San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-10
THE CITY COUNCIL.
STREET COMMISSIONER KICKS
AGAINST THE MAYOR.

And the Wise City Fathers t?) Award
The Advertising Contract
to the Highest
Bidder.
At the meeting of the oity council yes
terdsy, mayor pro tenn Schreiner oocu-
pied the chair. All the aldermen were
present. so was the mayor. who ooou-
pied Alderman Schreiner's seat.
After the minutes of last meeting had
been read and confirmed, the follow
ing
MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS
were presented and dealt with in the
manner indicated:
NJ. Lindner. for permit to erect an iron
clad with an iron roof on west side of
Navarro street. Received and filed.
Zeven It Altman, proposal for on-
struction of curbing. Referred to side
walk committittee.
John M. Donald, for reduction OF as
sessment. Referred to assessment COM
mittee.
H. B. Potts, for reduction OF assess
ment. Referred to assessment Tommit-
tee.
N. Mackey. for improvement of San
Fernando, Guadalupe and Ell Psso
streets. Referred to committee on
streets and bridges.
N. Mackey, complaining of garbage
deposited near his residence. Referred
to city marshal.
Citizens, asking that distractions be
removed from Tampico street and that
said street be improved. Referred to
o;t or uipoor opA cnu, m stroota
and bridges.
Citizens, renewing petition for the
grading and macadamizing Of st. Mary's
street. Referred to city engineer.
A. &. Clark, asking 500 for right-ot-
way through his property for the open
ing of PrObandt street. Referred to
finance committee.
Citizens, asking that West Commerce
street be ploughed and graded to
Chupederas street. Granted.
Chas. Rump, for permit for butchers
sign on a telephone pole, Referred to
telephone and telegraph committee.
Citizens, for bridge, be constructed
over Martinez creek, at Ruiz street. Re-
ferred to committee on streets and
bridges:
Citizens. asking that Section 3, Chap
ter 80, be amended. Referred to commit
Gustav Fritsch. for permit to lay
water pipe from Upper Labor ditch to
his residence on Erie avenue. Refersed
to ditch committee.
Citizens, for Improvement OF Crockett
street west Of Walnut street. Gaanted.
Citizens, complaining of cars of South
ern Pacific Railroad company standing
on and obstructing streets, and asking
for electric light. Referred to streets
and bridges committee and gas and wa
ter committee.
The monthly reports OF the street
commissioner, city marshal and jailor,
were read and referred to the proper
committee.
THE STREET COMMISSIONER KICKED
At the mayors arbitrary conduct as
follows:
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 8.
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council:
GENTLBMEN.-I respectfully represent
that, in accordance with a resolution
adopted at meeting of the honorable
city council held March 10, 1888, 1 was
ordered to place one cart in each of the
old wards. which l Immediately COM
piled with. And now, [ would respect
should be one additional laborer to each
of these carts. The reason is that the
carts in the greater portion Of the day
are standing<dle, while the csrtmen are
engaged in digging humps; or, in other
words, are digging the dirt they are to
haul in the day. 1t amounts to about
five or six hours of the day that said
carts and the animals stand thus idle,
where otherwise they could do good
service In hauling gravel from the pit to
fill low places In the new streets. Dur
ing this time the men could dig humps
and have sufficient dirt together with
what they dug the remainder of the day
to keep the carts hauling all day. The
gravel hauled would be about two loads
to wards l and and three loads to
wards and 4, differing owing to the
different distances to the pit. This ex-
ira service of hauling gravel would
more than compensate what the wages
of these men would amount to, There
is enough work for both men and carts
sll the year around in first getting the
new streets in order and then keeping
them so, for it is wonderful how rapid
humps accumulate as can be seen in the
new streets just recently finished.
Therefore necessarily ask the honor
able council for these four men and ur-
gently pray that may be granted them.
also respectfully ask for four ad-
ditional carts to make up the full num-
Der of ten carts again. 1t is impossible
for me to cope with the work of general
repairs of streets not improved with the
elk carts left me. also call the attention
Of your honorable body to your act of
depriving me of my carpenter, which is,
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