Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-27
IMPORTANT MEASURES

Chief BigeIow Can Purchase Highland
Park Property-First Report on In
vested Sinking Fund.
At meeting of the Finance Committee
yesterday afternoon ordinances authorizing
Chief Bigelow to purchase land for the ex-
tension of Highland Park was afirmatively
recommended to Councils. The property is
the same that Mr.. Bigelow purchased last
year, but through some legal technicality
the purchases could not be settled at that
time. An act of the last Legislature reme-
died the trouble, and as the money was ap-
propriated in the or dinance for that pur-
pose in February the purchases can now be
closed The property to be bought is tract
of II lots from j. B. Kelley, 43424x134 feet,
cost S., 000 1928 acres from w. A. Hoevel-
Ter, at S27 ,0S6; S.224 acres from Stella Ken
nedy, at SO, 600; 1 acre 1625 perches from
Anna G. Duff, at S556 80.
Controller Morrow stated that a resolu-
tion was to have been presented authorizing
the payment of sums equal to the former
salaries of the Assistant City Attorneys
under the old department of law. By the
Supreme Court decision the department of
law was abolished, but Messrs, Burleigh
and Cameron, the Assistant City Attorneys,
ndu Deeu WuIhlHS anu udIu eve
since on city work, and they should be paid
for their services. They were willing to
accept the amount of their former salaries
for this work, and a motion was adopted
that resolution providing for their pay
ment be affirmatively recommended to
Councils. The ordinance authorizing the
appointment of two Assistant City Attor-
neys was not presented as expected.
Bonds of Indemnity to Be Issued.
An ordinance authorizing the Mayor to
execute bonds of indemnity to persons
whose property may be damaged or taken
by the city in cases of condemnation for
public purposes, was ordered returned to
Councils with an affirmative recommends
ton. .'. 80 49,
Mrs. Julia Devine wanted 81, 700 for the
destruction of property by tlre owing to
lack of water 1t was refused.
The Fidelity Title and Trust Company
reported the amount of bonds received from
Controller Morrow since the adoption of
the ordinance providing for the investment
of the sinking funds, this being the first of
the quarterly reports required by that ordi-
nance from the trustees, the Fidelity Com
pany. The figures are as follows:
Water loan sinking fund. including rail-
road compromise bonds, water extension,
East Birmingham funded debt, funded debt
refunded city building loan, municipal con-
solidated and improvement bonds, 81 $50 525.
Municipal sinking fund, including COM
promise railroad, compromise registered,
compromise scrip, water extension and i'm
provement bonds, s163 $50 25.
Special sinking fund, including water ey-
ment and refunding city building bonds,
SSS, 400
Fire department, including municipal con-
solidated, water extension, railroad compro-
dnd dn1N 6rrno orfrr RI ipa-
provement bonds, $l79, 700
Refunded City Hall and Fifth Avenue
improvement bond sinking fund, appro-
priation No. 81 $751;
Sinking fund, appropriation No. %, 81, 1OO
Funded debt, Improvement sinking fund,
Funded street, improvement sinking fund,
500, 100.
Borough of Birmingham sinking fund,
Borough of Mt. Washington, sinking
Borough of Temperanceville sinking fund,
s., 400.
Total bonds on hand, S. OIL, ,S75,25
This report closed with May 80. Since
that date the Controller has invested over
$500, 900 in bonds in addition to the above
amount.
Corporations Committee Work.
The Corporations Committee of Councils
met yesterday afternoon and afirmatively
recommended the following ordinances:
Granting the Marvin branch of the United
States Baking Company, the right to con-
struct switch on Liberty street; the Union
Ice Manufacturing Company to erect
weigh scales in front of their factory on
First avenue; the Pittsburg, Allegheny and
Railway to construct branch
from the corner of Duquesne way and Sixth
street, along Duquesne way to Fifth street,
to Liberty street, to their present terminus
with a single track, under the supervision
of the Chief of Public Works; the Green
field avenue railway to construct an electric
line from the intersection of Sylvan avenue
and Second avenue along Sylvan avenue to
Greenfield avenue; the Swissvale and
Williamsburg railway to construct an electric
railway from the western terminus of For
ward avenue to Murray avenue.