Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-06
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

"ehtS-FetIt1onS Ho16rFed-An Ad.
 vance Report on the $2 1000 State
 House Appropriation Committee
 Reports For and Against PetItions-
 Other Matters of More or Less Inter-
 est.
 A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held last evening, His Honor Mayor Holcomb pre- siding.
 Communication from the Board of Finance rec ommending that unexpected balances in the Board of Public Works be transferred follows: s., 800 from bridges. $500 from crosswalks and B 900 from West river strengthening to account when needed was accepted as recommended
 Communication from the Board of Finance rec ommendng transfers in the Board of Police Com missioners as follows: Signal telegraph $14s.07 storage account $4OO, wagon repairs $75, to pay roll account.
 Petitions were read and referred follows: Of Cullom & Co.,, for damages to carriage; of Sargent & Co.,, to erect bridge Wallace street con meeting their buildings; of R. M. Evert for new layout of Rock Lane; grand list of 1884 of David Steele for the renum- berine of Court street. between Olive and Academy f Mmnsn street. of Otto Dieter for relay of side
 walk on west side of Chestnut q1,, street between for compensation for injury to horse and wagon of William $. smedley tor sewer on the south side of WhaIley avenue. from. it's present terminus to
 Orchard street; of Lamp committee for naptha lamp Union avenue and Carlisle street; of Cath.
 Meadow street; of W G. filling for electric light on the corner of Grove and do Orange streets 0ee
 amounting to $1o7 were referred to the Board of
 Finance. out of Burtona Place was referred to the Commit
 Report T of the committee to select a jantor for City Hall and stating that they had selected william Bohan, was accepted and ordered on
 Communication from the Board of Public Works n 1Qyinp he until next year, referred to the Committee on
 Report of the Lamp committee in favor of lamps on Howard avenue Morton, Lombard and other
 streets was accepted ana ero9r o9 t m to the Stewart houses State street. statrg that
 the work had @ been aeeepta6y done was referred to Report of the sealer of weights and measures for the two months ending september 30, 1885, was Report of the Committee Retrenchment, Re form and Abuses de reduction of taxation and re- passed recommended
 September 1885, was ordered on file. Communication from the Board of Public Works recommending an ordinance concerning connec- tionS with sewers was referred.
 Report of the clerk of the City court for August, 1885. was ordered on file.
 ons de appropriation of $25 coo for repalr of the State House was tabled until the next meeting. The committee recommend that the building be Report of the Board of Compensation assessing damages and benefits for pavement in Court street was passed and assessments laid as recommended. Report of the Board of Compensation on layout of Blake street and finding damages and benefits equal was accepted.
 Resolution that the Board of Public Works lay crosswalk from Lamberton to Wilson street was referred.
 the following petitions and thelr recommendations were adopted: For modification of order for side walk on the north side of Commerce street; for permission to lay concrete walks Elm street, be- tween University Place and Garden street, for side walk on the west side of Arthur street. from Lam hnrt fr fnrS side of Dickerman styeet, between Sperry and Or chard streets; for sidewalk on the east side of Greenwich avenue between Third and Fourth streetS for sidewalk east side of Poplar street between Grand and Lombard streets; for the grad ing of roadway and curb and grade of sidewalk on both sides of Webster street, between Northampton railroad and Winchester avenue; for grading of Ann street and curbng of sidewalk on both sides
 between Kossuth and West streets; for sidewalk on the south side of Lamberton street, between Kim
 bery avenue and Cedar street. for relay of sidewalk Reports of the Committee on Sewers were adopt ed as follows: In favor of sewer in East GranC
 street, from Atwater street to Quinnipiac rver il
 street and Lafayette Place from Portsea street t the Derby railroad; adverse to sewer in Washing l avenue.
 Reports from the Committee on Ordinances wer | adopted as follows: For an ordinance regulatin,
 the removal of ash heaps; adverse to ordinance es tablishing standard measures for coal and woot | riding of bicycles sidewalks; adverse to orii
 nance de firing cannon; adverse to ordinance clos Report of the Committee on Public Cemeter, adverse to the same adopted
 Report of the Committee on Claims referring pc
 tition Of Max Mailhouse for land damages to BoarG of Compensation was adopted.
 The Committee on Claims reported on the follow ing petitions and they were passed as recommend l ed Of Elizabeth A. Farren. Mrs John Hampstead estate of Michael Curran and Mrs. Mary FitzSer
 aid for damages for land taken Meadow street, | the Boagd of Compensation The same connlitte
 reported adversely to petition of James B. Brown fo abatement of tax; adversely to petition of William
 H. Johnson for abatementlof adversely to pc | tition of Middletown savings bank for coinpensa
 tion for injury to property; adversely to petition
 L. H.Street for abatement of tax; adversely oeti | tion of John Shuster for abatement of pavenlen assessment.
 Report of the Committee on Sewers in favor of sewer on Day street between Chapel and Martin streets was recommitted in concurrence. Ad fourned.