The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-14
submitted,
Ii. s. TROUT, Mayor.

Respectfully submitted,
IL. s. TROUT, Mayor.
Mr.. Moomaw made motion to the
effect that the whole matter, with the
papers, be referred back to tho light
committee and that they prepare new
ordinance. Mr.. Loughery offered, as o
substitute, that it be referred TO the
same committee and that they so amend
it as to overcome the objections of
Mayor Trout. The question as to
whether it would be legal to act after
the mayor had vetoed the ordinance was
discussed by several Councilmen.
The amendment was Loaf by vote OF
IS to l. The original motion was then
voted on and was carried, the vote
standing II to 3.
communication was read from the
board of public works, stating that for
some time past matters had been going
wrong in the Office of the city engineer,
and giving as examples that the
macadam work that had been disap.
proved by the city engineer, also by
Council, had afterwards been ordered to
be pnid by the city engineer; also that
the city engineer had allowed too much
money to be paid for macadam work.
They also suggested that an inspec-
tion of the sewers had better be made,
with the request that w. w. Fortune,
the present inspector of sewers, be
transferred from the Office OF the city
engineer to the office of the board OF
public works to act solely under their
instructions. ~
Mr.. Fackenthal moved that the mat.
ter be referred to a special committee
of three. Mr.. Patio offered, al sub.
stitute, that 1t he referred to the whole
Council. The latter motion prevailed.
letter was read from Manager
Rawn, of the Roanoke Gas and Water
Company, to the board of public works,
stating that the company would not ex-
tend water mains in the portion of the
city named in a resolution passed at tho
last meeting OF Council, giving as his
sufficiently reimbursed for it.
The committee on public property
recommended that if funds were availa-
BILE a new fire house should be- erected
for the use of the Junior Hose Company
They also recommended that the con
tract for heating the Belmont school
should DO awarded and the contract
signed.
Tho health committee made lengthy
report in regard to tho recent cases of
scarlet fever and diphthcria which it
was feared might result in an epidemic,
stating that tho report had no founda.
ton, and that but q few cases were at
the time in the city.
The committee on sewers offered q
resolution, which was adopted, that as
the Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany had made no provisions to carry
of the waste water when the west end
round house was erected, that they be
required to make some suitable DISPOSE.
| til n of it within sixty days to prevent
it from flowing as 1t now does on some
~ \ a I. L
the city.
Resolutions were also offered that the
Salem avenue sewer from Trout run to
! Commerce street, from Commerce street
TO Ernest avenue, from Earnest avenue
to Roanoke street, be enlarged and i'm
proved and that the abutting property
owners be assessed the entire cost and
that they be notified and given a hear
| ing OF the same. The resolution was
| passed.
| The committee on education reported
that they had made thorough examin.
alton OF the schools in tho city and
found that tho Commerce street school
was in bad condition. The yard had
not been fenced in and there we're win
dow lights broken out
The Fifth ward school was not large
enough and the sanitary arrangements
very poor. The Third ward building
was too small to accommodate the num-
Der Of pupils.
The committee also reported that
| they had visited the new Belmont school
building, now in course of construction,
and found that the plastering was of
very inferior quality, and upon in yesti-
CATION it was learned that not enough
lime and hair had been used, and that
they had been told by she contractors
| that q pOrtinD nf =
The committee examined portion of
the plaster where the keys came through
the lathing and found it TO be- also of q
| very inferior quality.
The board Of public works were in
| structed to estimate the cost of new
window curtains, etc, to be placed in
the Commerce street school.
communication was road asking
that Council grant the Standard Oil
! Company permission to remove from
their present quarters to the site of the
Old canning factory on Page street,
where tanks and warehouses; would be
erected for their use. The matter was
| referrt to the ordinance committee
Under the head OF Unfinished bust
ness, the following ordinances, which
had been on the table for some time,
were adopted:
First. That all drivers of trucks, car
riages, wagons or vehicles of any kind
shall get license for the same from
the commissioner of revenue, and that
a fee OF SO be charged where one horse
Is used and IS where two horses are
| used.
Second. That no building shall be
erected with bay windows unless on the
line of the street.
Third. That the sidewalks on Jeffer-
son street between Norfolk and Camp