The record-union., 1895-12-19
STILL WRESTLING With MACADAM.
The Trustees Are Not Yet Through
With Tenth Street.
How Property-Owners Were Assessed
Nearly Twelve Hundred Dollars
More Than the Estimate.

The City Board of Trustees held an
adjourned meeting last night, Trustees
Lawton, Wachhorst, Kent, Davis.
Bragg, Devine, Leonard, Tozer and
Pennish being present.
TIL matter of fixing the grade on S, 7
and V streets, between Twenty-ffrst
and Twenty-second, was taken UP, and
the grades as set forth were adopted,
and ordered advertised in the Record
Union.
Lawton said that one of the Bee man.
ayers had complained that, although the
resolution of the board had been to di-
vide the advertising equally between the
two daily papers, the Record-Union
had obtained more than its share.
The Clerk explained that the street
advertisements were divided equally,
the odd numbers going to the Bee and
the even ones to the Record-UniOn.
The other advertisements We're divided
as equally as possible.
No action was taken on the COM
plant.
A resolution to change the grade al
Nineteenth and T streets to suit some
prOperty-owners was referred to the
Street Committee, to be reported on
next week.
Devine said that the lighting of the
city was poorly done, and he wanted to
know who was looking after it. He was
told that the Street Committee should
look after ii.
Pennish said a house in his neighbor-
hood, at n and Twenty first streets, be-
longing to Shepherd, had been partly
burned down and was a rendezvous fol-
tramps and hobos, who were a nuisance
and a menace to the people there. The
matter was referred to the Corporation
Counsel and the Chief Engineer Of the
Fire Department.
The contract for construction of q
sewer in the alley between o and P
Ninth and Tenth streets, was awarded
TO J. b Mccoy.
TENTH STREET.
The Tenth-street matter, the protest
of property-owners against accepting
the work of Contractor King, was taker
uD. and A. NJ. Seymour asked that he
might be permitted TO introduce wit
ness. Attorney Piatnauer Objected, as
the protestants had closed their case
The matter was allowed to rest unu
the witness should appear.
Mr. PIatnauer. attorney for Con
tractor King. called Deputy City Sur
vevor Phinney to prove that Seven
teenth street was not properly macao
amized.
Clinton L. White ob1ectsd Ior the re-
rnonstrants. as Seventeenth street has
nothing to do with this matter, 10 e
outside of Tenth street will be TO oper
up a discussion of all the street worn
in the city. The Observation-Disclosures
work was accepted long ago by tbs
board and the property-owners palC
their assessment without protest.
failure to protest does not make pro
test
Mr.. Platnauer said he simply wished
TO show what good macadam consist:
of and show that other streets had beer
nut down with similar material L
Tenth street.
Mr.. Phinney was allowed to testify
and said he made a haSty examination
of part of Seventeenth street that after
noon and dug some holes and secured
some samples, which he exhibited. h
dug down TO dirt foundation, he said
He also took a sample from Eleventh
street He found fine material filtered
down and mixed with the coarser ma
4erial all the way through
Mr. Platnauer offered the specifca
lions Of Seventeenth street TO prove
they were the same as those of Tent
street Mr. White objected. saying i
was an attempt to get bad street ac
cepted, because another bad street haC
been accepted.
I.awton said If the board wished t