Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-24
TiE CITY FATHERS.
MI. DILLMAN WANTS A STREET RAIL
ROAD FRANCHISE.
The Carey Franchise Extended One
Year, and Street Improvements
Sidewalks Condemned.

The first matter taken up yesterday at
the meeting of the Board of City Trustees
was the reading of a proposed ordinance
granting R. S. Carey an extension of time
for the construction and completion of
street railways on Third from K to @; Sew
enth from K to II; 81 from Seventh to
Tenth, thence north along Tenth to F,
thence east along F to point midway be-
tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets.
Mayor Comstock said he believed Mr..
Carey would have forfeited his contract to
the city if there had not been such a Sc.
we're winter, and he moved the passage of
the ordinance.
Trustee Mclaughlin said as he under
stood the matter, Mr.. Carey was to COM
plete one-third of the road the first wear.
two-thirds the second year. and the re.
mainder the third year. He understood
how Mr.. Carey might have been hampered
on account of the severe weather last win
ter and believed he ought to be given an
extension of time. However, he thought
Mr.. Carey might make up this year what
be had not done last year. In other words,
he could build two-thirds of the road this
year and the remainder the following wear.
Upon the suggestion of Trustee Wolf,
the matter was laid over for discussion till
the afternoon session.
When the matter came mp again Mr..
Mclaughlin said he was willing to vote for
the ordinance by amending it SO that one
third of the work shall be done the first
year, and two-thirds the second year. He
did not want to extend the franchise so as
to cover three years from this date.
Mr.. Wolf said he was in favor of such an
amendment. Mr.. Carey was entitled, he
thought, to an extension of time for the
commencement and construction of one
third of the work, but should do the other
two-thirds the second year. There remains
great deal of work to be done by Mr..
Carey this year in raising his o and H
street tracks, and he thought it no more
than right to extend the time for doing
the first third of the new work.
The ordinance was amended as sug-
gested and then passed.
The election notice calling for an cleo
ton on July 9th for the purpose of SUBJ
hitting the bond question to the people
was ordered printed, and election officers
were appointed.
SALOONS AND DANCE-HoUsES.
City Attorney Hart read an ordinance
prepared by him in regard to regulating
saloons and dance-houses and places
where spirituous liquors are sold. The
ordinance was the same, with few cor
rections, as read by the City Attorney at
the meeting of the Board a week ago, the
main points of which were published at
the time. 1t was laid over one week.
STORAGE OF OIL, ETC.
An ordinance in regard to the storage of
explosives, oil and other combustibles,
presented by City Attorney Hart, was read
the first time and laid over.
DIRECTING TO A CAR.TRAcK.
A petition was presented to the Board
signed by property owners representing
1,640 front feet, asking that they take some
action towards the removal of the track of
the Central Street Railway Company on
Eleventh street. from K to l.; and on L
street from Eleventh to Fifteenth street, for
the reason that it was an obstruction to the
street, and willful neglect on the part of tn e
company in not running their cars over the
said portion of their track.
The matter was postponed one week.
AND I STREETS IMPROVEMENT.
Bids for the grading of G street, from
Sixth to Twentieth, were opened. P. A.
Miller was the lowest bidder. The con-
tract was let to him.
There was but one bid on file for the i'm
provement of street, from Thirteenth to
Thirty-frst, and considerable discussion
ensued as to whether or not it should be
opened. 1t was finally read, and found to
be from r. W. Parker.
City Surveyor Pierson reported that his
estimate for the grading and graveling of l
-Tt116 haG q Co. g
A resolution to award r. W. Parker the
contract was finally laid over one week.
CONCERNING LICENSES.
A proposed ordinance was considered by
the Board concerning city licenses, and
providing for penalty in certain cases for
failing to procure the same. According to
the ordinance, anyone failing to procure q
license when it is necessary for the trans
action of his business, is guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall be punished by fine
not exceeding $500, or by imprisonmentfo for
six months, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment
MORE LIGHT WANTED.
A petition was presented to the Board
asking that the electric light formerly at
Ninth and r streets be replaced. Trustee
Mclaughlin said b, thought there was
plenty of light there. The mast was re-
moved to Tenth street, because there was
more travel on that road
A couple of citizens, who were present,
asked the Board to continue lighting the
lamps on the high masts at Twenty-first and
o streets and Twenty-second and ]. Mayor
Comstock fovored doing So but the Street
Commissioner objected, and said it would
break up the whole system to do it.
RAILROAD FOR NINTH STREET.
NJ. J. Dillman asked for franchise to
construct street railway line from Ninth
and to Ninth and Y street, and thence to
Tenth street. He proposed to operate the
cars by electricity only, and would run
them every fifteen minutes, from o'clock
in the morning until s o'clock at night.
He wanted six months time to begin and
one year to complete the work. The rea-
son he asked for six months time in which
10 commence operations was that he might
obtain some information as to how success
full roads in the East, after which he pro-
posed to pattern, were being operated. Mr.
Dillman said his was the pole system.
The Board informed him that he would
have to prepare a franchise aud submit it.
Mr.. PIERCE WANTS DAMAGES.
When the Board met in the afternoon
Elwood Bruner appeared as counsel for
EuWdIu Glerce, VINO IlVeS OUTSIDE the CITY,
and who claims that he is greatly incon-
venienced and his property damaged by
the condition of the Y-street levee at the
Second-street crossing. Mr.. Bruner pre-
scented claim for $500 damages on be-
half of Mr.. Pierce. He addressed the
Board at some length ON the subject of Mr..
Pierce's injury in consequence of the al
legged bad condition of the levee.
On motion of Mr.. Wolf, the claim was
rejected.
MORE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
Resolutions of intention were passed for
the hprovement OF Tenth street, from r
to SFifteenth. from n to o; Third, from
~; n, from Nineteenth to Twenty
ninth; n, from Fifteenth to Nineteenth;
Fourth, from r to S.
WILL STREET BE IMPROVED?
A resolution of intention was presented
by Trustee Mclaughlin to improve ]
street, from Fourteenth to Thirty-first, &C.
companied by motion to have the former
one. covering from Fourteenth to Twenty
eighth, rescinded.
Philip Kitz appeared before the Board
and argued against the grayeling of ]
street beyond Twenty He claimed
that the street is now in fair condition for
those two blocks, and that the improve
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