The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-09-05
CITY FATHERS.
A Full Account of the Business Trans
acted Last Night.

A Full Account of the Business Trans
acted Last Night.
The following are the proceedings OF
the board of town commissioners at their
meeting held last evening:
Report of street committee for month
of August was submitted by Commits
sioner Markham, chairman, as follows:
Work done since last report has been
general work, such as cleaning out
ditches,% sprinkling streets and carting off
filth, and macadamiZed work has been
done on the following streets Chapel
Hill street, 1915 yards; Peabody street,
GAG yards; around market house, 66G
yards; church street, 1,434, Curbstone
has been placed as follows: Chapel Hill
street, 1,07S feet; market house, 81 feet a;
church street, 466 feet.
Report of chief of police for month of
August shows ftty-nine warrants issued,
with fines and costs amounting to S172 60.
Report on cemetery for month Of Au-
gust shows seven burials. OF this mum
Der four died in town and three out.
Petition from citizens living on Par
risb, Roxboro and Liberty street was
read, asking the board to put Parrish
street in a passable condition, between
Church and Boxboro, and prevent Oh.
struction thereon.
On motion, it was ordered that the
| sidewalk on each side of Parrish street
be defined and the nuisances complained
of abated.
On motion, the street committee was
instructed to macadamize Liberty street
and sidewalks in front of Trinity church,
and the corner of the church lot on Cleve-
land street.
Communication from w. Duke, Sons
| & Co branch of the American Tobacco
company was read, asking the board to
improve the street On The south and east
| sides Of their factory premises, the same
being the portion between their factory
and the North Carolina railroad, and be-
tween the factory the Belt railroad. Said
parties agreeing to take up the cobble
stones from the portion of ground to be
paved and haul them to the rock crusher
If the town will crush and put them
down at the places specified above.
On motion, it was ordered that the
proposition be accepted and work done.
The following resolutions was intro
duced and on motion, was adopted.
Whereas, The board of county com
missioners is engaged in correcting and
revising the tax list of property listed,
and supplying omissions of taxable pro-
perty not listed, in Durham county.
Resolved, That the board of commits
sioners of the town of Durham postpone
the consideration of revising the list with
reference to persons who have listed
stocks in domestic and foreign corpora
tons.
On motion, it was ordered that a side
walk be built from the corner of .COrco-
ran street, commencing at Reams ware
house and extend westward along the
northern side Of Main street to a point
at or near the Guess road.
On motion it was ordered that the
grading in front of the hospital and con-
struction of side walk on Main street be
supervised by the street committee.
On motor it was ordered that the side
walk extending from corner of COrcOran
street along northern side Of Main street
to a point at or near the Guess road be
made the required width for side walk
along the entire distance.
On motion it was ordered that the
street commissioner repair the walkways
in front of the graded school building in
the best manner possible.
On motion it was ordered that an cleo
trio light be erected at the northwest
corner of the market house.
On motion it was ordered that the
space under the shed on the north side
of market house be designated a side
walk for pedestrians and no horses or
vehicles be allowed to travel OF same or
horses be hitched to any part Of the shed
and the same DE kept unobstructed
The following ordinances was intro
duced and on motion vas adopted.
Chapter ii, section 4G: No hotel por-
ter, draymen or other persons shall be
allowed 10 solicit business within ten
feet from any or all trains Any persons
violating this ordinance shall be fined
So 30 for each offence.
On motion the street commissioner
was directed TO remove al once from the
streets Of the town, the track of the Ok
ford and Clarksville railroad between
Corcoran street and the railroad crossing
on Chapel Hill street.
BuckIen's Arnica Salve.