The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-11

hour and half, a considerable amount
of business was transacted, among which
was the passage Of bill to provide
water for the city by the Gas and Water
Company, bill for the opening Of
Chestnut street and the appropriation
of $3.50 to the Union Benevolent Society.
The following members were present
at the meeting: Boehm, Clingenpeel,
Crabill, Dickerson, Duggan, Dupuy,
Fackenthall, Graves, Hough, Moomaw,
Pattie, Strickland, Terry and the presi-
dent, Mr. Buckner.
The special committee on opening
Chestnut street and acquiring certain
property for that purpose reported that
they had arranged to purchase all the
necessary land for Sl85 from the vari-
GUS rarties and that D. Ferguson
asked $3.50 for his property through
which the street would run, and recon
mended that the purchases be made
except the property Of S. d Ferguson,
which was referred to the city solicitor
The ordinance embraced in the report
was adopted.
The special committee composed of
Messrs. Dupuy, Groves, Fackenthall,
Hough and Crabill, reported bill No rs
as follows, which was adop ed under a
suspension of the rules:
BE 1t ordained By the Common Council for the
city OF Roanoke: First. That all OF the nrc hy-
drants furnished to tho city OF Roanoke by the
Roanoke Gas and Water Company shall be un-
der the control and direction of the said Roanoke
Cas ana Water Company or its officers ut all
times, except when II IL necessary to the SAID
hrc hydrhnts fer tho purpose OF cItinguishing
fr's and that the water obtained by tho city
from the said fire hydrants shall be paid for NJ
the rate of twenty collars per year for each hy-
drant in use; and that water obtained from said
hydrnnts shall not be used for any other purpose
except for the purpose of distinguishing i'll es or
for uses incidental thereto.
Second. All other water OF the Roanoke Gas
aud Water Company nscd for municipal PURPOSES
save and except that mentioned in the first sec
ton or this ordinance, shall be measured by
and Water ompany and approved BY the CITY
engineer, and the price to be paid by the city OF
Roanoke TO the Roanoke Gas and Water Com
pany for the same shall be at the rate OF 8 cents
per one Thousand gallons.
Third. The amount OF water used in flush tanks
snail DC ascertaincd by measurements taken
periodically by meter by the Roanoke Gas and
Water Company's agents in the presence of the
city engi Ger, and the spigots by which the said
estimates nave been made shall be thcrcupon
sealcd or locked.
Fourth. This ordinance shall have the force and
and the Roanoke Gas and Water Company, upon
the aid company notifying the common Council
mat II accepts the provisions thereof on or be-
fore March l, 1891.
Mr.. Fackenth al read report from the
fioance committee, which embraced
resolution appriating $3.50, to be paid in
lnstalments of S25 to the Union Benevo-
IL NJ Society, to provide for the poor of
the city. The report was received and
tnu resolution adopted
Bill No. II, providing for license
tax of S75 per annum to be paid by all
parties selling fresh meats, was read
and placed on the calendar.
communication was read from the
fire board asking that East avenue in
front of the Friendship Fire depart
ment building be paved for fifty feet;
that two beds be- furnished for the use
OF the Friendships and that the fire
board was willing TO admit the Reliance
Fire Company into the department if
Council would furnish the company
with ire house, an indicator, neces-
sary hose, harness for two horses and
other apparatus. The communication
was referred to the committee on fire
and water.
bill to amend section II OF the
general city laws so as to provide for
the payment Of SO cents burial p9rmit
and s. for burial transit, was lost.
In regard to resolution passed at
previous meeting Of Council. offered by
Mr.. Groves. providing for the appoint
ment of committee to ascertain rates
for coal shipments from the Pocahontas
folds to Roanoke, Lynchburg, Peters
burg and Norfolk. President Buckner
stated that he would not appoint the
committee in the absence Of MIR. Groves,
but that he regarded the matter as un
necessary and out of place, as the City
Council of Roanoke had nothing to do
with the rates of transpor tation charged
nv hn Mo- fDlly
Bill No. rs. providing for the releasing
OF the Street Railway Company from
keeping up the pavements betwee their
tracks for five years, the period for
which the contractors are responsible,
on the payment OF q claim due the city
OF $4,000 %, was adopted.
A communication from the Reliance
Fire Con pany, asking for fire house
and necessary apparatus, was referred
to the fire and water committee.
communication from the Budwell
Pharmacy Company, asking permission
to erect a small CO .rugated iron build
ing near the Dixie Steam Laundry, was
referred to the committee on fire and
water.
Communications asking for re plug
on Melrose and Eleventh avenues n. W.
and for permission to M. II. Jennings to
erect building on wheels on Salem
avenue were disposed of in the same
way.
Mr.. Dupuy called attention to small
wooden building on wheels on Camp
bell avenue between THE TIMES build
ing and Henry street, which was refer
red to the mayor.
A communication from citizens on
Lynchburg avenue asking that water
main be extended through that section
was referred to the fire and water CON-
mittee.