Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-22
CITY TRUSTEES.
TWO SIDEWALKS THAT ARE CAUSING
A DEAL OF TROUBLE.
Colonel McNasser Says His Grade i.
Official-Unpaid Bills for Fuel
-Bergman's Nemesis.

The Board of City Trustees met in reg
ular weekly session yesterday morning, all
the members being present. E. n. Will
Jams, Chief Engineer of the Water Works,
reported that for the week ending October
goth 30,027. 800 gallons of water had been
pumped. The Holly pump was in oper-
alton 136 hours and the Stevens pump 70
hours.
There was but one bid received for lay
ing stone sewer-pipe in the Seventeenth
street canal beyond R street, and the
awarding of the contract was laid over one
week, or until more bids are presented.
The lease by the city of the property
back of the Station-house, which is to be
used as a yard in which to employ the
prisoners at breaking rock, was read and
signed. The Southern Pacific Company
owns the property.
The Huntingdon Hopkins Company ad-
dressed communication to the Board,
giving stateme nt of the amount of coal
furnished the Water Works for the months
OF July, August and September of this
year. The value thereof was So S7 81. 1t
seems that when the agreement was en-
tered into the Trustees agreed to pay the
bill at the end of each month. Several
formal demands have been made by the
huntington Hopkins Company for the
money, but no action has been taken on
them.
Mr.. Ingram, of the firm, was present,
and said he merely wanted TO ask the Board
to live up to its contract. He would be
willing TO continue supplying the coal if
the Trus tees would hereafter pay the bills
monthly, and at the same time settle one of
the old bills, until all were paid
Trustee Wolf said he would en6eavor to
do so if money was at hand, and the mat
ter was dropped for the present.
Yesterday was the day on which Colonel
McNasser and Mr.. Nottingham were cited
to appear before the Board to explain why
they had laid their stone sidewalks on dir
ferent grades. The walks adjoin one an
other, and are on Tenth street, between L
and NJ. One is about an inch higher than
the other.
Colonel McNasser was present yesterday,
but Mr.. Nottingham was not. This was
the second time that the latter had been
cited to appear, and Mayor Gregory con-
cluded to take the matter up in his alb
Sence.
Mr.. McNasser explained how his walk
had been laid down, from the beginning,
and showed that he had got the grade from
the City Surveyor and laid his walk, some
$50 feet in accordance with the line estab-
lished. He stated that Mr.. Nottingham
had tried to make trouble all the time, and
had even made a proposition that if he
(McNasser) would pay him $3.50 he would
put his walk up to the grade of that adjoin-
ing. McNasser refused, and Nottingham
laid his walk on grade which he had OBJ
tanned from surveyor. Near where his
walk adjoined McNasser's he raised it one
fifth of an inch. This, McNasser said, was
the statement of the man who laid the
walk.
Mayor Gregory stated that he had writ
ten to Nottingham, asking him to slope
his walk SO as to make no step-of between
the two, but Nottingham wrote an insult
ing reply to him.
Trustee Mclaughlin thought the sur
veyors who had worked on the two walks
should be summoned before the Board,
and it was so ordered, and when Mr. Bas-
sett the former City Engineer, returns to
the city, the matter will be again taken up
Formal charges in writing were presented
to the Board by Mr.. Bergman, charging
the gardener of the Plaza with bounding
him about and insulting him frequently
without cause. The gardener was not pres
cit, anu the uudtleI Was ldlu over uutll
afternoon.
Resolutions of intention were passed
ordering Thirteenth street, from K to l.,
and K, from Twenty-sixth to Twenty
eighth, graded and graveled.
Fifteenth street. from II to L. was or
dered graded and graveled, and also S
street, from Fourth to Second.
The Sidewalk Inspector handed in list
of all the sidewalks in the city that needed
repairs. The list was long one, and is
evidence that the Inspector has very
poor opinion of the people as sidewalk
builders.
At the afternoon session the investiga-
lion of Bergman's charges was taken up.
Bergman claimed that Boylsn. the gar
dener, had singled him out of all the peo-
pie who visited the Park and kept hound
ing him about whenever he entered. The
reason, Bergman claimed, is that he dipped
his fingers in the drinking fountain several
weeks ago.
Boylan's side of the story was quite diff
ferent. He stated that Bergman was a
nuisance around the Park, and was in the
habit of scattering papers about the grass
for the evident purpose of annoying him
(Boylan).
Trustees Wolf and Mclaughlin were in
clined to think the matter trifling. Berg
man, however, wanted time to bring wit
nesses to prove what be said was true, and
for his benefit the matter was laid over for
nv,