Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
Minor CounciImanic Matters.

| THE ordinance of the Mt. Oliver Incline
Company to change its motor power was af.
| f1rmatively recommended by committee and
| passed both branches.
| A RESOLUTION compromising the claims of
| f. p. Jones, Robert Arthurs and Bridget
| Daley for damages by street improvements
| for "a 200 passed in Common.
THE report of Chief Elliot, of the Depart
ment of Charities, showed expenditures for
and balance in the appropriation of So,
SIS O5.
| Mr.. O'DoNSELL, from the Committee on
| Surveys, presented ordinances establishing
/ the grade of Augusta street and re-establish-
| ing the grade of Cassatt street, both of which
| were passed in Common.
MR.. MAGEE presented communications
| from the Controller, recommending the pay
ment of Ss6 80 to the Electrical Supply Com
pany and $40 Il TO George L. Peabody for
| work done last year. Passed.
| THE resolution from a special committee
| instructing the City Attorney to proceed
| regularly to the condemnation of that part
of the Brownsville and Birmingham turn
| pike lying within the city was passed in Sc
| lect.
A RESOLUTION from Mr.. Benz in Select in
structing the special committee on the Monon-
gahela river bridge to selects a site between the
Smithfield and Tenth street bridges, and re-
meeting, was passed.
In Select the ordinance establishing the
Office of Chief Clerk to the Board of Viewers
was defeated for the second time for want of
a legal maj jority, lacking one vote, the ayes
being Is and the noes 3, Messrs. Benz, Braun
and Fitzsimmons voting in the negative.
In the matter of the citys Indebtedness to
the Philadelphia Gas Company, Mr.. Heating
moved thai the original resolution author
iZing the payment in full, total of S22-
917 IA to September 10, be passed. The vari-
GUS differences and discrepancies in the bill
and the causes of them were clearly ex-
planned by Mr.. Heating, and the resolution
was passed.
PRIOR to the meeting of Councils the
Finance Committee assembled and affirma-
lively recommended the resolution tor the
payment of the election boards to serve at
the special election on December S. Three
dollars were allowed for inspectors and
clerks and 81 for judge of election. They
recommended also the payment of the same
rent for polling places allowed at general
elections. This was passed in Common.
Mr.. BIGHAM. from the Committee on Pub
lie Works, presented ordinances for the con-
struction of sewers on Exchange alley,
Homewood avenue, Carey alley, Penny
street, Neptune street. Basin alley,
Washington street and Fountain street, and
Fifth avenue: for grading, paving and curb
ing Thirty-sixth street; for opening Belle
field street, Berthoud street, Iowa street,
Winslow street, CHASER alley and Blair
street, all of which were passed.
In Select Council the following minor mat
tiers were then taken up and passed finally:
Ordinances for the grading of Greenleaf
street, Thirty ward: Thirty-siyth
street from Charlotte street to the Allie
gheny Valley Railroad: opening Iowa street,
from Heron avenue to line of S. EwartS
property: Blair street, Lowry to Hazelwood
avenue; CLOSER street, from kirkpatrick to
line of A Davis property; Berthoud street,
from Evans to Morgan street; Winslow
street. from Park to Grant street: Bellefeld
street, from Forbes to Center avenue. For
the laying or sewers on Carey alley, be-
tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
streets; Homewood avenue, between Franks
town and Kelly avenues: Basin, Washington
and Fountain streets to Seventh avenue;
Fifth avenue, from Dithridge to st. Pierre
street: Perry, from Webster to Wylie
avenue: Neptune street. from Wabash to
to Alexander street; Exchange alley, from
Ninth street to Garrison allev.