Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-06-17
COUNCIL PRocEEn,Ncs. 5.
An Interesting Meeting Adjourned to
Thursday Evening.

Council met in regular session Tues
day evening, with all mem bers present.
President Hathaway occupied the
chair. The reading of the minutes of
the previous meeting was dispensed
with.
The committee appointed to consult
with Mr.. Rech reported that that gen.
tleman had consented to remain in
Council and wished to withdraw his
resignation.
A petition from Third street property
owners below Butler was presented
and read, praying that Cisler's brick be
used for he proposed paving of that
street. The signers represented a to-
tai frontage of 1922 feet.
j. L. Reclsard, speaking for those be-
tween Butler and Greene, stated that
several persons, among them Mrs.
Penwell Mrs. Dye and Mrs. Wolfe,
had requested their names to be erased
from the petition.
A letter from j. c. Taylor, Superin-
tendent of the c. & NJ. Ry., was re-
ceived, stating that the company was
ready to lay the sidewalk ordered by
Council, on Greene street, as soon as
the grade stakes were set The Clerk
was instructed to notify Mr. Taylor
that the stakes are in position ready
for the sidewalk.
The matter of the Greene street pay
;ol> cfN ha-
cause the last shipment of brick was
not up to specifications, being soft
burned instead of hard burned, as re-
quired, was brought up by Mr.. Bach
man, who stated that the owners of
abutting property were very anxious
to have the work finished. Samples
were submitted by Engineer Mason,
showing the class of brick contracted
for and the class desired to be laid by
the contractor He stated that upon
testing the last shipment of brick in
question he found that a certain per-
centage of them were not up to the
agreed standard. The matter was dis
cussed at some length. Mr.. Jones,
who furnished the brick, stated that
he would guarantee them to equal if
not surpass the brick on Front street
and would cheerfully stand the loss of
the soft ones thrown out, though he
believed there were very few of that
nature in the shipment.
| Upon motion of Bachman the con-
tractor was ordered to proceed with
the paving, and the inspectors ordered
to throw out all brick not as good as
the sample. Mr. Ridge opposed the
motion as being desertion of the
specifications.
The motion of Mr.. Rech to require
sprinkling carts not to take water
from >hydrants at street intersections,
nor from the one in front of Haights
restaurant, was carried by unanimous
vote.
The matter of the surface sewer on
Second street at George Jones' was re-
ferred to Street committee and Com
missioner,
The bids for the job of Third street
paving were read by the Clerk, as
heretofore published. The Third
street improvement committee recon-
mended that T. B. Townsend's bid of
G719 cents for Mack's repressed brick
be accepted, three members of the COM
mittee having voted no. Upon motion
the report was received and placed on
| file.
1t was stated in Council that there
send having made bona fide bid and
that he had stated that he would throw
up the job before he would use any
other brick than his own and the mat
ter was discussed at length Mr..
| Townsend came in for considerable
censure when Mr.. Gephart, chairman
of the Third Street improvement COM
mittee, arose and stated that the
GAINESVILLE contractor had said to him
personally after the bids We're opened
that he would use no brick but his own
and asked to be helped out of the
scrape. A motion instructing the
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he would back up his bid on any ma
terial other than his own was carried.
The whole matter was referred back
to Committee for report at an adjourn
ed meeting Thursday evening.
The bicycle ordinance prohibiting
riding upon the sidewalk of the Mus
lkingum river bridge was read the Sec
ond time, passed to third reading un-
der suspension of rules and adopted.
Councilman Rech presented map of
the Sunderland Addition, but owing to
dispute over the line dividing it from
the property of II. D. Knox, the matter
was referred to the Street committee
and Solicitor.
The Police committee recommended
that the contract of feeding prisoners
be awarded to Mrs X l.. Dye at hei
! offar of 10 cants nor meal and the rec