The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-07

Beginning at the point of intersection
OF the southerly side line of Congress
street with the eRsterly side line of &
street; thonce southerly by the easterly
side line of said B street distance Of
about $50 feet TO A street thence easterly
by the northerly side line of said A
street, distance of about so feet to the
rear line of lots fronting on Gilman
street; thence in northerly direction
and on the rear line of said lots fronting
n Gilman street, L distance of about 2S(
feet to the said southerly side line OF
Congress street; thence westerly by the
southerly side line of said Congress
street distance OF about so feet to point
of beginning. Said lot containing about
20, 400 square feet.
And the city treasurer is hereby autho-
rized TO receive in the name of the City
Of Portland in exchange for said deed
and conveyance of land a warranty deed
OF the following de scribed lot of land be.
longing to said estate, to wit:
Beginning at the point of intersection
of the uortherly side line of Danforth
street with the northeasterly side line of
st. John street; thence running north
westerly on the northeasterly side line of
St John street a distance of 1853 feet to
the easterlY side line of B street; thence
northeasterly by the easterly side line
OF said B street distance OF about 1910
feet to the division line between lands
OF the City Of Portland and lands OF the
SAID D. b. Brown estate; thence in a
soUtheasterly direction by said division
line distance of about 1906 feet to the
westerly side line of the Western Prom
enade; thence southwesterly by the wes-
terly side line of said promenade dis
tanoe of about 1860 feet to land formerly
occupied by J. w. Stockwell & Co.
thence southwesherly by land formerly
occupied by said StookwelI & Co., and
land of tho Cassidy estate, go called, a
distance of about % feet; thence in a
southerly direction by lind of said Cassi-
dy estate a distance of about 100 feet to
the northerly side line of Danforth
street, a distance of about 140 feet to
point of beginning.
In the Common Council President Dow
explained that the land which was to be
given by the city was in the rear of the
West End hotel.
Councilman Virgin said the exchange
seemed very desirable and he hoped the
order would pass in concurrence.
Councilman Stone moved that the or
der be referred to the committee on sale
of unimproved real estate.
Councilman Dougherty said this was
SALE not an exchange. Therefore that
committee would not have jurisdiction.
The city was getting both ends Of the
trade, and for the sake Of the beauty of
the promenade tho order should pass.
MI, Stones motion not being seconded,
the order was passed unanimously.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON
LICENSES.
1t Is usual for the licensing board to
grant licenses subject to the approval of
the city marshal. But because of recent
agitation as TO the character of certain
licensed places, the practice was begun
about month ago of referring applioa-
tions for licenses to the COMMITTEES on IL
censes. Last evening the committee
made the following report:
The committee recommend that the fol-
lowing places be granted licenses as VIC
tuallers: Charles E. Gushing, Long is
land; James B. Jones, Peaks island; ;
Annie P. Griffin, Peaks island: John T..
Fowler. GO Commercial street; e. E..
ReardoD, Long island; Louis Levi, 449
Fore street; Geo. Morris, Peaks island
Frank Casassa, Peaks island; Barney
Kaslovsky, Peaks island; Fred L. Brack-
EFT, Peaks island; Mary j. Delong, 4
High street; Vincent C. Mountfort.
Long island; Henry E. LaRose, G. T.
r. depot; VIM. A. Ferguson, 81 Preble
street; VIM. H. Colley, agent Deering
Park; James W. Buck, 2 Franklin
wharf; G. H. Stoweli, Peaks island
james A. Lorette. Peaks island; Sarah
Innis, Peaks island; Edmund Rich. rs
Union street; James L. Cook, Peaks isl.
and; Elmer Woodbury., Union station
Everett ellison, Long island; Albert
jackson. Peaks island; james A. Pine,
Peaks island; S. Rubinoff, Peaks isl
and. I. A. Flaherty. 8lGentre street
John E. McGinnis, 70 Washington street.
The committee recommend that the fol
lowing persons have leave TO withdraw
John S.. Jumper, IS Pleasant street; Mar.
tin Void, 81 Commercial street Edward j.
Cady, 11S Centre street; Michael j. Mo.
Coy, Ill Middle street; Silas +. Harlow,
55 Commercial street; Edward Bennett,
II Commercial street.
The committee recommend that the
following persons be granted licenses to
keep billiard balls: II. M Castner, West
End hotel; Martin Leydep, 152 Federal
street; James A. L. Lovott, Peaks isl
and.
1t is recommended that pawnbrok-
er's license be granted David Schwartz,
108 Middle street.
The following petitions for licenses
were referred to committee on licenses:
Abram Sterling, viotualler az Peaks ISL
and; Geo. W. Stearns, innholder at No.
579-5S1 Congress street; J. D. Scamman,
viotualler at No. 232 Federal street; John
H. Roberto, viorualler at No. 403 Con
gress street; Peter F. Mcdonald, yictual-
Ter at No. 1888 Commercial street; John
g. johnson, victualler at Peaks island,
Michael J. Mccoy, Ill Middle street.