The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-15

| glad 10 have any member of your honor
able council visit our works at their con-
vcnicnce and note our progress.
President Hadden fellows talk
| like they mean business"
Mr.. Randle What they say is fact
fou ought to go up there and take a look
at those wells"
The communication OF Mr.. Jas. +. Beas-
ley, asking that the Gaynor Fire Alarm
company be given an opportunity TO COM
| pete with the Gamewell company, who al.
ready have their system established here,
was referred to the fire and police commits
sioners.
The communication from tho Desoto Oil
works, asking that council take some ac-
ton in deciding their right of way to
side track running by their mills, us be-
tween il and the Mississippi q Tennessee
and Louisville, New Orleans & Texas rail
roads, was referred TO the engineer.
At this point Commissioner Wallace
stated that ms he was having great deal
of trouble with S. +. G. A. Officer Lane,
who persisted in arrcsting his draymcn
and placing their loads Of cotton in ashed,
and that he or the owners had TO go to the
trouble of replcyying il, he thought that
the council should define Mr.. Lanes
rights, or rather protect cotton owners.
President MADDEN replied that the matter
was not one for the council TO consider.
A petition from the Memphis Gro
Gerry company rccited that they own
n lot at the northwest corner OF
Calhoun and Tennessee streets, ASK
l76 feet, and that John johnson was
the owner OF the two adjoining lots on
the west side OF Tennessee, and that they
proposed TO build large warehouse on the
property, which would adjoin the depot OF
the Kansas City road on the west side, and
on the east side with the depots Of the
Chesapeake & Ohio and the Louisville,
New Orleans 4 Texas railroads The COM
pany desires 10 run side track through
their warehouse, thus connecting the sys-
TEN Of roads entering from the north and
south OF the city. The petition was re-
tcrrcd 10 Messrs. Patterson, Petit and Lee
for report.
The following petition, signed by Mr..
Napoleon Hill, president OF the Citizens
Street Railway company, was read and
passed its first reading without discussion
"Your petitioner, having resolved TO at
once construct street car tracks, double
track, on Third street, from Jefferson 10
the present Jefferson street line, thence on
Adams 10 Manassas street, thence north
on Manassas to Lane avenue, thence east
on Lane avenue TO Taxing District bound
AIRY; said road and tracks TO be constructed
upon the most approved plan, and in COM
plianco with all legal and proper ordi.
nancos OF said district appertainisg TO the
building OF street railroads; said company
uala that a. ha o,Nan lac tha prnnar ntnaar
Of the district, the grades OF said streets
upon which 10 construct said tracks.
1T would show that many and a major
ity of the residents and property owners
on said streets have petiioned this COM
pany 10 30 construc, said road.
said company further petitions the
council to allow il the privilege TO propel
It's street cans on all its present lines, or ON
such ms the company may deem practical
BILE, 10y electric motors.
The petition Of Mrs. Mary Weston, the
owner Of house in block No. IL, South
Memphis, asking that the city protect her
property nom overflow, by change In the
grade OF the streets which IL adjoins, was
referred TO the engineer.
The petition Of property owners on Ia
Rose street, rcciting the fact that the north
end OF the street had caycd away into a
gllch in places about twelve feet deep, and
that Ia the summer season this gulCh, or
avinc, grows up in rank weeds, and that
il IL made the receptacle for dead oarcasses |
of dogs and other iclid matter, cndangcr- |
ing the health of the inhabitants, and that |
II should be filled up at once, was referred
to the engineer Tor report.
The petition from sapt Dunn, OF the
Louisville 4 Nashville railroad, asking tho
council TO modify the ordinance passed
some time ago which prohibited the COM
pany from switching cans west OF Third
street, as IL had the effect 90 cut them off
from the warehouses and passenger, and
otherwise greatly injurc their business was
referred 10 Messrs. lladdcn, Graham and
Randlc ior report.
The petition Of +. Collign TO have the
frcplug ut No. 6S2 Main street removed,
as his cellar was frequently flooded, was
referred Ia Chief ClCary.
The following resolution, introduced by
Mr. Randlc, was adopted. "Ihat all
telephone, telegraph, iirc alarm, electric
and district alarm wires DO raised forty
feet above the level Of the STREETS aud run
horizontal aud perpendicular into the
houses, except In Center alley, In which
they shall bc l25 feet high, aud on iron
poles or towers"
The following resolution, submitted by
Mr. MADDEN, was adopted.
THAT from and after this date no pave.
mcnt shall be laid inside Of the limits Of
the Taxing District, Ivy any corporation or
Individual, In which the stone used there
In docs not come IN In quality to the hard
blue limestone uscd In thc pavement on
Third street, between Monroe aud the iirst
alley south. and also the intersection Of
Court and Third streets. Samples Of sdd
stone arc in the Taxing District engineers
Office, and can be seen ON application"
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