The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-07
THE EVENING MEETING.

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The petition was granted and the Board
adjourned.
THE EVENING MEETING.
A special meeting of both boards was held
at 7.3O o'clock and this business was trans.
acted:
In Board Of Mayor and Aldermen.
The Board was called to order promptly at
half-past seven by Mayor Melcher. All the
members Of the Board were present except
Alderman Thompson. The following bust
ness was transacted:
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
The petition of l.. P. Haskell to remove a
| wooden building from 80 Lowell street to SO
Huntress street was passed. subject to the
usual conditions.
The petition Of Augustus johnson for
sewer abatement was referred.
CENTRE STREET SCHOOL HOUSE CELLAR.
The Mayor addressed the Board in relation
| to an order passed in concurrence at the last
meeting of tee Council, taking $500 from the
contingent fund to cement the cellar of Gen.
ire street school Il house. His Honor hoped
mittee on public buildings had looked the
| matter over very carefully and deemed it i'm
| practical and useless expenditure of money
| The school house at present Is heated by old
fashioned stoves, said the Mayor. and it is
| only question of short time when mod
ern system Of heating must be put in. Then
| all the work done now on the cellar would
have to be undene. Drs. Files, Ring and
Baker had, at his request, examined the cell
lar and deemed It perfectly safe and healthy;
the question thoroughly when he voted for
| the order. He moved to reconsider 1t was
voted to reconsider. The order was then de-
feated.
When the order came down to the lower
board that board voted to adhere to its former
action. Mr.. Murphy was satisfied that the
cellar was damp and foul. The statement
was made that the school committee had Wis
tied the cellar when the windows were all
dows were all closed they would have noticed
the dampness and 0d0r. The secretary of
the Board Of Health, at the request of the
Common Council, said that Mr.. Saward, the
agent. said that there was no dampness ex-
cept in one corner, where the old vault used
to be-. Then Mr. Murphy said he didn't be-
lieve in any such inspection, and Mr.. Chap
man believed the health of the children was
| OF primary Importance, so the Board adhered
In inconvenience.
THE ENGINE HOUSE ORDINANCE
An ordinance to amend an ordinance in re-
lation to public buildings was presented.
The ordinance takes the charge of the en-
| CINE and hook and ladder houses from the
| control Of the committee on public buildings
and puts it in the hands of the committee on
fire department. Aldermen Shaw and Nc
Clutchy favored the order, while Aldermen
Hobbs and Mccain opposed it. The ordi-
nance failed OF passage and the lower
board concurred with the upper board.
| THE HACKNEY CARRIAGE ORDINANCE.
| In the lower board this ordinance was read
and the only sections that were objected to
were those which gave the fee of 25 cents for
Issuing the licenses to the hackney coach
men and drivers of drays ETC., to the City
| Clerk. Mr.. Floyd insisted that the city
charter stated that the Boardof Mayor and
Aldermen, or City Council, were to tell the
clerk what to do and he had to do it, and it
was absurd to pay him extra for it. He
asked the City Solicitor If that was not the
construction Of the charter and the Solicitor
said 1t was. Mr.. Thompson Thought the
Clerk was entitled to the fee for what was
really extra y. work, and Others agreed with
and Mr.. Murphy's view. Finally the board
amended the ordinance so as to have the
City Clerk collect the fees and pay
them into the city treasury.
Then the ordinance, in nom
board enacted new ordinance like the other
except that In 1t all carriages for hire were
to be licensed by the City Marshal, who
shall provide a stand for hackney coaches,
take the % cent fee from the hackmen and
draymen. and pay it into the city treasury.
Mr: Gilliatt tried to get an amendment to
section 8, reading that "the drivers of hack
ney carriages may, when on premises of per-
sons or corporations who object to their
wearing badge, temporarily remove it
without being subject to arrest" but it failed
OF passage, as it Is understood that COM
promise in this matter will probably be ef-
fected between the Union Station authori-
ties and the city. This new ordinance passed
boards.
THE ENGINEMEN.
The ordinance in relation to election of en-
ginemen went back from the lower board in
non-concurrence. The upper board adhered
TO It's former action, and asked for commit
tee Of conference. Aldermen Shaw. Nc
Cam and Rand were appointed.
In the lower board, Alderman Tompson
was opposed to the passage of the ordinance
because, as the limit of age was So, it would
throw enginemen Porter and Cousins ont of
the service.
Mr.. Murphy thought discipline required
that the force be entirely under control of
the Board Of Engineers, and that an engine-
man was no better than the driver. MI.
Chapman read from the ordinances showing
that the enginemen are responsible for the
care of the city property in engine houses
not be. When the committee of conference
was asked for by the upper board, this board
appointed Messrs. Tompson, Lewis and
Floyd, but the conference couldn't agree.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The report of the committee on electrical
appliances was accepted, and also the reports
amended ordinances, and the council con-
CURED.