The Portland daily press., 1867-06-28
CITY AEFAlAS.
THE WATER QUESTION.

A special meeting of the City Council was
held last evening, at the request of several gem
tlemen who have formed themselves into
company for the purpose of bringing water
into the city from Lake Sebago, and who had
obtained an act of Incorporation therefor; who
wished to have a hearing before the City Coun-
Gil.
A convention of both Boards was formed,
the Mayor presiding, when Gen. George F.
Shepley, in behalf of the Water Company,
made stirring address, of which we have CO.
pious notes. but no space for it this morning.
After abiding to the great need OF pure
water in the city, the benefits that would be
derived from it, both in pecuniary and SAM
tary point of view, he stated what the company
desired of the city.
The cost of bringing the water here and the
construction OF such works as would be an orna-
ment and credit to the city would be immense.
The Company, by their charter, are obliged to
furnish the city with water for public purposes
free of cost. But they had counted the ex-
pense, and ten years after the water is intro
duced would be willing to comply with those
terms. They now want the city to bind itself,
by vote Of the citizens, to pay the Water
Company $4,000 the first year after the water
is introduced here, and the same sum annual
ly for nine years thereafter, for all the water
the city may require for its public hydrants,
which would do away with the necessity of
steam engines, water for the schools, public
buildings, fountains, and all that may be want
ed for city purposes. At the expiration of the
ten years the city shall have it free OF cost for
all these purposes. BOD GIL" et
If this proposition is accepted the Company
will commence the work within thirty days
after the acceptance is made known to them.
The convention then dissolved, and in the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen the Mayor Of
fered the following order: 90
Ordered, That committee of three on the
part of this Board, with such as the Common
Council may join, be raised to confer with the
Portland Water Company" on their PROPOSE
ton to supply the City of Portland with water
from Sebago Lake, and report to the City
Council, at a meeting to be held as soon as
practicable.
The order was unanimously adopted in both
Boards, and the COMMITTEES appointed consists
of the Mayor, Aldermen Lynch, Deering and
Rice, and Councilmen Mari of 5, Fuller of 6,
Burgess of 1, Gould of Z, Robinson of 4.
1.-THE committee will meet at the Mayors
room at o'clock this afternoon.l a
The ordinance additional to the ordinance
relating to Evergreen Cemetery was passed to
be ordained.
An order passed instructing the Committee
on Public Buildings to make necessary repairs
upon the Engine house in Burnham street.
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DISHONEST CLERK.-About a week ago
officer Williams was informed by trader, that
he had been offered piece of cashmere at
one quarter of its value, and asked his advice
upon the matter. The officer advised the ira
der to purchase it and then give him informa-
ton. This was lone. and officers Williams and
Gerts took patterns from it to discover from
where it had been stolen. In few days Off
Ger Gerts found out where it came from, and
also learned that the firm suspected one of
their clerks of dishonesty. A watch was kept
| in the store every night, unbeknown to the
suspected one. On Monday night of the
proprietOrs, who was watching, heard some one
unlocking the door, walk in, go up stairs acd
Immediately return with piece of linen He
was stopped by the proprietor, and found to be
a clerk who had been in the store nine months.
The merchant kept him in the store so long,
questioning him, that certain confederates who
were waiting outside to receive the goods got
alarmed and left. The clerk would not make
| any acknowledgment to his employer, and it
was not until after the fellow who had sold the
| cashmere was arrested that he made any con-
LESSONS. Then he confessed to the officer that
he had taken goods to the value of $500 or
$500. The young man was discharged yester-
day, his father having promised to pay for the
articles he had stolen.