Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-04

street be paved from ~Thirtysixth. street to
Lowe avenue were referred 20 committee on
paving, curbing and guttering.
L.. A. Goldsmith gave formal notice OF hav.
spectcr, and ]. O. Wiener was given peri
mission TO use n part OF Chicago street tems
porarily with a frame structure while he
puts up a threes story brick.
Proposition OF Anheuser-Busc brewing
company offering their premises or Ninta
and Capitol avenue for Jail purposes, was re.
ferred to special committee on tails.
Hugh M1rghy's bond in the sum Of ss5,O 900
was approved.
Communications OF l.. Levi, asking for a
grade; 4. S. Dundy, jr., and others, that
they be given leave TO occupy six feet adj
joining their lots fronting and abuttina
Thirty second street between Pacific street
and Woolworth avenue for park purposes
Joseph pritchard and others calling atteu.
ton TO the bad condition of the alley on tho
south side of L~eavenworth street, between
Twenty-tirst and Twenty.second streets,
were referred 10 the COMMITTEES on streets
j. p. S;nith's claim, 5000, for bridging
sunken sewer at the intersection on Twenty.
eighth and Farnam streets, was allowed
Petition OF property holders that Capitol
avenue from Eighteenth to Twentieth street
be paved forty feet wide with cedar blocks
was referred TO the committee OH paving,
curbing and guttering.
The following resolutions wore adoptcdt
Instructing street commissioner TO do neccs.
sary grading. on Spring and Thirteenth
streets for sidewalks; instructing same OIL
cial to construct necessary sidewalks on
South Fourteenth street; reconsidering reso-
luton that the street commissioner do work
under direction OF the mayor; instructing
street commissioner to lay q crosswalk on
west side of Twenty-fourth street at Leaycn-
worth; directing board of public works TO
repair sewer and paving on Twenty fourth
street; directing street commissioner to ,re-
pair or otherwise protect the washout ON
South Seventeenth street ut Union Pacific
railway crossing, and to fill in the alley in
block 9, E. N. Smiths addition; allowing G.
+. Williams to curb Nineteenth street in
front of lots l and 2, block O, Horbach's
second addition; authorizing the employment
of four men in Hanscom park; permitting a
sidewalk to be laid on Poppleton avenues
from Thirty-third to Thirty-sixth street; au-
thorizing the printing of 10000 copies Of
The appended resolutions were referred.
That the courcil reconsider the assessment
on the property holders of Twenty-second
street, between Grant and the north line
of Denises Additionally attorney; that the
street commission be instructed to grade the
alley in block ., Willard pla~ce-committee on
streets and alleys; that the city attorney
and city engineer prepare an ordinance FOR
the construction of a viaduct on South
Twenty-fourth street-committee on via
ducts and bridges; that the board OF public
works have CHI. sc of all repairs on paved
streets-referred 10 special committee COM
prising Councilman Lowry, Kitchen and
Hascall.
DR.. j. b. Ralph's bill for SOS, for medical
services for January and February was re-
ferred to the committee on police, and the
CLAIM of =. Fox ~ Co., claiming S228.15 in<
terest on estimates for building the south
branch of north Omaha was not allowed.
The committee on police reported that the
charges made against Garbage Inspector
Goldsmith by garbage collectors were not
worthy of notice.
John ]. Mcdonald was awarded the con-
tract for repairing sewers for the ensuing
year, contrary to the recommendation Of the
committee on sewerage that the board of
public works readvertise for bids, and II. A.
Wallace was allowed SS2.s5 for repairing
sewers.
The following resolution by Councilman
Lee met with a hearty reception, and was
amended to read "all other contractors"
Resolved, That the board of public works
be directed to notify Reagan Bros. & Co. to
proceed with the paving contracts now held
by them.
The appropriation ordinance to pay the
liabilities of the city for the month Of March
was read three times by title and passed,
Its total is 500. 557. 33.
The following ordinances were passed:
Creating an alley in paving district No. 30;
creating paving districts Nos. 1877, 16S, 1863,
IN M district tn No. $; creating ewe districts saTas
Nos. 66 and 6S; opening an alley in block 12,
Hanscom- place; constructing a Sewer in
sewer district No. 81; regulating the erection
and placing of signs: opening a street through
lots "a and A in Hartman's addition; grading
Douglas street from Tw~enty-sixth avenue tn
the west line of Boggs & Hills second addi-
ton; establishing grade of alley between
Cass and T~wenty-fifth street and Twenty
sixth street.
At II 80 the council adjourned until next
Thursday night.