Wichita eagle., 1888-05-15
IT'S NAMED.
AND WILL BE KNOWN AS THE
GRAVITY SYSTEM.
Lively Scenes in the Council Cham
Der with Clanking Of Steel.
Of the Longest Sessions on RecOrd---
Sewer Construction PROPOSE
tion-.-R0utine Work in
Abundance.

TO his California visit He failed to re
member the new arrangement for tn,
council and did not take position at Mr.
Pratt's table.
Mr.. Pratt, chairman of the finance com
mittee, reported having looked over thu
books in his partment and had found Z
number Of bills allowed which were no
! o. KID. by the proper officers. He was al
a loss to know how to geta complete report
under such circumstances. As result o.
the situation the finance committee sub
United the following resolution: That al
! persons filing bills against the city shall
/ on and after this date be required
| to procure the proper endorsement on same
! by the party or parties so working for the
city, that the city clerk be instructed to
reject any and all bills not SO endorsed.
Mr.. Healy opposed the resolution on the
ground that there was no proper officer
mentioned to endorse it. The way award
ed he considered no better than the time
horored custom.
According to the resolution no bill could
be allowed the first meeting after pre-
sented. Many bills should be allowed i'm
mediately or on the first meeting after
presented.
After considerable discussion Mr. Pratt
withdrew the resolution and the city at
torney was appraised fully of the situation
and instructed to report remedy.
Mr. Glaze. of public improvement COM
car load of tile. The report was adopted
and city clerk empowered to order it.
Mr. Healy moved that the city clerk be
empowered TO order a car load OF tile
whenever requested by street commits
sioner and public improvement committee.
The motion carried after little discussion.
On motion of Buckridge the clerk and
improvement committee was empowered
TO buy stone for the entertainment of the
chain gang.
Buckridge moved with Glaze second
for the street commissioner TO order all
parties to put sidewalks on grade.
Thinking a moment Mr. Glaze suggested
that it might prove hardship on some to
make the change.
Buckridge-In many places a variation
of three to twenty inches in sidewalks en-
dangering the city from accidents to
pedestrians.
The vote showed Healy, English, Stone
and johnson in the negative and Pratt,
Downing, Buckridge, Glaze and Slower
in the affirmative.
The order was pronounced quite sweep
ing after it had passed and English re-
GREETED that he had not unraveled
speech i'll the negative while it was
vet day with him. Healy
thought that it would cost some parties
so and would be great injustice.
At this moment the mayor suggested
that the time, for discussion was before
the motion was carried.
Buckridge led out with a kick on q pole
in the sidewalk at the southwest corner of
the Fletcher building. The street COM
missioner was ordered to paralize the
pole.
Mr.. Pratt moved that the city attorney
be instructed TO prepare an ordinance to
curb the west side of Market between
Douglas avenue and First street. The
motion carried.
1t was decided to curb the west side of
Main from Second to Third streets.
The vote of some weeks ago ordering a
on the west side of Fifth avenue
between second street and Central avenue
was reconsidered and decided that walk
was not needed.
The city attorney submitted the follow
ing resolution which passed: That all
persons filing any bills against the city
shall on and after this date be required to
procure the proper Endorsement on the
same by the party or parties ordering for
the city and that when filed any bill shall
be placed or the appropriation ordinance
the same shall be duly approved by the
proper officer or the finance committee.
The sewer committee being called Mr..
Healy responded that the old Topeka ave
nue ditch had been filed up at the lower
end and flooding those north. He moved
the street commissioner be instructed to
open the ditch at Harry street.
Mr. Healy submitted q communication
the West system of sewerage
which was read by the clerk is as follows;
Articles of agreement made and entered
INTO this - day of -, 4. D., 1855, be
tween the city of Wichita, d corporation
d the state of Kansas, of the first part, and
he Pacific Sewerage company. corpora
avs of the state of Colorado, of the sec
md part, witneSseth the party of the /
second part to wit; the said Pacific Sew |
rage company hereby covenants and
agrees to and with the said city of Wichita |
o construct, build and put up a system of 1
sewerage known as the West or pumping |
,ystem. the plant OF which shall in ca |
lacity and power be sufficient to dispose /
If any ana all sewerage occaSloned by the /
aid city'of Wichita and the inhabitants /
hereof, in perpetuity, so long as the pop
llatiou OF said city of Wichita shall not |
Xceed 200.OO0 barring the laying of addi-
ional pipes, etc. after the completion Of /
he construction OF said sewer for said city
f Wichita beyond the boundaries to be I
greed upon between the party
i the first part and the party of the sec
nd before the commencement of the con-
of said sewerage system.
such agreement TO mean the c0nstruc-
ion of a sewerage system West patent) or
,urping system as now located and de-
med in the plans OF Rosewater Il Christie
wneG by said city, the same 10 be an
eXed hereto aud taken and considered a
art OF this contract,
The said party Of the second part fur
her covenants and agrees 20 enter upon
he erection and construction Of said svs-
EN- OF sewerage, the laying of pipes
hereof and the pumping station belong
ng thereto, within 50 days after said
greeulent NAV be entered into and fully
oncluded and to complete the same. To-
III: II miles, within years after the COM
nencement of work upon said system of
ewerage
The main portion of the city 10 be finish
u within year from this date of said
oAttact- FROM twenty 70 thirty miles
an be finished n six months.
After the well Is finished and construe-
ION OF four main sewers, all leading from
ne well, VIII Immediately commenced and
aTried forward As fast as possible, so that
comparatively short time "A very large
art OF the city viii be severed
The necessary engines and boilers will
e put up while the well is buildin,r and
be disposal of the sewerage viii ne r,s,je
rrinunils CONTAIN nora n.,r,,s - - |