Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-04-12
on the Mayors New York trip bill was

on the Mayors New York trip bill was
On the 5th of July Mr.. Starnes declared
I'VE are working like a lot of children"
Nobody disputed the Impeachment:
ever held by the Joint Board. Everybody
talked, and little was done. except to
pave between it's rails Ithe old chestnut)
or have its charter forfeited.
On the 5th of July Col. Martin, of the |
railway company, told the Board, just
ing between the rails.
At the meeting of July 20 Mr.. Starnes
atoriness with which the street paving
was being done The chief of police was
instructed to remove the barbed wire
from a handrail at the Postofhce-but he
didn't do it.
August bids for curbing: pipe laying.
ETC., were opened. Col. Martin again
between the rails of his company's track.
About this time it developed that no
right of wav had been secured for the
new pipe line. The city found it very ex-
pensive picking up this dropped stitch.
OH, ThOse 0nOvvbir<asi
On August IL the contract of the Peo-
pies Light, Heat and Power company
was extended two years, hy the Alder
men, by the following vote:
enOv~bfrsas- no Extension
Wadde1l, IGudger,
Leonard, StarneS,
Baird. Mcdowell.
On this same date the Patton avenue
railway track was torn up. few days
afterit was rumored that warrants had
been issued for the mavor and members of
the two Boards, for tearing up the track.
which cause much alarm in certain quar-
tiers.
At a meeting on August 26 Alderman
Waddell said that the extension of the
light contract would bring $3.50. 900 to
| Asheville. Who has that money now?
On August 20 the company asked
| tor an injunction restraining the CITY
| from interfering with the reiaying of the
| track on Patton avenue. On september
| 3 che city answered the complaint of the
Mayor Blanton on September 2 pre-
penses on his New York trip. Mr..
Scott. of the bill coInmittee. recon-
mended that $500 of it be allowed.
On September II the city attorney
| was instructed to request the attoney
general to bring suit in the name of the
| S. ate to declare a forfeiture of the char
| ter of the Asheville Street Railway com
| pany.
During this time. eliminating on Sep
tember 6 there was great deal OF talk
on the delav in paving. The ghost of
| unfinished East street came up again on
| his date.
Advisor Scott resigned on September
| urged that Robert L. Coleman be put in
entire charge of the paving. work Mr.
| Worslev was given permission by the
Aldermen to erect a fence around his
snake parlor in Teutville.
At the meeting on October 3 Mr.
Waddell offered a resolution, which was
adoptc i. that sidewalks should be put
down first on streets where property
owners did not claim damage.
SO Much Talk!
| On the 7th of October Advisor Miller
was sworn in. and the Board talked
about II 900 words about the 1sinch
1 Al~- u. ~ ~.
] On October Ia resolution wa:
| adopted instructing the contractors tc
begin paving Patton avenue on the fol
lowing Mondav, the 18th. At the sarn'
meeting Mr.. Starnes announced tha'
, the aving on South Main street woule
be botch on account OF the 1S-incl
l ditch on each side of the rail.
Il October 21 was the day on which thu
announcement was made that the bricl
paving on Patton avenue was not be
gun, and a resolution was adopted tha
the street force should take up 800 fee
? | of the car track at a time and allow th
r paving to proceed.
Y cret of the delay in the paving-the pitcl
E tank had not arrived.
: On the 4th a resolution was adopte
| to the effect that the right of the Ashe
j | vile Street Railway company to run it
e cars in the city had been forfeited. Be
/ tween that time and the 14th the CON
j pany went into the hands of receiver
d and not long thereafter the lion anu th
e lamb did their paving together.
w. u. Swyn suggested, on the ZSth
d November, that the idea of paving PA
n ton avenue be given up for the wintt
?, and a 20 foot plank way be put dow
D. instead.
-eI On December Mr.. Waddell al
r nounced that his voice, like Pontiac's
,e old, was tor peace. At the same tin
d the city adopted resolution that ii
= CITY would do the paving outside of tt
ie rails hereafter Messrs. Gudger and Cur
mings voted against it.
Tentville. that is, part of it, was O
a dered abolished on December 16.
r. The LAWYERS Nm 1t
= / 1t developed, at the December q
- meeting, that ST. 500 had been paid
a the la wyers for services in the street ra
way fight. At the same meeting Aide
d. man Starnes' bulldog ordinance, requ
to ing all bulldogs to be muzzled, w
OF adopted.
as At the first meeting in 1898, Janua
6, a bill of $129 for printing the recO
he IN the street railway cases, came in fro
n Thos- s. Kenan, clerk of the SuPrer
Ic- court.
of On the 18th of January the Alderm
at instructed the chief of police to enfoI
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