The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-25
COMMONC0UNCIL
Thirty-Nine thousand DOL
lars for High School Site.
Union Company's Rails on Francis
Street Bridge Finally Decided.

Street Bridge Finally Decided.
The Common Council was in session
three hours last night and no mention WAS
made of filtration, mechanical or nat ural
The nearest approach to that subject was
the passage of resolution, without COM
ment, for appropriation of $500 to try
experiments with artesian wells Tor
pure water supply. The question OF rails
on Francis street bridge, which has be-
come familiar TO the most Indifferent
| Councilman from its long discussion, was
finally decided in favor OF the railroad
| committee. The most important discus
sion of last nights session was the ap-
preparation OF $50 900 for a new High
School site.
Mr.. Vaughan, for the committee. on
| finance, reported on a joint resolution OF
the City Council appropriating 5000 for
experimenting for a pure water supply
for the use of the city from
indefinite postponement of the reso-
luton and substitute resolution,
appointing Messrs. Knight, Vaughan,
Barden and Blakeley of the Common
Council and such as the Board OF Alder
men may add as joint special committee
for the purpose of experimenting for
| pure supply OF water at cost not To ex-
ceed s2500, was adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Mccarthy the resolu-
| tion was amended to include In the COM
| mittee the city engineer and the commits
| sioner of public works, and eventually the
| resolution as amended was adopted.
The committee reported on a resolution
| to grade and curb Fenner Park, and on
recommendation OF the committee the
resolution was indefinitely postponed and
| an ordinance transferring 5000 from the
appropriation for contingencies for the
Improvement by curbing and grading OF
| Fenner Park was adopted.
A resolution appropriating s400 for an
| Illuminated clock in the Art Museum at
Roger Williams Park was indefinitely
postponed, and an ordinance transferring
the sum of s59695 from the appropriation
authorized by Chapter 641 of the ordi-
| nances to the appropriation made by an
| ordinance entitled A" An ordinance pro-
| viding for the issue of notes for the erec-
| tion of museum building st Roger Will
| liams Park, was adopted.
A joint resolution authorizing the
| charging OF the expense OF water and
| sewer connections for tho art museum
building at Roger Williams Park to the
appropriation made by Chapter 53S and
b41 OF the city ordinances was indefinitely
| postponed.
| An ordinance transferring $l60 from the
| appropriationfor contingencies to the
| appropriation for public parks was adopt
ed in substitution OF . resolution intro
| uuced AT previous meeting.
On recommendation of the committee
on finance resolution adding s473 to the
appropriation for grading on Dexter
training field WAS indefinitely postponed.
| An ordinance was adopted appropriat-
ing 5000 for an addition to the fire station
on Benevolent street. The ordinance was
in substitution Of q resolution introduced
at previous meeting.
The Council also adopted an ordinance
adding the following sums to the follow
ing appropriations: City engineers de-
psrtinent, $500; water works mainte-
| 37S.04.
Upon recommendation of the commit
tee on highways the petitioners for i'm
provements on the following streets were
allowed leave to withdraw: Elmgrove ave.
nue., Raymond street, Wilcox street,
Doyle avenue, Julian street and Buckley
street. The same COMMITTEES reported Ia
vorably on defining the grade
OF Chatham street and laying
| out of Mckinley, Whitney, Eiswold and
Bell streets and Linwood avenue and con-
creting the sidewalks on certain portions
OF North Main street, Doyle avenue, Camp
street, Buckley and Redwing streets. The
resolutions were passed.
A resolution recommended by the COM
mittee on highways was also passed to
build certain portion of Althea, Charles,
Halsey, South, Stamford and Forest
|
And also from the same committee that
the commissioner OF public works be in
structed to concrete sidewalks on Pitman,
Hayward, Dimond, Dabol and Public
streets and that the assessor of taxes
should charge abutting owners for the
cost thereof with 10 per cent. additional.
| Committee on Railroads.
Then Chairman Vose Of the committee
| on railroads, with the air of man who
had something entirely new that would
meet with unanimous approval, arose
with the resolution that the
| Union railroad company be allowed to
erect poles, lay rails etc. on Francis street,
and across Francis Street Bridge to the
| northerly line of Promenade street, and
in the middle OF the thoroughfare. This,
he explained, was not to the advantage Of
the railroad company but that
the city itself might be saved from $500
to $1,000 late- on, because to lay the rails
now that work and the work of paving
the bridge and Promenade street might
| be done at the same time, whereas later on
| IL would be necessary to tear up the
surface; As to the location OF the rails in
the middle OF the bridge, Mr.. Vose said
that that had been decided upon with the
| approval OF the committee, the city en-
| gineer and the chief engineer OF the Con-
solidated Railroad Company. In relation
| to Mr.. Sheahan's amendment about trans
fer checks, which had been tackled on the
| resolution the last time IL was referred
back, Mr.. Vose said that inasmuch as the
| permission asked for covered only 1900
feet of road that could not be put in
operation within the time stated in the
amendment, the committee had deemed
il advisable not to incorporate IL in it's
| report at that time.
Mr.Sheahan jumped up and said "W here's
my amendments" and one of his SYM
pathizers suggested that they had ignored
IL. MIR. Sheahan defed any mem ber of he
committee to find justification for such
| action in parliamentary law or ethics, and
| Mr.. Parkhurst made an explanation that
seemed satisfactory to everyone in the
| chamber, but Mr.. Sheahan insisted
on hearing from Chairman Vose
| himself, and Mr.. Vose reiterated
the very lurid statements OF Mr.. Park
| hurst. Mr.. Sheahsn then made the same
| amendment to resolution about trn usfers