Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-02

| menC VI steel WOrKS III tins CITY, published
in these columns few days since. whicl
was read.
A communication from ]. Sch!eich as.,
ing councils to refund to him $500 al;
interest, which his father had paid to tn:
city treasurer because of i tax collector
who failed to pay over To the treasurer
that much of the tax he had collected
Schleich senior had been bondsmau for saG
collector The communication Sets :ortt
the numerous services rendered the state
and city by the writer, and enumerates
many reforms which he suggested to the
constitutional convention when that bcC!y
was in session. and which were engrat:cd
into the fundamental law of the state
From the moment the people of this state
adopted my reforms to thcir constitution. =
says Mr.. Schleich, "from that moment the
money paid by my father to this city. for
| which We received nothing, from that,
! moment, l say, does not that money right
fully belong to uso" The writer mo!estly
| abStains from saying whether | have
done anything of value to the people of
this city to make select council unanimous
on the water or to get common council to
pass the call system ordinance within i
year past-that the members of councils
themselves know; Mr.. Schleich reminds
councils that when eN.City Treasurer
Herr, who did nothing for the city,
lost nearly $4,000 OF tEe city's
money in the broken Inland bank,
he was let off by councils without paying
it. Since Mr.. Sehleich became near-sig ghted
and since he has done very valuable SER
vice for the people OF the city and the
state, he wants to know whether the
twenty-five thousand people of the city
better afford to lose the money than he.
1t would. he says, only increase the tax Il
cent, or few cents yearly within the
next thirty years on = man who owns Il
house worth thousand dollars in this
city-a cent or 4 few cents ON each 81. 900
valuation. Why, he vainly asks, should I
have to beg councils for this money:
The communication Was laid on tli,.
table.
MesSrs. MciIullcn aud White were ap-
pointed committee to wait upon select
council and inform the grave ans reverend
signeurs that common council was ready
to go into joint convention for the purpos,
OF electing 4 chief engineer Of the fire dc
partment under the provisions OF tho or
dinance establishing the call system, ap-
proved Dec. 81. 1881, and while waiting
for similar communication from the select
branch Mr.. Ostcrmayer rose to inquire
what had become of the lamp Oh Market
street, beyond Clay, Il petition for which
he had presented several months ago,
which had been referred to the lamp com
mittee and which was the last ever heard
of it.
Mr.. White, OF the lamp committee,
stated that tho petition had been duly CON
sidered by the committee. who visited and
viewed the premises and decided the lamp
not necessary.
Mr. Ostermayer, Tctcrtcd that ia his
opinion the people of that section were rs
much entitled to light as those Of any
other; they pay their taxes, and the
lamp would be positive benefit to the
neighborhood.
Mr. Barnes thereupon moved that ths,
lamp be erected as petitione,l for, which
motion was opposed by Mr.. Franklin, who
SAID the lamp committee, whose special
province it is to look after affairs OF this
kind, had examined the premises and de
clared the lamp unncc:s :ssary why then
should councils, who knOw nothing about
the matter, override the decision Of it's
merely for the sake of crafty. |
ing one member of councils? The motion
to put up the lamp was voted down by 2
large majority.
At this juHcture, Messr;. Geo. W. |
zecher and Barr appeared and announced
Lhe readiness of select council to 90 int
oint convention to elect chief engineer.
IhereupOn the Selectmen were escorted
INTO common council chamber and assem-
blcd in
Joint Convention
or the purpose above indicated.
Il,n oil e oIn
ills acted as secretaries of the convention,
md President Evans of select, took the
chair.
)ers of select and common councils, whose
,ames are recorded in the proceedings of
hose bodies responded.
The presiding officer announced the ob
ect of the meeting, whereupOn Mr. Geo.
". ZecLer nominated Chas G. Green for
he position of chief engineer, in Il speech
Ordially recommending tho qualifications
# that gentleman for the duties of the
ffice. In the course of his remarks he
lsO took occasion to advert to the entire /;
bsence of anything like political or party
ceiling in the action of the special commit
ee on the reorganization of the fire de
artmcnt considerations of that kind had (;
ot been permitted to influence the course
the committee. They had been unit '
4 all they did, and a resolution had passed
he committee ut the last meeting that IL
lther party called :: caucus for the pnr- !
ose Of putting in nomination 4 candidate
d. this position of chief engineer they l
'Ould refuse to 60 into it they wanted I
} see All engineer elected on his merits {;
lone.
MIR. Cox nominated Jacob r. Waters. I
MIR. Smeych nominated Frederick Ar
old.
Mr.. McMulleu nominated Harry n. c
lowell in handsome complimentary c
'eech. wherein he called attention to the l
lluable services rendered by that gentle. |
AN ut the late Inquirer fire, the most c
sastrous in the history Of the city. Mr.. v
Dwell had there displayed in marked t
egrec his ample qualifications 70: the b
,st.
MIR. Cox nominated Peter 3. For,lney. n
Mr.. Huber nominated Leo Jacobs. b
MIR. johnson nominated Jacob He.zog. p
There being no further nominations, Mr.. &
go. W. Zecher moved that they close and Il
at the lowest candidate be dropped n
ter each successive ballot. The motion &
as agreed to. "
The secretaries then called the rpi, and b
e members voted as follows: o
FOR GREEN. fl
Messrs. Geo. w. Zecher and Philip c.
cher of select council; Ostermayer, d
one and LevergoOd, of common council c
). Il
FOR WATERS. b.
Messrs. Barr, Bitner and Docrr, of select st