The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-07-06
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Considerable Business Transacted
Last Evening.
THE QUESTION OF SEWERAGE AT
THE OAKS AND BRIDGE.

Licenses Granted to Inn Holders and Vic
tuallers-The Bonds of the Asphalt
Paving Company-Adverse Report on
the Offer of the Brown Trustees.
At the meeting of the city government
last evening several matters of consider
able Importance were brought up.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDER
The Aldermen met in the rooms of the
Registration Board, the repairs on their
own room not being completed. The full
board was present.
Temporary Loan.
An order was passed authorizing the
city treasurer to issue notes for a tenn
porary loan not exceeding 100000, I'M
der direction of the finance committee.
This order is supplementary to similar
order passed last April; and for the pur-
pose of renewing the loan made under
that order. The committee find they
can borrow at less rate on notes for a
short time.
Adverse Report on Offer of Brown Trus-
The commissioners of parks, cemeter-
les, etc., reported in regard to the propo-
sition of the trustees of the j. B. Brown
estate. The trustees offered to exchange
all the land now owned by them between
the Western Promenade, Danforth
street and B street for unimproved lands
of the city elsewhere, upon condition
that if such exchange is made, all this
land and all the land owned by the city
between the Western Promenade and B
street, including what is known as the
Western Promenade, shall be set apart
and reserved as a public park forever.
The commissioners of parks say: "We
understand that the exchange contemp-
lates an equal area of land located in the
northerly part of what is known as the
poor farm amounting to about 100000
square feet. The commissioners have
awaited themselves of the opinion of sew
eral Gentlemen, whose knowledge of real
estate values is recognized, and have
concluded to advise the Honorable May
or and City Council that, in their opin-
ion, the acceptance of the foregoing prop
osition would not serve the best interests
of the city. We beg further to advise
the acquiring of so much of the slope
adjoining the Western Promenade as
seems pertinent; if the same can be done
either by purchase or exchange, upon
equitable TERMS James P. Jordan, A.
W. Smith and George E. Raymond sign
the report. 1t was read and accepted
and sent down.
The Sewer at Deering Bridge.
The committee on drains and sewers
reported a recommendation that sewer
be laid out and built from the easterly
end of the sewer recently constructed
by the Portland & Rochester for the
city of Portland in Deering Park, on
a course of about N. $40 49, E. parallel
and adjacent to sewer built in $780,
This sewer is needed to complete the
work already done. 1t concerns the dis
charge of sewage at the Deering bridge,
where more or less of nuisance has ex-
listed for long time. The new sewer
from Grove street is five feet square, and
empties into an old sewer only three by
four feet. This old sewer passes under
the Rochester track and empties into
the channel at the bridge 1t is now
proposed to build a new 5x5 sewer paral-
lei with the old 3x4, extending from the
end of the new sewer under the Port
land q Rochester track to the channel
that goes under the bridge. This will be
as far as Portland can go alone. When
Deering and the electric road company
will assist, the sewer can be extended
under the bridge and out to the deep
water channel An order was passed
that the city should build the extension
at once.
Policeman Rowe's Case.
The Police Examining Board reported
that the following had passed successful
examinations:
John F. A. Norton, John Massure,
Edward X. Heath, Henry S. Thrasher,
John Healey, Roger McGrath,
W. S. Morse, Oliver A. Skillings
The Board also reported that Ellery W.
Rowe had passed the examination, but
that he was sixty years of age-the age
when the law requires an honorable dis
charge to be given. Alderman Josselyn
thought that Mr.. Rowe might still be
more useful in his position than a new
man; but the Board decided that the
language of the statute was imperative,
and Mr.. Rowe was honorably discharged.
Later it was represented by Mr..
Josselyn that Mr.. Rowe was not yet sixty
years old, and the vote was reconsidered
and the matter laid on the table until the
next meeting.
Special Policemen.
John D. Relahan, Thomas F. Martin,
Van R. Dow, (Cushing's Island) Wilmot
G. Jackson, Pliny Crowell, Andrew j.
Adams, Fort Allen Park and William G.
Hale, Boston & Maine railroad) were APP
pointed special policemen without pay.
The Asphalt Paving.
When the New England Paving Com
pany put down the asphalt paving on
Fore street and on the northerly side of
Congress street Grom Mellen to Vaughan
streeD in 1890 it gave a bond of ST.
900 to keep the pavement in repair five
years. Franklin j. Rollins and VIM. r.
Wood were sureties. Again when in
1891 the same company paved the south
erly side of Congress street from State
to Vaughan) they gave another bond of
$4,000 to keep it in repair for five wears