Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-29
Board of Road Commissioners.

Petitions Cons1dered-The Pay Of City
 Cartmen Not to be Increased-Other
 Matters.
 A regular weekly meeting of the Board of
 Road Commissioners was held last evening.
 Present Commissioners Chatfeld (presiding),
 Pond, Anderson and Coleman.
 Mrs. Mary J. Clark and Mrs. McGann
 asked that permission be given to lay the walk on Howard avenue, between Congress
 avenue and Columbus street, so that there will be grass plot between the walk and the
 fence. Mrs. Clark said that all the walks in
 this vicinity were laid in the same manner.
 Sidewalk Inspector Mattoon said that David
 filling and others between Gilbert street and
 Congress avenue had laid their walks close to
 the fence and uniformity in the matter was
 quite desirable.
 Commissioner Anderson moved that the walk between Washington and Gilbert streets be laid in the middle of the walk. Commissioner Pond said that he preferred to look over the ground, and Commissioner Chatfeld expressed himself in the same way. The matter was laid on the table until the Board could visit the locality. Patrick Burns appeared before the Board and asked that more crosswalks be laid at the corner of York and South streets. The space he asked for walk was on the east side of York across South street, about twenty feet in length. The matter was referred to the City Inspector, with power to act. The matter of increasing the pay of city teamsters came up. Commissioner Chatfeld l said if the pay of the cartmen was increased | it would, according to the estimates, entail an additional expense of $1 ,O0O. The improve ! nents already ordered would entirely use up I the appropriations. He thought it was a 4I,a4& cf-oo chn l be built, and if this was done it would neces- sitate the paving of the street. 1 Mr. Chatfeld said the price of cartmen was
 regulated by the supply and demand. He said he could get all the teams he wanted in
 his business for $2.5O per day. This Board was not a charitable institution, but was, or 1 should be, operated on business principles. \ It was question whether this Board cus- l todians of the public money should pay $3 a | day for teams when they could hire them for $2.5O
 l Commissioner Anderson said that perhaps l $2. 50 per day not quite enough, but he | did not see, with the present appropriation, I how any more could be paid at present. He l thought at the present price of hay $3 was | little enough. Yet if the Board could hire 1 teams for $2 50 they should not be required
 to pay more.
 1 Commissioner Pond moved that the prayer 1 of the petitioners be granted, and that the pay for cartmen be advanced to $3 per day. Mr. Coleman seconded the motion, and on | a vote being taken Commissioners Pond and i Coleman voted in the affirmative, and Com
 missioner Anderson in the negative. Com
 missioner Chatfeld then voted in the mega tive, and there being 8 tie the ssmotion was de- 1 clared lost.
 On motion the City Surveyor was instruct | ed to advertise for bids for building the Union street sewer and laying Belgian I block pavement in the same. l The orders for concreting walks on Spire- worth Square and fencing Munson Park | were laid on the table for the present. 1 Licenses to connect with water mains were l granted to Matthew J. Golden and John R. \ Garlock.
 The Board adjourned for one week