The Portland daily press., 1892-12-06
DEEDS OF CITY FATHERS.
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said company under said contract, after
said date.
Alderman Gallagher moved that the
letter be received and the order have a
passage.
Alderman Josselyn said he most heart
lily concurred in some of the things said
in the letter. But it was question
whether tn, city would be able to sup
ply itself with the needed water should
this order be passed at once.
Mayor Ingraham thought the charter
of the Water Company would compel
the supplying of the city with needed
water.
The order was unanimously passed by
the aldermen.
Wiring the Gamewen Police System.
Mayor Ingraham presented a commu-
nication in which, after referring to the
order of April 4th, passed for the estab-
Ishment of new telephone and tele-
graph police system, the inviting of pro-
posals for wiring the same, and the &C
ceptance of the Gamewell company's
offer at 50, 400 as the lowest, states that
the city directed the city electrician to do
the wiring, which he did at cost OF
S1,973.43, a saving to the city of S516.57,
and the Mayor offered an order that the
sum of SI,Y73.43 in payment of this
wiring be taken from the contingent
fund and credited to the committee on
electrical appliances, the work having
been done by the city under the direc-
ton and supervision of the city electric
ian.
The order was passed unanimously by
the aldermen.
from Agency Funds.
The Mayor presented the following
communication:
To the Honorable, the City Council-ln the
appropriation bill for the present municipal
year the sum of $4,000 was voted for the com,
mencement of a new building for the west
school, owing to the increase OF population III
that locality and a prospective overflow OF pu-
pills. 1t was not however, contemplated at
the time this appropriation was mace tnat more
accommodation would be required until the
fall of 1898.
After mature consideration of different sites
and plans by the committee on public buildings
and the school board, both unanimously agreed
that the remodeling and enlargement OF the
present structure would not only save great
deal of money but would upon the whole, prove
more desirable and as convenient as any other
locality for many years. Instead of school
building wholly new and costing at least $780,
900, half the sum will be saved by utilizing the
old structure, as is now being done. The COM
mittee on public buildings thereon agreed to
ask the City Council for modification OF the
plans first proposed, and accord
ipgly on September 9th last, your
honorable body authorized the committee to
contract for proposals for remodeling and en-
larging the present school building. and at the
$1,000 o'i appropriated for the commencementof
new building for the West school was diverted
toward paying the cost OF remodelling and en-,
larging the present school house on Lowell
street. Under this order your committee duly
advertised for bids for remodelling and enlarg-
ing the present structure and the contract was
AWARDED to Josiah p Wescott, he being the
lowest bidder. for the snm of $11 900 and en-,
tered into OH Oct. 1st, and to be wholly finished
on or before February %, 1898. Under the
written writ te as oeW on
completion OF first floor (addltlonl $1,000 com
pie ion of second floor; $500 completion third
floor; $500 when roof boarded in; s. 800 when
slated and pastered; $4,000 when completed
. and accepted by tile architect, and the balance
80 days thereafter all according to the plans
nd specifications. Three payments have al
ea,iy been made and IA fourth is called for. AS
tne appropriation for $4,000 will not be suffi-
lient you arc asked to provide for that and as
lest until the next regular monthly meeting.
When completed the present school house Will
be first class in all its appointments
DARIUS H. INGRAHAN, Mayor.
Accompanying the communication was
this order:
Ordered Thatfor the following payments to-
wards the completion of the West school house,
roof is boarded in, and $500 when slated and
plastered the City Treasurer be and he hereby
Is authorized and directed, to pay to the con.
tractor, when properly vouched for, the sum of
5000 rom the fund OF the Liquor Agency.
This order was unanimously passed by
the aldermen.
Robping Peter to Pay Paul.
Alderman Gallagher presented an or
der transferring $4,000 from the street
department to the school fund to pay the
salary of the superintendent and for 9th
er purposes.
Alderman Josselyn opposed this.
There was only $500 in the street de-
partment to meet the work of the winter
and he thought the money could not be
spared.
Alderman Gallagher replied that the
school money was exhausted, that the
street department was about to get $4,000
on the asphalt paving bond, and that
therefore the street department could be
reimbursed.
Alderman Josselyn replied that bird
Ill LILO 1duu w DIS WOfb IVY Ill Gll0 OuSL,
and that it would be better not to rob
the street department.
Alderman Gallagher replied that when
his neighbor had no bird and he had one,
he always divided.
Alderman Josselyn was still uncon-
WINGED, and voted alone against the or
der, which passed.
Biennial Elections.
The committee appointed to consider
the question of biennial city elections
reported, through Alderman Josselyn,
that in their opinion it would be well for
the city council to get the legislature to
authorize the people of the city to vote
on the question. The report was accept
ed.
The Asphalt Pavement.
An order was presented that the bond
of $4,000 of Will m r. Wood and Frank
lin J. Rollins, which was given to guar
antee the asphalt paving on the north
side of Congress street and Fore street
be settled for $500. But the aldermen
unanimously postponed this order in