Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-15
CITY COUNCIL.
A COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO
REOISTRICT THE CITY
Read and Referred Bsck-School-
Houses for Two Wards.

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| was very tame except in two instances.
| that OF redistricting the city and when the
| deed 10 the Bailey property was under
! discussion and tie debate was
cut of by referring boIh mat
| tiers 10 committees the business
| exceptions noted. \ number Of petitions
! 10 have streets graded, to have hydrautS
| put in, and reports of officers on minor mat
! terS made up the bulk OF the business.
| This work had accumulated for several
weeks and needed attention.
The council met AZ 10 with Mayor
! Smith in the chair and all the aldermen
present.
Petitions 10 grade Pacific street and
other streets referred without reading 20
street ana alley committee.
City Engineer Kerr reported that in the
| month OF April be had issued twenty
building permits. value Of buildings as
given TO MIN being so, 10. Received and
tled
Report of city engineer on Jog in Calves
ton avenue referred.
Proposal from TT Hurley to sell city hall
site on Main and Ninth streets Received
and filed.
\ communication from Hugh T Wilson
was read setting forth that the time Of his
assistant would soon be nonopoiized by he
board of equalization and that he needed
assistance. He says the work in 1891 will
be three times - great IS that of 1859 and
# On assistant is appointed ne can earn sew
eral times MS salary in increasing the col
lection OF occupation taxes.
The communication went 10 the finance
committee.
E. H Keller. Z. NJ Walker. A Armen-
trout, Biddle, Stuart Il Co, Flint, Stone &
Co. petition the council 10 permit them 20
use the streets for bugGies. wagons, etc
Referred
Hyde Jennings offers to sell the city seven
acres Of ground for park for S3i,000. Re
ferred TO public grounds committee.
A proposition from Mr.. Jennings TO lease
the same was also referred.
Alderman Tiller offered resolution that
the public building committee take steps to
erect school house in the Seventh ward.
II was amended 10 include the Sixth ward,
and passed.
Alderman Darlcr offered a resolution
which was adopted to build three feet gut
ters with six feet cutters ~ intersections
Of sixty feet streets, and four feet suffers
and eight feet cutters al intersections Of
eighty ieet streets. Where wider gut
tiers are needed they are 10 be ordered in by
the city engineer and street and alley COM
mitlec.
A resolution providing the salary of assiS-
tant city attorney jackson be fixed al
sl00 per month was referred 10 the finance
committee.
y resolution, bv Dartcr, that Allen &
NiethS be authorized to extend the sewer
system in the Second ward was adopted.
The election Of two drivers and an engi-
necr by the Daggett company was con-
frIued on motion OF Alderman Jackson.
Henry RIggle was appointed special po-
licemsn AT the Union depot
9. T. ESkew, city sexton, reported
twenty-siX buriaiS in April ard five re-
movals.
The auditor reported that IN April tile
expenditures had exceeded the budget by
$1,000.
City Marshal Maddox reported the fol-
lowing as the bill of fare al the calaboose:
Breakfast-Bacon potatoes. bread. molaS-
scs. coffee. Dinner-Bacon or beef, beans,
corn bread. water. Suppcr-Beef or bacon,
bread. beans or potatoes, water.
Marshal Maddox asked that Hill bearing
be appointed special policeman al Wade's
variety show. Referred to police commit
tee.
City Collector n. ~. Wilson reported
S2J. % collected from April II 10 May
4 About 1000 still uncollccted. Re
ferred 10 finance committee.
City Marshal Maddox reported S2,1 col
lected by him 10 MAY /.
The bond of f. Thielman for the faithful
performance of his duties as dumping
grounds keeper was approved.
The report Of City Engineer Kerr Civ
ing estimate on the work on Pacific avenue
as S}lG.GG. was referred to street and alley
committee.
An ordinance amending article III of the
Revised Criminal Statutes ofthe city reg
ulating the dumping grounds was passed.
1t requires all pits TO be six feet deep
The purchasing committee reported that
II had bought a tine bay horse Tor $500 for
Protection company. Approved.
The city secretary read the deed from W. |
j. Bailey to the city conveying 25X9a feet on !
Monroe street and agreeing to open Jackson !
and Throckmorton streets in consiG- |
GRAFTON of 81 and building the |
city hail on the property. There !
was lengthy discussion of this deed and |
finally it was referred back 10 the city at |
tornev 10 have the streets surveyed, and |
the land surveyed put in b. metes and !
bounds.
A report was read from Alderman Ryan to |
the effect that half the population and over ;
half the wealth OF Fort Worth was north of !
seventh street while that territory had but |
four of the fourteen aldermen. He there |
fore recommended that the two wards be |
made into four.
Alderman Armstrong or the Seventh OPP |
posed the report and Alderman Ryan plainly |
charged that Mr.. Armstrong; plan was TO
postpone this simple act of justice to 1900 |
voters until the Eighth ward with l25 |
voters could get two aldermen into the /
wanted the report divided, he
vas willing TO make two wards out OF
he First.
Mayor Smith remarked that the charter