Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-30
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
CONTRACTS LET FOR IMPROVING A
NUMBER OF BLOCKS.
No Money for tho Policemen of 1889
Some Low Lots Ordered Filled
by the City.

At yesterdays session of the Board of
City Trustees the Chief Engineer of the
Water Works reported that 37,65S,000 gal
Ions of water were pumped during the
past week. The Holly engine was in OPP
Grafton 96 hours and the c. P. ITO hours.
A communication was submitted to the
Board by John Eitel, signed by property
owners on Fourteenth street, between N
and o, asking that the specifications for
grading the street be changed SO that paved
cutters and granite crosswalks at the alleys
would not be required. No action was
taken on the petition.
w. B. Campbell, who resides on Sixth
street, between @ and R. wanted to know
why the Board ordered him to lay side.
walk in front of his property and did net
order others in the same block 10 do the
same.
Trustee Mclaughlin said the rest of the
property-oWners were going TO put down
sidewalks, and Mr.. Campbell would have
to do the same.
WOODEN STRUCTURES.
J.C. Tubs asked permission to construct
two wooden closets on the northeast corner
of Sixth and I streets.
The request was referred to the Chief
Engineer of the Fire Department, and if he
reports favorably the Board will allow Mr..
Tubs to erect the buildings.
FEW COMPLAINTS.
Some property owners on n street, from
Third to Fifth, stated to the Board that the
contractor had not hauled the co5bles off
the street, as he had promised to do, and
they did not propose to pay for the grading
of the street until he did the work prop
erly.
Complaint was made about some low lots
at Fourth and n streets, and Trustee Nc
Laughlin sta ed that he was tired notifying
the owners to have them filed. On his
motion the City Engineer was ordered to
survey the property and have the lots filled
up to the grade at the expense OF the own
ers.
POLICE MAY LIVE ON AIR.
Lawyer Charles L Jones asked the Mayor
whether or not the Board had decided to
pay the salaries of the old police officers
who served from 1889 to 1890.
Mayor Comstock replied that the Board
had consulted with its attorneys and had
come to the conclusion that the city was
not obliged to pay the salaries, and would
stand a suit.
STREETS AND ALLEYS.
Bids for grading the following streets
were received and opened: Twelfth, Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth streets, FROM n to
o, the intersection of Twenty second and
streets, and the alley between 0 and P,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
The Citizens Street Improvement COM
pany was awarded the contract for i'm
proving Thirteenth street, from n to o.
(The cost will be about 81 10 per front
foot)
Bassett & Tuohey were awarded the con-
tract for improving Twelfth and Four
'teentn streets, from to Q. (The cost will
be about the same as the above.
A. l.. Roza was awarded the contract for
improving the alley between 0 aud 2,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, al a cost
of forty cents per foot.
John Hughes was awarded the contract
for grading and gra7eiing the intersection
of Twenty-seeond and o streets.
A resolution was passed ordering l
street, from Thirteenth to Thirty-frst,
graded and grayeled.
A resolution of intention to grade and
gravel Third street, from ? to +, was also
passed.
A recess was taken until 1880 P. ".
PERMIT TO BUN SALOON.
At the afternoon session petition was
presented by the Messrs. Bergman for a
license to maintain the Ell Dorado saloon,
at s26 J street. The petition was signed
by a majority OF the residents of the block,
and accompanied by $500 bond, as re-
quired by the saloon ordinance lately
yN2Scaa Tho bond roS cigrcl hu n n
and Fl. L. Bergman, Il. Weiprich and
Martin Kessler.
The petition was granted.
WATER RATES COLLECTORS.
When Mr.. McLsughlin's proposed ordi-
nance providing for two additional col
lectors of water rates came up on second
reading, the Mayor presented some figures
taken from the Water Clerks books, show
ing that the collections for some weeks past
had been better than for the corresponding
weeks of several years past.
During the discussion that ensued the
Mayor expressed The opinion that the Water
Inspector, the Sanitary Plumber and the
City Taper might put in portion of their
time assisting in collecting water rates. He
was for economy in all departments.
Mr.. Mclaughlin criticised the Mayor
position as an economist, and claimed that
the facts did not bear him out in his ssser-
tons.
Mayor Comstock said that possibly in
some instances he might have been frmer
in insisting on reforms, but he was con-
scious of having done his duty as far as he
had gone.
Mr.. Wolf held that the Waterworks Of
fee was doing very well before one of the
two collectors was discharged, and if they
had been left alone good results would
have followed. AS to the proposed ordi.
nance before the Board, he thought il
should be changed somewhat.
After some further discussion the ordi-
nance was laid over another week.