Wichita eagle., 1889-10-15
ASPHALT FOR MAIN sTEET.
City Building Located With Very Little Trouble
Quite a Business Like Meeting.

not so large as usual last even'g and by far
less noisy which seemed to have had good
effect on the council. for during the session
there was less ''gassing" and more matters
decided upon in some way with less 'fuss"
than for some time. 1t was an extremely
business like session and little disposition
shown to shift responsibility or defer
action waiting for something to turn
upn The Main street paving question
come up with a full head of steam. The
frontage represented by asphalt and cedar
blocks was read, the former the largest,
and it was first decided to act according to
the wishes of the property owners. The
wish afterwards appeared to be for asphalt
and it was SO voted to pave Main street
with asphalt. The contract for grading
the street will probably be let next Mon
day night as will also be decided what
| kind of asphalt to use. the contract for
grading Market street was awarded. The
| city building question was again intro
duced and action selecting four site to be
voted upon rescinded and after some cross
motions. amendments and the like decided
| on the southeast corner of Lawrence avenue
| and Williams street, which places the city
building across the alley directly west of
| the Crawford Grand. The Wichita Subur-
ban franchise to reach Williams on Market
had been expected by some on the outside
to come up but did not put in an APP
pearance.
THE PROCEEDINGS.
The mayor raped for order promptly at
7:30. with members Healy. Barnes, John
son, Downing, Schnitzler. Coffin, Wight
and Carson present. The lobby was
| 1lar on6 1acc noicv +bao ncna1 the
paving interest and street railway fran
chise represented Before the EXPANSIVE
minutes of the meetings of the previous
two weeks had been read the lobby got a
little nervous.
The new rules were followed for the first
time All city officers submitted reports
and Healy moved all be referred to finance
committee except report of city scales.
| Prevailed.
The city surveyor reported the incorrect
report of taxable property to county clerk,
taken from the books of predecessor, aud
which way he should go. The matter was
referred to a committee.
The street commissioner reported that
| he would be able to reduce expense in his
department to some extent. The city en-
gineer's estimate of cost of sidewalk on
| Douglas avenue in vacant places placed
on file. Estimated cost of bridge across
| Chisholm creek at Hunter avenue, $3.50
Johnson thought Second street bridge
could spare a couple of spans. The clerk
was instructed to advertise for bids to
construct bridge.
| A petition was presented to open Park
street from Lawrence to Empora. A.
Cannon 6 Co. were granted privilege of
putting sidewalk in front of their business
establishment on Wichita street.
Bills amounting to S15.534 were read and
allowed Bills ON first reading were pre-
scented amounting to 81 800.
Out of the general fund s404 was appro-
| prated to engineers.
The Joint" ordinance was read which
makes minimum fine Of Sl25 instead of 500
| for selling intoxicants. The ordinance
was referred to the city attorney on motion
| of Coffin.
Mr.. Glaze, OF finance, had no report to
add to the appropriation made.
The matter of opening Park avenue was
referred to the mayor with power to act.
Judiciary committee reported unfavora-
BILE to allowing bill of w. B. Blair for
alleged damages for falling in the sewer
on Second street between Topeka and En-
poria avenues. The committee reported
favorable to fastening the work on paving
but did not think it good plan to COM
mence work on parks. The report was
based on consideration Of the mayors
recommendation.
The light committee had another batch
of vapor lights to ecommend-twenty-one
| in number.
Glaze said light bills were enormous and
moved the recommendation be deferred
until next meeting. He said some of the
electric lights had been giving bad service.
Coffin could not see that light bills had
anything to do with ordering lights. Ac-
cording to his economy the price paid had
nothing to do with the case.
Healy said the vapor lights, many of
them in the sunflowers and in the new
orders some lights wanted where there was
no houses
Glaze said he thought it would not re-
suit in much injury to defer action.
The motion to defer was lost and Healy
wanted an electric light on College hill
high above the sunfowers and the few
hundred vapors picked out of the sun
flowers, but not adopted and report of
committee adopted
on Main street five thousand two hundred
feet, but looking over papers could only
find four thousand and thirty-three feet.
For asphalt five thousand and forty-two
feet He moved that council be governed
by a majority of the property owners, with
Carson a second.
Schnitzler amended to delay twenty-one
days; Barnes second. The amendment
lost.
Coffin wanted the Downing motion in
writing and the writing commenced
Johnson wanted TO know what the ma
jority wanted, when it was answered that
was not the question.
Coffin said he would oppose the motion,
going over the intersection argument
again. He said he did not think majority
had been found in favor of anything yet.
Healy said he did not think intersections
should be counted with the minority but
with the majority as the property owners
pay for intersections as well as others.
Downing said total frontage on Main in
paving section II 800 feet and 9,076 petition |
the other owned by non-residents.
The vote on the motion was as follows:
ffirmatiye-Carson, Downing, Glaze, !
Healy, Herrig, Schintzler, Wight.
Negatiye-Barnes, Coffin, Mercer.
The motion was declared carried and |
Downing moved 10 pave with asphalt.
johnson moved an amendment to pave /
with cedar blocks. but was ruled out of |