Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-01
MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.
LONG AND TEDIOUS SESSION OF THE
TRUSTEES YESTERDAY.
McLaughlin's Motion to Forfeit the Elec-
trio Company's Bond Still in the
Balance-Other Matters.

at yesterdays session of the City Trus-
tees ]. j. Bauer said he desired to enter q
complaint against the Central Electric
Company for erecting one of their poles
at Third and ] streets, in close prox-
unity to his balcony. He did not want il
there, and considered it a nuisance to him.
He objected to its being erected there when
the men were putting it up, but they paid
no attention to him. 1t also INSTRUCTED the
sidewalk for three feet.
Trustee Mclaughlin said he believed the
company had concluded to have its own
way, and nothing would stop it unless
they were brought into Court. He could
serve an injunction on them, but didn't
think that would do any good.
Mr.. Myers of the Electric Company said
that when his men were erecting the pole
Mr. Bauer, without stating any reason, or
dered the men to take it down.
Trustee Wolf said he had not heard anv.
thing about the matter, and did not know
where the pole was placed.
The Mayor said it would probably be
better to lay the matter over, but the Street
Commissioner wanted it settled right
away.
After being further discussed at the after.
noon session, the matter went over one
week.
Mr.. Roth said the property owners on 7,
street, from Eleventh to Fifteenth Were
getting tired of the manner in which thew
were being treated by the Central Street
Railway Company. When the road was
being built the people subscribed literally,
expecting OF course to see cars running on
the street, but not car had been run there
for months. The residents were so wrathy
that some even threatened to go out and
tear up the track if the company wouldn't
do it.
The Mayor said he had been spoken to
by one OF the members of the company,
who said it didn't pay them to run the
road over that street, and they did not pro-
pose to do it. 1t would be better not to
force. them, for then they would not at
tempt to run car at all over that way.
Trustee Mclaughlin said matters had
come to a pretty pass. He would like to
have little tussle with the company lust
to show that it couldn't walk over the
Board
No action was taken, but the Mayor as.
sured Mr.. Roth that the Board was in SYM.
pathy with the property owners.
The Water Works report showed that
39,252,OO0 gallons of water were pumped
during last week. The Holly engine
worked 81 hours and the Stevens 1873 hours.
George Murray said he thought the resi-
dents in the vicinity of Eighteenth and NJ
streets had been overlooked when the cleo
trio lights were being distributed through
out the city.
Trustee Mclaughlin informed him that
he intended to have light there soon, and
Mr.. Murray was satisfied.
Bids for constructing a sewer on N street
from Twenty-second to Twenty-ninth, were
opened and read.
r: W. Parker was allowed to Withdraw
his bid for grading or graveling l street
from Thirteenth to Twenty first.
Trustee Mclaughlin suggested that the
salary OF officer Sullivan, who has charge
OF the chain gang, be raised to 500. Officer
Dole was getting that amount and he con-
sidered that Sullivan was Just as much en-
titled to it.
The Mayor opposed it, and on roll-call
mclaughlin and Wolf voted aye, and it
was carried
The sum of 1868 % was allowed s. Scion
Holl tor services as attorney for the city.
The Board accepted an invitation to par
ticipate in the Fourth of July celebration.
The Mayor read the report of Chief of
Police Drew, which contained the names
of parties conducting saloons whose licenses
he thought out to be revoked.
Trustee Mclaughlin said there were
plenty more places that ought to be on the
list, and probably some of those reported
were respectable places.
Trustee Wolf said the Chief of Police
had told him that there were several on
the list which he was sorry he had placed
there The matter 70 thor,
The ordinance regulating saloons, dance
houses and places where spirituous liquors
are sold was read, and required but the
vote OF the Board for its passage.
Trustee Mclaughlin said he was going to
object to certain clause, where it stated
that IAN application for license to con-
duct saloon must be accompanied by a
petition signed by majority of the repu-
table citizens in the block" He thought
the words property owners should be SUBJ
stituted for those of reputable citizens.
Nothing was done with the ordinance.
The matter of awarding the contract for
building bridge across the Y-street canal
at Thirty-first street was taken up. Three
bids had been handed in last week, but
some of them contained conditional
clauses, and only that of r. w. Parker was
straight. He was not the lowest bidder,
however, and there was some discussion as
to whether or not the contract should be
awarded TO him. He was finally awarded
the contract
p. Siebenthsler and other propertv-own-
ers in the block between G and II, Twenty.
fourth and Twenty fifth streets, petitioned
to have the alley in that block declared
open. So ordered.
The Mayor read proposed new ordi-
nance imposing penalty for transacting
nit q ,vNtn laI -
cure defect in the existing ordinance.
Mr.. Mclaughlin said the matter was in
confused condition, and he moved that it
be referred tothe Mayor and City Attorney,
they to report at the next regular meeting.
Carried.
Trustee Mclaughlin called up his mo-
ton to reconsider the vote by which the
Board, at its preceding meeting, refused to
declare the bond of the Central Electric
Company forfeited. He said that either he
was right, or the company was right. The
latter was to have done certain things
within a given time under the terms of
its franchise. or forfeit its bond.
Mayor Comstock said he understood the
company had received considerable ma
chinery and laid out more money than the
franchise called for in the first year. He
(the Mayor was not a member of the
Board when the franchise was let, and was
not responsible for what was done. II
there was anything wrong it was because
the company had been too smart for the
Board and had got the better of it.
Mr.. Mclaughlin returned to the attack,
and reiterated that the company had not
been honest in its dealings with the city.
The Board gave Mr.. Mclaughlin permits
sion to carry his motion to reconsider over
for another week.
On motion of the Mayor, the election
notice was ordered published in the Ger
man paper and the Leader
1t was ordered that official notice be
given that if the bond election should re-
suit favorably the city would pay one
fourth the expense of all street improve
ments done or commenced since January
LIST.
Resolutions of intention were passed for
the Improvement of Fifteenth street, from
G to L.
The Street Commissioner reported as
condemned the sidewalk on the southeast
corner OF Seventh and II streets, running
16o feet on Seventh street and 80 feet on II
street.
Also the sidewalk on the north side of n
street from Seventeenth to Eighteenth.
IL was ordered that the Central Street
Railway Company send a representative to
the Board at the next meeting prepared tc
state what the company proposes to do to