Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-14
In1he Cannon Branch.

President Holiday called Common Coun-
Gil to order yesterday for the first time since
his accident On the call of wards the fol-
lowing ordinances and petitions were offered
and properly referred. An ordinance re-es-
tablishing the grade Of Madison street; va
eating Sidney street; opening Sharp alley,
Nineteenth ward; granting Larimer and
Lincoln Avenue Street Railway right of
wav over certain streets; grading. paving
and eurbing Park avenue; grading and paw
ing Arlington avenue and opening Cicero
alley.
Mayor McCallin sent in the reports Of the
chiefs of different bureaus, together with a
communication to the effect that he had not
had time to give them close examination
in order to comment on them, but that he
would probably send in a communication
before the appropriation ordinance was
passed. The reports were received and
fled.
The Committee on Public Works sent in
ordinances for the dedicStion of Kuhn and
Hill streets, Thirty-second ward; grading
and paving Locust and Kent alleys; ap-
proving the Wallingford street sewer; grad
ing Sapphire street, and opening Closson
street. They were all approved. -
Ordinances for grading, paving and curb
ing Baum street, Howe street, Sheridan
street, 15-inch pipe sewer on Emily street,
Howard street, Larimer street and Sum-
merlea street were passed finally.
CAME OVER FROM SELECT.
The following business was messaged
from Select Council, and concurrence
asked: An ordinance authorizing the
Chief of the Department of Public Safety to
engage 25 additional patrolmen; a resolu-
ton asking the Chief of the Department of
Public Works to secure estimates on
the repaving of a portion of But
Ter street; granting the Chief the De-
partment of Public Safety the right
to engage one additional lineman;
a resolution relative to the free bridge
question. An ordinance granting the Chief
OF the Department of Public. Works the
right to determine the material to be used
in all sidewalks and curbing; also an ordi-
nance requiring the owners of public lots to
connect with public sewers by underground
sewers. This last ordinance was referred
back to the Committee on Public Works for
alterations.
Ordinances were presented for the vaca-
tion of part of the Morningside road, re-
locating Williams street, vacating Livery
alley, changing the name of Hiland avenue
to Highland avenue, establishing the grade
of Mckee place, relocating Cabine. street,
locating Golden street, establishing the
grade of Moore and Baldwin streets, and
locating Warton and Gladstone streets were
passed finally.
MORE PArRoLMEN NEEDED.
The ordinance granting the Department
Of Public Safety 25 additional officers was
taken up.
Mr.. Carnahan stated that the necessity for
of41o rrho nnl
officers were on duty at night in the East |
End.
Mr. Maqee thought that Chief Brown was |
a little timid in making the request, and he |
should have 80 new officers, but he would |
compromise and amended that it be 35 in |
stead of 25 Messrs. CarnahAn and Nc |
Gunnegle opposed this and the amendment |
was finally withdrawn and the ordinance |
passed finally.
The resolution offered in Select Council |
in which B. F. Jones, who is the only sur
vivor of the Board of Appraisers appointed |
In 1873 by the Legislature, be asked to fill |
ND the board, was taken up.
Mr.. Magee stated that Councils had ap- |
pointed a committee on the bridge question,
on which the Southside had majority of |
the members. This committee was a per-
fectly competent one, and he thought 1t was
not courteous on the part of any member to
hand in a resolution without consulting /
them. The act establishing that board was |
passed II years ago, and the board would be /
no good to-day. There was no record where
this board had ever held any meeting or or
gsDized, and it was hardly right to ask the
Councils now to put new life into body |
that never had life, and ask them to ap- |
praise property, not what it was IL years /
ago, but vastly greater in value.
In doing so the board might set a price
that the people would not have, but which
they would have to stand by, as the board
had been selected at their own request. 1t
behooved Southsiders il they wanted free
bridges to steer clear of this commission.
Mr. Carnahan, after reading the act estab-
fishing the board. was OF the opinion that
Mr.. Jones' being the only survivor, had no
legal right to fill up the board by appoint
ments.
The matter was then put to vote and the |
resolution was defeated.
Mr.. MeGunnegle called up an ordinance
granting the contract for the erection of q
boardwalk on Craig street. Thirteenth ward,
to John King & Co., and moved for its final
adoption.
Mr. Duncan amended that the matter be
postponed, stating that the citi-
zens had gotten tired waiting on Councils
and had put in a boardwalk themselves.
Mr.. McGunnegle stated that he had been
informed that the board walk now down was
in the middle of the street. and the people
refused to have it.
Mr.. Duncan's motion was defeated, as was
also motion to hold the ordinance over
until the next meeting, and the original
motion BIZ Mr.. MeGunnegle was adopted,
.he ayes and nays being called.