The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
THEY MEET TODAY.
Special Committee and Coun.
ty Commissioners
TO CONFER ABOUT THE NEW BRIDGE.
Alderman POage Roasted the Public School
Board, as Fnantiers.

night the mayor stated that the
special bridge committee of the
council and the county commissions
ers would meet this afternoon at
o'clock. The mayor also presented
Mr.. x. w. JabIonowtkl for the
ly created office of assis ant
city secretary. Mr.. Jablonowski
wa unanimously elected.
The attorney of the Waco and
North estern Railroad comp any,
Mai. r. II. Graham, asked the
council to allow the old depot plat.
form of that road to be used until
the cotton season was over. Mr..
Deaton stated that the platform
itself was not only an obstruction,
but freight cars often blocked the
street. Mr. Lacy favored the roads
request. There was already an or.
dinance prohibiting blocking of
streets. MIR. Poage thought the
obstruction should be removed.
The request Of the railroad com
pany to retain the depot in its pres.
ent condition was refused.
The mayor was called from the
council chamber and ma, or pro
tenn Lacy presided during the re.
mainder of the meeting.
Petition asking the removal Of an
old frame building, near the Hotel
Palmo, went to the ire committee.
w. *. Flnks and others asked for
an arc light at Sixth and Franklin
streets Referred to the gas COM
mittee.
w. B. Ray asked permission to
erect an flee building of iron and
wood. Granted.
Petitions for refunding impound.
ing fees were referred TO the police
committee.
A recommendation by the police
committee for placing wire screens
In the station house windows was
adopted.
Bills from the finance committee
we're approved and ordered paid.
The matter of the hack drivers
petition for equal rights with trans.
fer comp anies, having been referred
to the mayor, that gentleman re.
ported that the Iailro al companies
allowed transfer drivers to stand on
the depot platforms, their right-of.
way, and that the council could not
interfere.
An ordinance forbidding the con-
struction of barbed wire fences in
the city limits was read and went
over.
The ordlr ance authorizing the
issue of coupon bonds for additional
public school buildings was read the
third time.
Mr.. Posge opposed the ordinance
IS assed a. he did not think the
school board was capable of hand.
ling the fund in a judicious NJ amer.
He condemned its method of hold.
ing star chamber sessions and con.
Quoting public school business be.
hind closed doors. The board bad
pursued an extravagant course since
its creation.
Mr.. Tibbs thought the school
board and city council should work
together in harmonious manner;
that they could not afford to stir
up issensions.
The ordinance regulating the
public hacks at depo,s was real,
when an amendment was offered by
Mr.. Poage n aking it unlawful for
any one to refuse to pay hack fare.
Mr.. Tibbs favored the amendment,
which was right and just. Mr..
Poage's amendment was adopted
and SO was one striking cut thai
part of the ordinance allowing one
man to every vehicle. In this con.
dition the ordinance went over for
the inspection of the city attorney.
The following accounts were sub,
mitted and ordered paid: A.
Ockander, for work on brick cul.
vert on South Fifth street, $3.50;
the same, for work on North
Fourth street, Sl,9so; for work on
Austin street, west of Eighteenth,
1890 60.
Mr.. Brir kerhoff moved that the