Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-05
CITY c0rNtIL.s SESSION.

10 tOnuenh Sllpley Run Tor n Sewer--
Wants the Wires Buried--Extravagan
Prices for Eire-alarm Telegraph Sup
plies.
City Council held short but inter
esting session Thursday evening.
On the recommendation of the finance
committee the following bill for the re-
moval of garbage during February were
allowed and orders were directed to be
drawn: Fred Winchester, $135,S3;
Thomas Pagan, $49S AZ; Lelian Collins,
$1S1.25. The action of the finance COM
mittee and sinking fund commits
sioners in awarding to the Equitable
Guarantee and Trust Company the
$4,000 four per cent loan at par was
approved
The law committee reported that it
had instructed the city solicitor to pre-
pare for presentation to the Legislature
IN act empowering council to donate
$500 to the widow of Police Officer
Schultz and also to prepare bill con-
demning Silverbrook run for sewer pur-
poses, the commission for assessing
damages to be appointed under the same
conditions as near as may be as are now
applied for assessment of damages for
opening and widening streets under the
city chartef. Adopted.
City Treasurer Griffith reported that
the city has in bank S95, ,779.18 to the
credit of current expenses and $12, ,S49.62
to the credit of special deposit He also
reported the following receipts for the
week: From H. p. Moody, $3.50, city
and school taxes for 1888; from Edmund
Mitchell, Jr., $500, city and school taxes
for 1890; from the administrator of
Martin J. Mealey, $500, city and school
taxes for 1883 and 5000, city and school
taxes for 1890; from John H. Dandy,
cashier Of Union National Bank, 1926,
interest for January on the city's
amount TO the credit of current ex-
penses, and $20.60, interest for the same
month on the city'samount to the credit
of special deposit. The city auditor re-
ported that the city treasurer's accounts
are correct. Adopted
Orders were directed to be drawn in
favor of the parties named in the mis-
cellaneous and police pay-rolls, amount
ing, respectively, to $1,g97.17 and 49,
3l5.49, us were also orders in favor of
the parties named in the list of interest
due on March LIST, amounting to S3,675,
and for sundry bondholders for the re-
demption on the same date of bonds
amounting to $4,000.
Mr.. Sharkey introduced a resolution
and precipitated adiscussion. The resolu-
ton instrncts the city solicitor to pre-
pare for presentation to the Legislature
a bill requiring all telegraph wires TO be
put under ground within two years
after the passage of said bill. Mr..
Sharkey evidently means all overhead
wires, telegraph, electric light and tele-
phone, but his resolution mentions only
telegraph wires. After the resolution
had been read he stated that two fire
alarm boxes and several police booths
had been burned out within q week and
spoke of the menace which the electric
light wires are to human life.
Mr.. Lawson intimated that the burn
ing ont of the boxes and booths was due
to the negligence or ignorance of the
superintendent of the tirealarm tele-
graph system instead of to the electric
light wires and condemned the action of
the police committee in sending to
Louisville for an electrician to repair the
damage sustained. He charged that the
prices paid for police department sup
plies are ridiculous and said he did not
wonder that its appropriation is nearly
exhausted. Six cents is paid for vitrioi,
he declared, when it can be bought for
five cents and 33 cents is paid for zines
when it can be bought for 20 cents.
Enormously high prices, he added, are
paid for other supplies.
Mr.. McKenney explained that the
superintendent of the fire-alarm tele-
graph has been sick for two weeks and
stated that Mr.. Aydon would have at
tended the recent meeting of the police
committee if he had been we'll He
further stated that the contractors had
agreed to keep the Gaynor electric sys-
TEN in repairs for three years.
Mr.. Baugh confirmed what Mr.. Nc
Kenney had said and added that he did
not think that the bringing of an cleo
trician from Louisville will create extra
expense.
At the conclusion of the discussion
Mr.. Sharkey's resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Baugh announced that Thomas
r. Young's term as sinking fund COM
missioner would expire March list, and
nominated him for reelection. No op-
position candidate was nominated, and
nobody voted in the negative. A unani-
nous vote being required, Mr.. Baugh
was given the casting vote, and Mr.
Young was declared to be reelected
Messrs Sharkey and Vandegrift served
as tellers.