The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-03
CITY coVERNME
The Regular Monthly Meeting Last
Night.
The Committees Report on the Port
land g. Ogdensburg.
Other Matters.

Other Matters.
The regular November meeting of the
City Council was held last evening and {
small amount of business was disposed of.
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
The board convened at the call Of The
Mayor, all present.
NEW STREETS.
The committee on laying out new streets
reported that they had laid out new streets
as follows: A continuation of Boyd street
fifty feet wide, from Lincoln street, 1000 feet
northward; continuation of Smith street,
fifty feet wide, running to the Marginal
Way; a continuation of B street from its in
tersection with A street to Congress street, a
distance of 296.S4, the street to be 60 feet
wide. The streets were accepted as laid out
by the committee.
THE PROPOSED FERRY WAY.
The City Solicitor was instructed to appear
before the county commissioners at a hear
ing Nov. 10th on the petition of A. V. Cole
and others for public way to be LAID out
over Portland Pier to tide water; and to op-
pose the laying out of said way as not being
required by the convenience or necessity of
the city.
the Lower Board, Aldermen Noyes and Gal
lagher were appointed a committee of con-
ference to confer with committee from the
Lower Board.
The committee after somewhat protrac-
ted session, came in and Alderman Noyes
reported that majority of the committee
opposed the taking of Portland Pier. The
report was accepted and it was voted to ad-
here to the former action of the board.
The original order was finally tabled after
the action of the council, and the following
received a passage:
consider that neither the convenience nor neces-
sites of the city require that public way should
be laid out over Portland Pier therefore be it
Ordered, That the City Solicitor be requested to
appear before the county commissioners on the
10th of November and oppose the laying out of a
public way over Portland Pier
THE MAINE CENTRAL LOT.
The following report was received from
the committee ON the reduction of the public
debt and the order passed:
The Committee on Reduction of the Public
Debt to which was referred the order of the
City Council relating to the conveyance to
the Maine Central Railroad Company. 1885
acres of land in the year 1882, on certain
conditions; having attended to that duty,
and being unable to obtain any satisfactory
assurance from said railroad beg leave to re-
port recommending the adoption of the fol-
lowing order:
Ordered, That the City Solicitor be and he
recovery of the land conveyed to the Maine Cen
trail Railroad in 1882. for the breach of the cond
tion of the deed.
vICTUALERs' LICENSES
In answer to the inquiry whether the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen have the
power to grant yirtualers' licenses or whether
they must be granted exclusively a licensing
board such as provided for in chapter q of
the revised statutes and also show must
yictualers' bonds be approved City Solicitor
Symonds makes the following communica-
ton:
Il have the honor to say that in my opinion
the power to grant victualers' licenses is
conferred upon the licensing board provided
for in r. S.. chapter 27, and not upon the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen, and that the
approval of the bonds given by the licensees
may be by vote of the licensing board, and
the record of such approval kept by the City
Clerk in the usual way"
EVERGREEN CEMETERY.
An ordinance amending an ordinance on
Evergreen Cemetery by prohibiting the de-
posit in the receiving vault of that cemetery
of the bodies of persons who have died of
cholera, scarlet fever, diphtheria, small poX,
typhus fever, yellow fever, and any other
contagious disease, was read twice and pass
ed to be engrossed. The license of any un
dertaker violating this ordinance will be re-
voked by the provisions of the amendment.
TELEGRAPH POLES.
The New England Telephone and Tele-
graph Company presented q petition for the
right to erect poles not less than 40 feet high
and the wires not being less than 80 feet
from the ground as follows: One pole on
Portland, near Oxford street, one pole near
No. 81 and one near No. 80 Portland street,
five poles on Franklin street between New
bury and Congress streets; two poles on
Neal street between Pine and West streets !;
one pole at the foot of State street; one pole
near CSC Congress street; one pole on Hamp-
shire street, near Congress street. These
poles are intended to carry wires now car
ried over roofs
The petition was read and notice ordered.
PORTLAND AND oGDENsBURG.
The Committee on the Reduction of the
Public Debt made the following report on
the reorganization of the Portland and Og-
densburg. The report was accepted and
ordered to be spread upon the records.
The committee to whom was referred an
order of the City Council, approved Septem-
Der 2Sth, 1885,, directing the Committee on Re-
duction of the Public Debt to report back to
the City Council at the earliest possible date
some definite plan for the reorganization of
the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Com
pany, having attended to that duty, beg leave
to report
l L our SuDlult utItWlL4 d CUpy VI
the plan for the voluntary reorganization of
the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad, be-
fore the foreclosure should be perfected.
Your committee unanimously approved
the plan, and deemed it especially advanta-
geous to the city if it was carried out be-
cause:
First-The city after two years would have
received an annual assured income from its
interest in the road.
Second-The city would have received
1928, 900 in bonds, which after term of years
could have been sold to meet the maturing
of the debt, and this would have been gain
ed without losing the control of the road,
since the city would still have held the ma
jority holding both of preferred and common
stock.
The plan met with such powerful opposi-
ton that all efforts to carry it into execution
ceased at once and your committee have
therefore no recommendation to make, but
they protest against the spirit too often
shown in the late discussion to belittle the
value of the franchise of the road.
We believe that the city has valuable in
terest in the road and that it should be care
fully guarded and held until some great
trunk line shall appear as its purchaser.
Respectfully submitted,
J. v. DEER1NG, Mayor, Com; on the Re-
E. A. MOVES, duction of the
The remonstrance to the plan of voluntary
reorganization signed by a large number of
business men and already published in the
PRESS, was introduced by Alderman Deni-
son and laid on the table, as the matter was
already disposed of. The plan submitted
with the report of the committee is the same
as that already published
BUILDING PERMITS.
The following parties have been granted
building permits by the committee on new
wooden buildings since the last meeting;
Daniel I, Kelley, store house.. Kennebec
street; w Q. Hugh, addition to dwelling
yer, addition to dwelling house, z Lafayette
house, 81 North street.; NJ. G.. Palmer,
dwelling house, 249 Spring street; W. E.
Morton, store shed, rear 619 Congress street.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
The City Treasurer was authorized to pay
Emma A. johnson $175 in full for her claim
against the city.
The bond of s. Harlow Dyke for 5000 was
approved, Dyke having been authorized to
empty privy vaults.
The petitions of the following persons as
victualers were granted subject to the City
MarshaPs favorable report: F. A. Sennett,
1877 Commercial street. Edward S. White
hall, corner of Park and Commercial street ;
Andrew Cross, Is India street.
The committee on streets, sidewalks and
bridges were authorized to contract for the
purchase of 1900 yards of granite paving
blocks, no part of the amount to be paid
until after appropriations for 1886 are made.
The claim Of Augustus P. Fuller for $500
damages to his varnish factory on Congress