Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-19

and approved.
Warrants were ordered drawn in
payment of bills allowed as follows:
Gates q Fraser Hdw Co .......$ 30 %
Fairhaven Independent........ 5 SO
= Hofistetter. ................... 2 70
& ; Zurn, sewer work, ......... 500 63
Il j. Kienstra, clerical work .... % so
III IL Merrill, assessor, .......... 40 90
Peter Bruhn, police. e............. 10 90
The bill Of Hakes q Dickinson, COW
ering final estimate for the Padden
road improvement, $772.A, was allowed
and ordered paid, less 800 10 be with
held until the burning along the road
sides is completed.
The abstracts of title and deeds for
the right-of-way for the extension of
Mill avenue from Twenty-flrst to Twen-
ty-fourth street were presented by the
city attorney. After a long and tire
some discussion Mr.. Donovan offered
the following:
Moved that the deeds executed by
ID. II. Huntoon for the extension of
Mill avenue and Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth streets are hereby ac-
cepted. In payment for the property
notes for $500 and one for 5000, total
S3, 400, payable from the street fund on
or before one year, at the option Of the
council, be given. The $500 note shall
be held by the city clerk until land is
replatted to satisfaction Of council"
The mayor expressed his personal
preference for the improvement Of
TweHty-third and Knox or Douglass
streets, even at greater expense to the
city, rather than pay S3,740 at the
present time into the pockets of "A prl-
yate individual. He admitted that the
people in the locality Of the proposed
Mill street extension had not received
justice in the matter of streets, but the
responsibility, if any, did not rest upon
the present council, which had not, like
its predecessors, ordered street improve
ments in every direction. lie would
favor any improvement calculated TO
give the property owners III that
locality the relief soup hit, which would
distribute the peoples money among
the people whs need it, rather than
pay such sum as that proposed TO any
private individual.
Mr.. Donovan stated that he had no
recollection Of any proposition having
been made to provide better street fa-
cilities in that locality except the one
under discussion, and which had been
before the council at various times for
more than year. He agreed with the
mayor that more people would be ac-
commodated by the improvement Of
other streets in that part Of the city,
! but no petition for such improvement
| had ever been presented by the prop
] erty owners, and the council could not
assume ii to he desired, although he
] did not doubt the power of the council
to take the initiative i'm the matter
under the provisions of section Or
dinance No. 100, if such action was
deemed advisable.
Mr.. Aubrey said he had nothing to
add TO make his position i'm the matter
| clearer, but ne thought it child's play
TO take such action az the council did a
week ago in ordering the purchase and
extension and then repudiato IL i'm such
a manner.
Mr.. Ahern agreed with the mayor
that 1t would be better to spend money
for Improvements so as TO put as much
money a. possible In circulation among
the people rather than use it for the
purchase of property.
Mr.. Huntoon stated that he would
not accept notes, as provided by the
resolution, and the motion to make
such tender was lost.
The following resolutions were then
offered by Mr.. Donovan, and all were
adopted without dissent:
Resolved by the city council Of the
city Of Fairhaven that Douglass avenue
be improved from a point ten feet east
Of the center line Of Twenty-second
street to the guide meridian on Twen.
ty-fourth street by grubbing and grad
ing twenty feet wide, and by planking
sixteen feet wide in the center with
foHr-iHeh fir plank, said improvement
at expense of abutting property.
Resolved by the city council Of the
city Of Fairhaven that Harris avenue
be improved from the east side OF
Twenty-first street to the east side OF
Twehty-third street by grubbing and
grading twenty feet wide in the center
and by plaBking with four-ineh Hf
plank sixteen feet wide, said improve
nent TO be at the expense Of abutting
property.
Resolved by the city council Of the
city Of Fairhaven that Twenty-second
street be improved from point ter
feet north of the center line Of Harris
avenue 10 the north side Of Douglass
avenue by grubbing and grading
twenty feet wide in the center, and
planking with four-inch fir plank six.