Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-23
CURFEW.
Shall 1t or Shall 1t Not Ring
at Night?
An Ordinances TO Regulate tn KID,
Presented to Council,
a Busy Session Tuesday Evening-A. L..
Gracey and Others Authorized to
Transfer Franchises 10 the
Marietta Electric Co.

Building permits were granted to
VIM Hite, Lancaster street; c. j.
Thomas, between Warren and Wash
ington streets, and to b. L. Crippen'
Lord and Harmar streets.
Supt Thomas Hancock arose to state
that the Auditorium ushers had gone
on strike at the last entertainment
and that he understood they had quit
by orders of Head Usher Peters. DR..
Henry moved that a new appointment
of head usher be made by Council upon
recommendation of Mr. Hancock. The
motion prevailed unanimously and Mr.,
Hancock recommended the appoint
ment of Charles Brown, which was
made. Mr.. Brown will have the ap-
poin tmen tof his assistants, under di-
rection of the Building committee.
The bid of Rudolph Kleyb bolte & Co.,
of Cincinnati who offered S3, 121 and
accrued interest for $4,000 worth of
city bonds, was accepted.
The special committee on the matter
of creating a new ward reported pro-
gress and that they would have some
thing definite to present next week.
A resolution granting to A. L. Gracey
and others the right to transfer their
franchises to the Marietta Electric
Company was offered by Mr.. Rech
and adopted.
Mr.. j. c. Brenan appeared before
Council, stating that he had been re-
quested by Consulting Engineer Felkcl
of the proposed Ohio River bridge to
prepare an ordinance granting the
necessary franchises. Blue prints
were submitted showing the plan
of the railroad approach starting at the
c. &5 NJ. tracks on Seventh street and
passing on an easy grade out Butler to
Post street, curying south on Post
The highway and electric road APP
proach leaves Putnam street at the end
of the Muskingum river bridge and
runs straight to Post The ordinance
granting right of way through and
over streets named was objected to by
Mr.. Wood on the ground that COM
plants of railroad obstruction of prin-
cipal streets are already very numer-
GUS, Mr. Wood made quite speech
against the bridge being located on
Post street and thought it could be
built much cheaper and easier at Fifth
or Sixth streets. He moved that the
ordinance be referred to Council as a
80 L. ,o14
tion, which motion prevailed. 1t was
decided to meet at the Council chamber
Monday evening for consideration of
the matter.
Engineer Mason reported the total
cost Of the Third street paving to be
$3l, ,956.55, the amount of cost per front
foot to be assessed upon abutting prop
erty being S2.156G. The assessment or
dinance providing for the payment of
the total amount in 20 semi-annual in
stallments, and for the issue of bonds
of the city in anticipation of the as
sessments, was submitted and read.
There being but eight members pres
ent the rules could not be suspended in
order to allow the passage of the ordi-
nance. Mr.. Price was tele ohoned for,
but could not be reached and the ordi-
nance went over to the next meeting
for its second reading.
The Engineer submitted an estimate
of S410.39 on the Franklin street sewer
contract. 1t appearing that claims for
material used on Mr.. Dyes contract to
an amount in excess of $500 had been
certified to the city, the estimate was
referred back to the City Engineer for
final estimate.
The Special Committee for the pur-
pose reported an ordinance regulating
the erection of wooden and brick build
ings, prohibiting the former in certain
squares in the business districts, and
fixing a penalty for violations. Under
the ordinance prosecutions are to be
brought by the Fire Warden.
Mr.. Garrison called attention to the
fact that the Fire Warden in the First
ward is dead and that the vacancy
should be filled at once.
Prot. w. w. Boyd appeared before
Council in the interest OF the ladies
who have been circulating a petition
for the passage of "curlew ordi-
nance, An ordinance was submitted
providing that boys and girls under
sixteen years of age found on the street
after niue o'clock p. m. should be com
PEELED to give good account of them
selves or be taken off the street the
fire bell to he tapped each night fifteen
minutes before the time specified. Prof.
Boyd spoke strongly in favor of the
ordinance and was ably supplemented
by Rev. e. A. Coil. The ordinance
went oyer to the next meeting for
second reading The petitions, which
contained several hundred names, were
placed on file. Upon motion of Garri-
son the ordinance was referrrd to a
committee of Garrison, Mcclure and
Wood for report.
Mr. Rech offered motion, which