Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-08

Acalled meeting of the City Council was
held last night at the instance of the Mayor,
ubo called the meeting at the request of the
Committee on Light.
~ THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
ontba members save one were present, and
star the reading of the Mayors communi-
n,tion Giving his reason for calling the meet
nr Ietter from w. II. HantZmon, Super.
iofandent of Gas, was submitted, in which
that official prayed Council to furnish new
exhauster for the Gas House.
The President. Mr.. Merbury, who is chair
man of the Committee on Light, succlnctly
daacribsa what was wanted, and showed
that u new exhGu5ier was an essential to the
spccass ofthe works He introduced resc-
luton providing for the purchase OF an ex-
hau-ter, which was adopted. The cost will
be between seven ard eight hundred dollars.
A long intermission followed while wait
jng for business from the lower board, and
upon the Aldermen being called to order
some business from the Common Council
was eoncurred 10.
Some business which elected no debate
va. then Transacted, after which the board
adjourned.
COMMON COUNCIL.
Mr. Geo. W. Fisher was called to the
chair 10 the absence of President Sweeney.
quorum was found to be present and the
Clerk read the following
Gentlemen Of the City Council
have convened your bodies at the re-
Qnes of the Committee on Light. very
respectfully, f. Z. DOWNHAM, Mayor.
communication from superintendent
Harmon, urging the purchase OF an eA
hsuster for the Gas Works was RECEIVED from
lbs Board OF Aldermen endorsed received
and read"
motion to concur was made.
Mr.. Bagne called for the yeas and nays.
The chair did not think yeas and nays
should he called on a trihing question.
Mr.. Kelly asked if the concurrence car
RED the adoption.
The Chair-Not at all.
The call for yeas and nays was then with
drawn.
An order to purchase an exhanster then
came 10 adopted from the Board OF Alder
men.
On motion to agree the yeas and nays
were called
Nj Cation. the Clerk, said that resolu
ton passed December l4th, 1856 authorized
new business and the order could be passed
by nine votes.
The Chair held that with the coss OF the
former Council without the order having
been carried ont, the appropriation lapsed,
and the proposal 10 make the purchase was
new business.
Mr. Snowden said he had been told that
the purchase of this exhauster was of abso-
lutte necessity. The additional pressure Of
the new tanks required it and the new
works could not be successfully operated
without it. but he thought that twelve votes
was necessary.
As twelve votes could not be obtained the
subject was laid upon the table, and after
some business without debate. the board
adjourned until next Monday night, when
nine votes will suffice to order the pur-
chase
PERSONAL Mr.. B Whea,ley has return.
ed from Norfolk, where he went to attend
the meeting of the State Undertakers' Asso
citation.
Miss Mary Smith and Miss Maggie Fl
patrick, OF this city, are visiting Miss An
deTsOO, Of Howard county, Md.
Misses Frankie and Virgie Fleming are
Wis.,, ing relatives at Hauoverville. Md.
Mrs Hesselius Smith, who has been visit
iug rela ives 10 Woodbury., N. j., and Phlls
deIpha, P.,.. has returned home.
Miss P. T jane son. who has been spend
ing the summer j: her former home in Geo,
leryile, Fairfax county, Va, has returned
to the city.
Mr. aud Mrs. VIM. Fleming are visiting
relatives in Harrisoaburg.
Miss Heller, of this city. is visiting the
Misses Mofitt, at Vernon Mills.