Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-01
CITY TRUSTEES.
THE 0-sTREET IMPROVEMENT TO COST
BUT 81 90 PER FOOT.
oundmaster O'Nein Lording it Over
Taxpayers-The L-Street Matter
Laid Over a Week.

~>~>>N "S>A-s SSoSich CStClQdl, GIL tue Iu6lll-
bers being present. Before the reading OF
the minutes Mayor Comstock asked the
other members of the Board if they had
any objection to postponing the appoint
ment of officers until the afternoon ses.
sion.
Trustee Wolf said he had none, and
Trustee Mclaughlin interposed no objec-
ton, so the matter was laid over.
The Chief Engineer of the Water Works
reported that last week 22,745. 600 gallons
of water were pumped, the Holly pump
being run 161 hours and the Stevens eight
hours.
Mayor Comstock read communication
to the Board from the Oregon Coal Com.
panv, asking the Board to try their coal for
a certain time in the Water Works. to
ascertain how much would be required to
pump 100000 gallons of water, and they
would then put in bid for the contract
The peculiar wording of the advertisement,
rendered this necessary to the company
before they could intelligently bid.
Trustee Wolf thought the Oregon Coal
Company had had plenty of time to brine
up the matter. The advertisement had
been running in the papers for three weeks,
and the bids should now be opened. He
would vote to open the bids that had been
handed in.
Mayor Comstock said he was in favor of
giving the new company a chance There
might be saving to the city by so doing.
Trustee Mclaughlin was also inclined to
give the company permission to test their
coal IN the Water Works. Their agent
George J. Cowan, was present, and he guar
anteed that the coal he would furnish
would not cost any more than that which
was now being used.
Trustee VOLTS motion to open the bids
was LOST, and the new company was given
until April 21st to test their coal here.
A communication from John A. McIn-
tyre was read offering $3.50 per year for the
use OF the public square, or the block
bounded by Fifteenth and Sixteenth, and
Q streets.
Trustee Wolf said the Board had re-
solved some time ago to improve the
square, and he was not In favor of letting
the property out for any length of time.
Trustee Mclaughlin thought it would do
no harm to rent the block to Mr.. Mcintyre
until such time as the Board should see fit
TO use it, and an order was pass ed to that
effect.
Judge II. o. Beatty asked the Board that
they delay action on the remonstrance OF
the property-owners on L street, from Fiji
teenth to Twenty eighth. against the grad
ing of that street. He was satisfied that il
the matter were laid over for one week il
would probably be amicably settled by that
time,
The Street Commissioner had prepared a
report on the subject, in which he stated
that he had examined the circumstances to
the proposed grading of L street, and found
that those who had withdrawn had the
right to do so before the remonstrance was
acted upon by the Board. With the names
withdrawn there was less than msiority
of the frontage objecting, and therefore the
work could go on. The report went on to
say that the Board must pass on the suffi
cheney of the remonstrance, and cited case
from an Ohio Court where a signer of a
remonstrance had the privilege of with
drawing AT any time before the Board had
acted on the matter. In conclusion the
Commissioner recommended that the
Board proceed with the improvement as
the law directed.
Trustee Mclaughlin said he would be
satisfied to lay the matter over one week,
and this could be done by referring the re.
monstrance to him, as Street Commissioner
I--ge Beatty agreed to this, and the mat.
ter was laid over until next Monday.
E. +. Aitken appeared before the Board
and complained against the Poundmaster
for that officials action the other day, in
taking couple of COWS belonging to him,
and which were feeding on the lawn in
front OF his property at Nineteenth and G
streets. Mr.. Aitken said he had tied the
two COWS on his lawn beyond the sidewalk
with ten-foot rope, and that while he was
trimming bis trees near by the Pound
master came up, and without word began
to unite the rope to which one of the cows
was attached. Mr.. Aitken came to the
rescue of his stock, but the city official was
firm, and declared ne would take the cows
to the pound unless Mr.. Aitken paid for
their release. One of the men on the wagon
yelled out, Let him have them at half.
price, and MIR. Aitken paid $2, at the same
time informing the Poundmaster that be
did so under protest. Upon payment Of
the money his cows were given to him.
Poundmaster 0'Neill was present, and
stated that the reason he took the COW wa.
because it was united. He afterwards asked
the Board if the sidewalk and lawn were
not public property, and if COW was no
just as liable to be impounded when founC
there as she was when in the middle of the
street.
The Trustees admitted that he was right
but thought he was altogether too strict in
enforcing the law in cases like that under
discussion, where the owner was presen
and had charge of the stock.
Mr.. Mclaughlin told him he should a
least have first notified Mr.. Aiken that he
was violating the law before taking The
property.
Mayor Comstock agreed with the Stree
Commissioner, and 0'Neill was advised tc
pay back the 81 to Mr.. Aitken.
A petition signed by property-owners in
the block bounded by Twenty-fifth anc
Twenty-sixth, o and P streets, was read
asking the Board to revoke the license they
had given to the individual who runs
saloon on that block. They claimed tha
it was not a saloon, but a 'grog- shop" anc
that disturbances were of frequent occur
renee a. the place.
Although the matter had been referred
to the Chief of Police week ago, Truste,
Mclaughlin moved that his attention be
again called to it, and that he be ordered tC
report 10 the Board next Monday. 1t wa.
so ordered.
The awarding of the contract to grade {
street. from Tenth to Twenty. first, wa
about to be made TO II. c. Ewing, when Q
A. Lovdal and other property owners or
the street asked that they be informed a
TO what would be the cost per front foot 70
grading the street.
Trustee Mclaughlin said that, according
to the City Engineers figures, the cos
would be 81 6S, with 13 cents per foot de
Quoted for intersections.
Mr.. Lovdal said be had figured out th
cost. and made it 81 % per foot, or s., ,99l Il
for the eleven blocks.
Mr.. Ewing, the contractor, said he haC
prepared a rough estimate. and made i
81 "a. but by closely figuring he nigh
have brought the price down to Mr.. Low
dal's figures.
The contract was awarded to Mr. Ewing
Resolutions were passed awarding con
tracts as follows: To Rosa & Silva, 70
grading the alley between and K. Fiftl
and Sixth streets; to II. c. Ewing, fol
grading the alley between L and NJ, Secont
and Third streets.
Resolutions were passed ordering {
street, from Front to Second, and Twenty
eighth, from X to NJ, graded and graveled
The Board then took a recess until
o'clock.
NEW CITY OFFICIALS.
They Are Run Through the Trustees