Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-16
AT THE CITY HALL.
Miscellaneous Matters of Interest to
Taxpayers and the Mu-
nicipnI Officials.

Very few owners and operators OF steam
plants met with the public improvements
committee OF the upper house yesterday
afternoon to confer in regard to suppresss
ing the smoke nuisance, and as at pre-
Vious meetings no action was taken and
no conclusion reached. ]. Martin Jones.
manager. and D. Roberts. SUPERINTENDENT
of the Dold Packing Company were pres
ent Each testified TO a belief that up to
the present time no device had been in
vented that would consume smoke. and
that could be maintained as a practicable
appliance to a steam boiler or furnace.
Manager George r. Stockham of the Mid
land hotel thought otherwise, as did AL
derman Brown. chairman of the commit
tee. William McKittrick, engineer of the
city hall, testified to having used a device
In the city hall furnace that cost the tax
payers $1,000, but which failed to do its
work and had to be discarded. The con-
sensus of opinion seemed TO be that boilers
Fan be built so that smoke consumers can
be applied to advantage, but that ii would
work a hardship upon those who have al
ready built their plants to be compelled to
reconstruct them. Another meeting will
be held next week.
Like his predecessor, Mayor Jones is re-
eeiVing letters from children asking for
I'll sorts of gifts, though none of them
mas as yet expressed desire of a parrot
Dr. boy pug dog" Since the Inaugural
lion of his Christmas fund movement the
children seem to imagine he is sort of
Junior partner in the firm OF Santa Claus
Co. One little girl has written asking
Tor a "sled and some snow to slide it on
Rnd another would be satisfied with a
piano. The mayor says he is sorry he
cant grant these requests, but expects the
funds he will receive will not warrant his
going further than to furnish the neces-
sarles of life TO few worthy families.
Superintendent of Streets Davis and Alf
Rrant, of the workhouse. met with Mayor
Jones In his private office yesterday to
confer in regard TO the cleaning up OF
about seventy-five vacant lots in various
PARTS OF the city which have been reported
10y the police i'm an unsanitary condi-
tion. II was decided that the street de-
paTtment should furnish two teams and
wagons and that the workhouse gang
should furnish the labor necessary TO puri-
flying these localities.
The board of public works yesterday de-
Cded that IL is the duty of the owners
of abutting property and not of the city
10 clear sidewalks of distractions. The
question raised i'm connection with the
sidewalk on the east side of Grand avenue
between Ninth and Tenth streets. Here
the walk is covered with thick bed of
clay that has washed down from the bluff.
The property owners will be notified to
clear 1t of.
The brick building on the northwest cor
ncr Of Missouri avenue and Main street
was yesterday condemned by the city
building inspector as dangerous and un-
safe" He says the posts and girders in
the basement are badly decayed and have
allowed the structure to settle beyond the
safety point. He says also that there is
a quantity of debris in the basement which
Is liable TO combustion. William Long is
the owner.
The Observation-Disclosures Paving Company
WIS yesterday granted its usual extension
Of time by the board of public works. 1t
new has eight DAYS in which to lay as
phalt on Washington street. between
Tenth and Thirteenth streets The con-
crete base has already been laid. The
board yesterday visited the Company's
new plant At Tweuty-third street and Belt
line.
During the past few weeks the gallery
n PORTRAITS of SN-mayorS in Mayor Jones'
private office has been steadily growing. A
few days ago a picture of Hon. Webster
Davis was hung and yesterday a portrait
oi Hon. W. :. Gregory. done in oil. was
added Nh. Gregory was Kansas City's
first chief executive. serving from 1853 to
1854.
Alderman Reroth yesterday called the at
lCution of the board of public works TO
he fact that cinders. presumably from the
Turkey creek pumping station. had been
1umpcd into the mouth OF o. X. creek
sewer. with the result that the sewer is
BADLY clogEed. Superintendent Longwell
II the water works department was in
'tructed 10 investigate the matter
The board of public works yesterday re-
'eiyed communication from Comptroller
Gl.nG. complimeutinG il upon the business
SIS" and economical manner in which II
has conducted its affairs during the past
year.
Are unlihe all other pills. No purging or
pain. Act specially on the liver and bile
Carriers Little Liver Pills. One pill a oose
Hard to Tell.
From the Chicago Post.
That's a bachelor on that wheel" she
asserted.
He followed the fieeting figure with his
eye