New Orleans Republican., 1872-08-28

u0OO0Q6Q u6DCS, caused DF receipt OF C6t
tifcates of 1871 for revenues proper of 1872
Passed two readings.
Mr.. Shaw suggested that pending the con-
sideration of the report and ordinance the
Council should pass a resolution increasing
the total amount to be funded by $5O,O0O,
Mr.. Cockrem moved to amend by making
it 100000.
The amendment was adopted, Mr.. Shaw
voting alone in the negative.
On the adoption Of the resolution as
amended the vote was as follows:
Yeas-Cockrem, Delasstze Rem:ck, Lew
is, BOnzanO-5.
Nays-Shaw, Walton-2.
Mr.. Lewis asked permission to change his
vote to nay, as the financial officers of the
ciry had voted against the motion,
Permission was given and the resolution
was declared adopted.
compromise Of the claim Of Mr. Dock
ham for $1,000, laid over last week, was
adopted.
BIr. Lewis presented a bill of Mr.. Devron,
which was referred to the Administrator of
Public Accounts.
General Business.
BY Mr. Remick:
An ordinance extending the provisions of
ordinance No. 1858, Administration series,
and extending the right of way therein
granted for the proposed railroad.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the Council
of the city Of New Orleans, That the privi-
lege and right of way granted in ordinance
No. 1888 Administration series, TO George
F. Brott his associates or assigns be eX-
tended so as to allow the construction of
double track railroad upon the roadway Of
the new protection levee along the lake
shore, from the upper line levee above the
New canal, to the lower line levee, on PeO
pies avenue below the POntchartTain rail
road the rate Of fare for the whole or any
distance along the lake shore to be five
cents per passenger; also, to allow the con-
tinuatiOn of the roadway before granted on
Orleans street to CarrOlltOn or Canal ave
nue., thence through CarrOllt9n or Canal
avenue to Canal street.
SEC. = Be 1t further ordained, etc. That
the provisions of article one OF said Ordi-
dinanee No 1868, Administration series,
shall apply to the foregoing extension.
Laid over to be printed.
Mr.. Remick presented the following com
munication, requesting that it be printed,
and il was so ordered:
To the City Council of New Orleans:
Wenotice per your deliberations of the
twentieth instant, the answer of Messsrs.
Drumm & Hanle 20 cur comp amt Cf the
mismanagement of their ferry, and are in
deed much surprised at their attempt to
silence the complaint and evade the inVe5-
tigation which we felt certain you would
institute in the matter. by their endeavOr
to pass US OFF before your body as ma
liciOusly disposed, and can only attribute
this to their inability to sustain an inVesti-
CATION, which we much desire should be
had.
We hereby beg to reiterate our charges
against them, and at the same time qualify
their answer in total as false as their as
persiOu Of our character.
What we have said we stand ready to
prove, and a great deal more beside. We
have not only one or two grounds Of com
plant against their management of the
Fourth District ferry, as they seem tO-en-
deavOr to lead you to believe, but it is the
multitude and frequency of these causes
which led us to this step, and, among many
others, we will cite another instance Of tow
age, wherein the ferry was employed for
the full space of one and d half hour in
towing a-barge or fiatbOat from its landing
to Freetown or McDonoghvilIe. Again,
and the cause of no little annoyance to
many of us, having to cross after dark,
Messrs. Drumm & Hanley employ but one
ferry skiff, and yet their charter calls for
two. viii they gainsay this
In conclusion, we ask nothing of Nessrs
Drumm 81 Hanley but what we have a
right to, namely, a compliance with their
charter, and to enable US to do so, have ap-
Poaled to you for help. To our wants or
comfort they have never looked; have they
not allowed all last winter to pass without
a fire in the cabin of the ferry, to moIlifY
the cold blasts of wind which poured in
through ill-closcd doors on all sides! and if
they are building new floating wharf for Us,
we can assure you that we have well earned
it by our patient endurance of the annoy
ances caused by the many and repeated re
pairs to the now more than old Cne. With
much respect, We rely on your help to re-
dress 0mr nrieEances.