, 1880-02-15

| Is the Judgment OF this meeting that q bridge
should be reconstructed at Dearborn street with
Artingstall estimates the amount Which i
will cost the city to build its portion Of t}e
structure. The total is placed at S59. .sS2. *
This includes draw of the usual length,
with tae necessary t piers and short viaduct
approach north Of North Water street, lead.
ing up to the abutnlent on the north Side ot
that street. across which the Northwestern
Railway would have, to construct yiaduct
over its track, but does not include land
damages, or damages on account Of change
Of grade.
The ordinances to allow the Illinois Cen.
tral Railroad to build q viaduct over their
tracks from the western terminus Of Ran
and to have viadncts built over all the rail.
roads OH Randolph, Washington, Madison.
and Monroe streets, have been referred to the
Law Department to be put into such shape
as tf to project the rights Of the city.
Twenty-second street to its southern termi-
nus were: W. ". Watson bid S3L cents ner
linear foot each side Of the street: J. B.
Smith u Co., g cents; Bartedma & Scllaefer,
the WHOLE 70 a1 york for 81, LOO, beginning at once,
The assessment is IS cents PEI foot. and viii
probably be let to Smith q Co. 49,
commissioner Waller declines to allow the
chicago u Alton to lay double track along
p9rh91, 40, OF its lines within the city, on the
has not complied with the terms Of its fran
chise, which requires that it plank the streets
through which it runs.
COMMISSIONER Waller has rejected as too
nigh all the bids for 1,ooo, 600 sewer-brick for
bids for $50, 600 rs follows:
ood Hupe u krutenstein offer to furnish 15o,-
Coy, delivered south of Madison street, for
$40 per thousand, and north Of that street
f1I 1;,,rs Slo.5o: r 4 L T. Huroane, 100 ooo de,
per thousand; and Henry Branknlall, 1OO, 900,
delivered t1 north Of Lake street, for su per
The Board of Education Of Hyde Park,
District No. ], have decided to erect a brick
and Fifty-fourth street. The building is to
be two stories high, with a basement, and to
contain eight rooms. The estimated cost is
about $1,000.
for permission to lay pipes wherever needed
III the South Division for the business of
SUPPLYING HEAT.
The ordinance proposed has been referred to
tue Law Department for the addition of arti-
cles providing that the Steam Company shall
and smoke consumer to their works; that
the proRo}sition shall be aceepted by the Com,
the ordinance; that they shall give bond Of
$4,000 to provide against damages while lay
ing their pipes; and that they shall pay to the
city five cents per lineal foot OF pipe laid, the
money to be a fund for cleaning and repair
ing the streets.
The uproar that has been made about the
INEQUALITY OF THE soUTnPARK
tax-levies on the different towns is not borne
out by the figures. The levy for the South
Park for the year 1879 On the three towns is
as follows:
Town Town q Lake. 21,o3kM
E11It 1EIA ~, V,53dD
South Chicago -
From these figures it will be seen that South
Chicago pays more than twelve times as
much as Hyde Park.
Hyde Park, from 1871 to 1878 as shown
by the Collectors warrants has
raised for school purposes the sum
Ol tS4,e43.Qt
The Town Of Lake for the same pc
r1od. oo5 81