The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-08

folded their Alpaca coats and laid them
aside for the time being. Messrs ID. 7.
Tadden, James Lee, jr., John L. Randle,
Samuel Hirsch, Charles Kney, j. I. Petit
r. J. Graham and Lyons Wallace were on
hand for he dull session. After reading the
minutes, Secretary Pullen laid before the
body
REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS,
which were adopted as follows:
Fire DEPARTMENTAL Alarms responded to,
q box and still. Loss Of owners 81 1857;
occupants. Ss,0l3. Insurance Of owners,
$4,000; occupants, 1926, 200 Insurance
over loss, S225, $50.
Register General tax registered s97,-
OBS. So; compromise interest, Si3, l094 3;
amount license issued, S2,O57. 40; fees
collected, SIS, paid on privilege bonds,
s76; rents, sl25. Total, s2,3O5. 10. Ii
censes issued, etc, SiS.
Police Arrests, 6Ol-white 3l7, col.
ored 2SI fines assessed, 81 320; total paid,
S2,6SG. 80; expenses, -, 25L6l.
Ilospital-Patients treated, lis; ex-
penscs, SS''5.bZ.
Inspector Of Weights and Mcasuros-
Total collections, $685..
Engineer The usual amount OF work
done was reported.
BUILDING PERMITS.
Jennie Bennett, in rear Of No. 81 Had
den avenue; rejected.
A. Vaccaro, No. 1872 Adams; granted,
provided always left open.
l. &. Castle, No. 80 DcSoto; granted.
A. Carr, corner Poplar and Manassas;
granted.
Annie NJ. Fisher, No. 80 Adams; re-
jecicd.
II. J. II. Coffin & Co, Auction street;
rejected.
TuE HACKS AGAIN.
Mcssrs. Henry I.uehrmann, W. s. Bruce
4 CO., Louisville Il Nashville Railroad
company and Mitchell 4 Bryson asked
that the further usc Of Monroe street, from
Main 10 second, as hack stand be- forbid
den. "rhose Of us who own or rent prop
criy in that vicinity find that during the
hot months, owing TO the horses being
kept constantly standing In the open
street, great Inconvenience arises from the
flies and smells they bring with them. We
submit that the street IL intended for pass
ing vehicles, not hack stands We respect
fully ask that, at least during tho summer
months, some other public hack stand may
bc designated
People along Second street submitted a
counter petition.
The petition was referred 10 tho chief Of
police Ia see II the hackmen were keeping
the present stand in a sanitary condition.
DID NOT EyADE
Tho Wills Stationery company, by r.
T. Wills, manager. pctitioncd for relief
~. H.. "a
81 Main street. The paper was concurrcd
in by the employees, six In number, who
worked up stairs. Col. Rande moved 20
-cicr il to the president. Capt. lee said II
Nas not the proper thing IN refer such
matters "a the president, Who did not cnrc
10 stir MP lion every day. TIE board
might ~ well vote on them and take some
II the responsibility. Eve have q habit
lcrr, " said the captain. ''of cyading mat.
en- of this Kind by throwing them upon
Mr.. MADDEN"
''Now. gentlemen, want TO denuc INV
,osiiiun on this question. ! do not intend
o evadc, and don't propose to take II that
WAY"
IAN right crack your whip" replied
APT Ice.
"Thc motion, then, h 10 receive and flc
lac petition announced the president,
hlh ~ Ntnl HIoUkh luht way
TuE couu SQUARE rENcr.
Mr. Norlcct appeared before the council
IN behalf ot the citizens Of Como, Miss
Aho wished 10 purchase the iron fence
now being removed from around Court
SQUARE a. place around q cemetery nj that
point The Mississippi people were will
ny ippay $3.50, the same price paid by lhr
Chickasaw Guards. A resolution was in
iroduccd by Mai. Petit p-cinding former
action ol the council orlrring IT, sale. and
the fence will be placed around tho hos-
pital maybe.
sruEAGE ~ POWDER.
The wholesale merchants arrested few
days since ior violation Of the ordinance
regulating the storing OF powder In the
city, presented a strung petition for relief
The ordinance had never lriurc been en-.
forced. aud was In iact a dead letter. The
gentlemen cared little Tor the small fines
imposed, but insisted that they should
have been notified II the contemplated On.
inurmcnt No house on Ftont street
Keeps powder over night being hauled Ia
and nom the magazine ~ becomes ncccs-
siry between early morning aud o'clock
\. m. Neither did they scll powder NJ ~
tail, and no accident bad ever occurrd
from explosions, and ~ u wis kept near
the front doors, Il would be- the first thing
thought OF In casc Of fire, aud removed.
The petition was referred 10 Mcssr,. Gm-
ham, llirch and Wallace.
SMALL PETITIONS
A. Scussc Louis samhucctii. W. A.
Hckiurd, Bessie W. Whitfield, and X.
Huchignani, prayed ior the relief by AN
extension ul time from orders To Law stone
aud brick sidewalks Extended 10 first ol
september next.
Citizens along Polk street wanted ia,
tcWcrs The petition was ruicrrrd 10 IA,
president for report at next meeting.
Property owners along aud in thc yicin
iiy Of Linden street called attention a. IN,
row Of harmck tenement houses on 10,
nor,h side Of Linden, east OF Orleans Re
Tened 10 the board Ut health and chief oI
the iirc department.
The Brush Electric Light company. pro.
tested against the number " lights ~.
ported out ON stated dates. Conditions oI
the carbons did not bear out the reports.
Changes Ia hight II poles wcrc also ~.
qucstcd. The whole business was TO
ccivcd and fod.
The Merchants Cotton Pres and Slomg,
company, DESTROYS Of erecting a cotton
warehouse on Us property situated on Ia,
north side Of Georgia strcct, pctitoncd iOl
the privilege 81 closing Third street, from
Georgia 10 the river, and 30 opon q similaI
street In lieu thereof directly west OF Id
No. compress. Referred TO the president
Mr.. KnCy, engineer and nttofucV