The record-union., 1893-11-21
TWENTY FIRST STREET.
The Assessment Amended on Account
of an Omission.
An Ordinance to Widen Tracks-some
Saloon Licenses Granted-Streets
Ordered Opened Up.

AT the meeting of the Board of Trustees
yesterday morning Clinton L. White
stated in behalf of his client, B. Labs,
that in making the assessment for inn
proving Twenty-first street the cost of
curbing and corners had been left out
and he asked the board to amend the
error by making a new assessment, add
ing about S42 per block, the alleys ad-
ding SIS and the street S24. He read the
law authorizing the board to make the
necessary changes and asked it to order
that the assessment be made to include
the cost of the curbings and corners.
j. +. Richardson stated that Labs told
him that in some places he put on eigh-
teen inches of gravel. Labs had the
gravel to sell and was getting pay for it,
while taking out the dirt. He (Richard-
som thought the whole thing was a
swindle and was costing the property
owners entirely too much.
In response TO a question by the Mayor,
the City Surveyor stated that the cost per
front foot was 81 cents.
Mr.. Richardson said it was costing
81 % foot, which assertion was con-
tradicted by Messrs. Boyd and White.
Trustee Green moved that the former
assessment be cancelled and the Street
| Commissioner be requested to prepare a
new one, and the motion carried.
petition from property holders to
open w and V streets, Nineteenth and
Twenty first, was read.
{. y. LuhrS said that the streets from
Z to \ were practically closed, the Cox
place and the railroad shutting them off
and preventing the development of
property In that vicinity, as people cam
not get to the eTWentV-trSt-street railroad
when it begins to run.
| Trustee Conklin counseled a little de-
lay, so that the matter could be investi-
gated and nobody be wronged.
On motion of the Street Commissioner
the streets were opened by a unanimous
vote.
MIR. Hawley requested the board to
also act on the petition to open Twentieth
street from q to L, which was presented
last spring. On motion of Mr.. Green the
streets were opened.
petition was received from residents
in the vicinity OF TWenty-fitth street ask
ing that the board instruct the property
! owners 20 build a sidewalk from the alley
between l. and NJ streets on Twenty-fifth
street to NJ.
The sidewalks were condemned by the
board and the sidewalk ordered.
TO WIDEN THE TRACKS.
The ordinance granting permission to
| the Central Electric Street Railway Com
pany to widen their tracks on Third
street from ] to X, so the distance be-
tween the centers of the tracks be ten feet
six inches, aud on j street between the
west line OF Third street and the east line
OF Twenty eighth street to the same
width, that west of Eleventh street to be
done by April lst and east of Eleventh
street before July lst. The ordinance
was passed.
SALOON MATTERS.
The petition of Luther B. Harris for
permission to keep a saloon at Twelfth
and streets was granted.
The petition Of Carlow Il Gross for per-
mission TO keep saloon at COZ K street
was referred TO the Police Commission
ers. There are already three in the block
The petition of John McMorry for a
license to keep a saloon at 32f X street
was referred to the Police Commission
ers, and the petition of Ferguson Il Gray
for saloon at S024 4 street was granted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| The Mayor called City Engineer Boyd
in to ask how it was that A. Pommer was
required to move his uuikhead, which is
good one. Mr.. Pommer had stated that
he had been notified to move it three
inches.
Mr.. Boyd stated the sidewalk was mar
rover there than it should be, for the rea-
son that Pommer's house was out on the
street foot or more. The curb should be
Strengthened there In order to make the
whole block straight. The opposite cor
ner, where Fabian Bros. is, is in the same
| fix.
The Mayor thought that Mr.. Pommer
would either have to move the house or
| the bulkhead.
The sidewalks on lots and 4, between
2 and Q, Eighteenth and Nineneenth
streets; lots 5, 6, and s, between j and
h. Twenty second and Twenty third
streets; the west half of lot and lots 7
and s, | and J., Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, and lots and 4, between
q and II, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, were condemned.
| A petition for an electric light on Twen-
| ty-fifth and l. streets was referred to the
! Street Commissioner. who said one had
also been long asked for at Fourth and r
streets.
The board allowed the usual number OF
bills before adjourning.
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