Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-05-11
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Another Batch of Important
Business Considered
Last Night.
Contracts Ordered Let for Re-
pairing and Grading the
Streets.
brakeman TulliS Loses a Leg
While Switching a Train
at LaMOure.

"uIl0 o"lkNutub6 a
at LaMoure.
The city council held another long
session Monday, and, considered num-
Der of important matters, but the ad-
iourred meeting was not characterized
by the vim and close attention to busi-
ness which was displayed at the regular
meeting week ago. 1t was consider
ably after o'clock, the stated hour of
opening, when quorum was found
present, and it lacked but a few minutes
of midnight when the gentlemen of the
council decided that sleep was the next
thing in order.
Mayor Steel presided at the meeting,
and Aldermen Adams, Blood. Lieber,
Mason and Wells we're in attendance
Absent-Fletcher, johnson and Porter.
City Attorney Hamilton, Clerk Blewett
and Marshal McGregor were on baud, as
usual.
The reading of the minutes was dis
pensed with, and the regular order OF
business taken up.
WATER MAIN EXTENSIONS.
A communication from George G.
Eager and others, requesting an extern
sion of the water mans on Pacific
avenue, from Third avenue to First
avenue, was read. and on motion was
referred to the water works committee.
The water works committee reported
on the petition of Alfred Steel and
others, received last week, asking an ex-
tension of the mains on Milwaukee
avenue, recommending that the extern
sion be granted, on condition that the
owners Of abutting property shall enter
into a contract with the city in advance
Of construction, agreeing to take water
to an amount equal to 20 per cent
annually on the entire cost OF the invest
ment. Alderman Lieber moved to
adopt the report. Alderman Wells said
he was in favor of the extension, but
thought the matter Of new water
mains should be taken up as q general
improvement and be gwen careful con-
sideration. Other extensions would be
asked for, and all should be treated alike.
The city could save money, he thought,
by making haste slowly, and estimating
the expense Of all Improvements in that
line before undertaking any particular
one. The motion to adopt the report of
the committee was lost; four ayes and
ono nay, Alderman Wells.
The water works committee also re.
ported favorsbly upon the petition OF w.
R. Kellogg, for an extension OF the malns
on Main street. from Fifth to Sixth ave.
nue., with the same conditions 40 applied
to the petition before considered. Alder.
man Lleber moved the adoption OF the
report, and said in support Of his motion
that the revenue to be derived fully war.
rsnted the extension being made ut once.
Alderman Wells again opposed the
action proposed, and explained that
while he believed the extension was
proper and would prove profitable, it
was not best to take up these
matters piece-meal. Contracts should
be let to the lowest bidder for oil exten-
sions necessary. He said the expense
might run from $4,000 to $4,000. Alder.
man Blood offered an amendment that
the entire subject of water main exten-
sions be referred back to the waterworks
committee, to ascertain what improve.
ments were necessary and advisable, and
report at next regular meeting Of the
council. The amendment was accepted
by Alderman lieber, supported by Alder
man Wells, and adopted. The unfavor-
able actlou upon the petition of ALFRED
Steel was then reconsidered, and the re-
port referred back with others relating
to the same subject.
The water works committee approved
the report of the water commissioner,
for April, and on motion the same was
accepted and placed on file.
FIRE LIMITS.
The fire committee reported favorably
upon the petition Of E. S. Lawrence, for
permit to erect small frame addition
to his brick building on Fifth avenue.
The report was adopted, but afterwards
reconsidered, and permission to build
was withheld. This latter action was
brought about by the action taken upon
E. NJ. Saniord's request for permit to
remove his wooden office building to the
vacant lot north Of Kline's store.
The petition came up out OF its
regular order, unanimous consent being
asked by Alderman Wells. It wss de-
lated st length, and Mr.. Sanford stated
no wished the same privilege granted
others. He did not want any favors,