, 1874-11-12


Commissioner Priudiyille IL sojournlng tn atil-
waukoe.
AID spaldng has go lar recovered 81 to DO
able to sit up.
Mrs. Mar;h BERGEN was yesterday paid $t0o Us
compensation for damages received by her In
falling through broken sidewalk. She offered
to aottle for that amount Of money, aud tho city
accepted her proposition rather than be sued.
Tho Committees on Police and on Finance will
moot this afternoon in tbs City Clerks oif1oo.
Tho Commttecs on Schools and on Judiciary
will meet al tho same place at o'clock Saturday
afternoon.
The Board Of Public Works havo requested
tho Corporation Counsel to tako such steps IS
may DO necessary to sot aside proceedings In tho
Elm street opening case. Tho roaaona for this
action arc, that tho damages arc greater than
tho total sum OF benefits to tho surrounding
property. Tho Board bavo ordered tho opening
Of IIurlbut street from Olybourn avenue to the
State Bank Addition.
AID. Heath interviewed Commissioner Thomp-
son, Of tho Board of Public Works, and Comp
troller Hayes:on The subject Of the proposed ad-
ditional appropriation to tho Fullerton avenue
conduit contractors. All thrne gentlemen arc op-
posed to it, h1r. Heath thinkH that tho Common
Council has no right to make mn additional ap-
propriation for a contract already half CON-
plotted. Comptroller Hayes rs against allowing
any such procetlent to 60 on record. II tho
present contractors throw llp tho Job, ho THINKS
tho Board Of Public Works eau relot tho job aH
1t now stands at about $40, 900 difference.
Tho Board Of Public Works yesterday opened
bids for tho construction Of M engine and hook-
nnd-laddor houso on Deering street, noar Archer
IL Earnshaw l. Gobie, 81, ,4s3; and OH the ear
pentry work, ". r. Hair, S4.875. The Cox
Bgothora offer to do tile whole work for $1o, $50.
No awards woro mado.
Aid. Heath is preparing for q raid on tho
County Treasury, He has discovered 3 law
which provides that tho County Treasurer shall
refund to tho City Of Chicago pro rata por-
tion Of all the moneys received from oeftain
feeB after tho expenses Of tho officers making
collections are paid. Besides the mouoyg which
have boon thua accommodating. lore is On item
Of per cent on all tho tax salsa Of 1872 whtcl.
was paid into the County Treaeury under tho
law Of that year. THIS alone amounts to nearly
$4,000. Ho will submit hiB discovery to tho
Law Department for Instruction. how to pro-
coed. LII the meantime, can tho County Troag-
ures state whnt has become OF all this money
Tho following lis sho reply, Of the Board Q.
Public Works to communication from the Gti.
zens' Association nsking tho Doaei to empowes
their Comsnittoo to mako a thorough test OF tue
capacitics of the machinery Of the Water Works,
which, it has bean saa is vastly inferior to
what it ought to ho:
CH!uAoo, Nov. II, 1874.
j. c. dnbtr, E.9;, Cefk # the cIttzens' Atsoefasfon
DEAN Sin III answer to your communication Of
Nov d, concerning thu examination Of the eugiue at
tho Wster-Works, directc by the Board o. Public
Works to Inform yon that thcy not only do not object
to such m examination, but will gladly nd your Asso-
ciatiau iu making It.
The hoard lhsiht, howassr, that tho Committee
appointed to conduct tho examination shall bo CON.
poacd Of geneloun WHOSE ability mud experience are
we'll known, and whose integrity Ii unquestionable,
and that they ai,an b. persons who have interest
in the manufacture sale Of pumping engines, in
auy patent, athor granted Of pending. for the manu-
faoture Of said pumping engines. Very respectfully
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, Secretary.