The Portland daily press., 1892-05-07
DEERING CITY AFFAIRS.
Those New Wards REMEMBERED Last
Evening.
A STROUDWATER MAN ELECTED
STREET COMMISSIONERS.

| The Offer of the Horse Railroad Com
pany to Build Brighton Street is Under
Consideration When the City Govern
| ment Adjouns-City Clerk to Have an
Extra Hundred for Keeping Financial
Observation-Disclosures Board Com
pIete.
A special meeting of the Deering city
| government was held last evening to per-
feet further the new municipal machin-
cry. The mayor and all the aldermen
were present, also fair-sized audience
of citizens.
County Treasurer Daniel D. Chenery
appeared, as member of the sewer
commission, to explain the desirability
of paying to Mr.. Flanagan, the con-
tractor, who built the sewer, the $500
due him, but which had been retained to
await the result of the Woodman suit
for injuries alleged to have been suffered
while the work was going on. The mat
ter was laid upon the table, the point be-
ing raised that the Woodman case might
yet be appealed.
Board of Registration.
Mayor Merrill appointed George B.
Leavitt as Democratic member of the
Board of Registration. The board is
now complete: James N. Read, chair
man; Fred Y. Matthews and George B.
Leavitt.
Constable Resigns.
The resignation of Warren P. Cobb as
constable was accepted.
Rackliffe Street Petitioners.
Certain citizens of Rackliffe street petit
ton for the discontinuance of so much
of the street as lies north of line drawn
parallel with and at distance of AZ feet
northerly from the southerly side line of
said street, and for appropriation of mon
ey to finish building the same. Referred
to the committee on streets.
Committee on Accounts.
An order was presented by Alderman
Jacobs defining the method of auditing
and paying city bills and establishing a
committee of three on accounts. The
order specifies that all bills against the
city shall be brought in monthly before
the 25th of each month and paid on and
after the 18th of the next month The
committee on accounts audit the bills,
and have the service of the city clerk,
who, by vote of the council, is to receive
500 per year extra compensation for
this service. There was some debate
over this extra compensation. Alderman
| Jacobs was inclined to think it too high.
| But Alderman Hutchins said that the
clerk of the accounts committee would
be practically an auditor and have to
keep the record of the city's financial
condition, service for which other cit
les paid high salaries, and the order
passed.
The Ward Lines.
The ward map was hung up on the
! wall and studied and debated by the city
council. There was no fault to find with
the divisions, but there was difference
| of opinion as to the numbers. Alder
man Jacobs held that Stroudwater, be-
ing the oldest portion of the town, and
school district No. from time immemo-
rial, should be Ward 1. Alderman
Mitchell evidently believes that the star
OF empire moves westward
for he moved that Ward 1 be the East
Deering Ward. Upon vote Messrs.
Jacobs and Nevens stood by the historic
argument and Mitchell, Leighton, True,
Hutchins and Johnston by the poetic.
So East Deering became Ward l. 1t was
then voted that the Morriil's Corner and
Aliens Corner be Two; the Deering Cen
tire Ward 3; North Woodfords THAT Dor
ton north of Woodfords and Spring
streets -Four. South Woodfords, Gnclud-
ing Woodfords and Spring streets) Ward
S; Oakdale, Ward 6; and Stroudwater.
Ward 7. Each of these wards contains
about 200 votes, except Oakdale which
probably has so or more less than the
others. This will be made UP, however,
as Oakdale is the most rapidly growing
portion of the town. 1t is thought that
Ward will be surely Democratic, while
One and Seven will be fighting wards.
The other four will probably be largely
Republican.
Street Commissioners.
The Council proceeded to the election
of street commissioner without nominal
ton. The vote resulted:
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ira L. IlDDeGDS. u
Horace Mill1ken. ...-........... III
So Mr.. Pickett was elected. He is a
resident of Stroudwater, owning the
Stroudwater Mill Dam Company.
Brighton Street.
Alderman Nevens offered an order that
the committee on streets be authorized
to contract with the Portland Railroad
Company to build those portions of
Brighton street which must be built to
straighten the street in accordance with
the location of the county commission
ers. The railroad company offer to pay
two-ffths of the expense, the city bear
ing the other three 1ifths.
Alderman Jacobs thought that the or
der implied queer contract, since no
sum was specified for which the railroad
company should do the work. The COM
pany might charge ten times what it was
worth: Mr.. Jacobs thought the order
should Ire on the table.
Alderman Neyens thought that the