The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-10
TOWN HALL TOPICS.
THE HARBOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MINT 'ORDENANCE"-AP PROTEST.

Mayor Pilsbury yesterday addressed the
following note to Major @. W. Howell, United
States Engineers, In charge OF the United
States Surveying Department at this port,
and who Is also member Of the commission
appointed to make the recent photographic
survey of the harbor of New Orleans:
Major O. W. Howell, u. s. Engineers:
gir The great interest you have man Infested
I'm tho i'm prOysment Of this hHrbOr and the val
uabla services you have rendered 10 connection
Herewith. embUldens me tn SOLICIT your ap.
provai Of the suggestion am about to make tn
regard to the works soon TO pc Commence
under your direction. 1t IL wei known 10 you
that ut this seAsoD Of the year mere Are Il large
number Of mechanics, skilled Workmen ana or
binary lab rers VINO are Wlthout employment
and without n means ears q pr0Vaasg Of fe
and In order that the benefit OF the appr0pr III.
ton Of Congress may be difused as widely as
possible among this class | ask, II 9 mpatI't,o
with your sense Of duty that the work may Dc
perform d by day labor instead OF the contract
tyatem, believing that 1t will prove rs ecohom-
ich and as talthful in every respect
Tho work already Pc formed by tns cry IN
der contract demonstrates the correctness Of
the proposition, as ! could haVe oeen EN- gone LII
Yours, very truly, IT, PHI SBUHY. Mayor.
AS the note says, the works will be under
the direction of Major Howell, whose resi-
denee here for several years has enabled our
people to Judge of his qualities as an en-
gineer and O gentleman of the highest ac-
compiishments
THE MINT
The City Council at It's meeting yesterday
adopted an ordinance transferring the site o!
the Mint to the Federal government in ac-
cordance with the congressional law appro-
irritating the sums necessary for refitting the
| Mint and operating the institution. The Ordl-
nance will be found promulgated In this
mornings DEMOCRAT, and as soon as The
Secretary Of the Treasury shall have APP
| pointad representative OF the government
| for the purpose, the contract making the
transfer will be signed by the respective par
| ties thereto.
Gov. Hahn paid a visit to the Mayor after
the Council meeting, and during his call ex-
hibited a telegram which he had Just re-
ceived from Mr. II II. Linderman, Director oil
! MINIS saying: 81 have instructed the cOiner
to return direct to New Orleans to aid you IN
preparing for the purchase OF silver as early
as practicable. He will leave In day OF
two"
A PROTEST.
A committee OF Columbia Fire Company
No, waited on the Mayor yesterday To pro-
test against the failure OF Administrator Ed
wards to provide for the amount OF $1,000
which the city agreed by ordinance to pay II
aid Of the repairs to the engine-hnuse OF NO
s.. From what we can learn from Mr.. Brown
the Administrator OF Accounts, there has
) been some misunderstanding about the mat
ter, and Mr.. Edwards Is not to blame. When
the WaterwOrks were transferred to the new
company, the unexpended balance Of the
budget Of the Waterworks division of Mr.
Edwards department was transferred to the
"puhlic building" division but it was trans
fer, like many others, on paper, and did MOI
mean to say that there was that much cast
| In the treasury transferred from the Water.
, works division" to the public building
division. Hence the inability of Mr.. Edwards
| to furnish the $4,000 voted in favor OF the re-
} pairs to No. SIS engine-house. It is not the
first time that an error of this kind has beer
made by the Council; that is, voting cash
appropriations when there was no cash In thu
tron dttrI