Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-17
CITY COUNCIL.
The Reading OF Petition Stopped by a
Motion to Table.
Ordinances for Sewer and Righ School Bonds
Read-A Protest Recorded on the
Misunderstanding

Mr.. Clements beng present. Mayor
Broiles was in the chair.
After the reading OF the minutes AZ
derman Clements was on motion granted
thirty days leave of absence.
The street and alley committee sub
mitted report recommending that
viaduct be built under the rail road tracks
extending Front street through the same
| and around to the Union depot. The
work was recommended to be done ac-
cordin g to the plans submitted at a pre-
| vions meeting by City Engineer Kane.
The vladuct to be built under the Texas
and Pacific tracks in accordance with
an agreement made in St. Louis
several years ago with the railroad COM
! pany. In the event il was found that
| the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe the Fort
| Worth and New Orleans, the Fort Worth
and Denver did not use the right of way
of the Texas and Pacific, they were to
| build the Viaduet under their tracks at
their own expense. The report was
! adopted and the work ordered done.
Several claims for the waterworks
amounting to $500, were allowed.
Under the head of petitions Secretary
| Early read part of a petition signed by
/ the Fort Worth gas light company by
| Capps 81 CAVITY, its attorneys. 1t read
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the
City of Fort Worth.
GENTLEMEN-Some time since there
was submitted to your honorable body an
ordinance giving to the Fort Worth gas
| light compdny the right to construct and
maintain over the streets of the city
| plant for the purpose OF supplying cleo
| trio lights to the public. This ordinance,
| while granting to the company the right
TO erect its poles and string its wires,
| also provided by section l., 'sThat the
| street and alley committee should have
| the right TO designate where the posts
should be placed
By section 2 it was also provided that
the privileges granted should be exer-
cised under the supervision of the city
engineer and in such manner as not to in
terfere with the public convenience; and
also that all privileges by such ordinances
granted "Should be subject to all ordi-
nances enacted or to be enacted by the
city council in regulation of electric, tel
egraph and telephone wires.
The ordinance was submitted to your
legal adviser, Hon. r. J. Powell, who
expressed himself as satisfied that its pro-
visions were amply sufficient at law to
protect the city IS interests.
This ordinance was then submitted to
your honorable body, who, in your wis
dom, saw ct to refer the same to the
street and alley committee, composed of
Messrs. Clements, Smith and Daggett
After much solicitation, and after
two meetings of the council had
passed, and on the evening of tie
meeting of July 2, Messrs. Clements and
Smith of the committee, acting with Mr..
Baily, tackled to the ordinance as orig
inally drawn the following restriction,
viz: FProyided that the city council
may at any time by a majority vote or
der the wires of the said company placed
under ground, or this franchise an
nulled.
Mr.. Capps, representing the Fort
Worth gaslight company, appealed to the
two members of the committee and 10
Mr.. Bailey to relieve the ordinance of
this most harsh restriction, on the
ground that the provisions of the orii-
nance fully protected the city IS rights in
the street, and also that such restrictions
had never before been enjoined upon any
person or corporation using the city's |
streets for any purpose.
He was replied to by Mr.. Bailey (who |
seemed to have control of the matter,
and who seemed most solicitous for the |
protection of the city's lnterest(D J.
The secretary had reached this point |
when Mr.. Bailey jumped to his feet.
''Mr. Chairman, that is an insult to |
the council. 1 move it be tabled. - The |
motion was seconded and carried and |
those present wondered what could be in
the rest of the communication.
In the lobby there was considerable |
talk about the denial of the right of Pc
tition, which was said to be d part of the |
fundamental law of the constitutions of |
the United States and of the state, but |
all the same the balance of that petition
was not read, although the vote to table |
was by no means unanimous.
A protest signed by five aldermen was
then read. 1t was spread on the min
utes by unanimous vote. 1t reads as
follows:
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the
City OF Fort Worth.
GENTLEMEN-Whereas 'fthe greatest
good to the greatest number has al
ways been a fundamental principle of
government, and believing that an insti-
tuition built and fostered by the taxpay-
ers should be located in the most central
and convenient place TO the majority of
its patrons and supporters; therefore we,
the undersigned aldermen of the city of
Fort Worth, do hereby offer our solemn
and earnest protest against the location
of the proposed high school building on
the ground recently selected by this
council, known as the Huffman-Temple-
ton block, on the South Side. We be-
lieve the location selected to be a gross
injustice TO very large majority of the
patrons of the public schools of the city,
and that the dissatisfaction caused there
by will more than overbalance any adj
vantages claimed for said location, either
present or future. We also ask that this
protest be spread upon the records of the
city. j. P. RIcKs,
s. NJ. Fry,
JESSE JONES,
W. r. HAYAIAKER,
w. W. TRIPPET.
Secretary Early began reading petit
tion from n. II. sirrelle, formerly con-
nected with the city engineers depart
ment in the capacity OF counting sewer
pipe. 1t set forth that he had been
given five days to resign and turn over
his portfolla to the city engineer. That