Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-26
ALL CLEARED AWAY.
Select and Common Councils Done With
Business Until the REORGANIZATION In
ApriI-Garbage Talk.


Select and Common Councils Done With
April-Garbage Talk.
In clearing the desks for the year Select
Council yesterday absolved from taxes for
the year 1888 the defunct firm of Graf,
Bennett & Co., and ordered warrant
drawn for SIG, 1857 in favor of George L. Pea
body 4 Co., for repairing Fourth avenues vul-
canite pavement. The report of the Depart
menr of Public Safety for the month of Febru-
ary was presented and adopted as follows:
Expenses-General office, 1893 81; Bureau OF
Fire Sl5 357 so: Bureau of Police, 49, 1876; Elec-
tricty S. Els Is; Health, e. 223 49,; Building In
spectors, $3.50: Plumbing Inspector. SIS. Total,
~, 243 IS. Balance in appropriation, s6l4 256 a.
In connection with the contract for fuel for
the garbage furnace, Chief Brown presented
a report il which he stated that from expe-
rience and tests the figure asked by the Phila-
delphia company $500 per month, or S36, 900
per year,, the only bidder. was about the best
the city could get. Owing to the limited
amount of money in the Bureau of Health
last year, the report went on to say, the gar
bage furnace was only run actually during the
months of June, July, August and September
|. There will be clause in the agreement that
the city will only be required to pay for the
gas during such part of each month as the
furnace IS in operation.
Tire report was received and fled, but Dr.
Evans opposed the approval of the contract
until Chief Brown was heard from. Mr..
Evans had the word of r. H. Smith, the man
who erected the garbage furnace, that it could
be fred at an expense of $500 for fuel per year.
Mr.. Robertson also objected to the figures of
the Philadelphia Company, and thought it
that corporation might see fit to give. 1t was a
pity, he said, that there was no competition in
that line of business in the city.
Mr.. Sullivan was opposed to the contract
personally. but he thought it was folly on the
part of the members Of Council to object or
protest against extravaganza or waste of the
peoples money when the people themselves
took no interest in the matter, made no pro-
tests and continued to elect men to Council
who cared nothing for the peoples interests.
Mr.. Sullivan had always, during his term in
Office, consulted the interests of the-people in
everything that came before Councils, and
thought such men as Mr.. FFew should ave
been supported aud elected; but now he rather
thought it would have been better if no atten-
tion had been paid to such trifles, and instead
of shaving down extravagance and preventing
waste the members should have let things go.
so that the people would have been awakened
to realizing sense of their own interests.
Mr.. FreW jumped to mis- feet imm ediately
and objected to Mr.. SulliYan's placing him in
the category of defeated reformers. He had
not been a candidate for reelection and there
were no sour grapes about him. He had de-
clined denomination and did not regret that
his term in Council had expired.
After this little digression Chief Brown came
IN and answered number OF questions
about the expense of firing the garbage fur
mace. The furnace had been built to do GER
tain things, but had failed to perform anything
like what it was guaranteed to do by the
builder. After this statement by Mr.. Brown
the contract was approved without opposition.
and then the following ordinances were passed
finally:
For the grading, paving and curbing of Center
avenue from Soho street to Hiland avenue; estab-
fishing the grade of Vine street, relocating part
OF Herron avenue; locating Orlena, Fingal, Re-
public, Seward, Rutledge and Leila streets; sew
ers on Penn and Braddock avenues; sewer on
Holden, Smumerlea, Howe and O'Hara streets;
sewers on Carey alley and South Railroad street;
opening Welsh way and Manton alley: grading.
paving and curbing Allen. BOquet and Railroad
streets and Dresden alley: vacating the streets
laid out by the late Phillip Winebiddle, in the
Winebiddle plan, Nineteenth ward.
The desks being all cleared, Mr.. Robertson
then in brief speech proposed standing vote
of thanks to Mr.. Ford for his kindness and i'm
partiality to the members during his term as
Chairman, which was unanimously agreed TO.
Mr. Ford responded briefly and the Council
was adjJurned.