The herald., 1895-02-19
MORE STREET IMPROVEMENT
The Council LegisIateS for the
City's ThorOughfares
LABORED LONG AND HARD
Funds for the Fiesta Have Not Yet
Been Appropriated
The Crooks and Turns of Street Sweeping
Contract-Many Ordinances
Passed
LABORED LONG AND HARD

The Council labored long and hard yes
terday, and much work accomplished was
the result.
President iced has returned from his
ocean voyage and was present to preside
over the Council in his usual able way.
All the Councilmen were present and
business went along with n rush, there
being no matters up yesterday which
called for outside eloquence.
The Fiesta committee appropriation
matter was left in the hands of the
finance committee for another week.
Two demands from deputy boiler in
spectors for $50 each were cut down to So
each the ordinance reading that one
meeting per month shall be held and
that. the members of the board shall re-
ceivc IS each for each meeting. 1t seems
that the board has held ten meetings
during January, instead OF one. The
City Attorney was instructed TO prepare
an amendment to the engineers license
ordinance so that those who fail to pass
the examination shall have the fee re-
turned to them.
4 bond presented for the approval of
the Council by W. /. Hollingsworth, to Sc
cure the carrying ont of the provisions of
the street sweeping contract disclosed a
curious state OF affairs, to say the least.
some tlint near lile ClOSt VI ldSb year tllt
former Council let the contract for sweep
ing the paved streets OF the city to l.. E.
Hewlett of Oakland Hewletts bid was
very low one, and several members of the
Council had misgivings at the time, be-
lieving that the work could not be done
for the money. However, the contract
ra ct to Hewlett, and at the time the
f7r5 I'll gave notice that it would expect
l.t work to be done in strict accordance
Wt the provisions.
M Hewlett never succeeded in sa tisfy-
he Council that he was doing good
He had filed satisfactory bond,
fru ining the names of very substantial
MS. The Council refused to allow
Hewlett demands, and he threw up
ork The Council held the bonds
responsible, and one of them, $. W.
weller, attempted to take charge of
Use ork
So | the scrapng was not satisfactory.
ir uitweiler then turned the work over
Brothers, contracting firm. Skie
ers attempted the work and then
rnta the contract to W. l. Hollings-
',artl.
Te peculiar part of the matter as dis
c.as yesterday was that Skie Brothers
aaa appear upon the bond presented by
b lollingsworth Thus the contractors
as sureties on what is considered
iH Council as their own bond.
finance committee recommended
he bonds be not accepted, and the
= o -4gll took such action.
rty before the conclusion of the
9lr ng session City Engineer Compton
81 red before the Council to talk about
ae alary of his chief deputy. The
1T holder of that position refuses to
nnf longer at the regular salary of "a. 80
PEI ". Mr.. Compton had asked that
ts larry be raised to $3.50 per month the
CoQueil had referred the matter to the
fIgr committee and the finance COM
had made no recommendation in
re to the matter.
. Compton does not believe that
tent engineer can be induced to ac-
4.50 per day. The Council listened
tl ~ remarks but took no action and the
r is still in the hands of the finance
ittee.
as the morning session was ready
closed, when everybody had grabbed
cir hats and the lobby was already
lg out the door, Mr.. Snyder arose
;ked for information. He wanted to
if there was any way in which the
OF the old court house property
f be made TO carry on the work of de-
ling the building at livelier pace.
he rate he is doing the work now we
Ill be in our graves, he said, 'be-
fi le work is finished.
Kingery said that there was one
and only one thing, that is a justi-
II OF the slow pace. IF the work
n as it is now being done, - said he.
Ill afford us an opportunity for ten
to come to take strangers down
and show that new buildings are
up all the time.
Savage explained that Mr.. Bullard,
vner of the property, and another
lad been steadily at work on the old
ng tearing it down, and polishing
tin roofing and brick, but that the
Of secondhand tin and brick had
ed, and that the other man had
discharged, leaving the owner to
carry on the work alone. Hence it was
moving trihe slow.
Snyder moved that Mr.. Bullard be given
fifteen days's further time to finish the
task of removing the debris
The Council adjourned to meet on
Wednesday afternoon, when the bond
election ordinance for the refunding of
bonds outstanding will be considered.