, 1879-07-19

Permission Wa granted yesterday to payo La
sa,lc street. between Mnnfoe and Adams.
Tho Collector gathered In about 1900 for
licenses yesterday. The saloon-keepers ara do
ing we'll.
Preparations asc making TO hand the pollca
their Juno scrip carly tile coming week; proba-
big Tuesday.
The City Treasurer received tG89l from tho
City Collector, 1000 from the Comptroller, and
Sl,0D from tho Water Department.
The cx:ctty Collector, II. Il. Iteatford. lcaycs
for Florida to-day with his fnmiIy. lie has p,tr-
chased an orange Rrove in Clay County, nr,,l
will hereafter deyote himself To cultivati6g that
delicious fruit.
tho MaYos Yesterday. The int erviow mas OF The
pltasaneest kind. tle urged upou The Mayer
the advfsabitty OF aboltah!ne capital punish.
ment. but the latter could not t>c convinced.
Ruftaing'perr!ts we're issued yesterday to G.
]. Hull to erect four two.story dwc wclinEa, Car
and to 1t. Q. stonu to erect five tt,rec.s.ory Aats,
cost t3a, ,0o6 ''' -
The petition OF tho state-strcct propertg-
owners asking for repeal OF the ordinance fur
widening the street, and the making OF new
aesstltnt was n,atlo on an advanced valuation,
was before the Committee on Local Asscas-
mcnts yesterday afternoon. The room was
crowhct! with thc petitioners, and considerable
discussion VAS had, but no action wna taken.
Another meeting will bo held Tucadsy after
noon.
). The Committees on Streets and Alleys Of tho
three Divisions yesterday inspected son,c Of the
roadway ot the North Chicago City Railway
Compaty which is made Of cobbc-stone, With
stitutlon Of this material for tic Nco1son pave
Incnt. Such members rs wcre present express
ed themselves favorable to the change, aud TO.
day meeting will be- held to exchange Views
subject.
Tie City ATTORNEY has about completed tho
ordinance heretofore referred to BY which 1t Is
proposed to brlhK tic parnbro&;cTs to time bY
,ncressing the lieenee Of seco1ld-hMnd dealers to
$loo. lle has found IN scarchlng the ulntscr up
that secondhand book dealers have not been
paving any lconso for four years under misap-
prcllsnslon of n lcctsion Of tho Supreme Court
on tue subject. He llas, therefore, added Sec
tIoH to thu ortlfoahee requiring thrsc dcarrs to
lake out Iirc"@e, md the ptca has been liked
at ST. The ordinance also amends the pawu-
lrokersf ordinance raising their licousc from
$lo1 TO Slo. and p!nccs Tie secondhand dealers
of MI kinds u.1der Tho sa1ne restrictions as the
Jay. aaS"'F'A''' !" ''s mater 0l reporting every
"No PAT, NO REroRT."
The t'cxperts oil The Clty-Iiall Investigation
hare about completed their lul,ors. hut when
thry ELL report. IL cycr, depends on circum-
staucts. ltappcars that The Mayor took it upon
lliulself Thursday to 60 over TO tile building,
n'l, scclng them at work, remarked that they
rera working hard considering that they werd
10 ret nothing for IT. This was little too much
fnr the malo1ty Of them, Tor they had accepted
the job on the condition thut they wero to bo
patd for 1t, and thereafter ther did not work as
chcerful!y as they otherwise would. They did
not acfnalY strike, but felt very much
like "strikInE" somebody, and 10 mike
long story thortt resolved that their motto
wnt,ld BE-, +" No pay, no report" In other
words, they do not propose 10 make any renort
ltntil 1t has been settled wtetl,cr icY arc "a be
maid for their labors not. They viii meet to-
daY to DRIFT their report, but whether II will
eating paid fer their trouble. somo OF TIC
members care nothing about the pay, but tho
majority say they will esand out for their rights
to the bitter end, and will not submit to beiug
Imposed upon bY his Honor ID any auch way.