The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-09
OUR CITY SIRES.
MEET IN ADJOURNED SESSION
The Water Question the Piece de Resis-
tance-Aldcrman Carter on the Sit
uatiOn-Fourth Ward Sewer
Other Legislation.

City Council met in adjourned session
last evening at the city hall, Alderman
j. II. Brown, Mayor pro tenn, presiding.
Present, Aldermen Cockrcll, Williams.
Rauch, Smith, Keller, Gibson, Carter.
Alderman Loeb, Of the Fourth ward,
was granted Il leave of absence for sixty
days ON account Of i'll health.
\ resolution asking the Mayor to APP
point a committee to apprase the
property in the opening of Olive street
forty feet wide, from Elm street to Pa
enc avenue, offered by Alderman
Rauch, was read and adopted.
Alderman Carter, Chairman of
the Water commission. stated
that they were pushing the work
OF placing pump in at the
river and are doing good work at the
springs with very promising prospects.
lie thought that they would be
enabled to get as much
water from the north side side
of the spring as they are getting from
the south side. They suggested the
feasibility OF pumping water from the
river into lake like enclosure to be
constructed adjacent to the springs or
reservoir, and let it filter
through the sand. The commission
were having trench dug in the gravel
bed at the works which had served To
increase the supply. They suggested
tllat lake as above stated,
tionately wide, be constructed
in the City Park, and that
a sufficient supply of water from the
river be pumped into it and allowed to
Seep into the main reservoir Of the
works.
The commission were instructed TO do
whatever they deemed best in the prem
misses.
petition from citizens asking that
Cora street be opened or continued from
the present terminus east to intcrsect
hawkins street at or near Florence
street, was read and referred to the com
lnlttee on streets and bridges.
Sealed bids from Figh Il Saunderson
M I. Moore; Leitwich IL Jamison for
building OF the extension of the Third
ana Fourth ward sewer were read and
me contract awarded to Figh d Saun-
uerSon as the lowest and best bidder,
work to begin the LIST of September.
ON motion of Alderman Gibson. the
extension of the sewer for the present
! was to be made under the contract only
50 far as Aiken street.
Alderman Williams moved before the
contract was awarded that the awarding
OF lhe contract be postp )nCd until Oc-
tober. The motion was lost by the fol.
lowing vote: Ayes Cockrell, Williams.
Keller; nays-Rauch, Smith, Gibson,
Carter.
The motion of Alderman Gibson was
then put and carried.
Alderman Gibson stated that William
Mcdonald offered to pay $40 per week
for the use of the old steam fire engine
tor the purpose Of pumping water from
me river Tor strcet-sprinkling purposes.
lie was granted the use Of the engine ut
the sum named with the understanding
that he was to give bond to return the
engine to the city in good condition.
Aldermen Williams, Carter and Smith.
the committee to whom was referred the
petition Of w. G. Howard and others, To
place the Baxter Overland Tclephono
system in operation i'm this city, REPORTED
That, after considering the application.
they recommended that the company be
granted the right-of-way i'm conformity
To the ordinances governing said
privileges. Adopted.
Dr. j. l.. Carter, Health Officer, recon-
lnended the building of a sewer from
Jefferson or Market street to Murphy
street, and between the Main and Com
nerce streets drain. Referred TO the
committee on sewers.
Council adjourned until next Tuesday
night.