, 1874-02-17
THE CITY HALL.

4 large number OF tax-payora crowded into tho
Collectors Office yesterday to pay their taxos.
Tho Building Committee wo1o to have hold q
mooting yesterday, but, as shore were not enough
members present to form quorum, no meeting
was hold.
There arc still in the possession Of tue City
Mr.. Hayes il quite willing to dispose Of to
wealthy monopolists.
Tho City scavengar proposes, from May till
November, to collect all garbage between the
tho hours OF p. m. and q. nj, and thus avoid
tho nuiaanco caused BY removing it during tue
day-timo. Whom collected, the garbage willtim-
u,cdiatcly be taken down tho canal to Willow
Springs. .-..
The Board OF Police Commissioners hold q
mcoting ycatorday afternoon at 8 o'clock. Tho
first caso uudcr consideration was tho continued
one ono 81 of Kelly and Hinekley, Two policemen,
charged with fighting on the atreot, and other
conduct unbeeoming frolico othcers. Soveral
peraons, among tholn sergt. oDon-
noll and Collector Won Ho{len, testified to tho
particular, but it was proven beyond > doubt
that both acted In worry unofllcer-liko manner.
Tho testimony wont to show TINT HucRloy was
fond Of playing practical Jokes upon his brother
relish having T. joke played upon him.. AZ Kolly
was shown to bo tho agsrosaor tn tho difficulty
botveon them, he WIS lined ton days pay, aud
Hillckloy Ave.
ILomas Hobin has boon on tho pnlice force
| but five months, yot he has learned to perfec-
tion tho requirements necessary to become what
! ia too commonly supposed to bo tho typical po-
| licon,an. Vhilo the members Of tho First proa-
| bytorian Church wora holding au entertainment
II the church. Holm won't Soninst H. nes toG
created quito commotion among the good poo,
| ple, Tho Commissioners decided ut once that
| Mr. Hobin was not an ornament to our metro
| politan police 80 they dismissed him from it.
Onlcor J. s. Wolls wa8 charged with drunken
nese, but, as there WAS no proof to substantate
| tho charges, the case was dismissed. But nc
| WINS fined ten days' pay for not reporting to the
Sergeant the oxiBtanco Of gaInbling-houses on
Wabash avenue, of which ho "as fully cogna
| zant.
Tho continued case Of Edward Y. Tolan came
| up for consideration. This officer WIS charged
with an unproyoked assault aud intrusion upo1
ono DIR. Strickland, but, utter that gentleman llat
called general attention to the caRo and hal
abused tho police authorities for negligence and
inefiiciency, he faiiod to appear md proHecutt
Tolan, but aont = verbal measngo to tho Board
asking that they should not fine but shoult
roprinard him, which mosbnso, of eoarso, tho,
Carroll was fined five days pay for goncral nee
lect Of duty ~ a police officer, and waa warnos
not to appear boforo tho Board again. ,..-..
Ono Thomas O'Hara askot for special po"erE
| Ep ACk AH NALGllaAu u tuU AbAkItl AAHlli LpAl1
Of Wabash avenue and Twonty-aecond street
HiH petition was signed by several ipiluentia
gentlemen,
man by tho na1ro OF Kirk OWNS li1nekil'
and quarry on tho corner OF Ashland avenue an'
Eighteenth street. III blasting the rock, pioce
arc thrown to Sumo distance, to tho danger, ~
the noighbors Bny, Of their lives nnd property
complaint having beou mado to tho Board, the
took the Rlattor undor consideration, and dc
oidotl to hold moeting at this afternoon, 40
hear both sides make their complaints and DO
fepso, and then decide "a to whether tho blastn
ahall be stopped.
Many complaints have recently been mad
concerning tho washing Oh dono At the Brittle
we'll. All tue linen uaod at the police station
IL laundried thoro, aud quite an item Of oxpena
is thus saved tho city but 1t IL stated by the oil
GERS that tho p!ocos arc not we'll washed, au
arc often aont buck infested with vermia. Th
Doard took tho matter under consideration
aud, having 10 moro business, adjourned unit
to-day.