The daily gazette., 1882-10-27
h. q o. GOES THROUGH.
Cornell Unanimous That the New Rail-
road Is n Public Necessity-A Vice Presi-

Council Unanimous That the New hall-
road is q Public Necessity-A Vice Presi-
dents Statement of What Is to BE Done.
All the members were present at the meet
ing of City Council last evening, with Presi-
dent Conrad in the chair. Upon motion of
Mr.. Quinn the reading OF the minutes was
dispensed with. Mr.. Beecher moved that,
as there was very important business to
come before the Council, and some OF the
members on the opposite side of the house
desired to get away early, the regular order
of business be suspended and the rules set
aside, and report from the Law Committee
be received. The motion was carried.
The Law Committee reporte that the ordi-
nance permitting the Delaware and Western
Railroad Company to run their road through
the northwestern part Of the city contained
nothing to conflict with the city charter and
recommended that the ordinance be adopted.
The report was received and Samuel
Spencer, third vice president of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, was per-
mitted to make few remarks concerning
the intention of his company. He said the
line had been carefully located and placed
where II would be best and do both the COM
pany and the city the most good. They
would place a depot convenient to that part
of the city which was rapidly growing. 1t
had been the aim of the company to present
understood and they only asked the privi-
ledge to make first-class road through the
city 1t was the intention of the
company, he said, to begin work as
soon as possible after the passage of the
ordinance, taking into consideration the
giving out of contracts. "We have ex-
amined the subject carefully" he said. "We
know what we want, our decisions are made,
and we are prepared to go on as soon as the
city OF Wilmington gives us the privileges
requested" The road, he added, would be
firstelass in character. 1t will be q por-
tion of a road between Baltimore and New
York on the way TO New York. By the
charter granted them by the State of Della
ware they were limited to complete the
work In this State by March l, 1884. That
only gave them 18 months to complete the
heaviest portion of the route, and the most
critical portion of the whole road
In Delaware, which consisted of the
long bridge over the Brandywine. They
asked for the passage of the ordinance now,
as work must commence at once, without
delay, as 1t was not desired to ask the Leg
islature for the continuance of time. The
road was to be fully completed in eighteen
months. Hoping that the request would be
granted the speaker finished. The ordi-
nance was then read by its sections, where
upon Mr.. Beecher offered supplementary
section, which provided that the grades of
Scott and Fourteenth streets and Gilpin
avenue be SO arranged that the new road
would pass over them on bridges the same
as at Delaware avenue, and not on level
with the etreets.
After a few unimportant questions by
several of the members a vote was taken
upon the ordinance as amended and it was
passed without a dissenting voice and be-
came law of the city
The regular order of business was then
taken up and the miscellaneous payroll for
October amounting to 81 ,454. 40, was taken
up, passed, and orders directed to be drawn
for the several amounts named.
petition for a street lamp at Tenth and
Bennett streets was recommended to be
granted and the report accepted.
The monthly payroll of the police for
October amounting to g., ,066.6S, was passed.
The EngrossmentC Committee reported hay-