The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-08
MUNICIPAL LEGISLATURE.
Changes Proposed by the Council in
the City's Corporation Lines.
The Patentees' Proposition to Accept $4,000
for the Electric Appliances at the En-
gine-HOuSes Fails of Adoption.


The City Council met last night. Estimates
were allowed in behalf of D. A. Haywood for i'm
proving sidewalk on Massachusetts, avenue. be-
tween Pennsylvania and Delaware; to ]. w.
Cooper & Company, for bowldering first alley
east of Tennessee street, from New York street
to first alley south; to Fulmer & Seibert, for
constructing brick sewer Massachusetts
avenue, from Alabama to Bellefontaine street;
total on sewer, $14, 877.67
Joseph Bernauer, as the lowest bidder, was
""afue' the paving with brick of the north side
Walk Oh Nii-h street, from Tennessee street to
first alley east
| "A communication was received from S. Fl.
ohearer' clty civil engineer, and G. S. Rooney,
street commissioner announcing that they had
appointed ". c. Phipps as clerk in their DEPART
ment. to perform the duties as provided in gem
eral ordinance No. AZ.
The superintendent of the City Dispenssry re-
ported total expenses for November amounting
to $2S1.9 The superintendent of the City Hos
pital reported the total expenditures for Novem-
Der to be 81, 1864 One hundred and eight per-
sons have been treated at the hospital during the
month. Expenditures in the street repair de-
| partment were reported, amounting to So, 877. II
| for the month of November
The chief fire engineer reported that most of the
| rubber hose is no longer reliable. He considered
that it was unsafe to depend upon it, and asked
to be authorized to at once purchase $500 feet of
| cotton hose, az it would take thirty or forty
days before it could be supplied. The report was
adopted and the city engineer authorized to make
the purchase.
The ordinance to regulate peddlers, street
vendors, etc, was, after considerable discussion,
recommltted to the judiciary committee, to
which was added the mayor and city attorney.
The Indianapolis Bridge Company was allowed
| payment for work done.
The Judiciary committee and city attorney, to
whom was referred various petitions and papers,
reported as follows: l. We recommend that
| caused to his horse ard buggy, on account of the
hole IN Union street, provided he will receive
the same in full of all demands. 2. The claim
| of William H. English, presented May 4,
amounts to 81, 1o67l, not including inter
est. 1t is for taxes paid by Mr. English on
| large number of lots in Kings Arsenal
| Heights, which addition was never legally an
nexed to the city. The rule adopted in other
cases is to allow for all sums paid in good faith
by the owners of property. but not to refund to
parties purchasing as a Spectator. The COM
mittee recommend that no part of the claim be
allowed. 8. In the Thomas Wren case, for.
work done in 1866 Judge Taylor has made an
order setting aside the original order directing
said measurement to be made, thus obviating
further proceedings by the Council on the cngi-
neer's report The report of the committee was
adopted.
The report of the city treasurer for the month
General fund, $91, 53S Is; Tomnson estate, ST.
9o4. 80; additional city hall fund, 1853, S78 80;
sinking fund, $40 666 80; sewer fund, $40 324 o.
The report of the city clerk for the same period
showed ho the amount of orders drawn to be $24.-
428.34 The current expenses are shown To Be
| $32, 1856 SO.
Salisbury & Stanley, contractors were granted
an extension of ninety days for placing the city
hall building under roof.
The official bond of Hiram w. Miller, county
treasurer, as custodian of the city's funds, the
Office of the city treasurer having been abolished
by act of the Legislature, was referred to the com
mltt-e on judiciary and finance and the city at
torney The bond is for $50000O, with the fol-
| lowing as sureties: G. W. Stout, John johnson,
w. F. A. Bernhamer, John Osterman, Oliver
Klingensmlth, L. p. Harlan, Smith Fl. Myers,
Franklin Landers, John Keppler, VIM. McGregor,
John E. Sullivan, Samuel Pfeneller, John j.
Cooper, James Renihan. Isaac L. Hedges, John
Landers, Frank E. Creelman, E. NJ johnson,
| Frank Enrich, G. G. Foster.
The special committee appointed for that pur-
pose reported changes to be made in the corpo-
ration lines of the city. The report was
adopted including the recommendation that the
city attorney and civil engineer be instructed to
prepare and submit the proper resolutions, plats,
etc.. and that petitions to cause the proper an
neXatlons and dis -annexatlons be made so as to
fix the boundaries Of the city as set out in the
report.
The new boundaries will bring in the Atlas
Works. Tucker q Dorsey's works and grounds,
on Reed street, the glue works, and about four
hundred other pieces of property, including
| nearly two hundred building lots in the First
ward upon which fifty houses have been recently
erected, and the disputed territory in the TWEEN
ty fifth ward which figured in the Pattison-
Geger contest for the city treasurership
The new lines throw out num-
Der of bridges, which will hereafter be
cared for by the township. 1t disannexes the
lot of waste ground in the Fourth and Four
tenth wards forming the district north of the
Michigan-streot fill near White river, containing
500 acres more and which only holds six
voters, all told, from whom no city tax has ever
been collected, as the annexation was illegally
made. It also cuts out the Michigan street
bridge over White river, which has already cost
the city nearly $4,000 in damages, besides $500
paid to make fence to guard the approaches
thereto.
Ordinances were introduced to pave with
brick the south sidewalk of McCarty street,
from Tennessee to Ann street; to pave sidewalks
of John street. from Massachusetts avenue to
Hanna street; to bowlder and curb cutters of
Elm street and widen sidewalks; to pave side
walks Of Missouri street, from Merrill to Nc
Carly; to gravel first alley south of Second
street, from Illinois to Superior street; requiring
the Belt-road and Stockyards company to sta
ton and maintain flagman at its West Wash
| ington street crossing; to pave sidewalks of
Minerva street, from New York street to North;
requiring the l., b. & W., and other railroad
| companies to maint tain a fagman at the crossing
| of Newman street
An ordinance was passed as follows: Granting
to Catharne Dickson the privilege of erecting a
frame building, to be used as skating rink on
the south side of Ohio street, between Mississippi
| and Missouri streets.
Mr.. Pearson moved the committee on ordi-
nances be instructed to examine into the ordi-
nance fixing the fire limits Of the city, and pre-
sent an ordinance to this body better protecting
the interests of the city. Adopted.
Dr. i. N. Walker, Edward Egan, Atwater J.
Treat and l. N. Pattison owners of the Bragg
& Seibert patents for opening doors and re-
leasing horses in the fire department by cleo
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