, 1881-07-17

The South Side Street-Railway Compan'
| has been granted the right to lay track VI
Wabash avenue FROM Madison to LAX
street.
| The legal officers Of both city and county
! are at present engaged III examining tha
much 1nooted question as to which of thu
two Should build the proposed new Morgue
Two or three large auction sales Of subur
ban property south Of the city are likely t.
cone off in the hear future, as soon as ar
| rangenents can be concluded with parties
! at the East.
The Council Committee on Streets and
Alleys, North Division, will recommend to
the Council that the road-bed Of Chicago
| avenue, between Clark Street and the lake,
! be narrowed from sixty to forty feet
| Attention Is called to the superior line of
! real-estate advertisements contained in TO-
| days TRIBUNE. Persons desiring to buy
Will have no difficulty in discovering good
opportunities for safe and paying invest
ments.
The City Law Department., In conjunction
with the Commissioner of Public Works, has
been directed by the Council to prepare q
proper ordinance eSenpting such charitable
institutions HIS III their Judgment are entitled
to relief from the payment Ut water taxes.
The Judgment for Delinquent taxes for lsS0
and prior Years, obtained i'll the County Court
last "Wednesday, IS roughly estimated to
cover abUut S7U0, ,0J0, Of which S510, ,0U0 is OIL
accounh of general taxes, and 100000 OH
account of Special assessments. In former
years. the Judgment: las run np into the
millions. The drop il pretty good indica-
t1on THAT the day IF tax-hghIlug, as that
auluseiient was once conducted has passed..
. :, The Council, BY ordinance. has authorized
tne Mayor and Commissioner of Public
II fShAt YfSAFf ft$tc L.
the city t0r two pumping engines to be used
at the West Side Pumping Works. Each
engine is to be of sufficient capacity to raise
=, Uoo 0o0 gallons every twenty -four hours to
the hight Vt l5o feet above the city datum.
According to the City Engineers estimates,
tue new pumping-works will cost S7l7.990,
anu ~ Are to PC paid for out of the surplus Ut
the Water Fund.
The Towa OF Lake is threatened with
works fur the rapidly increasing demands for
water in Hyde Park and Lake IS entirely in
adequate. New works have been ordered. .but,
tn the meantime, THE present pumps are oyrr-
WORKED anu are stu! unable to meet the de-
illaid. PARTICULARLY loud complaints arise
from the otock-lartIs. The hot weathernat- |
uralIy increases the demand for water, and
the authorities OF Hyde Park and Lake evi-
tasntly nee9 q snhrrlng up. They seem to
Ter :lfas progressed no further, anu apparent
y, isn't In any danger of progressing very |
Rapidly.
1.-The Council has adopted an order directing
t!lat tile cuntract with Tie lltinuis Street (;lS
Company, awarded March II, 1881, shall pro-
vide Tor the prt'lllpt lighting Of Streets where
have been llatle for la,,lu-uosts
anu no..gas-iaaits have yet been lald, and Of
those streets where assessments have been
since Dec. /, 1850, and such other
streets as may be ordered from time to time
pfoVl<tea' the expenditure. be within tho at,-
preparation tS::W,u00) ulade forlielltlng streets
S!th. ~ ot9er material than, coal gas.
: mo pane Of North La Salle street has
3een changed, OH petition Of the property
9wtIets. 10 La Sale avenue, and the owners
lrG paving their half Of The street from Chi
ago ttyennc north to 4inculu Park. The
.oha!tlon Ut the street between Chicago ave- |
ltle aid the river Requires similar improve
ncn1- 1oF the present pavement now some
en- Years old, is worn out, full of rnts and
loles, ana, takt 1t altogether, is simply an |
both11lab1e nuisance, lii view Of tie el,- |
lalice1nent Of values sure to come With the
Of the street, the properly
Wners WI Should defer paving no longer.
Inc City Attorney has not yet furnished |
he Council with his opinion as to the right
; which the Illinois Central is driving piles
asst OF the present breakwate but viii |
rooaoly TO So by tomorrow hight. Ina .
TO the Council lasI Monday
! All opinion as to the respective rights Of
2e cry ai1t! the railroad company III and | !
ouut the Lake-FrOnt were more Of fact than |
law. depending for a solution upun The J
ctuai survey Ut the Lake-F Fruilt and the space !
ccupled BY, the railroad company. This
arvey mas been made, and the City Attor-
eys opinion viii IN all probability be forth
,iaing at the Council meeting Tomorrow
light. :
4 TeInonStrauce against restrietinp tho ! ,