, 1872-11-19
Petition from the Board of Underwriters
for a Prohibitory Ordinance
Against Mansard
Roofs.
Long. .Wrang1e on the Question OF
Licensing Some More Gas
Companies.

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Bateham, Powell, Holden, Bond, Sweet, Heath,
Sherwood, Gill, Buehler, 1IcGrath, Schmidt,
Stout, Lengacher, McCadrey, Carney, Clarke,
Ogden, Busse,
POLICE COMMISSIONER
The following communication from the Mayor
WAS referred to the Committee on Police:
.aEs11Ea1Es: hays to inform you that A1ancel
Talcott rendered me his resignation as member OF
Of the Board Of Police Commissioners for the West
pointed md qualified. The act approved March 3,
is72 in force July l. 1879 makes it the duty Of the
Mayor BY and With the consent of the Common Conn-
Commissioners By virtue Of the authority conferred
By said act, do hereby appoint Charles A. Reno as
member Of the Board Of Police Commissioners, to
I'll the unexpircd term OF Commissioner T. B. Brown,
part Of which las been filed by the said ancel Tai
cott and respectfully request the Of your
honorable body in such appointment:
JOSEPH MEDIL, Mayor.
1DERa1AN1c.
The vote for Aldermen vas then read, and
the successful candidates we're declared duly
elected
s1ASsAnD ROOFS.
The following communication from the Board
OF Underwriters Has referred to the Committee
On Fire and Water:
GExuEa1H: In view Of the dangerous character,
p generally Of the STYLE Of roof known as
posea in respect to the facility it affords for the COM
ulun1cation Of fire to contiguous buildings, md the
when once Endled, the Underwriters Of Chicago mcst
respectfully petition your honorable body to prohibit
hy ordinance Tie construction hereafter within t1e
be used for business PURPOSES my block Of build
1ngs to be nsed for sny other PURPOSE the height Of
the is to be than forty feet, unless con-
structed wholly Of indestructble material.
ORDERS.
Resolutions were introduced ordering the
Board Of Public WorkE,to complete State street
bridge and the riaduct of the sarno; to report an
fcr7 atraat frnn
ison to Milwaukee avenue; to submit estimates
Of the cost OF. an welsl in Union and
Wicker Parks; to report an ordinance for paving
Eighteenth street from Wabash avenue to the
Illinois Central track
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The Board Of Public Works submitted num-
1er OF ordinances for sidewalks, end also ordl-
lances for curbing Fisher street from Harrison
Polk, and paving Jefferson from Van Buren,
Harrison, which we're passed.
The Gas Inspector submitted 9 statement Of
be operations Of his department for the year
;nding Nov. II, 1872. The test lamp meters
rdered to be set had been located,-seven in
1e West Division. three in the North Division,
ad five IN the South Division. The tunnel
mters had recently been removed, and adjusted
nd reproved. The Inspector Gays he is informed
nat in several States where there is law
overning the inspection Of gas, the usance
3, meter registering either fast or
slow to this extent is allowed as cor
rect. From general observation, he considers
the street-lamps at present IN much better
condition than heretofore, and every. e1ertion
plants had recently been made Of tho short sup
ply Of gas to tho 6treetlamps in the West Divis-
ion. Upon inquiry, he found it resulted from
the want of gas-ho1der room. This had been
re1nedied, and within short time the Peoples
Gas Company would have full capacity to supply
all that might be needed. The principal portion
Of the proving and photometrica1 apparatus had
arrived and been get up, but sufficient time had
not elapsed to put it III complete working order.
GAS ORDINANCES.
On motion Of Aid. Doggy, the three gas ordi-
nances were taken up, the first one considered
being the one in relation to the Mutual Cas-
Light Company, the pending question being on
substitute offered by AID. Bowen, which strikes
twice es much pipe in the West Division as in
the other two divisions; it simply requires the
Company to charge reasonable rates, not e1-
ceeding those Of other companies :; 1t limits the
power Of the Council to order the Company to
lay down pipes, extends the time in which pipe
is to be laid, o1nits forfeiture for higher rates
than those allow ed in the bill. etc.
AID. McGrath moved to table the substitute.
The motion was agreed to.
The ordinance itself Tas then tabled.
TIE NATIONAL. ...
The ordinance for the National Company was
next taken up.
Aid. DaggY submitted amendments author
izlng the Company to lay pipes under the side
walks, permitting them to tear up the block
pavement at the street crossings, and limiting
The price to $3.50 s thousand feet.
AID. Dixon moved to lay over and publish the
ordinance, as amended. The motion was not
agreed to-yeas, IS; nays, Is.
AID. Bailey moved to recom,1it. Lost-yeas,
AID. Bailey moved to adjourn. Not agreed to
-yeas, 8; nays, q.
AID. Dixon offered an amendment requir-
ing the Company to lay the first fifteen
cepted-
Aid. Knickerbocker moved to lay over and
publish the ordinance as amended. Lost-yeas,
Is nays, 18.
AID. McAvoy offered an amendment providing
that no permit to lay pipe shall be issued by the
Board Of Public Works until the Company shall
have expended $3.50, 900, exclusive Of the cost Of
ground, in the erection of gas works. It was
Ald. McGenniss offered an amendment, pro-
vidng that no pipes should be laid in private
parks or in the plats in front Of private resi-
dences. 1t was adopted.
Aid Otis offered an amendment to the amend
1nent, providing that no permit for laying pipes
be issued until majority Of the property
owners on street upon which it is proposed to
lay the pipe shall have petitoned for its laying.
It was voted down.
AID Bailey moved that the consideration of
be At indiferently'' postponed. The motion Was
not entertained.
After considerable wrang1ing, Alderman Coey
stated that he had qeeu informed by an Alder
nan that he had seen letter in which it vas
proposed to sell majority OF the stock Of one
of the new gas companies, or Withdraw. if paid
21GO, 600 in cash.
Aid. McGenniss said he Was tho Alderman re-
ferred to, and it was true. He did not know the
name Of the Company.
Aid Stout had also seen tho letter, but he be-
Ieyed it to be bogus.
Aid. Holden asked what the 500, 900 was for.
Aid. McGenniss said it WAS to be paid if the
ordinance was withdrawn.
AID. Daggy also saw the letter. twas written
over year and half ago, by the New York fel-
low who came to Chicago to get franchises, and
not by the people who desired the passage Of the
ordinance under consideration. The latter we're
not that class Of men; they were moneyed men
and honest men, and meant business. They
were to give bond Of s5oo, 600 not to seH ont;
McGenniss could not remember tie name Of
the Company, OF Of the man who signed the