The record-union., 1896-04-21
TO SHUT OFT OUTSIDERS.
City Trustees Reject All Bids for Sprink-
ling the Streets,
Because the Lowest Bid Was From One
Man to Do It All at a Saving
of $1,165.

The City Board of Trustees met in
regular weekly session last night, Trus-
tees Leonard, Wachhorst, Davis, Kent,
Mckay, Devine, Tozer and Pennish be-
ing present, and Leonard presiding.
The following messages from the
Mayor were read:
To the Honorable Board of Trustees:
On the 10Th day of April, 1896. NJ. NJ.
Drew, Chief of Police, suspended Off
Ger w. P. Rutherford from duty on the
police force and on the following day
preferred charges against said officer
and filed same with me.
l herewith transmit the charges to
your honorab BILE board for further ac-
tion. c. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
To the Honorable Board of Trustees
On the 18th of this month l placed be-
fore your honorable board the name of
F.. H Wood for the position of coal
passer in the Water Works Depart
ment. At his request I am asked to
withdraw his name. Respectfully sub
nlitted, C. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
The charges against Officer Ruther-
ford were read. They were to the effect
that he had been absent from his beat
while on duty on beat No. 3 on April
1st; that by reason of such absence his
important beat was left unguarded
and that on the morning mentioned the
Chief of Police found him in the Police
Court and requested him to go to his
beat, and that on the same day Ruther-
ford stated to officer Bagley that he
had been reprimanded, and was going
III the evening to call the Chief down
On that evening Rutherford in a rough,
uncouth, undignified, unrefined ungen-
tlenanly and unofIicerlike manner
came into the Chiefs office and de-
nlanded of him as his superior officer an
explanation of his conduct in ordering
him to repair to his beat, and accusing
him of unofficial conduct in having on
former occasions unjustly treated him
as an officer and also in having made
Determinations in favor of other police
officers of the city.
The hearing was set for next Tuesday
night
z. G. Hart addressed the board, say
ing he had an ordinance which he
wished to submit to the board. 1t was
an ordinance for licensing photogra-
1hers. The photographers regularly
established in this city found them
selves in competition With itinerant
Photographers, and felt that they were
entitled to protection in their business.
Tozer moved the adoption of the ordi-
nance, and it was adopted unanimously
without debate within two minutes after
1t was read, and without a roll-call.
Miss Schubert's bill for typewriting
the experts report was referred, after
some discussion, to the Finance Com
nlittee.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Kent, for the Fire Committee, reported
that they We're having considerable
trouble in finding the horses needed for
the Fire Department, but had found one
owned by a farmer and recommended
itc purchase for $50. The purchase
was ordered.
A resolution allowing D. Dierssen to
construct steps on a new sidewalk
around his building at Ninth and L
streets was adopted.
Kent said the streets were being
ground up into dust, and he moved that
the Superintendent of Streets be in
structed to place more carts on the
streets for sprinkling.
The Superintendent of Streets ex-
planned that he had on five carts, but
the others are without hose with which
to get water. There are very few stand
pipes left in the city, and they are from
mile to a mile and a half apart, and
the old springling wagons cannot take
water from the hydrants.
Kent said the old sprinkling contract
ors had wagons and would dig up hose
for them. The motion was carried.
Devine said that at Twenty ninth and
o the intersection was impossible for
teams. He moved that the Superintend-
ent of Streets be instructed to round it
UP and make it passable. So ordered.
The superintendent of Streets was
also instructed to put down a new cross
ing at Seventh and o streets.
Devine said the new telephone COM
pany had asked permission to put in a
number of poles. He advocated that the
poles be allowed to be set just inside the
curbing. Permission was granted.
Kent said that the water fountain
that formerly stood on X, near Third,
was a great convenience for horses.
1t can be bought for SO, and he moved
that it be purchased and put at the
plaza at Sixteenth and @ streets. SO
ordered.
The City Clerk was instructed to have
the documents now stored in the old
W alef W OlkS DullGliS IeiiiOseh ~ q
safe place.
The Clerk said there were only two
places where they could be stored. one
an outside cell at the city prison, where
dampness would destroy them, and the
other the room in the jail occupied by
the Jail janitor. He was instructed TO
store them in the latter place.
The superintendent of Streets said
1hat It was necessary TO have two man
holes between / and ], Tenth and
Twelfth, in order to get at the sand
from the livery stable washings that be-
comes packed in the pipes. The saving
to the city viii soon repay the COST of
them He was instructed TO put in the
raanholes.
BOILER BIDS.
Davis, for the Water Committee, re-
ported on the purchase of boilers, in ac-
cordance with the experts report, and
recommending three boilers instead OF
two, with not less than 800 horsepower: