The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-16

At the regular council meeting
last night the mayor and all the al.
dermen were present.
Minutes of the last meeting were
,esd aad approved.
The mayor submitted a recon-.
mendation that he be authorized to
borrow money from the current
contingent fund to pay the school
teschers for May and the street
hands. Received and on motion of
Alderman Tibbs, was adopted
A petition from the Bell Water
Company asking that a hydrant be
placed for street sprinkling purposes
on South Third, between Webster
and Clay streets, was referred to
the water committee with power to
act.
The proposition of Coffin Il
Stanton for the city's purchase of
the Waco Water and Light Com
pany's water works was received
and filed.
A proposition was received from
Mrs. j. M. Anderson to deed lands
to the city necessary to open South
Eleventh street and was referred to
j the street committee.
1 The Board of Equaljz ,tion's re-
/ port was received ond filed aud b II
4 Of $500 for services was ordered paid
d Annual statement of the school
h fund was read and filed.
4 Citizens in the neighborhood of
the Arkansas Pass aud Cotton Belt
crossing petitioned for light at
said crossing. Referred to gas
committee.
The fire committee reported the
following recommendations:
|. That the lot owned ty S. +
Waters, on South Fifth street, neal
Speight, bs purchased for $3.50 fol
FIRE station.
2. That the mayor and public i'm
provement committee be authorized
TO advertise for bids for an addition
w the Central fire station, rendered
necessary for the new chemical en-
81 CINE station.
n 8. That the mayor and public
d improvement committee bs author
N lied to advertise for bids Tor two
4 new Z ations.
4 4. Tnat the fire committee ant
4 chief be authorized to buy eigh
head Of horses for the new stations
Alderman Poage called attention
to the custom of hack driver
soliciting on depot platforms ane
recommended that the drivers b.
compelled to keep their seats OF
their hacks. Referred to police
committee.
John f. Flint asked permission
to address the council in the matte
of the petition of Mrs. K. j. Gil
bert for compromise on the iudg
ment recently recovered against thu
city in the county court, wherein
his client obtained a damage judg
ment in the sum of $3.50, which
petition was unfavorabiy acted OF
at the last meeting. Mr.. Film
asked for reconsideration an(
Aldermen Symes, Brinkerhotf ant
Waters were appointed as specia
committee to investigate and repor
on the matter.
The gas committee recommend
ed deduction of $l5 from tn
Waco Gas company's bill for May
Adopted.
The street committee recommend
ed that Austin street be paved from
Eighteenth to the city limits
Ad opted.
In the matter of opening Nortl
Eighth street from Kentucky avenu
to Vermont, the city engineer sub
mitted report showing the propert,
necessary to be purchased for suol
opening. Aldermen Poage an
oymes were appointed as a specia
committee to see the property own
ers to secure the necessary propert!
and report on the matter.
The city attorney reported in thu
N matter of the occupancy of Soutl
third and Franklin streets by un
used street car tracks of the Git
aen's Electric railway company, tina
tie said company had failed to ru
cars ON said streets and that sue
failure had resulted, in his opinion
IN abandonment of said streets and