, 1876-07-09
TIE CITY-HALL.

The water-rents yesterday we're 81, ,446.
County Treasurer Huck yesterday sent s5O, 90
over to the City Treasury.
The receipts in the License Department
yesterday were about S61S.
The Committee on Fire and Water is cal1c,
to meet in tue Fire -Marshals office Monday a
3p.m.
The general aspect Of City-Hall yesterday va
! dullness in the extreme. The celebratin,
officials are still absent. Colvin, Tuthill, an,
Adams are the ones.
I The Special Committee appointed to confe
with the heads Of the various departments on
reduction OF salaries is called to meet in the Cit
| Clerks office on Monday at D. m, when tn,
heads Of departments will be present.
The Board of Public Works has not vet made
known who will be- spared y (Which is now tht
polite term for bounced ", nor to what exten
! the reductions will be made. Many OF the en-
! ployes, perhaps cognizaut Of their own worth
| 1essncss, have been going around among theil
! friends looking for the promise of employment
| in case the ak Of economy strikes thcni
Judge Boydcn, the extra lawyer employed By
| the city in the Police Court cases, will com
| mcnce tomorrow morning in the Police Court
suits against the unlicensed saloon-kcepcrs
About GOO complaints will be made, and II the
Judge works against them as saragely as he
talks about the injustice Of their being without
license, there is every reason to believe that the
city will reap harvest Of fines.
The Board of Public Works has come to the
conclusion that when 81, 10000 gallons Of
water, which were pumped Thursday, will not
satisfactorily supply the city there must be
something wrong. SoSupt Hickey and Marshal
Benner have been requested to use the Police
and Tfra nnpn rtn1ar1tS tn y3rovauf If rrce;h1a
the great waste Of water. A "shutroff" is the
penalty.
The city officials are very much pleased that
John DE- koven, the banker, has for his own per-
sonal account taken S25,000 worth Of the new
popular Loan,'' rs it is called, or, i'll other
The bank with which Mr.. De Koycni is connected
does not figure in the matter at all. One of the
city employees, Joel A. Kinney, an Assistant
Marshal in the Fire Department, showed that
he has been laying away money now and then,
for he took $500 worth: The heavier takers had
not come in yesterday but are expected to-mor-
row, aud Tue prospect Of u quick inding of the
required 81 600, GOO is looked for.
HORSE POWER ON TIE RAILROADS
THE Committee on Streets aud Alleys Of the
noon in the City Clerks Office, Aid. Gilbert pre-
siding, to discuss the ordinance lately intro
duced in the Council providing that horse power
only be used to, to pnopel the cars on
the tracks on South Clark street, near Six
tecnth street. It may be here stated that the
question has for four years past created good
deal Of feeling among the citizens living in the
vicinity OF the encroach1nent Of the railway
upon the public street, and the City Council has
been not q little vcxcd to know how to settle
companies whose tracks are in that vicinity have
q: right Of way for one track on Clark street in
citizens s fS g!ea}y annoyed a 'Naf BY It; IT,
for they claim that property has
travel almost driven from the street. The loss
of life they claim as no small consideration.
There were present, besides the regular mcnl-
bers of tue Committee, Aid Gilbert, Sheridan,
Ballard, Pearsons, and Aldricb, large delega-
siastie, Hugh Riddle, the Superintendent Of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, and
Judge Withrow, the attorney for the same cor
poration.
Proceedings were commenced by Judge With
row, who, after a few general remarks On the
modified ordinance, which he suggested as
substitute for the one requiring that horse
power BIC used, and which provided for tho re-
moral of the long tracks from the centre Of
we're authorized to have. They extended for
], ,450 feet. Now, what he proposed, and what
the railway corporation WAS willing to aceedc to-
was to remove these trucks, but to retain the
use Of the street where now curved track runs
on it, near Fifteenth street. The curved track
took up about IS feet on the vest side of the
street, where the sidewalk should be. What he
desired was that there he no more howl about
that. The company which he represented Was
dcsirous to give up all else but that, and if the
Council desired it, 4 wall would be built on the
east side Of that track for the protection of the
public. The wall would require about 5 feet ]
more Of street, making in all 30 feet. Then |
there would be left, as the street was 50 feet |
wide, just 50 feet of clear street, The sidewalk
On the cast side would require 16 Of the so feet,
50 that 81 feet, an ample sufficiency, would be |
left.
Aid. Sheridan wanted to know what the rail I
way company wanted of nine tracks on its own |
souaa Coua they not use those and leave
Alr. Withrow replied that they could not
lhc immense busine<s Of the Company required
III those tracks for trains and cars. [Thc niue
racks are On ground belonging to tile railway
and between Clark street and an elevator which
S on the edge Of tile riyer]. Tic railway would
,uy more land if it could be had, but it was not
here. The right, the Committee, should re-
member, to use Clark street was the railways.
Vow. should the railway consent, as it would, |
o voluntarily give up tlree-fourths Of mile of
hat small section might be retained there
shere the curve was, that was concession
rom the railway which the city should respect
t was great concession, and the city, he
nouSnt, snould 20 something equally just. |
Should it be agreed TO- work would
'e commenced Immediately and those
racks would be removed within six
y days, and the controversy ended.
That was the proposition. Should the Council
lot accept it, then the railway would fight |
There were rights which could not he ABUSED
horsepower was out OF the question; it could
lot be used. By each giving up little, d COM
'ronise could BIZ made, The railway offered to
i've up much. Let the city give up a little.
Aid. Gilbert wanted to know if the PROPOSE
ion he made was the ultinnatum, to which Mr..
'ithrow replied "No, but We can't concedc
ycrything We have got.''
Mr.. Nichols, an owner Of property fronting on
lark street, said that he had some time ago
old half a block Of land for $4,000 to Mr.. Al
ert Keep, who represented himself as agent for
he Rock Island and the Lake Shore roads. He
Nichols) had sold the property ut q low figure,
ecause Keep had told him that the tracks |
;ould be removed from Clark street. Keen had
old him that he was buying the property for
he railway, but did not want the people up |
here to know it, or be would hear nothing |
ut fancy prices. He had faithfully promised
hat the tracks should be removed, and now the
pcaker thought that the promise should be ad-
cred to, and that the property Of that whole
cction should not be destroyed. The ruilway |
ompany had plenty Of room in those nine
racks for all their wants, but it would be 4 |
tile expense to remove tracks, and asst wasless !
xpensiye to use city property than to use their
Nn rlycr-frOnt property or to buy more. the |