San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-21
COUNCIL SESSION.

purtance Mayor Pro TEN
Schreiner In the ChaiF.
After rest of two long hos weeks.
the city fathers yesterday again as
sem bled in the council chamber to
counsel among themselves TOR the
welfare of the metropolis.
Every body but His Honor the May.
or was there. They waited for him
until 5 O'Clock, but he never came in.
When the clock had struck that hour,
Alderman Lockwood rOee from his
seat on the left and moved that the
body 20 into executive session. This
motion was carried and Mayor Pro
Tenn Schriener, whose good humorsd
countenance was seen at his desk
after so many weeks of illness, took
the chair.
Upon taking his seat His Honor
ordered the minutes read which was
accordingly done.
The minutes were adopted and the
following
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS ~
were read and referred to the :.respec.
tive committees with power, II neces.
sary to act upon themI
G. F. Scharfenberg, j. M. Taylor,
Mrs. M. M. Murphy, Paul Magadieu,
Albert Maverick, ]. T. Brown, Il. A..
Giraud, A. J. Fry, Denmau & Frank.
lin attorneys for q. E. McKeely, Mrs.
r. Rose, F Green wood & Co., Frank
Howard, Vinton James, Chas. Graeb-
ner and wife and A. A. Gray for cor.
rectiou or reduction of assessments.
Frankel & Hayden, to construct .
cess pool corner Main and Park ave.
nues.
Frankel & Hayden to construct
brick cess pool on property of h. A.
Arthur in block 4, west side of Main
avenue.
Thomas Rafter, for permit to erect
q lumber privy on Matamoros street.
w. o. Bray, for permission to put in
lumber privy vault, lot 10, block g.,
Smith street.
j. w. Bundren, for permission to
put In IL horsepower engine on his
| premises, corner Garden and Nueva
| streets, for operation of machinery.
J. w. Bundren, to construct q re-
tanning wall of cypress logs along
river bank, in rear of his premises,
corner Garden and Nueva streets.
J. r. Ransom, to erect an iron
warehouse for storage of illuminating
oils, southwest corner of Buena Vista
and Salado streets.
Waters, PeIrce Oil company, re-
questing permission to erect ware.
house for storage of oil. petroleum,
| etc /, on railway reserve, between
| Monterey aud Matamores streets,
ward 3, su bmitting plans and specifi-
| cations of proposed structure.
San Antonio Gas company, to erect
line of poles on Guenther and Adam
| streets and Crofton avenue for electric
light purposes.
San Antonio Gas company, permit
| to erect 6 poles between Avenue ID
! and Fifth street and Avenue q and
Sixth street.
w. 8. Hadley, ]. G.. and Caroline
| Marshall, requesting that certain
| streets in keystone Park and Beacon
| Hill addition be opened up for the
| benefit of themselves, purchasers and
contemplating purchasers of property
| i'm q subdivision made by the afore-
| said parties.
F. Fl. Baldwin, G. w. Russ, ct al,
owners of block No. IA. Tbree's first
addition to the city, requesting that
| an alley In rear of same be closed for
| their convenience.
j. w. White, offering to compromise
| his suit VS.. the city, for the sum CT
$500, injuries sustained by his wife
at Southern Pacific railway crossing
upon Pine street.
Potter & Spelman, to put in a l-2
horse power engine at No. is South
Alamo street, without brick protect
| ing wall.
This business having been disposed
of the council went into executive
hearing and the following were hand.
ed in under the head of
REPORTS OF OFFICERS:
The city engineer reported that IL
would cost $36 to keep clean from
scum that part of the river just
north of the Commerce street bridge.
This report was received and on mo-
ton of Lockwood an appropriation
was unanimously made for the pur-
pose. Another report, regarding the
testing of the Crockett street bridge,
! was received from him and adopted,
as follows:
"Hon. Mayor and Committee on
Streets and Bridges:
"Gentlemen:-I beg to report that
the Crockett street bridge was In
spected and tested yesterday. find
that all the requirements of the
contract are complied with. The re-
suit of the final test made June 14th
is as follows: Bridge light, 7.29; IL
ton roller; 1895; Is ton roller, 7.3l; 2