Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11
THEIR VACATION OVER.
Councilmen Will Be at Their Desks
T0-MorrOw Afternoon.
THE ANTI-LIBRARY RESOLUTIONS
Expected to Be Laid Aside Without Action
Being Taken.
SOME MEASURES TO BE CONSIDERED

Tomorrow marks the end of the summer
vacation of the city legislators. 1t has been
the longest vacation in years. No legisla-
tion of any kind has been passed since the
single special meeting at which the Poor
farm purchase was closed up just after the
vacation began. Usually the vacation sea-
son means time when meetings are more
frequent than during the regular period,
but this year has been an exception. The
explanation is generally known.
Just after the Homestead troubles broke
ont eight labor organizations in this city
passed resolutions calling on Councils to re-
| turn to Andrew Carnegie the 81 900, 900
donated by him for a free library at Schen-
ley Park. Such was the temper of the peo-
| pie at that time that a fight would probably
have been made to have the resolutions
passed had special meeting projected about
the middle of July been called. The gen.
eral sentiment among city officials was that
it would be better to wait until the regular
session, by which time the Homestead fever
would have cooled down and the best judg-
ment on the library question would prevail
No Action Expected on the Resolutions.
AS a result, there will be few if any Coun-
cilmen in favor of approving the resolutions.
They are all in the hands of Mayor Gourley
who will transmit them to Councils to-mor-
row with an appropriate communication,
and it is probable that nothing further will
be heard of them. The Mayor will also sub
NIT communication relative to the expect
ed cholera epidemic
WI ha nrohI yr1n kon%
business before the legislators. A large
number of new ordinances will be pre-
sented, among which will be Chief Browns
bill to compel the people on the Southside
bills to construct o complete sewer system
by prohibiting the use of the coal pits un-
derlying the hill for that purpose. The ex-
elusive announcement of Chief Browns
intention to present the bill in Yesterdays
DISPATCH caused sensation on the South
side yesterday and developed strong OPP
position, which demands a hearing when
the matter comes up for consideration. The
people over there declare the abandoned
mines make the best sewers the city has;
that there is absolutely no odor or danger
from them, and that to abandon them be-
fore complete sewer system is substituted
would be the worst thing that could be
done from sanitary point of view 1t is
claimed that a few years ago the State
Board of Health investigated the matter
and decided that the present system was a
healthy one in spite of a general complaint
that had been raised against it.
Big White r ITS Act as Scavengers.
This verdict, they claim, was corrobo-
rated year ago by forceof six men who
explored the abandoned mine workings and
braced up the roof of the mine under the
Thirty-second ward schoolhouse, which was
in danger of sinking. These men reported
that the mines were as sweet and whole
some as any other coal mine; that the de-
posit of sulphur served as a complete disin-
iectant to the sewage which came down
through the sewage wells, and that the
mines were inhabited by apparently mill
ions of big white rats. some of them nearly
as large as cats, which consume all the
filth deposited in their home. To build a
sewer, it is claimed, sufficient to drain Mt
Washington and carry off the water OF Saw
Mill Run, which it would need to do,
would cost over a million dollars. The peo-
pie over there say they are not prepared
TOR such heavy expense, and the present
system is good enough. Those who are
foremost i'll opposition to the ordinance are
D. R. Torrance, N. Brokaw, A. G. Robert
son and j. r. Heard.
The ordinance OF the Retail Grocers' As |
sociation will also be presented tomorrow. |
Aso sisAS 40 OIL granting pcTmls- |
sion to grocers to use and occupy three feet |
of the sidewalk next to the building line in |
front of their premises for the purpose of |
exposing fruit and vegetables for SALE" The |
title expresses all there is in the bill, there
being no limitation as to time or season
when it shall be in force.
will Pass Upon the Mayors vetoes
Mayor Gourley's veto of the resolutions
providing tor the purchase of the Finn,
Lockhart and Fite properties as an addi-
tion to Highland Park will come up in Sc
lect Council The Mayors objections to the
resolutions, as already printed, are based
mainly on his opposition to large parks, his
preference being small parks and more of
them. Chief Bigelow, who is interested
most deeply in the passage of the resolu-
tions, has been released from quarantine at
New York, and is expected here tomorrow
in time for the meeting. It is expected he
will ask to have the resolutions passed, not
the Mayors objections. Mr..
Bigelow's regulations for the parks will
also be considered
In addition to the above business there
will be 30 sewer contracts to be approved,
nearly as many contracts for street paving |
and a mass of other work of that kind ,
" hich has been retarded for months by the
allure of Councils to meet. Then there is
IN ordinance extending the Second avenue
,ailway to the city line, another extending
he Citizens line out Frankstown avenue
o Williamsburg, another connecting the
Ouquesne and Fifth avenue lines at Howe
treet and Shady avenue, and another re-
luiring street railway companies to pave
md repair the streets, as directed by the
Chief of Public Works. The garbage fur
lace contract with Roland Smith, the un-
lerground wire, pawnbrokers' and pool
DOM ordinances, together with large :
lumber of street improvement ordinances,
will come up for passage.