Wichita eagle., 1889-01-15

the mayor be ex-ofticio chairman of sucl
committee. adopted.
Reports of the several city scale master
were read and accepted. Mayor Aller
reported that the inspector had tested al
Of the scales throughout the city ant
found them in very fine condition, excep
in only very few and very trifing in
stances.
d.. W. D. McClees, city physician, mad,
his.monthly report for December, 1888
which was as follows:
ST. FRANCES HOSPITAL.
Admitted during month. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Discharged q .... 4
Children born NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Patients died.
Patients on hand January 1. Il
Patients kept for pay. ................
! Patients free. Il
Admittance was refused to several pa
tients during the month on account of the
false rumor, that the city's appropriation
had been stopped.
! woMEN'S BENEVOLENT HOME
Patients admitted during December. II
Patients discharged 4" g 49,. Ia
Patients on hand January 1.1 Ii
Babies born during December. .....
ray patents. ...................... 3
Charity patients. 16
CHILDREN'S HOME.
| During the month there have been no
deaths or any serious sickness.
Children admitted during December. :. II
| Children dismissed. Observation-Disclosures. 4
Good homes having been secured for
them in good private families.
Children in the Home, January 1 q
Number of girls. 9
Number Of boys ~
No. attending Bird ward school. Is
No whose parents are supposed to pay
SL50 per week. 4
average received per week by the home,
$500.
The children are all in good health, are
comfortably clothed and have plenty to
eat and good nourishing food. Report was
adopted on motion.
The secretary OF the Water company no
titled the city council that in accordance
with instructions the company has put in
mains and hydrants as follows: ION
Douglas, east to Mosley, thence north to
Second with fifteen hydrants Also be-
ginning at Fourth avenue and Second,
thence east on Second to Mosley with two
hydrants on the same"
a communication from H. H. Hender-
shot, assistant city engineer calling at
tention to various work he had inaugur-
ated throughout the city was read. He
did not ask for an increase of salary in so
many words, but that was the idea. The
same was placed on file
A communication and bill from Dr. For
ner, now of Kansas City, but formerly
city physician here, were read. He wants
more money for past services. As the
mayor and several members were of the
opinion that he had been settled with and
paid once, the bill was rejected.
Mr.. Buckeridge suggested that the city
engineer be instructed to report plans,
specifications and estimates, for macadam-
izing avenues A, B and c, in Sherwood's
addition, permission to macadamize TWEEN
ty feet wide having been granted the prop
erty owners on those avenues.
The appraisement committee on sewer
age right-of-way allowed Mrs c. 4. Phil
lips 800 and B. T. Yohe 500. Report
was later approved, after finishing some
business brought up again by the
public improvement committee.
Mr.. Healy moved that Mr.. Kolstadt be
allowed $50 for moving his buildings and
granting right of way for sewers. Car
ried
Mr.. Pratt moved that the Fairmount
and Riverside motor lines be instructed to
raise their tracks to grade at their joint
crossing at First and Market streets
After a good deal of talk about the heights |
of grades, an amendment to have the Riv- |
erside company raise their grade as far |
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was lost. Mr.. Healy offered an amend |
ment that Market aud First street each be |
raised to grade, and the motor line tracks, |
also, raised for one hundred feet, on each |
street from either side of the other street |
He withdrew this.
Mr.. Pratt withdrew his original |
motion and then moved that the city en-
gineer be requested to comply with the /
former resolution of council that these |
lines be instructed to raise their tracks at /
that point-and that he do so at once.
Mr. Mulvey, the city engineer, thought /
that Mr.. Pratt's motion was a little too
rigid in its construction, in view of the
fact that the engineers hands had been
50 full with the sewer business.
Mr.. Pratts motion WAS modified and
then accepted.
Mr.. Mulvey asked to what grade they
should be raised. The clerk called his at
-ention TO the former motion passed sew
sral months ago, which only indicated
enough OF raise to prevent water from
standing there in bad weather He said
lie could do that without any surveying
md would attend 70 the same.
The clerk read petition from several
property owners along the east side of the
Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe railway
rom Ninth street to Thirteenth, asking
hat the city open a street twenty-five feet
vide and grade the same, the property
,wners agreeing to donate the ground
leeded. The same was granted and the
treet ordered opened.
A largely signed petition from residents
# South Topeka avenue, asking for a
Iumber Of street lamps, was laid over
Until the next regular meeting.
a petition, asking permission of the
- TO remove the west span Of the
Douglas avenue bridge and fiji ii the
pace was granted, IL being the understand
ng that the same is to be done at the ex-
euse of private subscribers
A number OF petitioners from the West
ide asked the council 10 have the Wichita
, Western railway company to grade up
Elizabeth street at the railways crossing
{ said street. The same was referred 20