The record-union., 1893-04-14
STREET OPRINKLING.
The Trustees Award Contracts There
for for Six Months.
Changes In the Delegates to the Trans
Mississippi Congress-Sidewalk
Objected to.

The Board of Trustees convened yes
terday for the purpose of awarding street
sprinkling contracts.
Trustee Couklin said that before the
bids were opened he wished to make
some suggestions. The hours should be
definitely fixed, so that there could be no
dispute in the matter, and the Street
Commissioner must enforce strictly
compliance with the contract, so that in
case fines are imposed there will be no
doubt as to their propriety. The speclh-
cations call for sprinkling from A. NJ. to
P. NJ. He thought it would be much
better if these were from A. NJ. till P.
NJ. The work would be done more easily
by the contractors, and, the business
streets being sprinkled earlier, the
wagons would be out of the way of the
business vehicles on those streets. 1t
would also be better to use the water
earlier in the day, as later much water
was used for lawns and yards.
Street Commissioner Green said the
water for irrigation was used from P. NJ.
to 9 p. NJ.
The specifications fixing the boundaries
OF districts and governing contracts were
read and approved.
Inc districts are as lOllOWS: NO. COLI
prises the streets and alleys west of
Fourth street, including First, Syca-
more and the driveway around the eX-
position building at the depot.
No. 2 extends from Fourth to Eighth,
between l and Y streets.
No. from Eighth to Twelfth, and l to
Y streets, including the driveways in the
City Cemetery and to the Riverside road.
No. 4 from Twelfth to Seventeenth, and
to r.
No. from Sixth to Fourteenth, and
to the Central Pacific Railroad tracks, in
Guiding the Tweltth-street road to north
b street.
No. from Fourteenth to Thirty-first
and l street to the Central Pacific Rail-
road tracks on the north, including the
roadways in New Helvetia Cemetery.
No. from Seventeenth to Thirty-tirst,
and l to Y, including Y street from the
east line of Twelfth to the east line Of
Seventeenth.
No. s from Twenty-first to Twenty
sixth, and to r.
No. 8 from Twenty-siXth to Thirty
first, and | to r.
The specifications have been drawn up
very carefully by Street Commissioner
Green, and he thinks there is no possible
loophole lett through which the contract
ors can escape giving satisfactory service
to the city.
The contracts were awarded as follows:
District No. IA. l.. Roza. 81, 500; No. ,
G. II. Burns, 81, $50; No. st. Burns,
Sl,740; No. "a. f. Silva, $l,450; No. g.
A. f. Silva, 81, $50; No: Il. \. Spur
geon, 81, 450; No. Sc. H. Burns, S944; No.
st. Burns, SS65.
l.. a. Sturgeon and John Hughes tied
on bid of 81 $50 for sprinkling District
No. +, and Trustee Conklin moved that
as Spurgeon had secured No. I the board
award the contract to Hughes. who had
not been so fortunate.
Lincoln White, as Spurgeon's attorney,
protested against such action. Sturgeon,
ne said, had put in the lowest bid for Dis
tricts 1 and jointly, his bid being nearly
$500 lower than any other two bids for the
two districts, and he thought that in
equity he ought to be awarded District
No. 4. He could work the two districts
with five teams, but would need three
teams to work No. alone.
The Mayor thought if the two bidders
could not agree, the best way was for
them to bid again, and quite discussion
ensued over the matter.
Spurgeon asked leave to withdraw both
his bids and retire entirely, but was not
allowed to do so.
On motion of Trustee Green the con-
tract for District No. was ordered to be
readvertised for, the bids to be ready
next Monday.
TRANS-MIsSISsIPPI CONGRESS.
II. Weinstock and DIR. Dixon ap-
peared before the board and stated that
several gentlemen who had been chosen
as delegates to the Trans Mississippi
Congress were unable to 60, and they re-
quested the appointment of others in
their places.
The board appointed Joseph Steffens
vice r. L. Devlin, Colonel McNasser
vice j. w. Wilson, Alvin J. Bruner vice
c. NJ. Dixon, and w. Hassett vice L. j.
Gregory.
SEWERAGE COMMISSION.
The Mayor stated that the former board
had taken some action in regard to a sys-
tenn of sewerage TOR the city, and moved
that to further such action George Stod-
dard, Charles Noyes, +. NJ. Luckett, J.
c. Pierson and j. c. Boyd be appointed
to examine into and prepare plans for
such system. 1t would cost a little
money, but it would be economy to do so.
The board concurred in his idea, and
they were appointed.
UNSAFE SIDEWALK.
City Engineer Boyd called attention to
sidewalk which is being constructed on
J street, between Eighth and Ninth, and
which he did not consider either good
or safe one, and thought it should not
be allowed to proceed further.
The matter was referred to the Street
Commissioner and City Engineer, with
power to act, and the board then adj
journed.