Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-27
WANTED.

PAVEMENT WANTED
The following WAS read: "Your petition
ers would respectfully ask your confederation
OF their request to have Front or CRickassw
street paved from the bridge over Bayou
Gsyoso to Keel street, a distance of say 300
ysrds. In doing our hauling last winter We
sustained a Ioss of between $1,000 and $4,000,
on account of the almost impossible condition
of this short stretch OF road. We would re-
specially urge that the large manufacturing
interests there are entitled 10 some consider
alton, and that heretofore they have done, at
their own expense, almost if not quite alIthe
improvement in that neighborhoOd. The oil
and saw. mills built the street 10 front of
them at their own expense, and the oil-mills
have twice covered the bridge with only
small assist ance from the city in either case"
The petition is signed by II. ]. Parish and
G.. ID. Rsine, committee from Gayoso OIL
Works; B.. F. Halles, secretary Hope Oil
Mill; IL. Wexford, secretary Chiokasaw
Csopersse Company, and J. LzCroix, Joseph
Frey, s. N. Burke, John Cuhbius and &. j.
Rawlings, secretary Globe Oil Works. Sec
rotary PulIsn stated, on request, that the
mills paved only bali of the street and not
the whole. On motion of Mr.. Burke, the
petition was referred to the engineer for esti-
mates Of cost.
GRAVEL ROOF.
Tn Planters Oil Mill Company asked to
be allowed TO put a gravel roof on a shed to
be built, with corrugated iron sides, as a tin
roof was not durable for mill buildings.
Granted, work to be lone under the super
vision of the fire chief.
REPORT OF
City Engineer Meriwether reported hat he
had conferred with the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad, the Louisville aud Nashville
| railroad, and the Chesapeake, OHIO and
Southwestern railroad, aud thought they
would place such patent safety-grates 1t the
various crossings, in The next month, as would
be mutually satisfactory. Also, hat an in.
spector had been put on the Second street
pavement, which was being very chesply and
we'll done, considering the amount of grave
and sand used. Received.
The city engineer reported that il would
cost $4,000 to wall the bayou at the corner oil
Vance and Echols streets 30 as 10 protect the
property Of petitioner, G. C. Dickinson, fol
which expenditure the city is not prepared.
Received.
THE NousELEsS PAVEMENT.
The Cotton Exchange committee handed
in the f~ollowiog:
Resolved, That inasmuch as the City Coun
Gil seem to have ignored the petition Of on
president and directors for a cedar block
pavement TO be laid on Second street. oppo
site the contemplated size OF our Cotton Elk
change, thar We, rs a body, request them
recon-ider their determination and to gran
our petit ion. We refer them again to tn
many obi ctions to stone cited in the memo
rial of our directors, and ALEC beg leave {
state 10 them that after a conference with ex
perts we find ii will be impossible to lay sue
a thing as a noiseless stone pavement; th
only method by which the disturbing noise
could be obviated would be by spreading
thick layer of asphaltum over the s,ou,
which, We understaUd, is not contemplated
Resolved, That the members composing TIL
Exchange not only represent the princips
commercial interest Of the city, and contri,
ute their whole available capital ami iuhl
euce to bring business to the CT y and buIl
up its indu tries and promote its generi
prosperity, but are large property oWuei
and heavy tsxpsyers; that "a 4 body the
wIsnes and Pytitiou are entitled to f4vorabI
C consider alton at the hands of the City Coul
Gil.
: RESOLVED, That a committee OF three be a
I pointed 10 wait upon the Council and presel
, them q copy OF these resolutions.
The following was sppoiule,
r. W. DIlard, chairman; E. F. Patterson,
K. Speed.
E. C. LA HACHE, Acting Secretary.
Mr.. Lee said he understood the Exchau,
would be epi lined if they attempted to p
down a wooden pavement.
t President Hadden said the city would ha,
e TO psy for the grading and gravel alreaC
4 used on the street.
Q Mr.. Burke moved that a committee
a three be appointed to confer with the Cot,
Exchange and report to the next meetin
g Messrs. Burke, Lee, Livermore and the pre-
ident were appointed, with power to act.
THE DRIVER NUISANCE.
"GENTLEMEN-Second street being open
front of our places Of business, we, the unde
sigued, living and doing business or ga
n street between Adams and Jefferson stree
y respectfully ask you TO protect us from th
grsnd nuisance, the public furniture and e
e press wagons. II inlerferes with our but
. ness, and in fact locks like a wagon yaI
The drivers of the wagons congregste
IS crowds On the corners and curling aud u
vale Language. All permits heretofore grant
= By MS will be rescinaed." The petition
n sieued by 81. Gutenberg, E. Wiixmspu & Q
l. Ginnoccbio, r. B~uchignani, A. Hiizfel
e Louis Keith, A. Rose & Bro, Or anne
d May and p. Fennessy. Referred to I
e president and chief of police.
i THE
The following, signed by twenty citizsl
Va oNs AAC ahA~icASICt PIOptl II
and residents Of the Tenth Ward, most
Q specially call your attention 10 the c1nt
ton Of Broadway street, the south bounda
line OF the city, from Rsyburn avenue to
eastern Limits. Broadway, from Raybu
avenue to the fernando road, is 100 f
wide. The mex street south Of it ruuui
ii east and west ia jackson street, and it b
been abandoned by the county and is i
Passable- Valuable franchises have be
granted to Que or more railrosds by 20
honorable body, and We believe that thu
= roads should be compelled to put this str,
in iIstcisss order if they are allowed to ,
1t. So believing, we hereby petition yo
honorable body 10 compel the railroads
using this grand street, the widest in the CT
to make the same a irsi-class thorough,
for vehicles, at least SO far cas-, ss the H
Dsndo road, snd that the District, county
railroads provide the necessary bridge
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