Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
WORK OF COUNCILS.
A Resolution Against the Beck's Run
Schindery introduced.
Mr.. DUNCAN RAPS SOUTHSIDERS.
The Larimer Avenue Passenger Road Ordi'
nance Was Passed.
TRACTION LINE OPPOSITION NO GOOD

by Messrs. Magee and Duncan, the proceed
lngs were harmonious and peaceful.
On the call of wards in the Select branch
the following ordinances and petitions were
presented and properly referred: Author
iEing the Federal Street and Pleasant Val
ley Passenger Railway Company to use ami
NAL power, electricity or cables on their
lines in this city, and allowing the said
company to change from one to the other, as
may be desired, also allowing the company
to construct double tracks on Duquesne
way Seventh and Ninth streets; author
izing the grading, paving and curbing Of
Margaretta street; authorizing sewer on
Carson street, from South Second street to
the Monongahela bridge; authorizing the
grading, paving and curbing Of Washing
ton street, from BeltZhoover avenue to
point east.
A number of resolutions were presented
and adopted requesting the Finance Com
mittee to make provision in the next apprO-
priation for certain improvements. Mr..
Treusch's resolution was for the repairing
OF Seventh street and Evans alley; Mr.. Mis-
bets resolution was for $4,000 TO construct
and equip an engine house in the Thirty
first ward, but Mr.. Robertson amended it to
$50, 900 for the purpose of including the
Thirty-seeond and Thirty-ffth wards in the
same improvement; another resolution was
to have Taylor, Edmond, Penn and Liberty
streets, Seventeenth ward, repaved, the rea-
sons urged being that these were of the first
to be paved with wooden blocks Is years
ago, and the blocks having rotted the streets
are in very bad condition. ALI these reso-
lutions were adopted.
MONEY FOR NATIONS.
A communication from Chief Brown re-
questing the transfer Of $4,000 from the
Bureau of Health appropriation to the
Bureau of Police, stated that when the ap-
propriations were made the Finance Com
mittee made no provision for the police
matrors, whose employment was enforced
subsequently, by an act of Legislature. The
police matrons' salaries amounted to 81, 800
per year, and the fund of the Police Bureau
would fall $1,000 short for the year. The
resolution was indorsed by Controller Nor
row. and was adopted by Councils.
The attention of Mr.. Nisbet having been
called to the condition of the Beck's Run
schindery through the columns of the
Southside edition of The DISPATCH. be
presented a resolution charging the schin-
derry with being a nuisance, polluting the
water which the Southside people drink,
and calling on the Bureau of Health and
the Health Committee on Public Safety to
investigate, and that the City Attorney be
instructed to look into the legal status of
the city in the case.
When the ordinance granting the use of
certain East End streets to the Larimer Ave
nue. Passenger Railway Company, was pre-
sented and called up for passage, Mr..
Heating presented a protest from the Pitts
burg Traction Company, who had requested
him to state their claim. The route of the
proposed line begins at the intersection of
Penn and Collins avenues. The ordinance
also includes a branch line out Broad street,
and provides for the use of cables for mo-
tive power, the line TO be commenced
within nine months and completed within
two years.
THEIR CHARTER ANTEDATED.
Mr.. Heating said that the Pittsburg
Traction had taken out charter for the
same route as the Larimer avenue COM
pany proposed on the 18th of last August
while the charter of the last named company
was dated November 20, several months
the protest, however, and the ordinance was
passed by vote of 26 to 1, Mr.. Reilly's
vote being the only negative.
The Finance Committee reported favorably
on generating the Home for Destitute
Women from water taxes for 1888 and 1889.
The resolution was adopted. A resolution
requesting the Chief of the Department of
Public Works to make an estimate of cost
of repairing Butler from Forty-eighth to
Forty-ninth streets was adopted. A resolu-
ton for the appointment of q special COM
mittee to act in conjunction with the Cham
Der of Commerce in securing the necessary
L., clok 10 ~ fha kc
the rivers and harbors of Pittsburg was
adouted.
A number of minor ordinances were
passed.
In Common Councils number Of papers
were presented, chief among which were the
ones granting the Brilliant Electric Light
Company the right to erect poles and wires,
and providing that the city shall not pay
for street lamps more than rs per cent of the
rates charged private consumers; compell-
ing owners of lots on streets which are
severed to make connection with the sewer,
using nine-inch terra Gotta pipe, and au-
thorizing the Chief of the Department of
Public Works to lay the connections at the
expense of the property owners, if the latter
neglect to do so.
Mr.. Duncan presented a resolution de-
claring that Soho street, from Center avenue
to Fifth avenue, is impossible to pedes-
trians on account of mud, and directing the
Chief of the Department Of Public Works
to clean the sidewalks. Passed.
A resolution was also introduced BY Mr..
Duncan, and passed, to build bulkhead on
Schafer street, to keep the roadway in
place.
Mr.. Bigham, for the Committee on Public
Works, presented ordinances for opening
Webster street, Monongahela street, Mckee
nfu-n iOhf
street; all OF which were passed.
MR.. CARNAHAN's REPORT.
Mr.. Carnahan, from the Committe on Sur. |
veys, presented number of ordinances es-
tablishing the grade Of streets. The pripci- |
pal were Bertha street, Water street, from |
Smithfeld to Grant street; locating Forbes |
avenue, from Boyd to Diamond street, which |
were passed.
The report Of the Department Of Awards |
on a number of contracts was approved. |
Mr.. n. G. Howard wrote letter in which |
he stated his bid to grade and pave Grand
view avenue was the lowest by $500, but was
refused because his bond was irregular. The
latter fact he denied.
Under Select Council business the Lari-
mer avenue railway was taken up and passed. |
The ordinance authorizing Rea & Co. to
build bridge over Greenough street, was
passed finally. A resolution to transfer
s., 900 from the Health to the Police Bureau
was passed. The resolution directing the
portrait of William Pitt to be hung back of
The Presidents chair in Select Council, was
amended to provide for hanging it in the
City Clerks Office. The free bridge resolu-
ion as passed in Select Council was adopt
ID. The resolutions relative to repaving
Seventh street and Evans alley were amend
ID so as to call for an estimate on the cost
,nlv.
The resolution for including IN the esti-
mates of 1890, $50, 900 for engine houses in
he ThIrty-f Thirty-second and Thirty
fifth wards was annendad hv Mr. nnncan |