Daily Republican., 1881-08-20
AGAIN THE RIVER ROAD.
A VIRTUAL VICTORY FOR THE
NORTH SIDE MEN,
Mr.. COlt0n's Of1er accepted-Fight. .
Ing the Fire Ordinance-Inter-
estinS Routine Business,

IRON Button wood street to the railroad
Adopted.
Tho City Treasurer reported $40 ,53G.
81 in bank; the Chief Engineer reported
- men employed in the Water Depart.
ment, payroll 03l9,6D; the Street Com
missioner reported j. men and 0 teams
employed under him, payroll S2l2.
The resolution of long standing pro-
vidlng for the paving of the intersection
OF GIIpln Avenue and DUPONT street
was reported back from the Opening
street Committee, this time tn a re-.
port III favor OF doing the the work
Adopted.
THE RIVER ROAD.
The Opening Street Committee also
reported in favor Of accepting the prop
osition Of f B. Cotton, for the National
Dredging Company for grading Fourth
street from the Brandywine and u
street from Christiana Avenue to the
ChriStiana for $4,000, provided the
beds Of the streets were decided to the
city.
Mr.. Bailey Of the committee did not
sign the report and opposed its adop-
tlnn, giving rs his reaSons that the
Sli 600 WAS tor opening u road to the
river, and should be spent to bring
ChrlsMapa Avenue. the adopted route,
to grade, and not on streets which the
city does not own and probably never
will own. BY its vote Council is bound
to sperd that money on Christana
Avenue, and to spend it as proposed
would be ii hlisappropriation OF the
funds.
| Do at. ~ rlr nd l,,& "a
looked to him as if the Council intend
ed to legislate for the National Dredg-
ing company, and not for the city.
He strongly opposed the adoption OF the
! report, saying that $1,000 would be
spent on the Fourth street route, and
that w"ul ! be thro wing money away
| He urged that no money be spent eX.
cept op ChriStiana Avenue.
Mr.. Lawrence said he had voted for
the South side route in good faith, and |
any member who voted for the report
was aCtiLS llnWiSeiy. The Sl3, 900 ap-
propriltch WAS fora road to the river
and the Christiana avenue route was
the one on which it should be expend-
ed.
Thus far all the talk had been against
the report, AMI Mr.. Townsend took the
tipOr;he said the mud ,aCcording to thco
i"r would cost Jcts. a yard. 1t was a good
offer and the road could be made down
Fourth street Tor $4,000 which hereafter
mi ght cost S2j, j,O00 and in tiue it would
have to be made.
Mr.. Merris Taylor also spoke in favor
of the report, andit was finally adopted.
AGAINST THE wHARNE.S.
The report OF the River Front Com
mttec on the communication Of Col. |
Ludlow, Of the Government Engineers, |
with reference to buildiag wharvcs on |
the Delaware sou!h of the ChrStiana |
was now called up. The communica-
tion advises that no wbarveS be built
that will interfere with the Government
Improvements. The report was to the
effect that no wharton WharveS be con-
structed by the corporation on the Della
ware front south Of the Christlana
Col. Taylor opposed the adoption OF
the report, saying it was unnecessary,
u, Council, had, by it's action iu,t tax
IN, virtually decided not to build a
wharf on the river front. The report
was lost
THE FIRE ORDINANCE. |,
Under the call of petitions, remon-
strances against the passage of the pro-
posed fire ordinance rolled in. Mr.,
Paynter presented the resolutions pass
ed some time ago by the Firenen' Con
vcnt;on, and signed by all the Conn
pancs at the Convention.
He also presented ~ remcnstranCe
about 20 fees long aud signed by 100
persons.
Other petitions and communications,
were presented as ws.-Fame Hose
Company, requesting the full amount
Of its appropriation in September; Mrs.
Mary ,i. Conway, asking for the cover.
ing Of Shlplev run from Mary yland ave
nue. TO the railroad; VIM. NJ. Kennart
aud otherS, asking permission to con )
struct Il drain on Snipley street, from
Ninth TO the Christana; d. +. Bllcklng- i
ham asking for the extension of water
pipes on Union street, from PennSylv- c
MIA avenue to Fourteenth street, or b
along Fourteenth street to Union st 'eet,
PuSev ~ Jones Company, asking per- $
mission to lay a larger supply pipe FRI m
the water mains to their works; lOl n
Bruce, asking permission to drain thi.- v
teen properties ON Ninth street. east Of
Monroe street, into the public sewer on o.
Monroe street, l.. p. Lynch, asking for .
in reference to placing gut
ter plates at Fourth and Market streets fr
w. H. hurnett, asking for lamp al )
Nineteenth and West streets: G. M.
Brinton, asking that a gutter be placed o.
IN West street, north OF Eighteenth; j. -
W. Kirby, asking that Clayinont street ;,
between Fourteenth street and Nande- n
YER avenue, be curbed and paved; Rob V
.rt Cottingham, asking for u lamp at the v
,orner Of Liberty aud Many streets. W
Mr.. Mention presented resolution e.
nstructing the street Department to
lace stops IN the Sewer at Fourth ana W
Jackson streets. 1t was not passed but u
pferred to the street committee with
'ower to act. r.
Proposals for placing heaters in City VI
!all were received as follows: ri
obert Morrison. ............... Sl49 ey
VI liam +. Robinson. n............... ..,ol Dt
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|. F. Pickels. .............. - ar
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Orders were granted for the payment pr
: the following bills Martin keogh,
jl6. .O9; Patrick Carberry, 1873 VIM. he
. Massey, S25: Hugh Donanue, Sl.56. n
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