Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-12-05
COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER
sH0CK0E CREEK MATTER
Special Meeting of Body Will
Be Called in Next
Few Days.
CARRIES 100000 AUTHORIZATION
Sum VIII Take Cnse Of Preliminary
Work OF Survey md flights Of
City In Certain Lnnd Require-
ments-Consid~r Other Matters.

special meeting OF Common
Council will be called within the
next few days to take up tho Shoe
koe Creek proposition as recon-
mended by the Finance Committee.
the Mayor and the Director OF Pub
Tic Works. The resolutions provid
Ing for an appropriation Of $4,000
to take care Of the preliminary work
OF the survey and tho rights of the
city in certain land requirements
and other detail work leading up to
the actual construction. was intro
duced by Councilman Carter G. Jones,
at the meeting OF Council East night.
and referred back to the Finance
Committee. under the rules. This pa.
per will now go to a special meet :
ing Of Council, to he forwarded TO
the Board Of Aldermen for concur
renee next Tuesday night.
There may he difficulty in secur-
inG Il quorum of Councilman this
week. because OF the fact that five
members of that body will he in at
tendance upon the Rivers and iIar-
bOrs Conference in Washington. In
that event. tho paper will be acted
upon by the Finance Committee at Il
called meeting this week and for
wardcd TO the Board OF Aldermen
Tuesday night. and a called meeting
OF tho Common Council will no held
carly next week. so that tho work nj
rehabilitation and construction may
begin without unnecessary delay.
VIII Tnkc similar Course.
a companion paper providing for a
bond issue Of $4,000. 900 for tho con-
struction work. from which tho sug-
Gcstcd 10000 Will be deducted. will
take a similar course.
Tho Mt ifne- fn-,h q
for the extension OF Belmont Ave-
nue. from Monument Avenue 10 Broad
Street, was adopted. and goes now
10 tho Board of Aldermen, as does
n resolution providing for "A bond is
sue Of 100000 for certain street i'm
provcments already provided for.
\ resolution allowing the Myrtle
Grove Cemetery Corporation to use
a road between the Pine Camp rcser-
walton and tho property Of the Gene
terry company was adopted, notwith-
standing the strenuous opposition Of
Coupcilman Hirschberg. who did not
want the patients at Pine Camp to
be depressed by the sight Of funeral
ccrtegcs passing beneath their win
dows. Mr. Carpenter pointed out
that the windows at Pine Camp were
half a mile from the cemetery road,
and no one at the camp. even with a
telescope, could distinguish anything
along the proposed road.
Wants NIaducts Free.
Mr.. Hirschberg sought to amend
the resolution authorizing the Nir-
GINA Railway and Power Company
to have It's Scent fare privileges ex-
tended three months. by requiring
the company TO grant free passage
To pedestrians and vehicles over all
It's viaducts in the city. hut Council
adopted the resolution by the vote
OF Is TO 4.
A resolution designed to open LON
hardy Street from Broad Street
northward, was forwarded to the
Finance Committee. This paper has
received tho Endorsement OF the
Streets Committee.
The lIirschbcrg resolution for the
appointment OF a special committee
on charter changes was rejected.
the body feeling that any suggcs.
tons as To such changes should go
TO the Ordinance Committee.
Mr.. English presented resolu-
ton directing the Finance Commit
tee to include in the budget for the
coming year such sums as might meet
the amounts deducted from the
wages of employees in the Utilities
and the Works Departments at the
beginning Of this year The paper
went TO tho Finance Committee.