The herald., 1895-06-28
II LOOKS LIKE A FIGHT
L. J. Spruance May Enioin the
City
HIS MONEY IN THE TREASURY
The Finance Committee Will Tomorrow
Consider Refunding Bonds
Councilman Snyder Is Out Two DolIars-The
Various Recommendations nade Yesterday
by the Sewer Committee
HIS MONEY IN THE TREASURY

1t looks as if the city is to have an
action at law of some sort upon its hands
at some time in the near future. The
trouble will be concerning the second
electric lighting franchise recently let by
the council to l.. 7. Scott Among the
bidders for the franchise was L. j..
Spruance, who offered the city the sum of
$506. The Scott bid was $l07 in cash and
a guarantee to light the city hall free of
charge for period OF twenty-five years
the life of the franchise. This bid the
board OF public works figured out to be
the highest and best. Spruance conten-
ded that the advertsem of the council
mad stated explicitly that only cash bids
were to be considered, and his was the
highest and best cash bid. He has now
deposited with the city to ensure the
amount of his bid and will probably seek
to enjoin the city from awarding the fran
chise to his competitor.
The finance committee of the council,
in weekly session, will tomorrow take up
the consideration of the bld for the re-
funding bonds, made by ]. NJ. C. Marble
of the Bank of California. This was the
one and only bid made for the securities.
The advertisements called for uncondi-
tional tenders. which it is claimed that
the Marble bid was not. President Mar
BILE will PROBABLY come before the COM
mittee and explain his bid. Should the
same prove to have been unconditional.
it will probably be accepted, and the
legality of the bonds will then not be
taken to the supreme court for determi-
nation.
The sewer committee OF the council in
regular weekly session yesterday made
the following recommendations for action
by the council on Monday:
That the protest from l.. Winter ct al.
against the sewering of East Twenty fifth
street be referred to the city engineer in
connection with the petition asking for
the same.
That the petition from Mrs. S. E. Bry-
ant asking for a sewer on Eleventh street,
between Olive and Hill streets, be granted
rs recommended by the city engineer in
his report of June 24th, and the engineer
instructed to prepare and present the
necessary ordinance of intention.
That the petition from L. K. Threlkeld
ct al. asking that sewer De constructed
in the district lying between Brooklyn
avenue and Echandia and Chicago streets,
be referred to the city engineer to lay
out the necessary district and present or
dinance of intention.
That a sewer be constructed on Hope
street from point $50 feet north of First
CLTeet W Il lrSi StIeet, anu on flrSJ street
from Hope to Flower street, and the city
engineer instructed to prepare and pre-
sent the necessary ordinance Of intention.
Several members of the council were
yesterday afternoon informally discuss
ing the mammoth petition against any
further franchises being disposed of by
the city for Spring street for either light
ing or street railway purposes, which was
published in full in the Herald a few days
ago. Councilman Snyder, among others,
expressed his opinion that the purport
of the petition was inadvIsable and i'm
practicable. Mr.. Snyder. gazing through
the paper, was holrifed to find the
name of his firm signed to the petition.
The discovery cost the popular council
man from the Second ward an even 50
for cigars.
Herman Casad Smith, minor, has by
Mary A. P. Smith, his guardian. pre-
sented petition to the council claiming
damages from the city in the sum of
$4,000. because of the alleged fact that at
the northwest corner of Broadway and
Second street the property of the pc
titioner has been cut down to depth of
about 40 feet to the material damage of
the premises affected.