San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-18
SAN ANTONIO STATESMEN
THE ALDERMANIC sAGES SIT IN
COUNCIL.
Peoples Gas Efectually Squelched New
Street Improvements-Mack
Water Movement, Etc.

At the regular meeting of the council
yesterday, Mayor Callaghan was present
and presided over the aldermanic sages,
all of whom were present at roll call ex-
cept Belknap, Smye and 6ergstrom. The
latter two arrived subsequently.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and adopted.
petition from trustees of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church for the remission
Of taxes on church property. Referred
to the assessment committee and city
attorney.
San Antonio club and opera house to
have Crockett street widened, and offer
ing to sell a strip of their property at
cost price for such purpose, and given
the city to pay for it when able, at s
per cent interest on the amount. The
city engineer reported suggesting that it
be widened nine feet from Mrs. Mary
Menger's property.
Lockwood moved to appoint n special
committee of one from each ward to
confer with the property owners for the
purchase OF property to widen the street.
Adopted.
A. Santleben, for removal of stand
pipe from Avenue ID. Granted: the
work to be done as soon as possible.
Mrs. NJ. Bartron, for indemnity for
damages to property caused by overflow.
Referred to city attorney.
j. M. Emmerson, to close an alley.
Public improvement committee.
Under petitions and ordinances,
French recommended that Emil SGharf
stand on the mort side OF Main plaza, be-
tween l.. WOlfson and NOyes & Lang
holZ. Adopted.
Degener suggested that no taxes be
collected from Scharf, as he had been a
pauper. The mayor said it will be seen
to later.
From the streets and bridges commit
tee Lockwood recommended that Hilton
Il GCung's offer to sell gravel pits be not
accepted. as the gravel is not in suffi-
Client quantity; and furthermore that the
city take no notice of similar PROPOSE
tions after this unless it be first shown
that gravel exists in quantities and is ac-
cessible, the committee having several
times found nothing but black dirt.
Adopted.
Olive and blackberry streets were or
dered cleared of brush by the street COM
missioner, to cost 500.
The street commissioners report was
found correct and filed.
Lockwood recommended that Augusta
street be ordered graded to enable prop
erty owners to put down sidewalks, TO
cost $3.50, the mayor to ask for bids.
French moved to make the apprOpria-
tiOn from the annual street fund for new
street improvements. Deferred on the
statement that Augusta street is In
cluded in the new work.
Schreiner reported that the reports of
the ditch commissioners were found cor
rect and filed.
Mrs. BurtOn's petition for reduction of
assessment was granted.
Gallagher reported that the park keep
er's report was correct. Filed.
Smye, from the special committee on
Goliad street, recommending that the
Maverick proposition to sell strip of
land for $500 be not accepted. Adopted.
Under unfinished business, French
moved TO reconsider the Peoples gas
ordinance, in order that it may go be-
fore committee and the city attorney.
know who voted for and against the Or
dinance.
Gallagher seconded the motion.
Lockwood asked for the reason for q
reconsideration.
French said he did not believe it had
been properly considered during the
wrangle before the council, and that il
| could be made more acceptable to all par
ties.
Lockwood could see no hardship i'm
posed by the ordinance, or no good rea-
son for q rehearing.
Schreiner opposed reconsideration,
and McAllister favored it. the latter OF
the ground that no possible harm could
be done by such rehearing, and fix the
ordinance to suit both parties. As ii is,
he said, the handle is on one side of the
jug.
A viva voce vote was taken on the
motion; the result seemed very much in
doubt. The mayor, with loud rap of
the hammer, declared 1t lost and refused
to take the vote over upon call for q
division.
Several of the aldermen grunted a
"Well, well, what's coming next, ("
whereupon McAllister appealed from
the decision of the chair.
The chair was sustained by the fol-
lowing vote:
4eas-Bergstrom, Conner. Degener,
Hambleton, Lockwood, Scnreiner and
Smye. Noes-French, Gallagher, Nc
Allister and Mackey.
The chair was sustained.
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
The report of the special committee
on public improvements was read as fol-
lows:
To His Honor, the Mayor, and City Council
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 26. lsS6.-Gentle-
men: Your special committee having in view
the disbursement of $50 600 for public improve
ments during the year 1886, beg leave TO sub
NIT the following report, viz:
That from accompanying petitions TO the
council and reports from the city engineer re-
ferred to this committee, we recommend that
the following work be first undertaken, to-wit:
The permanent improvement of the plaZas,
and we hereby recommend that the sum of
$4,000, or as much thereof as may be neces.
sary, be appropriated and set apart for Main,
Military and Alamo plaZas. THIS will leave of
the $4,000 TO be realized by the sale of bonds
the sum of $1,000 for each OF the four wards
of the city.
In the First ward we recommend that San
Fernando street, from Laredo street to the
ditch, and Peeos street, from Commerce street
TO the school house, or San Fernando street be
designated as the streets to be macadamiZed
this year to the extent of the appropriation
for the ward, viz, $4,000.
In the Second ward we recommend that San
Pedro avenue, from Upper Labor ditch to a
point opposite the entrance to San Pedro
springs be macadamized, and If the cost be less
than $4,000, the remainder TO be expended on
Augusta street, from Fourth street to Romano
street.
In the Third ward we recommend that Av.
enue G, from Eighth street to Grand avenue
and Grand avenue, from Avenue to the Abaf
bridge over the San Antonio river and 81
Mary's street, from Houston street to Convent
street, and Live Oak street, from Austin 10
East Commerce street, be designated as the
streets to be improved.
For the Fourth ward we recommend that
Presa street, from Alamo street to the Sunset
railroad crossing, and King William street
from Garden to Ewell street, be the streets TO
be imDrOypd ~