Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-27
ing Committee, and MessrA Bigham, Franz,
Fox, Shannon and Watson on the Free
Bridge Committee.
POLICE FORCE INCREASED.

The Addition of so Men Produces Lively
Discussion in Common Councils-A Lot
of New Business and Ordinances Pre-
sented.
In Common Councils, on the call Of the
wards, the following papers were presented
and referred:
Ordinances for sewers on Craig street,
Grafton street, Carver and Amanda streets,
Dauphin street and Mornings1de road,
Geneva alley and Matilda street; for grad
ing, paving and curbing Meadow street and
Forty-third street; for opening Meadow
street and Forty-third street; fixing vehicle
license of So a year on one horse vehicles,
$40 for two horse vehicles and $lOO for each
street car; petitions for water mains on
Home street and Euclid street; remonstrance
against the change of grade ON Craig street,
against the improvement OF Greenbush
street and against grading Prospect street.
The chairman read communication from
Chief Brown, in which he stated, in re-
sponse to a request from Council, that the
best method of disposing of garbage in the
Lawrenceville district was the systematic
collection at the public expense and its
destruction in furnaces The paper was
filed. Under the head of Select Council
business:
An ordinance granting the Second Avenue
Passenger Railway the right to lay a double
track on Second avenue at Hazlewood was
passed, were the general ordinance
regulating street paving by traction com.
panies: the resolution directing the Chief of
the Department OF Public Works to require
the Monongahela Water Companyto COM
ply with their contract relative to supplying
water; the resolution requesting the Gov
ernor to place sum of money at the dis
posal of the State Board OF Health: the
resolution for the purchase of lot in the
Thirty-drst ward for an engine house. The
nOlicA,
men was opposed by Mr.. O'Donnell, who
moved to nix the increase at 25 men.
Mr.: Finn opposed the amendment. He
was in Iavor of an increase of $50 men. 1--WE
have 5000 people on the Southside," said
Mr.. Finn, "and our day police force is from
10 to 20 men. In the Twenty-seventh and
other hill wards daylight robberies are COM
mon because some of the beats are from six
to eight miles long. 1t is not because the
police are inefficient. They have too much
to do. We need % more men at least"
Mr.. O'Donnell-In offering this amend
ment understood that an increase of the
Fire Department is to come. An increase of
% men in the Police Department and an in
crease in the Fire Department will be heavy
enough on the taxpayers, and an increase OF
25 policemen year would keep pace with
the population. Personally, would prefer
a heavier increase in the Fire Department.
The amendment was defeated and the
ordinance passed by vote of 33 ayes to 4
noes Messrs. Dunn, Eiten, McHugh and
O'Donnell voted no.
Mr.. Bigham, from the Committee on Pub
lie Works, presented ordinances for grad
ing, paving and curbing Juliet street, Beatty
street. Cato street, and Broad street; for
grading Copeland street; for paving aud
curbing Wallingford street; all of which
were passed.
Mr. O'Donnell, from the Committee on
Surveys, presented ordinances fixing the
grade of South Negley avenue and Daum
street; passed.