The record-union., 1893-04-25
SALE OF LEVEE BONDS.
The Funded Debt Commissioners Ask
For Them.
No Stone Blocks to be Laid on K
Street-An Objectionable Bit
of Low Ground.

When the Board of City Trustees
opened its session yesterday Street Com
missioner Green took the chair, Mayor
Steinman having gone to attend the
Irans-M Mississippi Congress at ogden.
Gustin q Cajori presented q petition for
permission to open a saloon at 2Ol2 II
street, and as an evidence of good faith
presented bond, guaranteeing that they
would conduct it in an orderly and quiet
manner. The bond was signed by Charles
Huelseman and Jacob Schmidt.
The petition was granted.
The Engineer of the Water-worlls re-
ported %, 900 gallons of water pumped
during the week.
Sparrow Smith asked the board to APP
prove an order made by the Funded Debt
Commissioners for the purchase of S25, 900
worth of levee bonds. He explained that
they were the first series of levee bonds
issued January, 1893. The order was
approved.
n. y. Denton asked that as soon as
material could be procured the board
would order about half block between
Z and q, Twenty-siXth and Twenty
seventh streets, TO be filled up. The
water there is from six inches to two feet
deep, he said, and it would take month
at least to dry up.
The matter was referred to the Street
Commissioner.
The Street Commissioner asked week
further time to investigate the matter of
extending Twentieth street through
Richmond Grove, and it was granted.
lie also moved that the bids for street
work be laid over for one week, and the
motion was carried.
Commissioner Green said he had in
Yestigated the Oak Park bridge matter,
which had been referred to him, and the
county was willing to share the expense.
supervisor Curtis favored an arch, and
the making of another street through
Oak Park, but the cost would be about
Sl5O more than wooden bridge.
City Engineer Boyd was granted a
weeks time to prepare drawing OF the
proposed arch.
A petition from property owners on
L street, between Ninth and Tenth, for
the Improvement of the street with Fol-
som gravel, and referred to the Street
Commissioner.
petition 10 open the alley between V
and W, Ninth and Tenth streets, was re-,
ceived and similarly referred.
\ petition was received from property
owners asking that the board improve
Seventh street, between d and r. by
graveling, and was referred to the Street
Commissioner.
4. P. Burr inquired if anything was to
be done in reference to the J-street i'm
provemenL
Trustee Green said that unless a ma
Jorlty OF the property-owners petitioned
the board could do nothing under six
months.
Burr wished it put on record that the
board refused, and Trustee Green reiter-
dleu that they could do nothing under six
months, as the law stood that way. The
Street Commissioner was granted one
months further time in which to report.
trustee Conklin moved that the Audi
tor be instructed to advertise for bids for
coal for the Water Works for one year
from May 10th. and that in addition to its
publication in the official paper it bepub-
Ilshed 1--WE times each in the RECORD
UNION and Be. 1t was so ordered.
City Surveyor Boyd recommended that
the board condemn the following side
walks as faulty and dangerous: Lot 5,
and u, Fifteenth and Sixteenth; lot 7,
/ and q, Sixteenth and Seventeenth; lot
:, I! and II, Fifteenth and Sixteenth; lot
l, u ana ii, Sixteenth and Seventeenth;
lot 5, l and j, Tenth and Eleventh; lot 4,
l and j, Seventeenth and Eighteenth:
lots and ), l. and NJ. Eighteenth and
Nineteenth; lots and 1, NJ and n. Six
teenth anu Seventeenth, and lots l and 2,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth.
The board condemned them in accord
ance with his recommendation.
). c. Devine protested to the board
against the Central Electric Railway
Company having the privilege of laying
basalt blocks for their portion of the i'm
proVement on X street, when the prop
erty owners have to put in bituminous
rock. He had been informed that the
company had made arrangements already
to procure large quantity of basait
blocks for that purpose, and the property
owners decidedly objected to having two
kinds of pavement on the street.
he was informed that the whole street
would be laid with bituminous rock.
All the bills for the late election were
allowed, and the board adjourned.