, 1879-07-06
THE CITY-H,ALL.

| :. THE CITY-HALL.
| The County Treasurer recaised over 81, 600 /,
cash yesterday.
Eighty burial permits were issued yesterday
This is the largest Tor year.
! Disguised with the Mayors tridlng, the seek
crs after places have commenced to withdraw
! their applications.
The Treasurer received s3o77 from the Wate1
Department; 81, 109 from the City Collector
! and $217 from the Comptroller.
4 permit was yesterday issued to E. 4. Hart.
| well to erect five two-story dwellings,. corner o1
jackson and Seeley streets, to cost $3.50.
Rumor had it yesterday that cx-Fire- Marshal
Williams was about to return to the Depart
| ment to take Marshal Sweenle's place before bis
promotion.
4. A. Demmler was yesterday appointed to
the position Of draughtsman, vice o. Larsen. A
gentleman named Nelson was also given place.
but no one knows either his front name or just
what the position is.
A1etter was Received yesterday BY the Maror
whereabouts Of one a. Zimmerman. IA decla-
ration OF inheritance" is in question, aud it is
not known whether he is dead or alive
AID. Swift few days ago found upon in
quiry that the city owed him Just $40 In rebates
on special assessments, ami be called and got
his money. Mayor Harrison found over $500
due him, and he got it. In both cases the mon
eY had been lying to their credit for several
years.
The Health Officers report shows that last
month 1.o43 notices were served to abate nui-
stnces, OF which .GA were abated: 428 sewer
notices were served; and q, 169 pounds Of meats
were condemned, $50 bushels Of potatoes, 50
packages ot raspberries, and g packages OF
green beans. The scarengcr work cost 81, ,512. 49,
or an average per day Of $60.50 for twenty-five
teams.
The Mayor promises to send five names to the
Council tomorrow night for members Of the
Board OF Education, and there is bare posi-
bltity, under the circumstances that there will
be some trouble in confirming them. It could
it is known that he has offered the position to
several who have declined, among others, John
c. Mchberg.
During the last month 81 building permits
we're issued Oi the number tweutY~n;ne we're
Tor store and dwellings, and fftJ-fiYe for dwell
inss alone The cost Of the buildings Of all
kinds aggregated S553, 900, against $GSS,600 for
the corresponding month Of last year. The to-
tai expenditures for improvements and new
buildings in the city for the first six months of
the rear foot up $3,4SS60o, against s341OGoo
Tor the first six months OF 1876
Supt- SeayeY is home, and has been for
week, 1t appears, but bis health is not much i'm
proved. This or something else has giYcn i'm
pctus to those seeking hts place, aud yesterday
several Of them or. their friends we're around.
Gen. Licb had quite an extended interview with
him, but. while it is generally conceded that the
place will go to German when the change is
made it is not thought that he will be the man.
Ex-Sherir Kern is mentioned for the place.
among others, but he is not seeking it. and
would not accept it if it was, rendered him.
TIE POLICE REDUCTION FAILURE.
1t bad been generally supposed that the May
or's ideas about reducing expenses in the Police
Department had been inaugurated and were
itH we're figuring the matter up anew. The
original proposition was to detail certain num-
ber Of men from week to week for special dutF.
to be paid by individuals needing their services
at picntcs, etc, rather than by the city. This
idea originated in the brain Of The Mayor, it ap-
pears, and since great deal OF figuring is being
done the inference is that it is not success but
no one could be gotten to say anrthing on the
subject. IT the idea-that individuals rather
than the city should pay policemen for their
1neut, however, it is believed that there would
not have been ans trouble. In other words, if
the Mayor had ordered the Department to be
kept By the city for the convenience OF
be called upon when wanted |
and paid for By the individual according to the
services rendered htm,-there would not have |
been the misunderstanding there was with Mar |
shall Bcnner, for the reason that he would |
have kDowD Just what his Honor meant, and |
would have bcch able to. have kept in accord |
with his policy. , 49,!
THE MAYOR AND TIE TEMPERANCE FOLKS
4 committee OF citizens connected With the
temperance Alliance, headed by Sir. Eltnendorf, |
.alled upon Mayor Harrison late yesterday af- |
teruoon, and laid before him petition numer- !
'usly signed asking him to confer police power
{hfnA ~f fAn$4r -
~ the Alliance, whose duty it shall be 70 visit
lie saloons aud make arrests in the inter
st Of the enforcement of the law
lgainst selling liquor to minors, ETC.,
md to revoke the license Of Fitzsimmons, Clark
trcet; Gamme1l, Twelfth street, near the
'riege; and Essex, who is running q place at
No. IS South ha|sted street. BIZ waY of intro
fucng themselves they thanked his Honor for
yhat he had already done in behalf of temper
nee. and long. talk followed, in which bis
ertated on temperance, philosophical about !
he evils Of gambling, and spoke Of almost
yerything else ne could think Of. Some Of his
aeas are, perhaps, worth reproducing. For in-
PROSTITUTION and nb1ing- g-nouscs, to the end
hat he could reach them through the police; OF
pool-roou1s, but be did not know how
0 20 about it,; and Of rigidly enforcing the
aw with reference to minors and saloons. He
id not think, however, that the Minor law
hould be construed to forbid the sale Of beer
nd liquor to children in pals or bottles when |
cnt for the same By their parents. but the Com
l'ttee took issue with him, and. after worrying
trough lengthy confab, they were not found
ery far apart The interview ended By the
l2yor assuring them that he saw no objection |
granting three of the Alliance mem bers police !
over, but he said he would not take any action |
once, but would see them again, intimating
nat he proposed to get carriage occasionally,
, be paid for ont of the Contingept~Fund, and
lake visits to the more disreputable places, to