The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-04-18
CHTK GOVERNMENT.
Special Meeting of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen.

Yesterday morning the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen visited the premises on Congress
street, where Loveitt & Co. desire to locate
fish stand, and also premises occupied by Lang
q Sargent, and G. w. Lombard & Co., on the
same street. They then returned to the alder.
mems room, where the Board was called to
order by the Mayor. All the members were
present except Alderman Noyes. Judge God.
dard, counsel for Loveitt s. Co., was also
present.
The Mayor read the ordinance, which ssvs
that before any place shall be assigned for the
sale OF fresh fish written petition shall .
presented to the Board Of Mayor and Alder
men therefor, setting forth in detail the pro-
visions proposed to be made for guarding
against injury to the public health, and if the
Board are satisfied that such proposed arrange
ments are sufficient for such purpose thew shall
personally inspect the premises named in the
petition, and shall make no assignment until 1t
appears to them that such provisions are &C.
cured.
Judge Goddard wanted to know what ar.
rangements must be made by the petitioners to
satisfy the Board IL the petition was not
granted7
The Board thought that this was question
tnaf did not enter into the discussion It was
simply for the Board to determine what their
duties were under the ordinance and act uu-
derstandingiy and in obedience to it's proyi-
sions.
Alderman Denison didn't think the sanitary
conditions OF the buildings such as wonld
authorize fish market there, He tbonobt
this not question of location so much as of
health. w. Va
Alderman Gallagher was opposed to the To-
cation for fish market. There were already
enough fish markets on the street, and there
rf I<ao -:
Objectionable.
Alderman Denison moved thst the petition
ers have leave to Withdraw.
Before the motion was put Judge Goddard
wanted to know If the petition was not grant,
ed II the effect would be to prevent the pati.
TONERS from obtaining a location on the street
no matter how unobjectionable the sanitary
conditions of the building and locality might
be?
The Mayor said the Board couldn't act ON
any supposable future conditions of THINGS.
They must, by the ordinance, act on the pre-
sent condition of the building in which tina me-
titioners desired to locate
The motion OF Alderman Dsnison was then
put and declared carried. Alderman Russell
doubted the vote, and yea and nav vote re-
suited as follows: In favor of the motion,
Messrs. Gallagher, Sawyer and Denison. OPP
posed, Messrs Brine, Prince and Russell. The
vote neing tie the Mayor gave the casting
vote IN favor OF the motion, so that the petit
TONERS bad leave to Withdraw without preiu-
alce; tnat Is, the petitioners are not debarred
from presenting another petition at some fu-
ture date when the condition of things may be
different, that is, when the present sanitary
condition OF the building may be different.
Owing TO the condition of the cellars In the
building numbered 522 to 52S Congress street,
and those occupied by Lang & Sargent, the
Board passed the following order:
Ordered, That the City Marshal be and he
10 hereby instructed to cause the cellar of the
building, part of which is occupied by Lang
q Sargent, for fish market, to be put in
proper sanitary condition forthwith. And
further that he cause the cellar of the building
Nos. 522 to 52S Congress street to be put in
proper sanitary condition forthwith.
A special meeting of the Board OF Mayor
and Aldermen was held yesterday afternoon,
and it was voted to advise the Mayor to refuse
the request of Mary Jane Frazier, the owner
OF the old rockingham house, to move the
same through the streets. 1t appears that the
house is so old that an attempt at removal
would probably result in the collapse of the
structure.