The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-16
PARK WILL BE PAVED
The Petition Of Property Owners on
That ThOrOughfare Acted Upon.
JOB WAGONS ON STREETS
Communications From Business
Men In the Matter and From }.
O. Jones. Who Is Also Inter-
ested-City Business.
OBJ WAGONS ON STREETS

The city council last evening ordered
Park street paved from Montana to
Arizona, in compliance with the petit
ton for that Improvement, which II re-
ceived two weeks ago. The matter
came up on the report of the paving
committee recommending that Park
street be paved and that the petition
of the State Savings bank and others,
asking that the improvement be made
be referred back for further signatures
of owners of property on Park street.
This action was taken In order to have
the petition signed by more than so per
cent. of the property owners interested.
so as to prevent a counter petition that
might nullify the former one. The re-
port was adopted without a dissenting
vote. and Knowlton moved that three
aldermen and the city engineer be tenn
porarily added to the paving commit
tee, and that the committee be instruct
ed to investigate the cost and durabil-
ity of the different kinds of paving ma
terials and report to the council at the
earliest possible moment. This motion
was also carried without opposition,
and the mayor added the city engineer
and Aldermen Cannon, Harrington and
Heilig to the regular paving committee,
which consists of Aldermen briggs,
Knowlton and Walsh.
Heilig, chairman of the special pow
der committee, called the councils at
tention to the inactivity of the powder
companies in regard to the removal of
their magazines. He said that new sites
had been agreed upon, the railroad
company had agreed to put in a spur,
and the powder companies had promis-
ed to move their magazines as soon as
the frost was out of the ground. He
said the frost was out of the ground
now, and yet the powder companies
were doing nothing. On the mo-
ton of Alderman Pascoe, the chief
of police was instructed to notify the
agents of the different powder compa-
MES that they must have their powder
removed to a safe place in one of the
sites selected by the committee before
June /.
communication from the business
men of West Broadway protesting
against the use of that street as a
stand for express wagons, and asking
that the ordinance prohibiting the use
of streets for that purpose be enforced,
was referred to the chief of police.
with instructions to enforce the ordi-
nance.
A communication was received from
]. o. Jones asking that the present or
dinance governing the job and express
men be repealed and that a new one
be passed which would be fair to
every one. He suggested a number of
provisions for a new ordinance and
among them being one requiring all
express and lnackmen to secure a stand
permit before being granted a license.
He complained that Partially is shown
Ito the hackmen under THE present ordi-
nance. His communication was re-
ferred to the judiciary committee.
A petition asking for the opening of
an alley in block IA was referred to the
judiciary committee and city engineer.
Wang Lee & Co. were granted license
for a gambling house on the second
floor at No. 80 West Galena street. The
monthly reports of the chief of police
and city treasurer were received and
the latter was referred to the finance
committee. The annual report of the
board of public library trustees, as al
ready published in the Standard. was
received and filed.
The fire committee recommended that
fire box be placed near the j. l. c.
mine and that Charles Grund be APP
pointed a regular fireman and also
made the following recommendation:
I'VE recommend that the city accept
the bid of A. g Long, agent for the
Fire Extinguisher company, Chicago.
for a two-horse, 40-gallon, double tank
Champion chemical fire engine, for
$780, (. o. b., Chicago. with a credit
of $500 for the old chemical engine and
two-wheel hand chemical engine, (. o.
b., Butte, said engine to be accepted
without being subjected to a test as
recommended by your committee in
their report of March Is, 1896"
Part of the report recommending the
appointment of Charles Grund as a
regular fireman was stricken out at
the request of the committee, as IL was
explained that he had been named to
fill a vacancy and that IL had been sub
sequently learned that no vacancy ex-
listed. The report of a vacancy was due
70 ha 90 a Of "a
men was sick and off duty. The re-
port as amended was then adopted and
the contract forwarded as recon-
mended, after the previous action of
the council requiring a test had been
rescinded.
The following report of the sprinkling
committee was accepted: I'VE, your
sprinkling committee, beg to report as
follows: We have prepared specifica-
tons from which contractors are bid
ding for street sprinkling and present
the same herewith. We present here
with the draft of an ordinance amend
ing section l of ordinance No 367 and
dividing the city into two sprinkling
districts. The districts are nearly the
same as last year; the following
changes having been made: Omitted
East Woolman street, Montana
street. from Gold to Platinum Streets
Quartz. Broadway and Granite. from
1TlSldi W AOluIflDld- AuucQ-fdTk
street, from Columbia to Alabama.
Changed-Front street, from Utah ave-
nue. TO Oregon street; taken from dis
trict No. l and put in district No. q
The sprinkling OF the streets last
year by contract was notably ineffi-
cient and unsatisfactory; we therefore
recommend that the council. as a
whole, consider the proposition of hav-
ing the sprinkling done by days labor
under the direction of the street COM
missioner"
The report of the license committee
recommending that the application of
Chung Lee for a gambling license at
No. 32 West Galena street on the sec
ond floor be granted was adopted.
The report of the light COMMITTEES
recommending that an electric light be
placed at the corner of jefferson street
and Warren avenue and the cost Of
maintaining the same charged TO the