The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-24
couNcIL pRocEEnINGs
The City Fathers Meet and Transact the Usual
Roufine RnsInrss.

In the council room last night with all ths
members in their seats. The roll call wa
followed by the reading of the minutes o
the previous meeting, which were adopted
The building COMMITTEES, through Mr.
Buckeridge. submitted report to tn
council concerning the furniture to be pu
into the city building. Considerable dis
cussion followed, which was participated
in by most of the members present. Some
Of the economically inclined seemed Il
prefer cheaper grade of furniture 10 b
put into the building than was reported
and 1t took some time until ali were salts
fed. Finally Mayor Carey arose and stated
his position upon the question. He be-
lieved in economizing he said. as it was
well known that he was a large taxpayer
himself, and, therefore, from that stand
point he favored economy. but that as the
city now had beautiful new building, he
believed in fitting the same with furniture,
such as belonged in a building like it. He
had the utmost confidence in the wisdom
aud ability OF the committee in making
such selection as they deemed proper.
Upon q motion of Councilman Glaze the
the mayor was added TO the building com
mittee.
Mr., Glaze stated that the police COM
missioners wished to occupy that part of
the building allotted to them rs soon as
possible. as the quarters they now occupy
are very poor. Mr.. Glaze desired to have
this part completed soon. Mr.. Rogers
had been seen and stated that he
was willing to have this part
occupied before acceptance was made. and
that he agreed to waive his right of claim
ing possession. Upon motion of Mr..
Martin, the matter was referred to the
building committee with power to act.
Mr.. Tucker, in behalf of the committee
on public improvements, submitted re-
port upon the Susan Miller matter. 1t
was finally agreed to accept the report in
which the proposition was made o p yMrs.
Miller s., 900 for the 100 loot street between
| Topeka and Lawrence, to open Park street,
the same to be paid after the said lots had
been vacated. Considerable discussion
ensued upon the advisability of the mat
ter. Mr.. Martin finally stated that in
order to avoid further litigation, it was
best to settle the matter. and the report
was adopted by vote of 9 to- 3.
After this question was settled, Mayor
Carey once more arose aud addressed the
members of the council upon the
light question. He held in his
hand the report of the city marshal
in which record was chronicled of the
number of lights that failed to burn
tor some time past. This matter had
come up six months ago, and promises
had been made all along, but he was sorry
to state, none had been fulfilled. In order
to protect the city and do justice to the
light companies the city marshal had been
instructed to keep record Of lights that
failed to burn. Besides these the mayor
stated he knew of one light that had not
been lighted for over two weeks. He adj
vised the council to take action III the
matter, as an alarming number of lights,
as seen by the report, had failed to burn,
for which the city would be asked to pay.
Mr.. Mckee, of the light committee
made short reply to the mayor with
reference to the light matter, explanatory
of his action. The matter was referred to
the light committee. The marshal was in
structed to continue in the good work of
recording the number of failures of lights
to be lit.
A petition for a sidewalk, praying for a
sidewalk on the east side on Cleveland
avenue, between Second and Third streets,
was read and adopted.
A similar petition was presented, which
asked for sidewalk on Mathewson aven ne
between Second and Third streets, but
this was laid upon the table
A number of bills were read and were
referred to their appropriate committees.
The residents of Fairmount had petit
tion in, asking for public telephone. to
be used in cases of fire, or calls for doctors
or policemen, etc. Mr.. Buckeridge de-
INJURED to this and stated that it was a
bad precedent to set. 1t was suggested
that the fire marshaPs opinion be asked.
as to the necessity for the telephone for
fire call Marshal Walden stated that in
his opinion the people of Fairmount should
have telephone as they request, or a fire
box, which would cost twice the amount
of the telephone
Upon Mr.. Walden's recommendation the
telephone was ordered, the location OF the
same to be designated by the fire marshal.
Reports from the city treasurer aud city
clerk were presented and referred to the
finance COMMITTEES.
City Attorney Gordon made verbal re-
port stating that he had served notice upon
the Midland railway with reference TO their |
track, and had received a reply, stating |
that the request had been Complied with |
and that an engineer would be here short
ly to fix matters and that probably in a |
short time, the matter would be attended |
to. The report was adopted.
A number Of misce laneous appropri- |
alton bills were passed. Councilman /
Goode bobbed up serenely with another /
health ordinance, for which he has be- /
come noted since his advent in the council |
1t compells ell property owners 10 keep /
clean Of rubbish, slops or garbage all |
vacant lots and alleys. Il was well receiv-
ed and will be passed at the next meet
ing.
The bids for flushing the sewers, which
had been advertised were received 1t
was concluded to open only those which
were accompanied By a certified check
All bids had been handed to the city clerk |
by o'clock with the exception Of one,
that Of NJ Dermody & Co, who did not
get theirs in until 7.3J, but by speaiAl act
Of the council, the same was admitted |
with the rest. Upon opening the bids IL
was found they stood as follows: Oscar
Sterling. 81 IA: T. h McLain. 4,Gs7 81:
W. 5. Stanley, 3 4o5.S 30; " Dermody &
Co, S4. B.. So
Upon motion the contract was awarded
to NJ Dermody & Co., who were the low
est bidders.
There being no farther business before
the council, the meeting adjourned
The well known case Of BeHjamin Boyce
against the st. Louis and san Francisco
Railway company is DOW on trial in the
common pleas coart Senator Bentley ap-