The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-07-08
The CITY SOLONS.
4 BUSY SESSION or THE CITY
COUNCIL.
REPORT or STREET COMMITTEE.
MARKET ORDINANCE Nm
vIsED,

Sherry in chair and all members pres
emit. Minutes Of last regular meeting
read and approved, The following
report Of street committee was read
and received:
Hon. Mayor and city council Of Mar
tinsbnrg.
Gentlemen: Your Street Committee
met and after carefully examining in
to the matter, we beg leave to report
estimate of the cost of ditching on
Hoogie street, filling in a. w. s. Smalls
property on N. Queen street to be
between twenty-five and thirty dollars,
the total cost, and very respectfully
recommend that the work mentioned
herein be ordered done rs soon rs
practicable.
Your Street Committee beg leave to
report that we met the 2Sth day of
June, 1892. We gave the following
property owners on West King Street
the grade for their pavement and gut
tiers on said street Robert Criswell,
w. King Street. South side Geo. w.
DeGrange, W. King Street, South side;
Margaret Hout, w. King Street, South
| side Geo. w. Carper, w. King Street,
South side.
Your committee further recommends
that His Honor, the Mayor, be request.
ed to publish proclamation notifying
all property owners ESPECIALLY on the
main thoroughfares Of the city, to have
their trees properly trimmed within 10
days from the date Of notice after the
expiration Of said time those not COM
plying with the notice are to be liable
for the cost or trimming. In other
words, the corporation to have the
work done and the expense Of same
charged to the property.
/ At the solicitation Of the foreman Of
track, B. q Q. R. r., Mr.. Michael Gar
vey, we. the undersigned, your Street
Committee, met on July 9th, 1892.
We visited and examined the bridge
known as the Bull Eye which the
said b. u O. r. r.. Co. want to raise
two feet higher than it at present
stands and they want permission from
your honorable bodylto do SO. We
therefore recommend that the desired
permission be granted, and that the
B. y Q. be required to grade 200 feet
north and south side to a knoll 800
feet from bridge; this will make q @.
per cent. grade. Also company to APP
proace bridge with safety fences on
both sides Of bridge and both sides Of
road. Very respectfully,
Geo. w. ScHILL,
E. G. DECK,
J. w. MARTIN,
s. A. WEsTENHAvER.
We, the undersigned, your Nuisance
Committee, beg leave to submit to
your honorable body that we met this
Thursday, June 10, 1892, at 2 p. m. |
All members present. Weordered the |
sewer running through the Episcopal
Church property thoroughly cleaned
out and flushed. We also ordered that |
the MartiAsburg School Board, Alex.
Parks, and the Elders Of the Presby-t
terrain Church be notified to properly |
drain in front of their respective pro-
perties on the West side of South
Queen street, as proper drainage lit
said point is badly needed. Ordered
that Mr.. Jno. B. Wilson, President Of
the Martinsburg Street Railway, have
sewer pipe at corner of King and Raj
eigh streets repaired at once. Also
Mr.. Geo. S. Roush to have gutter in
front of property on Raleigh street
cleaned out and lined at once.
A. NJ. GILBERT,
.S. GEO. w. ScHILL.
Engineer Kearfott reported survey
made by him Of Abels addition (street
running through from Burke to Charlesl
donated to corporation by Mr.. Jno.
\. Abel also reported survey made by
lim Of Boyd street in Fourth Ward.
Both surveys were received and adopt
ID.
Bond of S. A. Westenhaver. Treas
lrer Of the Corporation Of Martinsburg,
Bond Of Henry Wien, Sergeant, g. a.
Young, Clerk, were read and on mo-lr