Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-12-03
LIKE A CAR LOAD OF BRICK
IN A MANNER THAT INDEED
WAS QUIT: SLICK,

Ten Men Sat ON Two and Made
Them Feel Sich-NOw All slope
to See That the Result May he
That the CITY May save a Big
Lawyers Fee.
The Mayor and every member of the
two Boards, and large number of citi-
( zens, were present to engage in the de.
libcrations OF the Joint Board yesterday
afternoon.
Bills having the proper 80. X" on
them just rained in on the Board and
kept Mayor Blanton busy reading them
for fifteen minutes. The bills ordered
paid aggregate SIS, ,555 A, and were in
favor Of the following persons, in the
sums named:
F.N Waddell, counting brick, So; Geo.
F. Scott, lumber and lime, $7l,01; Re-
lote Bros, sidewalk paving. $3.50 GO; !.
E. Dickerson & Co., hardware, $17425;
Asheville Ice and Coal company, $23 80;
Kelly & Strachan, $3OS CT; ]. A. Muir
doch, salary, SIS; b. Burnett, black
smithng, $3.50; Montague & Co., pipe,
$120 35; Penniman Bros, bricks,
$S29.33; street department pay roll,
$39S 62; Spring street pay roll, $5S so;
rock crusher pay roll, $131 so; II. NJ.
Smith, work at water station, $3+s.6S;
]. c. Brown, repairing pipe, $2943; F.
+. Rice, salary and help, SIPS so; b. NJ.
Lee. salary and help, $160; Webb, Oates,
Eskridge & Co., paving, $7,O96.57; NJ.
II. Kelly, laying pipe line, $4s5.s0; A.
M. Smith, paving, $3,66S.05; Webb &
Oates, grading, $2S1.20.
Mr.. Starncs. for the committee, re.
ported adversely to the granting of dam
ages to .. w. Peigler on Depot street,
claimed because the contractors had
thrown quantity of dirt in his yard
The report was adopted Mr.. Starnes
also reported that the committee to look
into the question of damages to the
Straith property on Patton avenue had
been unable to agree on any compromise
with Messrs. Penland and Sawyer, the
owners. Mr. Bearden moved to give
$500 damage, but later withdrew his
motion and no action was taken.
The question of the width of sidewalk
in front of the property of II. c. Jones
on South Main was referred to the Street
committee.
The Board agred to pay 500 toward
the building OF a wall in front OF the
Tweed property on South Main. Mayor
Blanton facetiously said that the McsSrs
Tweed should not be left out, because
almost every man, woman and child on
the street had received damages from
the Board.
The City Engineer was instructed to
advertise for bids for the construction
of the roof to the new building at the
water works, The bids to be opened next
Friday.
MIR. Maddux's PropOsitiOp.
At this iuncture Mr.. Cummings made
a motion TO adjourn, without even a
chance Of hearing what Receiver Mad
dux, of the Ashevile Street Railway
company, had to say with respect to the
adjustment of the paving complications.
But Mr.. Madjux came forward and Mr..
Cummings motion didn't stop the pro,
ceedings. Mr.. Maddux said nothing
about the proposition submitted to him
last Saturday by the Board, but sub
mittcd proposition of his own. He
handed it to Mr.. Gudger who in turn
handed it to Mr.. Cummings, to be read.
Thel looked the document over and
with a" Humph" remarked This is new
proposition" Mr.. Maddux merely re-
piled Read it," and Mr.. Cummings
complied, reading "the terms of COM
promise" as follows:
That the city withdraw all suits now
instituted against the said railway com.
pany, and pay all the costs of the same;
that the said railway company withdraw
all suits instituted by it against the city,
the Mayor and the individual members
OF the Joint Board, and pay all costs OF
the same.
That the city waive the paving of the
eighteen inches outside the rails of the
track of the said railway company on
| all streets where paving is to be or has
been done.
That the said railway company pave
between Its rails all of its track
where paving has been or hereafter
shall be done, and where the streets are
yet to be paved, that paving shall be
done as the city paving progresses, and
all OF the track where paving has been
done or is to be done shall be put into
proper condition for paving by putting
new crosstieS, chairs, and Trails.
That the receiver apply at once to the
judge of the Federal court to be allowed
to have marked settled all the above
suits referred to, and that he be allowed
to issue receivers certificates to pay for
the paving to be doue.'
That the city will instruct its con.
tractors to begin at once the paving on
South Main street between the rails, and
outside also, and estimates shall be made
by the City Engineer every thirty days
OF the amount of paving done for saic
; railway company between the rails, and
the same shall be paid for in cash withit
ten days after maturity and presenta
tion, by the said receiver out of the pro
ceeds of the sale of said certificates, upor
the presentation OF said estimates, ap
proved by the Joint Board.
THAT whenever the said receiver shal
obtain leave of the Federal court tc
mark settled the suits instituted by
said railway company, and shall sc
mark them, then the suits instituted by
the city shall also be marked settled"
some Peppery Talk.
AS soon as the reading Of the PROPOSE
tion had been concluded, Mr.. Waddel
moved its acceptance, his motion beins
seconded by Mr.. Starnes. This brough
the question fully before the house, anc
the discussion was on. MIR. Cummings
who has all along been in favor, as h
Expressed it. of taking the bull by th
horns," said he was utterly opposed t.
the proposition because it would leav
the city at the mercy of the company
He wanted to know why Mr.. Maddu,
had said nothing at all about the Board
proposition of Saturday. The last claus
OF that, he thought, should be insiste,
upon by the city, so that in case tn
comps ny failed to comply with the term
of the agreement the suits could be re
instated in their present condition in tn
courts.