The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-11-16
BOROUGH
COUNCIL.
Proceedings at the Regular Meet
ing Last Night.
WATER WORKS DISCUSSED
Contractors Charged With Hardness and
Rendering the Borough Liable to
Great Loss Dispute over Extras.

Great osS-Dispute over Extras.
The present condition of affairs of the
| Borough Council reminds one of q we'll
known play recently produced here in
which one OF the actors, kueeling upon a
raft in mid-oceau, exclaims in agony,
water Water everywhere ! Yet not a
| drop to drink p'
Thus it is with the Council, 1t has
plenty water on its condemned lands, in
its bitches and reservoirs, yet it can't get
drop into its pipes. The anxiety of
many of the Councilmen is uudisguised
and the action taken at their meeting last
night savors strongly of desperation 1t
is claimed that some of the contractors
are not doing their duty and unless heroic
| measures are taken the borough will
sustain great loss.
The Councilmen present at the meet
ing last night were Messrs. Mcclure, CAT
tigan. Dougherty, Hand, StouC, Kane,
Lamb, Straughn and Gallagher
NJ. NJ. Burke, Esq, appeared in behalf
OF Anthony Flynn and complained about
a nuisance created by the underground
drainage stream Ghat flows from Line
street southeast to the First ward. The
matter was referred to the street commit
tee with instructions to confer with the
Board OF Health and Borough Solicitor.
and after visiting the place reporC to
Council.
Mr.. Gaffigan com planned OF a dangerous
crossing at the corner of Cherry and
Gilbert streets, and attention was also
called TO bad pavement on West Oak
street.
The fire apparatus committee was in
structed to notify the fire marshal to have
the fire plugs tested before the winter
weather sets in.
Borough Solicitor Pomeroy presented a
staten cut which the law requires shall
be made by the officers of Council and
Chief Burgess before bonds can be issued.
The statement was read and ordered fileo
in the Court of Common Pleas. 1t set
forth that the existing indeb .edness OF
the borough is Sl25. l5S 9s; the last assessed
value OF property is 81. 639, ,S85: the addi
tional Indebtedness will amount to
S5O,0J0, to be created by the issuance oi
240 bonds for the construction OF public
water works, namely l50 bonds Of 500
each, so of $500 and 10 of $500 All the
bonds will be dated January /, 1895, and
m lde payable 30 years from the date of
the election. They will be redeemable mt
any time and will bear interest at five per
cent. per annum. An annual tax of >
mills on the assessed valuation of borough
property has been levied to pay the prin-
cipal and interest Of the bonds and the
revenue expected from this tax annually
is s., 600
The concrete work at the Fowler'5 Run
reservoir was accepted AS complete aud
satisfactory.
Mr.. Lamb stated that the work of lay
ing the steel pipe between the pumping
station and Fowler's Run was progressing
very slowly The cont ractor has but 20
men at work, He said water should be
put into the reservoir at Fowler's Run at
once, else heavy frost may come and spoil
all the concrete work. From the present
rate at which he work is being pushed
the reservoir cannot be filled within
thirty days and by chat time the concrete
work may be destroyed by the frost He
added chat people opposed to the water
works had predicted that the reservoir
would not be filed before Christmas. and
un Ter existing circumstances he was
inclined to believe they were right. The
contractor has /, 800 feet of pipe to lay.
Mr.. Garner, of Ashland, who has the
contract for putting the machinery in
position at the pumping station, asked
permission to deny that he was retardmg
any of the work. He said the fault was
with the people who were building the
boiler and engine house. They have done
practically nothing.
This led to a statement that no written
contract has been made with The builders
and they have furnished no bond. The
builders have been proce sdiug under the |
verbal understanding they had at the |
time the contract was awarded.
Mr., Morris, of the Jeanesville Iron
Works. also asked the privilege of stating |
hat his firm was in no way delaying the |
work. Mr.. Morris also presented and ex- |
blamed model OF an electrical appliance
which he suggested would be a good |
hing. 1t is intended to keep the engineer
It the pumping station informed when
'yer the reservoir at Fowler's Run is
uil and when the water is too low. The
Electrical connection is made by
loater in the reservoir No action
vas taken On the proposition. Some
# the members stated it was pro
'osed to have the reservoir and pumping
tation connected by telephone.
On motion it was decided that mem
'er Of Council be deputized to visit all
ranches Of the water works to-day, in
estigate the causes of delay and give
he contractors notice that if they do not