Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-10
CITY COUNCIL
Transacts Large Amount Of Business
and Adjourns to April 10Th.
Orders Relating to Guard and Telephone Wire.
-Ncw Strccts-flood Of Petitions.

VI Tic CITY council, thursday evening
A flood of petitions for various pur-
poses came in and there was quite a
number of orders. When the meeting
adjourncd. it was to next Thursday
evening, April 16, when the roll of ac-
counts will be presented.
The report of the superintendent of
burials was presented AMI referred.
The following communication was re-
ceived:
TO the Honorable Mayor of the City of
Augusta:
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Augusta Board of Trade. it was the
sense OF the Board that there should be
u celebration of Independence Day. on
July attn, this year. and accordingly a
committee of three was chosen from the
members of the Board to act in concur
renee with committee of three from the
city government of Augusta. which the
| Board desires may be chosen from your
honorable body. and respectfully requests
that you may take immediate action on
the same. The committee chosen by the
Board are. gentlemen. w. d. Stinson,
{. Il. Burleigh, A. w. Brooks.
Respectfully.
F. j. c. LITTLE, Secretary.
In compliance with the request of
the board of trade. an order was passed
that committee, consisting of the
mayor. one alderman and one council
man. be appointed committee to act
with the committee on the part of the
board of trade. Alderman Weber and
Councilman Parkman were appointed
on this committee.
An order that the New England Tel
egraph and Telephone Co. remove all
dead telephone wires in the city limits
within reasonable time, was intro
duced by Councilman Colburn and re-
ceivcd a passage.
Councilman Edwards introduced the
sage: That the A.. II. & G. Electric
Railroad be and hereby are instructed
TO place suitable guard wires over their
trolley wire from in front of the Clover
Medicine Co. buiiuing on lower State
street to the ends of their lines on
State street and Water street, for the
\ petition from Albert W. Brooks
was presented. requesting the city
council to lay out and establish Brooks
street so called from Middle street to
its junction with st. Catharine's street
as proposed; and to lay out and estab-
lish said St. Catharine's street aforc-
said to the junction of said St. Catha-
rine's and East Chestnut streets.
The committee on new streets will
give hearing on this at p. NJ. Fri
day. April l..
| \ petition from the Vickcry & Hill
Go. requested the establishment of a
| fire alarm box at the corner of Court
and Chapel streets, and hydrant at
the corner of Chapel and Weston
streets. The petitioners represented
that while they have taken every pos
sible prccaution against fire, these i'm
nrovements. which would cost but
| little, would greatly reduce the dan
gers from fire. and should their plant
| be destroyed. it would be for their in
terest to seek some large business CEN
ter. This was referred to the com
mittee on fire department.
| The following ordinance. introduced
| reading: BE it ordained by the city
council of the city of Augusta, as fol-
| lows:
| Section II OF chapter of the Re-
vised Ordinances of the city of Augusta
| is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
prevail of the mayor and aldermen.
shall annually appoint police officers,
not exceeding So in number, but on eX-
traordinary occasions the number may
| be increased to 200. OF the So police
officers appointed. as aforesaid II shall
be detailed and organized by the city
marshal to act as fire policemen for
the preservation of the peace and pro-
| lection of property at fires in this
city"
| Accompanying this was an order pro-
vdins for the payment of fire police 40
cents for each hours performance of
duty. This was tabled pending action
upon the proposed ordinance.
City Marshal Morse explained the
purpose of the ordinance. The change
| from 20 to IS in the number that may
be employed as special police. he said
was needed. The present number, 20.
he contended, is too small. as there is
need of special police officer at nearly
every public institution in the city, and
most of these are not available for
other police service.
In joint convention. the members of
| the regular police force and Special
Officers Levi Whitcomb and +. l.. Far
rington were elected truant officers.
The list of members of the fire de-
partment, presented by Chief Engineer
Kicker was approved. j. H. Hartung
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