Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-09
THE UNION DEPOT QUESTION.
Steps Taken to Haven't Submitted
to the People.
ACTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
Committee Appointed TO Confer
With the Railroad Oficials
and TO Prepare an ordi-
nance at Once.
Tic CITY Council.

Members Ford and Hascall were absent
from the council meeting last night, aud as
result q great deal of business was dis
patched in q peaceful and rapid manner. The
matters before the meeting were disposed of
before 10 o'clock, very unusual happening.
The union depot question was brought up
BY a resolution of Mr.. Bedford's to the effect
that committee of five be appointed by the
chair to confer with the officials OF
the b. ~ NJ and Union Pacific
railway companies and report to the council
at the earliest possible moment an
ordinance providing for the submission of
the proposition to aid in the construction of
the viaduct across Tenth stceet in connection
with the union depot, and to consider further
what steps are necessary to be taken by the
city in order TO confirm the property desired
for union depot purposes by the union depot
company.
The resolution was adopted and Bedford,
Lowry, Snyder, Kaspcr and Ford appointed
a the committee.
The street sweeping contractors were or
dered to sweep jackson street from Seventh
to Ninth.
G.. w. Tillson, city engineer, was granted
ten DAYS leave of absence
The city engineer reported the receipt OF
$2l from plumbers and drainlayers during
the month of September
The fire and police commissioners pur-
chase of n new chemical engine aud six ne w
fire alarm boxes was approved.
The plumbing inspectors report showing
the receipt of Sil6, was received and re-
ferred to the comptroller.
The city physician reported 129 births and
scventythrce deaths in the month of Sep
tember.
The receipts of the city boiler inspect or's
Office for September amounted to $2DS.
The bond of John f. Coots, in the sum of
800, 600 for the proper construction of the
city hall, with Thomas Murray and T..
Specht as sureties was approved.
The following estimates were approved:
Hugh Murphy, paving Pierce street from
street, from Cass to Izard, S2,243.9S; j. b.
Smith & Co., paving Thirty.second street
from Farnam to Davenport, Sl,03l.55,
Twenty-lifth street from Dodge to Farnam
street. S5lS.14; Regan Bros. & Co., paving
Seventeenth street from Farnam to Harney
street, s239.3I; paving Eighteenth street
from Farnam to Harney street, S24 ,.39; paw
ing Leavenworth street from Fourteenth to
Iwenty-fourth street, S2,9ll.36.
The contract of Hugh Murphy for chang
ing paving material on Poppleton avenue
from Colorado sandstone to Galesburg brick
| was approved.
j. f. Riley & Co.'s contract for paving
Twentieth street from Viuton street to Van
| Camps addition with cedar blocks was
| referred back to the board of public works to
| secure the comptroler's certificate of funds.
Contracts were approved: With Garfield,
| Fleming a. Co., for grading Thirty-siXth
street from Farnam to Leavenworth and
| Half Howard from Ihirty-siXth street TO
| Selden street; with John +. Daley, for con-
| structing sewer in sewer district No. 9S
| a petition for sewer on Twenty-firSt
street south of Leavenworth was granted
and the city engineer ordered to prepare the
| ordinance.
The bill of Mount & Griffin for s1lO for
street sprinkling in 1SsS was allowed.
Thomas Cummings bill of S245,25 against
Congdou & Eagan, the contractors who
| graded Sherman avenue was referred to the
| committee on grades and grading.
| The bill of f. B. Fem for work on sewers,
amounting to 5000, went to the committee
on claims.
| petition for the grading of South Seven
teenth street from the Is. & NJ. tracks to
| Center street, was referred to the committee
| on grades and grading.
Vacancies on the boards of Supervisors of
registration were filed by the following APP
| pointments: First ward-First district, c.
=. Burkett, Scott Butler, j.. b. Toohe; Sec
| ond district, E. G. Flagg; Third district. p.
| II. Mahan. Fourth ward-First district,
| Charles Ellis. Fifth ward-Second district,
| l.. G. Ertiing. Seventh ward First district,
E. T. Shelby. Eighth ward-Flrst district,
| }. F. Small.
! A lot of the citizens up in the vicinity of
| Twenty-fifth street and Patrick avenue don't
| want any manufacturing industries up that
| way, and presented petition asking the
| council TO declare proposed iron foundry in
| that vicinity a nuisance. The petition was
| referred to the committee on police.
| a resolution was introduced by Mr..
| Shriver extending the fire limits south of
| Pierce, west to ThirtIeth, north to Parker,
| and east on Grace to Eighth street. 1t was
| referred to the committee on judiciary.
The council will meet on Thursday, Oc-
| tober II, as board of equalization.
| BY resolution of Mr.. Wheeler the board Of
| public works, sidewalk inspector and street
| commissioner were assigned to the room in
| the court house recently vacated by the city
treasurer, and boiler and plumbing inspector
| to the room recently vacated by the city
| comptroller.
A bill was presented from the Seck Man
| ufacturng Company for $500 for canvas
| bags furnished to the chief of police for the
| purpose of keeping the effects of prisoners.
| The claim was denied the articles were
| purchased without the authority of the
| comptroller, and contrary to the provisions
| of the charter.
| Ordinances were introduced and referred
| declaring the necessity of constru citing a
| vIaduct on IZard street over the Missouri
| Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee,, st. Paul
and Omaha railway tracks; ordering the
| paving of Twentieth street from Vinton
| street to the north line of Van Camps add
| tion with cedar blocks on sand and plank
| levying a tax to pay for the opening of
| Webster street from Thirty-second TO Thirty
| sixth streets.
Ordinances were passed: Changing the
| grade Of Burt street from a point $50 feet
| east of Pleasant street to Thrty-tifth street {;
| extending Twenty-siXth street south of
| Hickory street; ordering the grading of
Grove street from Dodge to Davenport,