Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-02
CITY COUNCIL.
Free Delivery Carries and the
Contract for Numbering
Awarded.
A Bill VIII be Filed Against the CIarks-
vile Street Railway Company
Sewerage Assuming Shape
and Growing.

men transacted business with little
more despatch last night than COM
mon. There was a full attendance
Of members with the exception of
Alderman Crouch, from the Fourth
ward. There were only three inn
portant measures up for considera-
tiOn-sewerage, street cars and free
postal delivery.
Chairman Beach, from the sewer
age committee, reported that he had
received about twenty-five applica-
tions for copies of specifications,
coming from Rockport, ILL.,, st.
Louis, Evansville, Louisville, Nash
vile, Memphis & Chattanooga.
The only action taken was that
the person getting the contract should
give bond of $4,000 or furnish a
certified check for $1,000, and that
bids should close May 10. This sub
ject is fully under way and will be
pushed as rapidly as possible.
Free delivery was the next impOr-
tant measure. Bids were received
from various parties for numbering
the houses and placing the names OF
streets at intersections. Alderman
Wake thought the whole city should
be numbered and was opposed to
anything else.
Alderman Hurst sprung the ques-
ton as to taking the census in the
newly admitted territory. He want
ed to know if it would have to be
divided up into wards before it could
be counted as the city of GAINESVILLE.
The general opinion was that it was
not necessary to do this, but to make
the matter doubly sure it is thought
best to investigate the law covering
the case, and should it become nee
essary new wards will be created.
DIR. Beach, in the interest of free
delivery, made a short talk, saying
that he deemed it unwise to defer
the matter any longer. He was in
favor of numbering the houses in
the old city for the present, and that
the new territory will be attended
later on. "When free delivery is
once started" said he, at never goes
back. 1t always grows" He
thought that by having the system
in the old city it would soon enlarge
and take in all the new territory.
Alderman F. s. Beaumont made a
motion to have the old city num-
bered, and that the contract be
awarded III. e. Beach, Jr., for doing
the work.
F. G. Wake offered an amendment
to the motion, making it apply to
the whole city instead of a part OF
it. This was lost for the want of a
second.
Beaumont's motion was put to the
vote and carried.
The proposition made by Mr..
Beach was that he would do the
work of numbering the houses and
placing names of streets at all inter.
sections for $3.50. Good material is
to be used and it is known as the
Philadelphia system. The figures
and letters are made by machinery
and are warranted as good as any in
the market. The work will begin at
once.
Alderman Wake told the board
that he deemed it necessary to adver-
tise now for bids to have the city
lighted by electricity in 1892. He
said that several parties had ex-
pressed desire to make bids on it,
and that they would do so provided
they were given a chance. A reso-
luton was passed to this effect.
The resolutions as drafted by
special committee on the death of
Judge Smith were read and adopted.
Alderman John Hurst took the
floor and asked why it was that the
Street Car Company was allowed to
put sand, dirt and clay on the streets.
He said that the streets were getting
worse every day, and that in his
opinion something must be done to
protect the city. This came like
bOmbshell and brought forth much
talk. 1t was finally ordered that the
city attorney should file bill at
once for the purpose of making the
Street Car Company forfeit its right
of way for failing to comply with
the terms of the contract as entered
into with the city.
This will be filed as soon as it can
be drawn up, and City Attorney
John j. West was ordered to make
all possible haste in the matter.
After attending to subjects of
minor importance the board adj
iourned.
MUNICIPAL NOTES.
The police are ordered to take up
all hogs found on the streets, and are
10 get half the fines in such cases.
All the propositions submitted to
he board for numbering the streets
we're informal EXCEPT that of III. f.