The record-union., 1894-03-14
CEMETERY SALOON KNOCKED OUT.
No More Licenses Issued for Saloons
Near Cemeteries.
Street improvements Projected = Re-
monstrances Listened to-Side-
walks Condemned.

The City Board of Trustees held an ad-
journed meeting last night, Trustees
Lawton, Wachhorst, Tozer. Pennish,
Leonard, Davis, Bragg, Kent and Devine
being present.
The matter of employees at the Helvetia
Cemetery came up, none having been
regularly appointed there.
Devine said that he had been waiting to
see the superintendent of Cemeteries,
and on a former occasion the Superln-
tendent had said that he could transfer
men from the City Cemetery when they
are needed. There is not work enough
to keep two men at work steadily, and If
enough men are allowed him he can
transfer temporarily when necessary.
By resolution of Tozer, the Mayor was
authorized to employ two men for the
Helvetia Cemetery for such time as in his
judgment they are necessary.
Trustee Leonard moved to reconsider
the vote by which the board adopted the
ordinance making water rents collectable
in advance. He believed action on the
matter had been tco hasty.
After some discussion the motion to re-
consider was lost.
SALOON KNOCKED OUT.
The following resolution offered by
ToZer, was adopted; Kent speaking
against it and offering an amendment TO
refer IL to committee, which was voted
down, and the Clerk instructed to notify
the Collector in writing OF the passage OF
the resolution.
Trustees Ken and Wachhorst voted
against it.
WHEREAS, The location and mainten-
ance OF saloon for the sale of intoxi-
eating drinks at the northeast corner of
Tenth and 7 streets the principal gate
way of the City Cemetery is in bad taste
and repugnant to the sensibllltleS OF all
good citizens, and especially to thousands
OF women and children whose duty and
pleasure it is to visit that sacred domain,
it is
ReSotoed, That said saloon be and is
hereby ordered to be closed and discon-
tinued from and after April 10. 1884, and
the City Collector is directed not to issue
license for a saloon which shall be To-
Gated nearer than 700 feet. or distance of
two blocks from the entrance to any Gem
etery under control of the city OF Sacra-
mentO.
CEMETERY LOTS.
a communication was received from
George w. ticks, Superintendent of
Cemeteries, asking that parties who had
bought cemetery lots OF private parties
report the transfer to the Superintendent
within fifteen days, in order that the
transfer may be plated on the new map
and records.
y resolution to publish it in the two
city papers for five days each was adopted.
SIDEWALKS CONDEMNED.
A report from the City Surveyor. recon-
nfending the condemnation OF long list
of sidewalks. was read and a resolution
condenning them and ordering new ones
constructed within fifteen days was in
troduced.
Kent said he believed that the city had
torcei some sidewalks built aud had TO
pay Tor building them itself in the end
levine thought he had read decision
of the supreme Court to that effect re-
Gently.
Ihe resolution was passed.
THAT BIG BILL.
Leonard stated that he had ordered
some repairs made on an engine, and he
understood that the Mayor objected to
the bill being paid. The work had been
very badly needed, as the engine was in
danger of breaking down while running
10 a ire. He had certainly not intended
to do anything wrong, but as Chairman
of the committee he had thought it his
duty 10 keep the apparatus i'll order.
SALOON LICENSES.
A petition to allow j. B. Costello and
Gregorio Cifuentes to transfer their
license to keep saloon at Second and
n streets TO S024 x street, and that they
be allowed to keep saloon at the latter
place, was presented.
The request was granted, Tozer and
Bragg voting no.
\ petition was also received for license
TO George II. Jones to keep saloon at
the Golden West Hotel and laid over one
week and referred to the Chief of Police.
One from Walter a. Barican, to keep a
saloon on the northeast corner Of Third
and X streets, was similarly referred.
REMoNsTRANCES.
Remonstrances were filed against grad
ing the alley between O and +, Fourth
and Fifth streets; L street, from Front to
Sixth: Third street, from r to L; the
alley between NJ and n. Ninth and
Tenth: the alley between II and l. Sixth
and Seventh; The alley between o and P,
Twenty-Gfth and Twenty-siXth; the
alley between Fourth and Sixth. N and
\, and laying a sewer in the alley be-
tween y and o, Seventeenth and Nine
teenth streets.
Those on the alley between n and 0,
Seventeenth and Nineteenth, and II and
l, Sixth and Seventh, represented only
ha,f the frontage.
The remainder had a majority against
the improvement.
The remonstrants on Third street,
from Il 10 L, were willing TO have the
street graveied from X 10 y, but said
macadam would cost more than fifty per
cent of the assessed value of the prop
erty.
Kent said that he had called up the
street in order that the residents OF his
ward might get the benefit of the street
Improvement fund before it was all
gone.
Lawton told the remonstrants that the
street could be macadamized at not much
greater cost than gravel Seventeenth
street cost the property owners only 81 %,
and the work was more costly than it
should have been.
When the T-street remonstrance came
up, Kent said that there was no street in
the city that more needed improvement.
He thought that the property-owners,
who were poor aud on whom the burden
would fall heavily, should have an OPP
portunity TO do labor upon the street,
and thus earn enough, perhaps, TO pay
their assessment.
The remonstrances were referred to the
Street Committee.
STREET IMPROVEMENT.
Resolutions of intention were passed to
improve the following streets and alleys,
The alley between Front and Second,
and @; Ninth street, from = to y; Tenth
street, from c TO q, and Front street, from
w TO \, by grading and macadamizlng.
POLICE REPORT.
Chief of Police Drew reported IS4 ar
rests during the month of February: 81
sent to the County Jail; sent to Insane
Asylum; en- route to Folsom. 6 held to
answer betore the Superior Court, l; run
away boys sent home, 3; delivered to
United States army, l; discharged, III;
remaining in City Prison. February %,
1894, Is.
Leonard moved that the attention of the
Mayor be called TO the fact that the con-
tract for the Improvement of street