Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-15
Cuttings From Councils.

THE award of the contract for lighting the
| city to the Allegheny County Light Com
pany for four years, as previously puDnsneo,
was approved in Common.
THE Select Council resolutions for con-
demning the Brownsville turnpike. and to
select a site for free bridge to the South
SIDE, were passed in Common.
Mr.. O'CoNNoR presented a resolution pro-
viding for an estimate for repairing Stanton
avenue from the end OF last years repair
ing to Woodbine street. 1t passed both
branches.
THE report of Chief Bigelow, Of the De-
partment of Works, for November showed
expenditures of $50, $50 50 and a balance of
1852 SIS 81. The number of employees in the
department is 56S.
A RESOLUTION requesting the chief Of the
Department of Public Works to use the
2,00o, 900 feet OF gas the Pittsburg Gas Com
pany Is bound to furnish the city free in re-
turn for rights allowed it, passed both
branches.
A RESOLUTION to improve Snyder square,
Twelfth ward, for park, passed both
branches. This ground was given to the
city by Mrs. Elizabeth Denny for park In
1873, and has since laid idle as a dumping
place for rubbish.
Mr.. BIGHAM presented an ordinance grant
ing Pack Bros, & Co. the right to lay a switch
on Spruce alley. Mr.. Pitcairn moved to
refer the ordinance to a special committee
of five members After considerable dis
cussion this was done.
PAPERS presented in Select and referred
were: Petition for grading, paving and curb
ing Taylor street; petition and ordinance for
repaving Harcum's alley, Twenty fifth ward,
and petition for switch by Jones & Laugh
lins, on Wright's alley, Twenty-ffth ward.
Mr. HEATING, in Select, presented propo-
sition to lease tho Fifth Avenue Market
n
Trustees of Battery B and the Eighteenth
Regiment, for period of 80 years from Jan
uary !, 1892. 1t was referred to the Public
Works Committee.
Mr. WARREN presented a resolution that
tho chief Of the Department Of Public Works
make an estimate or the cost of paving Ella
street, part of Liberty and Penn avenues
with block stone, and that it be included in
the appropriation next year. He also pre-
sented resolutions for the improvement! and
asked that they be adopted as read. The
papers were sent to the Financs Committee.
In Common Council Mr.. Bigham from the
COMMITTEES on Public Works, presented
ordinances for sewers on Oakland avenue,
on Butler street from Fifty-fourth street to
McCandless street. on Lawn street, on High
land avenus, Bryant and Mellon streets: for
grading Wightman street, paving and curb
ing Homewood avenue; grading, paving and
curbing Duncan street; opening Irwin ave-
nue., ali Of which were passed.
IHE papers presented IN common anu re-
ferred were: Ordinances for sewers on
Thirty-ninth street, McCandless street, Kent
alley, Castleman street, and Edward and
Cooper stree is, authorizing the acceptance
of the Bluff street sewer; locating Farragut
street; opening Castleman street; grading,
paving and curbing Fifty-fourth street and
Castleman street. Petitions recommending
the passage of an ordinance granting Park
Bros. & Co. the right to lay q switch on
Spruce alley; for lamps on Sheridan avenue.
THE following ordinances were passed
finally in Select: For the opening Of Deary
street. from Lincoln to Larimer; for the
open of Irwin avenue from Wightman to
Forbes: for grading, paving and curbing Of
Homewood avenue, from Penn to Franks
town; for grading paving and curbing Dun
can street. from Fifty-second to Stanton
streets; grading of Wightman street, from
Forbes to wilkins; opening sewer on High
land, Bryant and Mellon streets; opening
sewer on Lawn street, from Hamlet to
Morris; opening sewer on Butler street, from
Fifty fourth to McCandless; opening sewer
on Oakland avenue, from Bates to Joncaire.