The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-10-03
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Regular Monthly Meeting of the City
Council

The regular monthly meeting of the City
Council was held last evening, and the follow
ing business was transacted:
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
An insane woman was committed to the Asy-
lum at Augusta. Drs Small and Cammett
testified that she was raving maniac.
communication was received from the AS
SCISSORS office representing that the islands be-
longing to the city were not included in the
survey of the city made by order OF the City
Council, and that in order for a correct valua-
ton to be made Of the property thereon a sur
vey should be made at once, with accompany
ing plans. The communication was referred
to joint special committee consisting of the
Mayor and Alderman Winslow, and Council
men Trefethen, McAleny and Shaw were add
ed by the lower board.
A remonstrance against the erection of the
proposed hook and ladder house on Bracket
street was received from number of residents
in that vicinity, on the ground that it would
deprive the children that attend the Bracket
street school-house of portion of their play
ground. The remonstrance was laid upon the
table,
| ORDERS PASSED.
That the City Treasurer pay to Gardiner
LudWlg $50O on delivery OF deed with the
usual covenants of warranty Of lot Of land
IN the rear of the Center street school-house
lot, containing 4044 square feet.
That in view of the rapid DETACHMENT and
mutiation Of the valuation plans in the as
SCISSORS office, photographic copies of them be
made at an expense not to exceed $500.
Ihat the joint standing committee on public
buildings be authorized to expend a sum not
exceeding $3.50, IN the erection of hook and
ladder house on Bracket street, and that $3.50
De appropriated for that purpose in addition to
the sum of $1,000 heretofore appropriated
mat street lamp be placed at the corner of
| Brattle and Kennebec streets.
That street lamp sbe put up on Deering
bridge, within the limits of the city
The petition Of F. j. Rollins, treasurer of
the Arneux Electric Light and Power Compa-
| ny, to erect and maintain stationary steam
engine of 100 horse power and boiler capacity
of 200 to $50 horse power, on lot of land be-
tween Union and Plum streets, was laid on the
| table.
Permission was granted G. j. Walker & Co.
to maintain stationary steam engine and
boiler in building Nos. 157 and 161 Middle
street.
Permission was granted Adolph T. Ulmer to
| erect and maintain a stationary steam engine
| and boiler in brick store No. 212 Federal
street.
Permission was granted j. L. Bracket to
erect and maintain stationary steam engine
and boiler of 40 horse power in building to be
erected on land foot of Preble street.
PETITIONS REFERRED.
OF w T. Small and Ashbel Chaplin to erect
wooden block of two houses on the corner of
fhn rnufn~ 40 d. IL.
of lothian f. Clark to erect two wooden build
ings on Danforth street; of Sarah e. Canales,
to erect wooden building on the corner of
Sheridan and Monument Streets OF Samuel
Richards, for $175, the same being the expense
devolved on him in moving his house, No. 857
| Cong, ess street, out of the street by order of
| the city authorities; of W. Kirsch and sixteen
| others, that the owner of the building on the
| westerly corner Of Franklin and Oxford streets
| be ordered to move his house back so as to
| conform with the street line; of M. Stevens
| and others for q sidewalk to be laid across
| Fore River bridge, Stroudwater; of Hattie f.
Bachelor for $185.6l, the expense she was put
to In moving her house, No. 553 Congress
street, back to the new street line; of the New
York & Chicago Electric Underground Con-
duit Company to lay the conduit under
| ground in the public streets and alleyways of
| Portland (this petition was laid on the table,;
| OF Eliza Pennell and b. W. Slower, for COM
pensation for damages to houses 861 and 1868
Congress street, by being obliged to move them
back on the new street line.
The following were drawn to serve as ira
verse jurors for the October term of the Su-
preme Judicial Court: James f. Hawkes.,
Charles f. Roberts, George G. Littlefeld.
The ordinance relating to the erection of
poles and wires for telegraphic and telephone
purposes in the streets and public grounds of
Portland, which had previously been passed
- 1oa ! L
vote of years to nay.
The ordinance in regard to the sale of ex-
plosive compounds and decorating apparatus
was referred to special committee to report
such amendments as they may deem adj
visable.
Victuallers Licenses were asked for by Sarah
Fuller, No India street, James B. Wiley,
No. 16 Market street, John Sheridan, No.
Commercial street. Referred.
License was asked for by Fred e. Mortimer
and R. S. Sterling to give theatrical entertain
ments in building No. 104 Exchange street to
July 1, 1883. The matter was referred to the
committee on public buildings
In Common Council.
Papers from the upper Board were passed in
concurrence.
Mr.. Noyes offered petition signed by the
residents of Deering street, that the sidewalk
on that street between State and Melen be
narrowed to nine feet, and an esplanade of
nine feet in width be laid out between said
sidewalks and the roadway, leaving the road
way 80 feet wide, thus beau tifying the street
and leaving roadway and sidewalk one-third
less for the city to keep in repair, SO the espla-
noda Uould ha kant in ordar hv tho ohu++ors
The petition was referred and sent up.
Mr.. Smith reported the sum of $25o.40 ex-
pended for street lamps in September Re-
port accepted.
Mr.. Kicker offered an order that the addi-
tional sum of $3.50 be appropriated for hook
and ladder house on Bracket street Passed,
Is yeas, nay and sent up.
Mr. Smith offered the petition of Albion
Sawyer for damages to house by the bursting
of sewer. Referred and sent up.
The order appropriating 1920 additional, for
the erection of hook and ladder house on
Bracket street, was reconsidered, and the
order in reference to the same, passed by the
Aldermen, was passed in concurrence, 16 yeas,
1 nay.
The order appropriating 81 800 for new valu-
alton plans, passed in concurrence, II yeas 0
nays, and the order for the purchase of the
Center st. school-house lot by the same vote.
The ordinance on sale of explosive COM
pounds was referred in concurrence to joint
special committee and Messrs Noyes, Hawkes.
and Bradley appointed on the part of this
board.
The report of the committee on unimproved
real estate that they had sold a lot of land to
Mary Ellen Oliver on Portland street beyond
Grove was accepted and the order passed for
the Treasurer to give deed with the usual
covenants of warranty to- her, and report and