The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-08
city Councils.

SeIeCT JOWnClT membeTS HDSenT,
There are three new faces in the Chamber. A staid
and demure gentleman from the Twenty-seventh
ward, an extensive lumber merchandise. Hugh
Mr.. Gillingham. Mr.. Mcllvain is member of
the Hckste Society of Friends is actively engaged
in the building of the Quaker college in West Phila-
dephia, and becomes a member of Council in oppo-
stion to his own wishes. The successor to Colonel
Page, from the Fifth ward, is counsellor at law,
Mr.. Cochran, young man over six feet in stature.
What stamina there may be in him remains to be
seen. The third new face is that of wine inn
of the irm of Carstairs s. Call, doing business i'm
Walnut street. Mr. Mccall is a Democrat, but
not of the ultra or secession school, In Common
Council we find new members as follows:
First waTd-Daniel M, Blackburn, II.
Second-G. b. Stockdale, D.; Isaac Griffith, D.;
Thrd-william IL. Pagan, D.; Geo. w. Nickels.
Fourth-wm. Mountain, D.; d. G. McClain D.
Sixth-Alexander McGrath, ID.
Eighth--John Rice, Il.
Ninth-Walter Allison, r.
Tenth-George w. Hail, r.
Twelfth-William II. Ladner, D.
FourteenthTEd. W. Leighton r.; l., s,,,.,,.
Seventeenth-,John Canning, ID.
ineteenth-Daniel Corrie, r.; William f. Mil
Ter, II.
1wentieth-Wm. S. Allen, r.; James Jenner, II.
Twenty-frst-James Bowker, r.
Twenty B. Parker, II.
Twenty ty-seventh-James NJ. Sellers r.
OF the above, Messrs. Nckels McOlain, Allison
and Bowker have done duty before in Common
Council.
The business in the two Chambers was this:
Select Byaucb-President Stokley filed the chair.
voluminous batch of petitions was presented.
For a new schOOl-house at Seventeenth and Pine
streets the Controllers asked for fifty tons Of heater
coal.
Numerous written applications were received
from various quarters for facilities for gas water,
paving and grading.
An Invitation was received and accepted by the
Chamber to be present tonight at meeting of the
Society to Alleviate the Miseries of Public Prisons
The report of the Superintendent of Girard Es-
tates for 1868 was now received. The receipts were
S463 1924 II; the expenditures S3i7 $40 &c. The
balance on hand December 81, 1868, $112,447 So.
The committee by whom President Grant was re-
ceived made a report; it was accepted, and the
committee were discharged.
clans for attending men nured in the discharge of
police duty passed.
A resolution from Common Council to continue
the former Committee on House of Correction was
concurTed in.
An ordinance was offered instructing the Mayor,
in consequence of the neficency of street cOntrac-
tors to annufthe contract for cleaning the streets
of the city. Referred.
An earnest petition from citizens of the Twenty
seventh ward, for the repair of Penrose ferry
bridge without further delay, was presented. 1t
took the usual reference.
resolution to appoint JOINT special committee
to take charge of general matters relating to the
city, brought before the Legislature of the State,
The ordinance making the annual appropriation
TO the Controllers of Public Schools was referred,
after long debate, to the Committee on Finance.
An ordinance making an appropriation to pay
the expenses of the committee on site for honse
of correction was passed.
mittee on retrenchment and reform.
resolution authorizing the Water Department
to make the necessary expenditure for preventing
the fre-plugs from freezing this winter, was re-
ferred.
batch of nominations of policemen by Mayor
Fox, was referred, on motion Of Mr.. King, to the
Committee on Police.
Committees, as follows, were appointed by the
| president.
Finance-Messrs. Fox, Cattell, Franciscus, Hodg-
| don, King, Cochran.
Gas-Messrs. Smith, Jones, Fox, Harkness, Hop
kins, Hockey.
| Highways-Messrs. Hodgdon, Smith, Jones
| Hardness, McIlyain, Armstrong, Hopkins, Duffy
| Marcus.
Police-Messrs. shallcross, shermer, Jones, Cat
| tell, Marcus, Morrison.
| Fire and Trusts-Messrs. Shermer Bumm, Cra.
mer, Armstrong, Marcus, Plumy.
| Poor-Messrs. Bumm, Harkness, McIlvain, Bar
| low, Morrison, McCutcheon.
| mer, Duffy, Mccall.
| Port Wardens-Messrs Bumm, KerSey, Mcllvain
| Hodgdon, Plumly, Marcus.
| Markets-Messrs. Hardness, Ritchie, Shallcross
| Kersey, Kamerly, McCutcheon.
Claims-MessTs. Ritchie, Kyrsey, Armstrong
! Hardness, Hockey, Morrison.
Water-Messrs. Hodgdon, Cattell, Jones, Sher
mer, Smith, Cramer, Kamerly, Plumly, Marcus
GIrard Estate-Messrs. Cattell, Shermer, Fox
Shallcr0ss, Franciscus, Duffy, Plumly. .,....
Smith, Cramer, King, Cochran.
Schools-Messrs Ritchie, Cramer, Shermer, Nc
Railroads-Messrs. Francscus, Fox, Smith, Cat
tell, Hopkins, McCutcheon, Cramer, Kersey, Mar
Health-Messrs Cramer, Barlow Ritchie, Ker
sey, McCutcheon, Hockey.
Iaw-Messrs. Jones, Hodgdon, Barlow, McIl
vain, King, Cochran.
| Prisons-Messrs. Sherman, Cramer, Bumm, Arm
strong, Hockey, Morrison.
Street Cleaning g-Messrs. Barlow, Harkness, Nc
Ilyan, Armstrong, Kamerly, Duffy.
Defence and Protection -Messrs. Kersey, Arm
strong, Ritchie, Barlow, Kamerly, Mccall
Printing and Supplies-Messrs. Bumm, Ritchie
Jones, Shallcross Mccall, McCutcheon.
| Revision of Laws-Messrs. Hodgdon, Francscui
Cattell, Barlow, Duffy, Hopkins.
Boiler mspection-Messrs. Smith, Kersey, Fran
ciscus, KameTly, King, Fox
To verify Cash Accounts-Messrs. Fox, Hodgdol
TO compare Bills-Messrs. Jones, shallcros
| Cochran.
Smith, Hopkins, Hockey, Franciscus.
| Adjourned
| Common BrGnch.-This branch met shortly afte
| three O'Clock, President Joseph f. Marcer in tn
| chair.
Messrs. John Rice and John b. Parker ne'
| members were sworn.
| A resolution from Select Council was c0ncurre
| in, continuing the Committee on Morgue.
| Mr.. Shoemaker presented communication, In
vting the members of Councils to attend meetin
of the Philadelphia Society for the Alienation G
the Miseries of Prisons, next Friday evening. Th
| invitation was accepted.
Mr.. Gates offered q resolution inquiring abou
Mr.. Willis offered resolution to continue tn
joint special committee to procure portrait {
Abraham lincoln. Agreed to.
| Numerous petitions, communications, &c, Wer
received and appropriately referred.
| Mr.. Campbell offered a resolution directing tn
Committee on Water to see that the fire plugs ar
| kept in proper condition, Agreed to.
Mr.. Hetzell offered resolution to continu
the Committee on Retrenchment and Reform
Agreed to.
Mr.. Dram presented an ordinance appropriatin
5000 to the clerks of Councils for expenses incurre
by the Committee on the House of Correction
| M ua+,al YraeaDtad on ordinonca ranao1ino ~