Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-24
COMMON COUNCIL.

At regular meeting of the Common Coun.
| Gil of the city of Alexandria, Va held Apl
23rd. 1895, there were present:
Hubert Snowden, esq, President and
| Messrs. Burke. Thompson. Moore Kraft
Klaus, Nushbsch, Harrison, Cation, Strdyr
Uhlcr. Evans and Fannon.
An ordinance to require the repairing or
| removal of dangerous wharves within the col
porate limits of the city of Alexandra report
ed by the Committee on General Laws with
the recommendation that it pass was read aud
laid over.
The following reports of the Committee on
Streets were adopted: That the petition Of
the Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemical Com.
psny for permission TO erect a bridge across
the foot of Princess street to connect two
warehouses be granted; also that the petition
Of the Misses Henderson for permission 10
erect frame building within the fire limits
be granted, there being DO objection by the
adjoining property owners; also that the
Superintendent of Police be instructed 10 re.
iair the pump in O'Neil's court with a suit.
able cucumber pump also that the reSol'
ton appropriatiDg $3.50 for the purchase ola
street sprinkler be not passed also tina; the
Superintendent Of Police be instructed 10 re-
place the pump at the southwest corner Of
NSSQlDppOu duu clIeClo Win u SUIT
able cucumber pump.
The report of the Committee on Streets
that the committee bave notified the W. 4. L
Mt V. E. r w. Co to have the roadway be.
tween its rails on King street, west of Peyto1
put in proper repair within five days from
April ID, was accepted.
The report of the same committee that the
petition of C. c. Smoot Sons & Co. for permis.
sion to ran railroad switch from the Wilkes
street track into their property on Wilkes
street between st. Asaph and Pitt streets he
granted, provided the sidewalk and roadway
be properly plankcd, Council rescrving the
right at any time to remove the track and re.
store the street at the expense of the peiI.
TONERS was laid over until next meeting.
The following were referred to the Commit
tee on Streets: A resolution to pave with rub
BILE stone the portion of Union street lying he.
tween the north and south building lines OF
King street AID between the railroad track
and the east building line of Union street
also a resolution to suspend for certain time
that portion of the ordinance requiring the
w. A. & Mt. V. E. Z. w. Co. TO pave between
and on each side of the rails on Royal street,
between Duke and Wilkes streets, provided
the railway company will agree to put that
portion in good repair by the use of gravel or
other suitable material.
Mr.. z. h. Atkinson was granted permission
10 erect work shop with metal roof on Pitt
street, between King and Cameron streets.
the adjoinging property owners not objecllns
The petition of w. F Creighton and oth'r'
for reduction of the dog tax, and also resa'
luton directing the Committee on Streets to
obtain estimates of the cost of trapping al
sewer pipes entering catch basins, and cost ol
an iron trap for the mouth of the sewer on
north Pitt street were received from tie
Board of Alderman and their action con-
Cured in.
The board then adjourned
Teste: JNO. T. JOHNSON. Clerk