San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-27

| Inc gas ana WRter committee reported
favorably on placing ,lS new electric
lamps In various places about the city.
Conner protested to the location Of the
lights II he did not get any on his
Cevallos street, but the report was
adopted.
1t was ordered that Franklin square
be enclosed at q cost OF SIS.
The sum OF $3.50 was also appropri-
ated to paint the pagoda In Travis park
and to buy more benches.
The petition to run telephone wire
into the Kampman building was granted.
On motion of Kalteyer, the amend
ment to the market ordinance was not
adopted.
Kalteyer then moved that the ordi-
nance now in force be repealed and the
former ordinance substituted. Lost.
Gallagher said the public improve
ment committee had made no report.
There was some work being done on
South Flores street and by whose au-
thOrity was 1t being done? He presumed
| dered the work.
The city engineer explained that he
had consulted the public improvement
committee and then had ordered the
| work.
Gallagher noticed some work being
done on Pecos street and bridge being
built that the council had not ordered
and knew nothing about.
The mayor said II anybody was build
ing bridge, Ii had not been ordered
| from his office.
Gallagher wanted to know who had
ordered the blowing and scraping Of
Houston street.
NEW BUSINESS.
By Gallagher: That the public i'm
provement committee make full and
complete report at the next meeting of
| the council of all street work now being
done In the city. Adopted.
By Gallagher: That hereafter no plo "
or scraper work be done without an or
der from the council. Adopted.
By Xalteyer: That Kampmann be
stopped from building the new house on
South Flores street until the acute angle
be Strengthened. Referred to the city
engineer.
BY Conner: That the street commits
sioner cut the brush from Vera Cruz
street. Adopted.
By Conner: That the city engineer
furnish an estimate OF the cost of q
bridge over the ditch on Guadalupe
street. Adopted.
By Conner: That property owners on
Monterey street be ordered to lay third
class sidewalks. Adopted.
By Schreiner: That third class side
walks be laid on West Houston street
from Leona to Medina. Adopted.
By Gallagher: That GLASS A side
walk, estimated to cost 800, be laid on
the south side of Milan square. Re-
| ferred to the finance committee.
The council then adjourned.
NOTES.
Conner in his resolutions, is begin
ming ts use some awful big words. Who
writes them? They have q sort Of legal
sound too, and he reads them with great
difficulty.
How is 1t that the city attorney Ia en-
titled TO extra fees In the Injunction suit
or any other suit when he is paid big
salary for 1t?
Gallagher can't get anything from
this council. They are all "agin" him
and vote him down, no matter how cor
rect his position on question may be.
Besides the mayor, aldermen, city mar
shall, city clerk. attorney and janitor at
tending each oity council meeting, the
street commissioner, park master, city
| engineer, inspector of weights and
measures and recorder, all attend quite
regular. They are not compelled to and
1t would look better if the valuable time
they lose were given to the taxpayers to
whom it belongs by right of purchase.
The market master 10 rarely seen at the
meetings, and he should be careful. He
should attend regular. Then the police
force, the plows and soraper force, the
ditch cleaners and sanitary inspectors
should all take lay-off for two hours
and come and see the show.
The reading Of that elegantly worded
and so statesmanlike message was start
ed by poor Peter Marx. In reading the
minutes OF last meeting. 1t had, Of
course. been copied word for word in
the minutes along with the budget. and
poor Peter had waded bravely through
about half of 1t, when it suddenly oc-
CURED to Alderman Kalteyer that he
had had about enough Of 1t. SO he &C
cordingly moved that the reading Of 1t
be dispensed with. Gratefully did AL
derm8n Gallagher second the motion,
and the question was put: What will
you do with the motion, gentlemen"
Nobody seemed to know or dare to say
anything and there being no objections
the motion is carried" What pity?
Not Half So Big.
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