The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-06
THE COMMON COUNCIL.
Ordinances Permitting the Use Of
the Trolley Recommltted.
fHE FRUIT HILL RESERVOIR.
washinEton Street TO be widened-Mr.
Burdick ON Terminal Fsciiities-rhe
Providence River Nuissnce-A Long
Session and Much Business Last Night.

Providence River Nuisance-A Long
session and Much Business Last Night.
The Common Council met In regular
session last evening The monthly re-
port of the city treasurer and auditor for
the months OF July and August were re-
csived.
The report of the committee on finance.
making the appropriation for salaries
s06. 900 inst cad Of So. 200 as formerly.
Also the monthly report OF the same
relative to CO pom bonds was received.
Resolu tions were adopted ordering the
paving of Pike street; Broad street, from
Chestnut street 10 Pearl street; Rich
mond street. from Weybosset street to
Ship street. Benefit street, from Wicken-
den street to India street; North Main
street, from the foot Of Constitution Hill
to Olney street, and Benefit street, from
North Main street to the crosswalk; to
macadamize Smith street. from Ruggles
street to River avenue; the layout of Can
dace. Carroll, Allston, Robin and Lisbon
streets; the concreting OF sidewalks on
Charles Field. Point. Pitman, Earle,
Greenwich and Bishop streets, and the
layout and widening OF Washington
street, from Eddy to Walker street. max
ing it uniform width Of 20 feet.
Resolutions were adopted ordering
sewers in Plain, Somerset, Providence
streets and Gladstone avenue:
The monthly report of the chief of the
fire department was received.
Resolutions were adopted ordering
water pipes in the following streets:
Germania and Greenwood streets in
Frankfort, Merose, Margaret, Tyler,
Stockwell, Morgan, Babcock, Kane,
Dyerville road and other streets.
Resolutions were adopted ordering the
layout of Brick and Elton streets.
The following matters were passed In
concurrence:
Resolutions appointing a joint special
committee to negotiate for aud exchange
lands for the new city yard; resolution
rescinding resolution No. ASS, current
series. ordering sewer in Pratt street;
resolution to concrete sidewalks on Young
Orchard avenue from Cooke street to
permission to ELI Aylesworth, Robert
Moore. and Addie L. Cowell to raise
buildings; report of the joint special COM
mittee TO procure portrait Of his honor,
Mayor William X. Potter; thirty-eighth
quarterly report OF the department. of
public wcrke; communication OF the city
clerk relative to the acceptance of the
Narragansett Electric Lighting Co., of
the provisions Of chapters CCCLXXV,
CCCLxxxII, CCCLXXXIIV, and
LVII of the ordinances an ordi-
nance fixing the rate per week
to be paid weekly; an ordinance in amend
mcnt of chapter CCCLIl of the ordinances
and adding ~. 500 to the appropriation for
the care and maintainence OF sewers; reso-
luton authorizing park commissioners
TO drcdge lake No. at Roger Williams
Park; resolution directing the city treas
urer to pay to John S. Shay s53.1 IS; reso-
luton directing committee on fire de-
partment to ascertain the cost OF q water
tower for the fire department.; resolution
TO concrete sidewalks on Pettis street
from Printery street to Nichols street;
resolution directing the com mmissioner of
public works to build Broad street from
the railroad bridge to the city line, and
also, Prairie avenue from Public street to
Logan avenue: resolution to lay out Hen
derson street; resolution to define grade
for Elton street; resolution ordering
sewer in Hcndrick street and Carleton
streets; resolution ordering a sewer in
Cypress street; resolution to concrete
sidewalks on the east side of Canal street.
and on the west side of North Main street
from Steeple street and Elizabeth street
Councilmen Covell, Vaughan and
Hickle were appointed on the COMMITTEES
lands for the new city.
The report Of the committee on police |
that there would be deficiency in the
appropriation for that department
amounting to $4,000 was received.
The Trolley for Elmwood.
Mr.. vose for the committee on railroads
presented the following report accom-
panied by an ordinance granting the
Union Railroad permission to use the
electric trolley on the Elmwood route
from Roger Williams Park to the city
line on Smith street. The report is as
1e:tAs Honorable the Cny Council ot the ct,y Of
Providence
The joint committee on railroads. to
whom was referred the application OF the
Union Railroad Company for permission
for tho purpose of conducting currents OF
electricity for motive power for railroad
purposes In certain streets, respectfully
report:
The petition Of the Union Railroad Com
pauy requests the City Council to grant
Il authority for the extension Of the eiec-
tric trolley system Of street railway pro-
pulsion In the following streets. viz:
Elmwood avenue from the city line to
Greenwich street; Earle and Bucklin
streets from Greenwich street to Redwing
street; Greenwich street from Elmwood
avenue to Broad street; Weybosset street
from Dorrance street to Westminster
street; Westminster street from Mathew |
son street to and In Market square; Orms
street from Charles street TO Smith street;
and In Smith street from Orms street to |
the city line"
Your committee have given this petit |
ton careful consideration; have given a |
public hearing thereon, as required by |
ordinance, and find that the people in |
nearly all sections OF the city and its |
suburbs are constantly requesting a
change from horse TO electric power on
the various street railway lines.
AT the hearing held on Aug. 5, 1892,
and which was largely attended by re-
preventative citizens and taxpayers, the
petitioners requested that your commit
tee consider its application for permission
20 erect poles and wires In North Main
ana Mill streets, which had previously
been recommended by the committee. and
authority therefor granted at a meeting
81 tho Common Council held June 20.
~. The construction OF an electric line
In these streets would complete the troll
ley system over the route asked for. as
well as furnish rapid transit for the resi-
dents OF Elinwood and Smiths Hill. AT
subseqcnt meetings Of your committee IL
was demonstrated that electric trac-
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