The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-11-06

| Ira Clay, wooden cart shed, 10x2O at NO. o
| Elm street.
| E. G. Richards, two and one-half story
| wooden dwelling at No. So Vesper street.
| W. P. Stevens, wooden addition l2xss'
| for blacksmith shop at No.74 Pearl street.
| f. ~. Billings, wooden house, l6xl2, at
rear No. Quebec street.
q Franklin P. Talbot, a two story wooden
dwelling at Nos. 124-l26 Sherman street.
A. B. Chase, asks leave to erect in Deer
ng's pasture, 10 feet west of Mellen street,
and 100 feet from Portland street. frame
building 10 feet high and ITO feet long by
100 feet Wide. to be used as bicycle riding
school,
". u. Rodford. a wooden private stable
l2Xlo and carriage house l2xlS, at No. 81
Elm street,
Ella j. Usher. a wooden dwelling at NO.
93 Morning street, 50x22 l-2
eaCasco Tanning company, a two story
addition to No. 40 Green treet for curry
ing shop.
LICENSES,
The following licenses are granted subject
to the usual conditions:
Elizabeth A. Herbert, victualler at No.
22l Federal street.
E. G. Bangs, victualler, at No. Sc Port
land street.
Prof. Hiram v. Harris, employment Office
at No. 1879 Middle street.
Charles Rosenbloom, billiard hall, No. SO
I Fore street.
Schonland Bros, ask leave to erect and
maintain steam engine on Nos. and ii
Union street, thirty horse power. ten feet
long, chimney forty feet high.
MISCELLANEOUS
George W. Ham is appointed spe cial
policeman without pay at Portland theatre.
Mr.. Samuel H. Colesworthy, sr., repro
| SCENTS thar about forty-five years ago he
bought piece of land ON the lower side of
Oxford street, of Mr.. Hoyt. who bought it
at auction, it belonging at the time to
| William Boyd. When Boyd street was ex-
| tended from Oxford street toward Lincoln
| the city took strip of said land for the ex-
| tension of Boyd street allowing him, the
said Colesworthy, the sum of SIS for
damages. He paid for the whole land $3.50.
When Mr.. William Boyd died. about fifteen
years ago. his widow put in her claim for
dover in said land, and after negotiations
| through counsel. Colesworthy agreed to pay
| her $40 Fer year in lieu of dover, and he
has paid that sum yearly since 1880. As the
| city has taken third of the lot while he
pays dover on the whole, he asks the city
| to reimburse him for the dover he is pay
| ing. Referred to the claims committee
| The Fourth of July committee report final
| ly that they have returned to the city
| treasurer S76.76 of,the appropriation of $500
made for the last cele bration. The celebra-
| ton cost 10, of which rebates and SUBJ
scriptions from transportation lines
afforded S493. 95.
Amory ii. Rogers gets an adverse report
| on his claim for damages on account of de-
fective road in Deering park.
L. W. Harmon presents claim of $3.50
for carpenter work done.
sCharles Perry asks permission to open Con-
gress street sidewalk to No. SO in order to
put in Hyatt light.
Officer T. A. Usher tenders his resignation
as police officer.
Elias Thomas and others petition for a
sewer on Lincoln street.
Residents of Carleton street between Con-
| gress and Bracket streets ask for an cleo
trio light. and their petition is referred.
| The committee on public instruction are
granted more time in which to report on
| the subject of compulsory military drill for
| the High school.
An order that the city solicitor be in
structed to examine the title and land lease
of the Hooper Son and Leighton property
on the corner of Pearl and Congress streets.
and prepare the necessary legal papers for
purchasing the property, met with an un-
favorable reception and nothing was done
with it.
Councilman Pagan acted as clerk of the
council last year.
Residents on the square bounded by Con-
gress, Washington Cumberland and Mont
gomery streets complain of the stable Of G.
W. York as filthy and menace which
causes high insurance rates. They there
fore ask that the stable be removed. Their
request is referred to the sanitary commit
tee.
The petition that the city pay transpora-
ton expenses of Peaks Island scholars at
tending the High school and manual train
ing school, was reported adversely on the
ground that such course as asked would
be a precedent for similar demands from
other parts of the city.
G. f. Lord who owned 900 feet of Wilson
street land which the city took at ten cents
foot, calls to the attention of the city
government that Harry M. Fessenden has
just been awarded fifteen and three-tenths
cents a foot for land in the same region.
Mr.. Lord requests that his compensation be
made the same. Referred to the claims
committee.
When the bids for city stationery were
put in, Webster's Unabridged Dictionaries
were offered at % cents each. Last evening
Alderman MCGOWAN introduced and the
aldermen passed an order ordering sey en- of
these dictionaries, which Sell ordinarily for
about $40.
Residents of Mayo street petition f or an
electric light between Cumberland and Ok
fords streets.
Alderman Holland presented an amend
ment to section 5 of Rules and Orders of
the Council, making orders imposing penal
ties on raising money subject to certain OBJ
jections on their passage. This had its
second reading and was passed.
Five cents each; $500 hundred; Sa-