Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-05-15
Doings Of Council.

The Council Chamber was crowded with
strangers. Tuesday night-men who came
here to bid on the paving of East and West
Jefferson streets and Centre avenue; also
on the Fairview, Brown and Walker ave-,
and Miffiin st. sewers.
The bids were all opened and read and
referred to the different committees and
City Engineer, to tabulate and report upon
Thursday evening
On the paving the lowest bidders are
John Osborne of Franklin, Long Il Doyle
of Pittsburg, Moren & Collins, and Huston
Brothers.
Osborne's bids are as follows-For paw
ing East Jefferson street with Brady's Run
Paving brick $1.92 per sqsare yard; curb
ing 65 cents per lineal foot; West Jefferson
street 81 95 per square yard; Centre Ave.
sl.ss cents per square yard.
Long d Doyle-E. Jefferson sl.76 per
50. yard for brick, 1913 per 50. I'd for
block stone W Jefferson $1.77 for brick;
Centre Ave. s175. Curbing 62 cents re-
setting 10 cents,
Moren g. Collins-E. jefferson sl.95, 90,
90; W. Jefferson sls9; Centre ave s1.s9.
George Schaffner bid on Centre avenue
alone at $19l per 81. yard, 6S cents for
curbing and 20 cents for resetting.
Hu ston Bros. bid sl97 on f. Jefferson;
81 "a on W. Jefferson and Sl.S6 on Centre
Ave,
The other bids, eleven in number run
from s195 to $3.50 for brick, and from
81 % to $3.50 for block stone.
After the bids were all read, communi-
cation from Long & Doyle advocating &C.
ment in preference to tar for filling the
interstices in the brick paving was read,
and they had samples of the brick joined
together with both tar and cement to prove
their argument.
For the sewering there were five bidders
and the contest seems to be between b. +.
Hughs and McCollum d Graham.
Hughes bid for the inch sewer,in alley
east of Fairview avenue is 81 cents and o4
for inch; flush tanks $97 each, man
holes $50, inspection heads $3s. For alley
west of Fairview avenue, Sc and "a cents.
For Walker Ave 60 and So cents. For
alley east of Brown Ave. 76 and "a cents
and for Mifflin street S5 cents.
McCollum & Grahams bid on Fairyiew
avenue sewer is 60 cents, Brown Ave. DO,
Walker SO and Miffiin so; $50 for manholes,
s45 for inspection heads and 800 for flush
tanks.
The other bids run from Ga to 81 cents
per foot for the sewe-s and they all vary on
the flushing tanks and manholes.
OF the miscellaneous business done that
night the first matter was the petition OF
the Mutual Water Association for permls-
sion to use the streets and alleys of the
S. S. for laying their pipes, and the petl-
tion was granted and ordinance ordered to
be prepared-the Co. to furnish water for
the flushing tanks and fire plugs OF that
part of the town free of charge to the town
Mr.. Mered dith of the old Water Co. was
present, and there may be some legal mu-
sic over this.
A communication from the Burgess re-
garding the charges against two of the
policemen was read and the charges against
one were dropped, and against the other
were sustained, and he was discharged,
and motion to pay the discharged man
half months salary brought on a long
wrangle, but he finally got it by vote of
| to 4.
- n ,fav, f. Ial-
bold for policeman, they to pay him, was
granted; and the lookup matter was refer
red to the Police Com.
Some premises on the S. S. were report
ed in bad condition and notices were or
| dered to be served on the owners.
| The Engineer was ordered to give grade
for Cherry alley.
The matter of the grade of Main street
from the Diamond to the Vogeley House
alley was brought up again and there was
another long talk regarding it and other
| grades along the street. 4 motion to put
the grades at the crossing of Main and
Wayne down 1t feet, or 20 where the orig
inal survey put it, was voted down, and
that seemed to settle the matter-at least
it was dropped, with nothing done.
The bond of the boro. to Mr.. Fullerton
for damages for occupying his land for the
abutments of the Centre Ave. bridge was
read and approved of. 1t is for $1,000 and
the amount of damages will probably de-
pend on the verdict of jury. Its consid-
l AVIATION oaucad n O manner of tho cOustrup.
tion of the abutments to be referred to, and
committee was appointed to confer with
the County Commissioners regarding it. 1t
was asserted that the P. Il. r. Co. makes
all its abutments solid with cement, which
on good foundation last forever, and are
the cheaper in the end.
Council adjourned to meet Thursday
evening.