Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-06


A communication was read from Audi
tor tombstone recommending that all bill
against the city be made in duplicate anC
sworn to. Referred.
The auditor submitted a report shOwiDg
the Indebtedness of the city as follows:
Notes due in 1882. &C.. 800. SIS. 737 Z
Notes due in 1890. ............ 57.II5 2
Notes due in 1891. ............ 2l34S L
Notes due in 1892. ............ 10. 500 o.
| First series of bonds due in
Second series of bonds due
Floating debt I I5i,ISS
Funds on hand ..............S $50, 286 "A
Sanitary Policeman Craig reported the
number of men worked in clearing the
cutters and streets. He was authorized
by resolution to work the calaboose hands
on the streets eight hours day.
City Sexton Eskew reported fourteen
whites and five negroes buried in the new
cemetery in August. There was one re-
movaI. Received and filed
w. b Ford for the Gulf, Colorado and
! Santa Fe, petitioned the council to grant
the right TO the company to erect poles
! and string wires to the new office on
! Houston street.
| Bailey wanted an amendment that the
| company agree to remove the poles and
| wires wherever q majority of the council
| so ordered. The amendment prevailed
Fry, Haymaker, Nicks and Clements
voting no.
Mes then moved that the matter go to
the street and alley committee.
Mr.. Clements thought that unneces-
sary delay. Finally it was referred to
the committee, with power to act
Assessor and Collector Hugh T. Will
son asked that some arrangements be
made for the safe keeping of the valuable
records in his office. Referred to the
finance committee.
The West Fort Worth street railway
company submitted a petition, setting
forth that it owned several miles of track
in Fort Worth and several miles outside
the corporate limits, and for the accom-
mediation of the people living on its line
it was necessary for it to reach the Union
depot. That by an injunction issued
from the district court of Tarrant coun-
ty it was prohibited from crossing or
running on the railway reservation to
said depot. Its cars now stopped
at Front and Jones street.
1t was willing to bear
portion of the expense of extending
Front street under the railroad tracks to
a point 200 feet north of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas track, provided the
city give it right way over the center
Of the street.
Mayor Broiles said the petition ought
to be granted.
Mr.. Mes said there was no street there
yet so no right of way could be granted.
The petition was referred to the street
and alley committee.
The Hebrew cemetery ASSOCIATION ask
ed that a water main be laid to the GENE
terry. The waterworks committee was
authorized TO act IN the matter
Don. 3. Adams, chief of the fire de-
partment, was granted leave of absence
from September to 18th, to attend the
meeting OF the National association of
chief engineers a Kansas City.
A communication from City Attorney
Powell was read setting forth that suits
were now pending in the district
court against the city for $780,
coo, and suits for several thousand
dollars in the county court. He asked |
that an assistant be given him to attend |
to this large amount of litigation. It !
was referred to the finance committee.
Smith and Fraser introduced a resolu- |
ton that the sum of-dollars be al |
lowed Don b Adams, chief of the fire |
department for expenses to Kansas CITY. |
AutpleO' Inc ldCL luaE the Dlank was |
not filed makes the resolution a nullitv. |
A resolution signed by Messrs. Fry and |
Haymaker that $500 IN city scrip be paid |
to John T. Swayne and J J Nunnally |
for strip of land to widen Houston
street from Belknap to Bluff street, was
'eferred to the street and alley commit
tee.
On petition the Martin Brown company
vas granted permission to erect a large
wooden shed in the fire limits.
A protest from W T. Maddox eft al.
against the city erecting a frame struct-
Ire in the fire limits was referred to the
committee on fire department.
Mayor Broiles told the city marshal
lot to try the enforcement of the ori1-
lance against erecting fire traps in the
leaTt of the city. Let anyone who de-
ired to build them go ahead. All must
Re treated alike.
Hyde park was ordered graded and
travelled.
A resolution appointing 81. V. Burns
,lerk of the recorders court at a salary
f $50 was adopted. Nicks, Bailey,
Vies and Clements voted no.
Chief Adams reported three alarms