The herald., 1893-02-15
SOME CITY AFFAIRS CONSIDERED,
The Council Refuses to Extend
2 the Garbage Contract.
Police Commissioners Attend to Con-
siderable Business.
The Council Makes an Appropriation
for the Street Department sa-
s. loon Licenses Acted Upon
Yesterday.

The city council met yesterday after
noon, in accordance with its resolution
of adjournment on the previous day.
Messrs. Nickel, Campbell, Innes,
Rhodes, Strohm, Pessell and President
Teed were present.
STREET WORK PAYMENTS.
The ordinance to pay for additional
help in the street department, appro-
priating $618, passed under suspension
of the rules. 1t goes into effect as soon
as it is published. 1t pays A. Laying
and F. Frank $91 each, ]. G. Morris and
Aaron Alten $3.50 each, W. II. Lester
and A. Wilson $S4 each, A. Sepulveda
$56, D. L. Adams $24 and j. Stein $40.
THE GARBAGE CONTRACT.
Martin @. Marsh, on behalf of him
self and Adolph Ramisch, doing busi-
ness as Ramisch & Co., appeared before
the council and said that the garbage
contract did not begin until the 18th in
slant. He now aaked that he be allowed
to bury the garbage for the term of go
days until such time as crematory
works could be completed.
MIR. Munson objected. He said that
the contract had been let and specified
that the garbage was to be cremated,
which costs several hundred dollars
more than burial.
Mr.. Marsh said that Mr.. Donegan had
been allowed II months in which to
bury the garbage prior to the compile
tion of his crematory. He said that If
the new contractors, of whom he was
one, could succeed in purchasing Mr..
Donegan's crematory, he would not ask
to he allowed to bury the garbage for
one single day. It was in case they
could not purchase Donegan's works
that they asked to bury garbage while
erecting their own crematory.
Mr.. Munson said he could not under
stand the reason of this delay.
Mr.. Innes said the delay was not the
fault of the contractor. The delay was
caused by the illness of the city attor-
ney.
The motion to grant go days was Lost
ayes 4, noes 8.
LIGHTING THE THIRD WARD.
Mr.. Munson presented resolution
for an electric light on Second and Ohio
street. He said that an ordinance
passed for one additional light in each
ward, and when the lights came to be
put up, they put one OF them up across
the Third. There is long stretch of
4 street without any light at all.
Mr.. Innes said there was no stretch of
the city that needed lights worse than
Second and Ohio, but he did not see
where the money was to be got to pay
for it.
Mr.. Munson said he was credibly in
formed that there was in the light and
gas fund just enough money to pay
for it.
Mr.. Nickell said if members went on
as they had been doing, there would be
deficit of 100000 by the 1st of July.
He said that measures had been passed
involving expenditures of money with
out the slightest regard as to where the
+ money was to be derived for their pay
ment. No business man in America
that had any regard for his reputation
would 60 on as we have been going. He
would not dare to purchase goods with
out knowing how they were to be paid
for.
The matter was fiually committed to
the finance committee and the city
clerk ordered to furnish a map showing
the exact position of each electric light.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
Mr.. Munson moved that the street su-
q perintendentb be instructed to place Sixth
street between Pearl street and Fremont
avenue in passsble repair. The street
had been rendered impossible from
recent rains, and needs repairs 80 people
can get out. Referred to the board of
public works.
Mr.. Innes moved thatthe street super
intendent be ordered to place Temple
street between Bunker Hill and Rose
mont in thorough repair.
Councilman moved that the board
of public works be ordered to fix the
limit of assessment on the opening of
Flower street, and report the same to
the city attorney.
The city engineers specifications on
the inverted siphon for the outfall sewer
were then adopted, and at 3:l5 the
council adjourned.