The record-union., 1895-12-10
THE T-STREET PUMPING CONTRACT.
Electricity and Steam to Bid Against
Each Other.
Tearing Up Streets to be Regulated
Bonds of City Officials Approved
An Auction Ordinance.

regular weekly session last night, Trus-
tees Lawton, Wachhorst, Kent, Davis,
Bragg, Devine, Leonard, Tozer and
Pennish being present.
The following messages from the
Mayor were received:
To the Board of Trustees: I herewith
transmit to your honorable body, with
my approval Endorsed thereon, the fol-
lowing ordinances:
l. Ordinance No. -, entitled, can
ordinance providing and creating
patrol system for the use of the Police
Department for the city of Sacramento,
providing for the government thereof,
for the appointment of drivers, pre-
| scribing their duties and fixing their
compensation
2. Ordinance No. - entitled, "An
ordinance approving and accepting the
work of grading, paving and curbing
Third street in the city of Sacramento
from the south line Of street to the
north line of K street"
8. Ordinance No. -, entitled, can
| ordinance granting to the Northern
Railway Company of California the
right to lay down and maintain a rail-
| road track and store cars on the levee
known as the north levee of the city of
| Sacramento" Respectfully submitted,
B. u. STEINMAN, Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: Pursuant
to the provisions of Ordinance No. -,
entitled, "An ordinance providing and
creating a patrol system for the use of
| the Police Department for the city of
| Sacramento, providing for the govern
ment thereof, for the appointment of
| drivers, prescribing their duties and
| fixing their compensation" l hereby
nominate, and, by and with your con-
| sent, / hereby appoint Henry BALI and
John Fitzgerald to be drivers of the pa
troll wagon. Respectfully submitted,
B. U. STEINMAN, Mayor
| Tozer, for the Finance Committee,
reported in relation to the damage suit
| of Mrs. Malone against the city, that
| the committee understood that the suit
| could be compromised at a low figure
and thought that it would be well in
! that case for the city to do so and save
| a suit.
The committee was instructed to see
| what terms can be made.
| DeVine said the street lighting for
the past week had been very poor and
| that many of the lamps have been hung
| to the poles, instead of on brackets.
| He should object to paying the bills if
| it was not remedied.
| Trustees Davis and Leonard eX-
planned that the brackets were to be
put up of the proper length as soon as
| the proper HldlGIldlS 1IOIl TIE
| East. The company had not received
| them as was expected.
| DeVine asked why the attorney of the
company announced last week that 1t
was ready to light the city, instead of
| letting the old company light it for an
other month.
Devine also said that he had ex-
amined the pipe through which it was
supposed water was running into the
river from China Slough, and found
that some persons had connected their
closets with it. He had it cemented so
| that no more water can run into the
| river through it.
Leonard said he had investigated the
matter Of an electric motor for pumping
sewage. He thought it would require a
50-horse power motor to do 1T and that
the cost would be as much if not more
than coal. He could not report favor
| ably on the motor, therefore
Bragg said he had visited the old
pump in company with San Fran
cisco engineer, who advised that a
motor should not be coupled on the old
| pump. He recommended four small
pumps, which would pump much more
water than at present. Mr. Shock of
| the electric company calculated that a
motor would cost about 500 per horse
power He thought that as the old
engine is run at about 60shorse power,
the motor would need to be about 10
horse power, in order for the change to
| be of benefit.
| Devine thought that at the figures
given electricity would cost double what
coal cost and the city had better stick
to the coal.
Leonard said that at Twelfth and S.
| Fifteenth and and Sixteenth and
there were low bridges over the S-street
sewer, and that holes had been in the
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| drainage. The sewage now runs out
over the land. The residents complain OF
the stencil, and, as he understood, ii
would cost only $40 to repair the breaks
he moved that Mr.. Labs, a resident, be
authorized to expend that amount in
repairing it, as he says it can be re-
paired for that amount.
The Superintendent of Streets was
authorized to repair the sewer at that
rate.
Davis said that parties at Fifth and
r streets were complaining that Mr.
Labs, with his rock-crushing machine
had broken the steps and railing there
He moved that the matter be referred
to the Street Committee for investiga-
ton. So ordered.
! Devine for the Street Committee, re-
ported against the change of grade
asked for at Ninth and L streets, and
the Surveyor was instructed to see that
the official grade is preserved.
A. L. Hart said that Superintendent
Wright and Engineer Robinson ha6
been Unexpectedly called to Reno, and
he therefore asked that the Second
street extension matter be postponed
till Wednesday night. 1t was so or
dered.
]. p. Counts said that the electric
light at Nineteenth and G streets has
| been removed. Many people wait there