The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-20
MANY MUNICIPAL MEETINGS
CITY HALL WILL BID AN UNUSUALLY
 BUSY PLACE THIS WEEK.

Counoilmen Will Meet To-night-Hyde's
 Trial Will Begin Tomorrow Night
 Grand Avenue Widening Again to be Con-
 sidered-other Important Meetings of the Week.
 The city hall will be an unusually
 busy place again this week, large
 number of municipal meetings having
 been already listed and more will be
 arranged during the next day or two
 This evening an adjourned meeting of | the board of councilmen will be held at which time the report of the com
 mittee on streets giving the petitioners | for the extension of Park street to | Whalley avenue leave to withdraw will be acted upon and the business
 which was left unfinished at the last
 meeting, owing to a lack of a quorum,
 will be completed.
 Tomorrow evening the police com-
 missloners will hold a special meeting
 and the trial of Patroln1an George l.,
 Hyde, charged with uttering false and malicious statements against Captain
 James Wrinn of police headquarters
 will be begun. All the commissioners | having signified their intention of be- ing present, it is expected that the trial will go on without fail. The wit nesses in the case have already been. l summoned The trial will be held in the city court room.
 That much needed improvement, the widening of Grand avenue and St. John street, from State to Olive streets, will also again be discussed at the meeting of the committee on streets tomorrow evening. The petition for the widening has been carefully pigeonholed for the past year and a half in the city hall The committee on streets have called a special meeting for the sole purpose of considering this proposed widening of Grand avenue. The chamber of com merce will be represented at the meet ing and 1t is expected that there will also be a large number of citizens pres ent to favor and oppose the proposed improvement. City Engineer Kelly has several layouts prepared anyone of which if adopted would remedy the ex- isting evil and these layouts will be taken into consideration by the com mittee.
 The committee on buildings will hold it's first meeting of the year tomorrow evening, when will be considered the petition of Frank w. Pardee and others for the condemnation of the wooden building on Wooster Place, formerly used for General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute. An attempt is being made, so 1t Is said, to convert the present building into a tenement house and this plan is decidedly ob- jected to by the property owners and taxpayers in the vicinity. The commit tee on buildings, which will have to deal with the question is composed of Aldermen Leary and Wright and Coun- cilmen Pierce, Daniel J. Leary and Dewell.
 The town fathers will also meet in the town agents office tomorrow evening, when it is expected Town Counsel Goodhart will make a report concerning matters now pending before the general assembly, which are of in terest to the town government.
 Wednesday evening the board of pub- lie works will hold an adjourned meet ing, at which time 1t is said an at tempt will be made to elect a superin- tendent of streets to succeed the late Patrick Doyle. There are a number of candidates in the field, but 1t is said that no one of them has succeeded in obtaining a sufficient backing to ensure his election to the coveted posi- ton. Altogether the coming week promises to be an unusually busy one in and around the city hll.