Wichita eagle., 1888-05-15

ago called the West System" Great God!
As TO his process it contains only one pat
ent, and that is about fltering it. We
don't want to filter.
He states, station to be located at
lowest point" or in other words it is a
gravity system If you want to pump
you don't have TO 90 to him for the right
to pump.
English-No one claims patent on the
pumping-its on the filter bed which the
patent is on and that does not go in here
Mulvey-I Just want TO ventilate this
| West system a little. | am in a pasition
to defend the city and propose to do it,
He says his system is used at Atlantic
City and Pullman. The report of Pull
man don't mention the West system.
Herring said West had nothing to do with
Pullman sewerage. | think those things
ough TO be satisfactory.
Johnson-Has anyone argued to put in
a system for less than S400, 600:
Mulvey-Bids have not been offered.
Mayor-Why, Mr.. Mulvey, is the West
system an experiment?
Mulvey-Well, it is only in one city.
English-I don't understand now it
could be more of an experiment than the
other systems giving as 1t does double the
fall-how could it Se more of an expert
ment. / want the cheapest with a guar
antee of its working, in preference to no
guarantee and same cost.
Glaze-I would certainly prefer a guar
antee to nothing in so important cues
ton, but there is too much of a margin
between what we need now $50 600 and
500, 900, so | would favor a gravity sys-
| tenn.
Healy-One reason Herring did not give
US more lengthy report is because we
have fall and he thought it would be
useless. He seemed to think it foolish to
send to New York for man to tell US
water would run down hill.
! Roll call on the question found Healy,
Pratt, Downing, Buckndgs, Slower, Glaze
and Stone in the affirmative; English and
Johnson in the negative. So it will be
seen the vote for the gravity system
showed seven to two in the affirmative.
Healy-What shall we do next?
City Attorney Dyer-f you sewer
by districts divide it into dis
tricts and have estimates for that dis
| trict. That is necessary in order to be
able to collect the taxes. My understand
| ing of the tax law is that you can't assess
property for a sewer that don't benefit
that property.
| To discuss the modus operandi Buck
| ridge moved that the sewer Commute
meet today at O'Clock to discuss the
question The motion received no second.
Healy-Move that the city engineer
draw up plans and specifications for all
the main sewers recommended by Mr.
| Herring
Motion carried.
Buckridge-Move city engineer district
the city and city attorney draw up an Or
dinanee in conformity
Healy-Move the city engineer give de-
tailed estimate of cost according to Her.
rings plan and also estimate of running
all into one main. Carried.
Healy-Recommend that Mr.. Sterling be
detailed to look after the sewers and get
perforated tops for man holes.
The recommendation was adopted.
This ended the discussion On sewerage,
taking one hour and fifty minutes.
The license committee submitted an Or
dinance that a semi annual tax of $50 be
levied on all opera houses in the city.
Healy-This was drawn up for the Craw-
ford opera house. The house pays small
profit and the owners in the city have ex-
pended Il great deal to build it, and it
don't pay six per cent.
Buckridge-I appreciate the circum-
stances, but it is terrible drain on our
city treasury. Is there was any way to
get out of it without making classic legis-
lation | would favor it.
English-I would like to support this
ordinance to help this gentleman out. We
are proud of that house and should help
il.
The motion to place the ordinance on it's
passage carried.
1t was decided that the wording of the
ordinance was ambiguous and would not
meet the wants of the Crawfofd 1t was
decided to make it include all theaters at
the rate of 800 semi-annually. In this move
ment there was general dissatisfaction.
and the question was deferred for future
action.
Buckridge favored electric lights ON
Main and Elm, Main and Pine and a
scatterment of vapor lights. Others were
spoken for by members.
It was finally decided to allow no lights
at that meeting.
From this his honor and Buckridge en-
gagged in debate on parliamentary law
concerning whether or not the motion dis
posed of the report of the committee on
lights. The mayor finally prevailed
It was decided to buy four MIGRANTS for
supplying man and beast with water, to be
located at most desirable points.
Mr. Moore: of Douglass & Moore. who |
are revising the city ordinances, stated |
that 500 was very much too small for the |!
work. He thought it was worth 500.
Mr. Pratt moved with Buckridge a sec |
ond, that the council receive bids for the |
work until next meeting.
Mr. Moore-If it is left to competition |
we will not submit bid.
Glaze--I have been watching this work a !
little and don't believe $500 is too much. /
City Attorney Dyer being called for to /
give an opinion stated that il was scarcely
right to ask it but he would say that the
work was cheap at 500 and worth l,ooe.
Stover-Think this work should be under
the supervision of the city attorney
Healy-Think the city attorney should
have something to do with it.
The motion lost unanimously
Healy-I move to accept Douglass &
Moore's original proposition-nott to exceed
500
Pratt-At our last meeting we had a bid
for $500 and did not accept it but accepted
these gentlemen at the same ansaunt and
now they want more.
Douglass-The mere clerical work wiil
represent 500 aside from professional
skill
The motion carried with Mr.. Pratt vut-
ng in the negative.