, 1873-02-25
THE COUNCIL.
Annual Report Of the Inspector CT
Steam Boilers.
Nearly Three Hundred Defective Ones
Found.
The Alder1nanie Salary Question
"a Favorable Report.

I1e AlOefmanIc o:llGry question
"A Favorable Report.
Tho Council held regular meeting yesterday
evening, Aid. Woolman in the Chair. Present
Aldermen Richardson, Dixon, Warren, McGen
niss, Coey, McAvoy, sidwell, Stone, Pickering
Tfacey, Cullerton, McClowry, Clowry, Bailey
Powell, O'Brien, Clark, Sweet, Kehoe, Heath
Moore, Cleveland, Quirk Eckhardt, Stout, Mahr
Longacher, Carney, Cannon, Woodman, Cor.
corGn.
THE BOILER INSPECTOR.
The Mayor transmitted the annual report o1
the City steam-Doiler Inspector for 1872, ani
invited the attention Of the Council to the vari
ous recommendations therein contained. Tie
recommendations arc as follows:
He inspected 765 boilers and found 267 to be defec
tive: 1ot wero without water-gauges; % steam
had imperfect furnaces. {ue found enc cngince1
carving l1b pounds of steam, the gauge indicating
dangerous; SO with blistered plntes-10 dangerous
16 with broken braces dangerous In view Of the
rnptd increase Of the manufacturing and commercial
motor in the factories Tia use as heater and ycnt1la
tor in the Schools churches hotels aud othor public
buildings the consequent increase IL tho number o.
among the most populous districts In the y beneath
pavements, etc.,-he urged the necessity foz
further legislation to secure the object for which
the ordinance was passed,-the security Of lives
and property from dangers attendant upon the
ignorant or careless management Of steam. He
nance requiring engineers to pass examination aa
to their qualifications, and that license be issned to
ss aa to ae .a2 n % M a of e y
without notifying the Boiler Inspector before 1t put
tn also TINT the manufactures agent furntsh-
Ing boilers to be used in the city shall provide The pu1
chasers with written description OF the boiler.
naming the quality Of the iren used In their con-
&t1ucttpu.
The Board Of Public Works was ordered to
prepare ordinances for sewers in Centre street.,
between Clark and Lincoln avenue Goethe,
from Clark to State !; O'Connor, from Sedgwick
to Hurlbut LaBar, from Larrabeo to Division /;
Meagher from Stewart avenue to Halsted; Viii
son, from Canal to Jefferson; New
berry avenue, johnson. Brown, and Nor
gan, from Twelfth to Sixteenth; Maxwell, from
Halsted to Blue Island avenue; Wright, from
Halsted to Morgan; Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and
avenue to Loonis for walhng and filing sgdg-
wick, from Erie to Chicago avenue; for 8 side
walk on the north side OF O'Connor street, be-
tween 6odgwick and Hurlbut; to put in catch
basins on Hurlbut, from 6edgWick to North
avenue; Sigel, from Sodgw1ck to Hurlbut and
Gardner, from Vine to Halsted.
The Board Of Police WAS again ordered to re-
port how many Of the fre-alarm boxos pur-
chased by the city within the year have been
received, and where they have been placed.
tise for lot for an engine-house, at the corner
Of Halsted and Thirty-dfth Streets, was referred
to the Committee on Fire and Water.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The Bo.rd Of Public Works reported ordl-
nances for paving the alley from Twenty
to Twenty ninth streets, between Dear born and
Buttcrield and for vacating tho alley in Blocks
4, 8, and 10 Of Boobe's Subdivision Of the Z. u
OF N. ". Il Sec. 2, 50, 10 E. Tho first was
passed, and the second referred.
Aid. Cullerton submitted tho following ordi-
nance, which was referred:
SECTION l. That no person within the said city shall
sel or in any manner furnish minor with any gun,
Tending against this ordinance shall conviction, be
fined III OF not less than $25 nor more than 800
SEC 2 This ordinance shall be in force from md af-
ter it's passage aud due publication.
ASHLAND AvESCE RAILROAD TRACKS
The resolution reported by the Committee
on Railroads, ordering the Board Of Public
Works to remove one Of the railroad tracks on
Ashland avenue, operated by the Union Rolling
Mill Company, Was taken up
AID. Tracey offered substitute, directing the
removal OF both tracks.
AID. Powell moved to 10y the matter over for
two weeks.
The motion was not agreed to-yeas, IS; nays,
16.
AID. Powell moved to postpone it for one
week.
It was agreed to.
BAFETY or HUMAN LIFE.
The ordinance to prevent the obstruction Of
the aislcs Of theatres, churches, ETC., WAS taken
up. -
A motion to waive the engrossment failod, and
the ordinance Was referred to the Clerk for en-
grosament.
Aid, McGenniss moved to strike ont the rec
o1nnendation for tho appointment Of special
committee OF h7e to investigate the theatres.
It wna agreed to.
ALpERMAS1o SALARIES.
The report Of the Committee On Judiciary,
indorsing the payment to Aldermen OF reasona-
BILE pav for their services. WAS taken up.
Aid Moore thought no one could tell what the
services of an Alderman Was worth, and moTed
to table the whole matter.
Tho motion was lost-yeas, 6; nays, %.
Tho reso4ution was adopted-yees, %; nays, 5
RS follows:
Ytas-Richsrdson, Warren, McGennisf, coey, Nc
Avoy, sidwel1, Pickering Tracey, cueTton MGClory'
Eckhardt, Stout, Mah1, Lengacher, Carney, Cannon,
Nays-Di1on, Stone, Moore, Cleveland, Quirk-s-
DEARBORN STREET.
Tho ordinance for opening Dearborn Btreet
was taken up, and failed to pass-yeas, 20;
Tic vote was roconaide1ed and the matter
temporarily laid over
PERSONAL. .
AID. Moore stated that Aid. Sherwood had
been sick for nearly month and confined to his
room. lie was not g skulker, as had been alleg-
ed in ono Of the morning papers. -
INVESTIGATIONS
AID. EidweO offered resolution requesting
the Board Of Public Works to proceed with a.
little delay rs possible to examine the various
public buildings theatres, etc., to SEQ as to their
safety.
AID. Powell offered substitute, providing for
the appointment of committee Of five to do
this work, and see if any further legislation was
necessary on the subject.
The matter WAS referred to the Committee On
Public Buildings. ...
RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY
Aid. Bailey presented the following:
WHEREAS, By tho provisions Of the charter cf the
Chicago Relief and Aid Society," It Is directed to be the
duty Of The Board Of Directors to make report at
lest once year to the City Council Of Chicago, giving
full account Of s their doinga, statement of their
recepse and expenditures, verified Under oath and
WHEREAS, No such report has been made since jan
uary, 1877; therefore,
Resolred Tha the Board Of Directors Of the Chicago
Relief and Aid Society be requested to give this coun-
jl the reason for their failure to make their said re-
por as required law; and further that they be re-
hrt1fu mn ia.