas T. Dyson from the fourth
hard and Councilman Fletcher .nomi-
hated Thomas Chauncey.
Four ballots were taken before Mr..
Dyson was elected, it required ma
iority of the two boards or thirteen
to elect. The result by ballots. in their
order follow: First, Dyson 10; Chaun-
cey 8; second, Dyson, II; Chauncey,
8; third, Dyson, 12; Chauncey, 7;
fourth, Dyson, 13; Chauncey 6.
The salary Of the paid employees of
the city fire department was inereas-
cd $40 month on the Recommendation
!, # fire and finance committees. This
i,incl.ees four ysoeyat9rs and five GAS
sistant operators.
An amendment Of Councilman Nc
Gaffrey to make the chief operators
pay s1o5. a n onth and the assis at
Sll5 a month was lost by vote of s
to l.
Petition signed by three men asking
permission to erect metallic trash
boxes on the principal streets, they tc
be letterad with Advertisements was
Preferred to the street committee.
The employees Of the Old Dominion
Glass Company, who were joined by
the employees of the Bryant Fertilizer
Company, petitioned for the improve
ment of the roadway and sidewalks
on Fairfax between Princess and
Montgomery streets. 1t was set forth
in, the petition that the men have tc
wade through mud in order to reach
t1eSr work. On motion of Councilman
Lawler, George D. Hopkins. secretary
ard treasurer of, the Old Domiasor
Glass Company, was given the floor
and addressed council on the subject.
He said that for the pas. ten years the
Old Dominion Company has been en-
deavoring to get council to fix this
road and that several, years ago the
sum of $500 was appropriated fo,
the work but never expended.
During the past eighteen or twenty
years his company's payroll he saN
totaled four million dollars. All the
men want he said, is a passable road,
way, as the present road is so bad ths
men wade over their shoetops in going
and coming from work. Mr.. Hopkin:
stated that he understood that fer
tiizer company would soon erect
plant to cost million dollars. in thi
neislrborhood. President Burke CAV
assurance that something definst
would be done without delay and tn
matter was referred to the street cor
mittee.
The health department Of the cit:
petitioned council that there is abou
$1,000 owing for sewer frontage an
taps, c greater part Of which has bee
standing for two years, and they ask
ed that they be allowed to collect same
it being set forth. that this none
would allow that department to abat
various conditions now menace I
to public health. It wasereferred t
the joint committee on streets. healt
and finance.
An act to regulate the pr;ce {
gas, which is the same as the prevail
ing rate was referred 70 the joi1
committee on LIGHT and finance:
Petition signed by a number {
business concerns for fire plug at t!
intersection Of St: Asarh and Wytl
streets, was referred to the fire ec-
m!ttee.
Resolution to sepair walls az G:
Jail was referred to, the public pro