New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-05
Meeting of Citizens OF the Sixth District.

morning papers. very respectable meetlnt
OF residents and property holders of th
Sixth District was held last night at the ca
station corner of ST. Charles and Napoleon
| avenues.
| On motion of Mr.. p NJ. Baker. Mr.. l.. j
| Highly was called upon to preside, and Mr.
4. L. Preston requested to act as secretary
of the meeting.
At the request Of the president Mr.. Johr
| lockwood stated the objects for which the
| meeting had been called. 1t was, he said
meeting of citizens and taxpayers of the
Sixth District to see if some action can not
be taken By which to compel the city gov
ernment to repair the streets
Mr.. Hernandez pictured the condition 0!
the streets, st. Charles in particular, in a
graphic manner, and suggested that il
would be proper to appoint committee to
wait upon Colonel Lewis the Administrator
Improvements, to ascertain if something
can not be done in the premises.
Whereupen Mr.. Lockwood offered the
following:
WHEREAS, The Sixth District having con-
taxes into the city treasury, for the purpose
of street aud other improvements: and
Whereas, st. Charles street, one of the
finest avenues in the city, Is in an almost
impossible condition, travelling over it dan
gerous to life and limb, and although the
attention of the city authorities has been
repeatedly called to it, yet nothing has
been done to remedy the difficulty. while
large amounts of money have been spent
below Canal street.
We therefore demand of the city authori
ties that they at least eXpend our proper
ton Of taxes in our district and that they
take immediate steps to put st. Charles
street in good travelling order from Tole
dano street to the lower line of Carrollton.
Mr.. P. NJ. Baker, thought tina. no action
worth while could be taken until the con-
tract with the Southern Paving Company
was disposed Off and, in his opinion. it
would be advisable that the committee
spoken Of should urge upon the city author
tiles to bring about settlement with MIR.
Hart the president of that company. The
case is in court, and the city only can call
it up. Unless this is first done, Mr.. Hart
will certainly enjOin any movement looking
to repaying the street in question
Mr.. COmmandeur expressed surprise that
citizens of the Sixth District had not put
the city in default by suing for damages
resulting from failure to give good
street. In bis opinion, tue proper course to
be pursued would be to demand that the
controversy with Mr.. Hart be speedily ad-
justed and all obstacles in the way of max
ing the needed repairs be thus removed.
Having in this way placed the city in de-
fault, the city could at once be proceeded
against.
Mr. S. n Burbank did not think that Mr..
Hart would in any way interfere. and there
fore no need for settlement with him ex-
listed. The repairing demanded can be done
on the north side of the street without in
tertering with Mr.. Harts contract, while on
the other hand work on the opposite side of
the street would conflict. He therefore
urged the passage Of Mr.. Hernandez resO-
luton.
Mr. Diball moved an amendment to the
resolution offered by Mr.. Hernandez, to the
effect that the committee be not authorized
to take any action further than to repair
the street.
Tabled, on motion of Mr. Baker.
Mr. Hernandez offered resolution that
committee of five be appointed by the chair
man to confer with the Mayor and the city
Administrators relative to the improvement
of st. Charles avenue, from TOledan0 street
to the lower line of CarrolltOn. said COM
mittee to report at an adjourned meeting.
Nit biudll uoNcu thai tlC LCSOlAeioI pC
amended SO as to provide that the commit
tee shall not be empowered to make an ar
rangement for the laying of any new pave
ment, but that the old Nicholson pavement
be put in proper repair.
Mr.. Page Baker moved to lay the amend
ment on the table. Carried.
The resolution Of Mr.. Hernandez was
adopted.
The resolutions were adopted as a whole.
Thn foil
committee-Messrs. Joseph HERNANDEZ, L.
j. Highly, Page Baker, S. n. Burbank, II.
n. DbalI.
The meeting then adjourned until next
Wednesday night.
The Missing Steamship George Cromwell.
Still no news reaches US of the Cromwell
And owing to her trips to this port being
SO prompt and frequent, it is not to be wen
dered at that every citizen feels deep in
terest in her fate.
We still have hopes that she is ahoat; if
not, that her passengers and crew are on
board some sailing vessel. well cared for
but perhaps bound to some foreign port.
The report that she had ammunition on
board is perfectly absurd for there is no
department of the transportation business
more carefully attended to than that of the
receiving of cargoes, and for the express
purpose of guarding against any combusti
bic material being shipped. The law in
this case is also very strict; besides. these
ships being only partially insured, it pays
them to be diligen,t and guard against loss
in any manner.
Some unnecessary fears may be enter
tanned, through a statement appearing in
Saturday and Sundays Herald, that the
Cromwell was last docked in August, 1870.
We have never heard of propeller
running three years without docking and
were it the case with the Cromw ell, we
should have given her up ere this.
We have the best proof that she was all
right under water, in the fact that she was
docked in September last, thoroughly over
hauled, recaulked and put in excellent
order, and had touched nothing since to
inure her. At the time Of her sailing she
was light loaded and in excellent trim to
battle the elements.
We can not yet believe the sea so treacher
GUS as to completely wreck ship SO well
prepared to resist its power, and especially
at this calm and pleasant season of the
year.
Court Items.
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