The record-union., 1893-10-17
STREET IMPROVEMENTS
A Number of Sidewalks Condemned
by the Trustees.
E. Hartman to Expert the Water Offfce
Accounts-The Sweeping Bid
of James Touhey.

There was not large attendance aI the
meeting of the Board of City Trustees
yesterday morning, no proceedings OF
absorbing interest seeming to be on the
carpet.
T. w. Sheehan stated to the board that
there was no electric light on Twenty
first street, between @ and w. The rail-
road crossing at r street is a dangerous
one, and no light being there an accident
is liable to happen at any time. lie
thought that if light were placed at
Twenty-first and S streets it would be
great benefit, or to move the one at @
street to P, and place one at r street
would perhaps be better. The matter was
referred to the Street Commissioner.
A report was received from Holbrook,
Merrill & Stetson, stating that the heater
at the Art Gallery, with the system OF
pipes, is worn out. 1t is also very ex-
pensive one for fuel. They recommend
hot water system.
"WelI. - said Mayor Steinman, 81 know
the plant is worn out, and we must have
some way of heating the gallery. Stoves
won't do, on account OF the pictures; but
this firm estimates the cost OF the I'M
provement at s., 900 to $500, and we nave
no such amount to spend. something
must be done, however"
On motion of Trustee Conklin the
Mayor was granted further time i'll the
matter.
The Postal Telegraph Company asked
that they be granted thirty days in which
to paint their poles. as required by the
ordinance. as their men are at present
engaged elsewhere. Their request was
granted.
STREET MATTERS.
Resolutions of intention were passed
to improve Fourth street from to X,
and Tenth street from to l., with
bitumen and were ordered advertised in
the RECORD UNION.
a resolution was also passed to i'm
prove Seventh street from j to X.
The improvement of Twenty-sixth
street from 1 to was ordered and bids
advertised for, to be opened next Mon
day.
Specifications for the laying of sewer
pipe, 1850 feet long, from Sixth and V
streets to the pump at Eighth and 7
streets, were read and adopted. Bids were
ordered advertised for, to be opened next
Monday morning.
The alley between P and @, Fifth and
Sixth, was ordered improved by grading
and putting in sewer.
$3.50 \ MONTH.
James Tuohey presented bid to sweep
Tenth street from l. to n, and K from
Second to Tenth, at 81 80 per block per
night.
The Mayor moved to advertise for bids
to sweep those streets and sprinkle them,
and open them next Monday.
The Mayor asked who had the sprink-
ling contract on K street, which is poorly
performed, and he thought the city
should have rebate.
SIXTH-sTREET GRADE.
City Attorney Post appeared before the
board and was requested to report to the
board next Monday as to the relative
rights of the railroad company and the
property-ownersO on Sixth street, between
Z and III, with regard to the removal of
the track and scales.
SIDEWALK MATTERS.
The City Engineer recommended the
condemnation of the following sidewalks: |
South 40 feet of lot l, Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, G and II; lot l, H and 1,
Twentieth and Twenty-first streets; lots
l, 3, 4 and 5, and J, Twelfth and Thir- |
teenth; lots 5, s and Z, * and L, Ninth |
and Tenth; south 20 feet of north go feet !
of lot 3, L and NJ, Second and Third; lot
S, n and o, Ninth and Tenth: lots l and |
S, 0 and P, Twenty and Twenty |
third; lots 5, and s, n and o, Thirteenth |
and Fourteenth; east half of lot 3, and |
northerly part of lot 4, Ninth and Tenth, |
n and o, and lot g. II and /, Thirteenth |
and Fourteenth.
The Mayor stated that L. C. Chandler |
had recently put in seven planks on his |
sidewalk in the block between Sixteenth |
and Seventeenth, 2 and O streets, and he |
thought he should be arrested. 1t was so |
ordered.
The arrest of Judge NJ. G. Tilden was
also ordered, for fixing his sidewalk in
similar manner, it being stated that he |
was at present in the city.
DELINQUENT WATER RATES.
The Mayor announced that J. II. Mil
Ter, who was employed by the city to |
look up the delinquent water list, de- |
clined to do it for 500, and he therefore |
moved that E. Hartman be employed to
prepare list of delinquents and of those |
who do not pay for water, at So per day. |
Trustee Conklin did not see any need of |
it, as delinquent list had already been |
prepared by the collectors.
The Mayor said he should think Mr.. |
Conklin would be the first one to vote for |
having the work done, as it was to bene- |
fit his department.
Mr.. Conklin said he would be the first |
If he thought 1t was necessary, but he did |
not think it was.
Hartman was employed, Steinman and /
Green voting aye and Conklin no.
WATER WORKS AWNING CONDEMNED, |
Sanitary and Building Inspector Mich |
OILS recommended that the awning at the |
Water Works be condemned as unsafe, |
and the board ordered that it be taken |
down.
CAPTAIN SIMMONS VACATION,
When the bills were read, one from |
Matt Karcher for acting in place of Cap |
tain of Police Simmons during his vaca-
ton was read, and the Mayor said: 81 /
don't think we ought to pay this. l don't /
find any authority for granting the Cap /
tain of Police vacation or providing /
substitute for him.
Trustees Green and Conklin thought, |
however, that he should have similar |
vacation to the other members OF the /
force, and voted to pay the bill, the |
Mayor voting no.
MISCELLANEOUS.
a request by w. E. Dennison, Secre- /