The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-11
CITY COUNCILS.

The regular meetings of City Councils were
held yesterday afternoon. There was an uu-
usually large lobby attendance, caused partly
from interest in the promised proceedings,
and partly because the imminence of rain
storm induced number of people to exchange
their seats in the Square for seats in the
galleries of the respective chambers. This
was the business done:
SELECT DEMONSTRATION William S.
Stoxley sat in the chair. AS the chair is very
big, and Mr.. Stokley is of puny build, to say
that he ''filled" it would be a deviation from
the strict line of veracity characteristic of the
reporter of this journal.
A communication was received from the
Park Commission, asking an appropriation
of $500 to pay the cost of alterations TO
schoolhouse in Eleventh street, above
Thompson and also one of $500 for repairs
to the Northeast Schoolhouse. These were
duly referred.
An invitation to Councils, by the Park
Commission, to visit Fairmount Park on the
10th inst, and inspect the improvements
made there, was accepted.
A long string of petitions was presented,
asking that Councils will cause Broad street,
south of Coates, to be laid with Nicholson
pavement. These petitions were very numer-
ously signed by people prominent as property.
owners in the vicinity. This was referred
Mr.. Bumm presented petition asking for
additional market houses on Girard
avenue. Mr.. Bumm called attention to
the large extent of area of the city
that seeks this avenue as source of supply
for household provisions. A ferry now
crosses the Delaware in the immediate vi
cinity, and large quantities of produce come
to this market, for the sale Of which the city
is bound to find accommodation. Mr.. Bumm
elaborated this subject, and it was referred,
as a matter of form, but with the certainty
that the desired accommodation will be
granted.
Mr.. Franciscus presented communication
from the female branch of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, asking
Councils to erect a building in which all dogs
doomed to die may be asphyxiated by the
fumes of charcoal instead of being put TO
death by the coniuined torture of the club and
the halter, as at present practised. The
bowling of the butchered brutes, as at present
tortured to death, is excruciating to the ear
| of humanity in the neighborhood. The ladies
| ask that Councils will make such appropria-
| ton that, instead of being individually mas
sacred q whole batch of them may be
| instantly stified. The ladies also call atten-
ton to the fact tkat the place of this slaughter
| is in such immediate proximity to the House
| of Refuge that the cries of the tortured ami
mails ring in the ears of the inmates.
The subject after some debate, was re-
| ferred to the Committee on City Property.
The committee 70 verify the cash accounts
| of the City Treasurer, reported that, on June
| /. the balance was.$1 1856, ,178. The payments
| made during May were $550,654.
The bill authorizing the sale of twenty
acres of the AlmshOuse property to the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, for the sum of
| S1GO, 600, made the special order of the day
for four o'clock, was taken up. A debate of
| two hours duration was the result.
Mr.. Mccall, for the first time, took ground
against the proposed grant.
The hill was then indefinitely postponed,
by vote of 13 yeas t0 II nays. ..
After concurring in various bills from
| Common Council, the Chamber adjourned.
| COMMON BkANCH.-Joseph f. Mercer
called the Chamber 10 order at quarter past