The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-01
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
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held yesterday afternoon, The business done was
this.
Chair.
A note was received inviting the Chamber to be
present az the inauguration OF President Allen, at
Oirard College, November3 3.
Mr. King thought that this invitation was a
singular proceeding in view of the present nyest
smith was removed and Mr.. Allen put IN ms nus
place. MT King very warmly denounced e tne
action OF the Directors Of the College, and declared
hat, until the existing investigation was teIml-
mated, this action on the part OF those VINO were
the creatures OF Councils was marked by an I'M
warrantable degree OF assurance Er; hthg oD-
leced formally to the reception OF Ine lhN NltaIUu' M
The Chair said that paper was mere from tne
Local connsel of Major Smith, which was duly
read IL was formal protest against tne pro-
posed removal of Major smith, and a demano that
no action shall be taken until the existing inYesti
cation has terminated
Major Smith, and bitterly denouhclhs the acuon
Of the Directors of Girard College
Mr.. Smith, Twenty second ward, opposed Mr.
Page in his argument and reprobated the course OF
any man who condemns the conduct OF SET OF
gentlemen who ore every whit as honorable as ne.
MIR King moved to postpone the acceptance OF
the invitation until the next meeting
MT Cattell (who had just entered( said thattrom
what he had heared from Messrs Page and King,
he would have thought that the characters OF lot
of thieves and cut-throats were under discussion
instead of the action OF set Of hgh-toned gentle-
mttee to in yestgae the course of the Directors OF
Girard College in turning out MAJOR Smith. While
he had no desire to divulge anything occurring in
the committee he was free to say this, that If half
what The Directors allege concerning Major Smith
he trne thew the Directors) deserved to nave been
deposed from their positions months ago for per-
mfttng Major Smith to remain there.
Mr.. Coleman said that his position was pecu-
liar one be being director OF the College, though
at the conclusion of the investigation he had
solved to relinqush his seat in the Board As to
the charges made by the Directors against MIR.
Smith, great fault lay upon the Directors them
selves, and upon their various committees. The
charge that boys had been to the House of Re.
fuge is magnihed. But one boy had been so dis
posed of since the speaker had been in the Board,
and he was lad who had deliberately set fire to
the dormttory in which he was lodged, and this
removal was the result of conference with Mayor
Henry and the Fire Marshal As to all this fog
gng, the report of the President is made every
month to the Board, and the chairman of the com
mttee on the subject is one of the parties whose
names are appended to the charges against MAJOR
Smith. Mr.. Coleman didn't even know Mr..
Smith, excepting as he met him at the College.
That the furniture is dilapidated is true but only
because of the refusal Of Councils to make the
necessary appropriation.
Mr., Stokley-Will the gentleman explain, then,
why, in so impoverished a condition of their
finances, the Directors raised the salary OF Major
Smith from $1,000 to S3500l
Mr. Coleman held that IN this matter he had no
part
Mr. Smith urged-quotiug law for it-that the
Directors possessed the right to remove any one
whatever in the employ of that Board. The
speaker mad no feeling in the matter other than to
sustain the right and the right of this body to
depose any one in the College, from Pretect to Pre-
sident
Mr.. King moved that the invitation be referred
TO a committee.
Mr.. Stokley thought that the proposition could
not be entertained
The Chair thought that il could
The vote on accepting the invitation was-ayes,
10; nays, 10. (In Common Council it was accepted
by vote of 81 TO II
rectors of Girard College TO suspend all action
to the Presidency of GIrard College,
The vote was ~ ayes to 10 nays, and by the same
vote the Chamber refused to suspend the rules
and permit third reading of the bill. 1t there
fore fell.
petition was received from brewers of the
Twentieth ward, asking that Thirty second street
ard Pennsylvania avenue may be repaved. 1t
The report of the Superintendent of City Rail-
road was received and ordered TO oe printed
batch of petitions for water and gas facilities,
paving ana grading, was referred.
resolution was offered 6y Nr barlow MI Nv. u IN q,
property owners in Broad street, from Columbia
avenue TO Lehigh avenue, and on Ridge avenue,
frC m Columbia 70 Montgomery, to curO ana pave
their footways 1t was passed.
A resolution was offered by MIR. Page, instruct
ing the onrollers of Schools 10 present IN deJal
a statement OF the manner IN Whlen Iney naye l
spent the million dollars school loan, and how
much more they propose 10 ask 10 compete t Cne
amount of money they are paying in the shape OF
rentals upon lots that they have taken up.
MIR. Hodgdon, Committee on water, oHered a
resolution to lay pipe in Paul and other streets II
passed. ,,, ... . . 3
damages in the construction OF sewer was passed.
Mr. Ritchie offered a resolution authorizing the
transfer OF certain items OF appropriation TO the
Postponed for week.
An ordinance to set apart lot of gr und on An
dover lane, Twenty. first ward, for school pur-
purses passed
A bill 10 inclose with iron railing the Eleventh
ward school. house, by special Appropriation, was
passed. Also, bhl approving certain contracts
for school buildings in the Fourteenth ward.
The bill to set apart Penn Square 70 public In
stitutions came back from Common Council, with
slight amendments, in which this Chamber con-
CURED.
The resolution to widen the footways in Broad
street, from Poplar to Coates, was passed.
Sunary highway bills from Common Council
were now concurred in. Adjourned
Common Brdnch.-The Chamber called to or
der shortly afer three O'Clock, President Joseph
y. MaTcer in the chair.
Mr.. John Bosler, Superintendent of City Rail-
road, the tracks Broad and Market streets, sub
mitted his annual report, which shows the travel
over the road from October 1, 1866, to Septem Der
80, 1867 was
OF eight wheeled cars, 95,32
OF four wheeled cars, 2l,423
Total number of cars 49, 735
The % ha