Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-10-01
CITY AFRAIRS.
THE TRUSTEES CONDEMN MORE DILAPI-
DATED SIDEWALKS.
Estimated Cost of Piping the Seventeenth
Street Sewer-Quarterly Report of
the City Collector-Etc.


The City Trustees met yesterday morn
ing in regular session. All the members
were present. E. II. Williams, Chief En-
gineer of the Water Works, reported that
for the week ending September 10Th Al
100000 gallons of water had been pumped.
The Holly pump was in operation liz
hours and the Stevens 140 hours.
John f. Dreman appeared before the
Board and asked permission to repair about
twelve feet of his sidewalk on the south
side of street, between Fourth and Fifth.
His request was granted.
The Sidewalk Inspector, who was in
structed by the Board last Monday to in
spect all of the sidewalks in the downtown
part OF the city-that is, from Front TO
Tenth and from to L streets-made re-
port as to the condition of the walks within
that district, designating the ones which
were rough or in bad order The report
was received and placed on file.
George a. Putnam, City Collector, made
the following report for the quarter ending
September Both:
City licenses sold S02 90
Do hoes Iicaneas Gn sold % ~ ~
Total amount ,7SO 90
On hand October l, 1889:
City ........S7 1872 so
Dog ".............................. 81 90
Total amount on hand ,87g 50
John Carlaw appeared before the Board
ha had
bought lot in the City Cemetery for S4l5.
The dimensions OF the lot were 51x44
feet. Lately he had been asked to pay $50
more for 1t on the alleged account that the
former charge was too low. He had no
deed to the property, and thought he should
be entitled to it, without paying the extra
$50. The lot had been offered to him for
S4l5, he purchased it, and was not now in
clined to pay any more for it.
The matter was laid over for one week.
A. Schaden asked permission of the
Board to repair a wooden sidewalk on
Eighth street, between l and ]. The walk
is on the east side of Eighth street, south
OF the alley, between / and J.
Trustee Mclaughlin stated to the Board
that this piece OF walk was in a very bad
condition, and he was about to ask that
the whole half block there be condemned
1t was in the business portion of town, and
he was not in favor of allowing any re-
pairs to be made to it.
Mayor Gregory and Trustee Wolf said
that the late sidewalk ordinance would
have to be declared void before the request
OF Mr.. Schaden could be granted.
On motion of Trustee Mclaughlin, the
whole half block of sidewalk on the east
side OF Eighth street, south of the alley, be-
tween ! and j, was condemned, and Mr.
Schaden and the other property-owners
were given months time to put down
new walk.
A petition was received demonstrating
against the filling of the alley in the block
bounded by Twenty-ifth and Twenty
sixth, o and P streets. The alley is in
very bad condition, and in winter the
water is damned in by the streets. For a
part OF the past summer stagnant water
stood there. Sanitary and Building In
spector Starr informed the Board that the
lowness of the alley made it nuisance in
the winter season.
Trustee Mclaughlin thought that even if
the pr0serty- owners demonstrated, the alley
ought - be filled, and if they would not
ill II, he would have to put sewer in,
which would cost the people more than 10
raise the alley to the grade.
Henry Carroll, in forcibIe language, ex-
pressed the desire to have the Board see
that the sewage from the Seventeenth
street sewer was not emptied into the Sixth
street canal. Ii it was, he said the land
in that part of the city would be oyerfowed
and property damaged.
The Board advised Mr.. Carroll TO wait
until they had decided 10 carry the sew
age that way before demonstrating further
IL. 9. Chandler was to have appeared be-
fore the Board to furnish bonds, as evil
dence OF good faith, that he would fill
low lot at Sixth and P streets, but being i'll
he could not attend, and he was allowed
one week further time.
Trustee Wolf, after giving vivid de-
scription of the condition of the block in
Chinatown recently burned over, moved
that the owners be ordered to construct
bulkhead and build stone walk in front
OF the property, even if there were no
houses on il.
Trustee Mclaughlin seconded the mo-
ton, and the order was made.
The sidewalk on the west side of Sixth
street, south of the alley between o and p,
was condemned also The sidewalk on the
northwest corner of Sixth and streets ex-
tending west for a distance of 100 feet.
The City Engineer made an estimate of
the cost OF piping the Seventeenth street
sewer with 1Sinch stone pipe to Sixth and
) streets, and reported that the work could
be done for Sc, 100 10.
Upon motion of Trustee Mclaughlin it
was ordered that the Board inspect the
ground over which it was proposed to run
the sewer, and determine upon some plan
to carry away the water during the coming
winter
The following resolutions of intention
were passed. To grade street from Front
to Second, and Fifteenth street from II
to L.
Trustee Mclaughlin recommended that
all the streets from Front to Ninth, and
from to Y streets, be declared open, and
1t was so ordered.
The sidewalk on the southwest corner of
Tenth and NJ streets was condemned. The
part condemned extends forty feet on NJ
street and eighty feet nm Tenth