The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-17
RED BRIDGE.
Its Cost Will Be Explained
Tonight.
Several Bones of Contention
On the Council Docket.
Mr.. West Has a Scheme to Get Even
With Mr.. Gardner.

City Engineer Shedd will be present at
the session of the Common Council this
evening and explain the difference be-
tween the sum appropriated for the new
Red Bridge and the amount which that
structure has actually cost.
The amount appropriated was $50, 500,
and now that the work has been COM
pleted the bills amount to about 800, 900.
The deficiency OF SIS, COO Is explained by
the fact that several items of considerable
expense were omitted in the original
estimates. According to the ocket the
committee on nance VIII report back the
resolution to appropriate the SlS, 0CO
without recommendation but this is not
correct. Mr.. Stedd will explain the situ-
alton and inasmuch as The work has
already been done the financial commit
tee will probably recommend that II be
paid for.
The familiar topic Of transfer tickets is
also scheduled for this evening and VIII
come before the committee in the form of
a resolution, introduced at the last ses-
sion by Mr.. West, providing for a joint
special committee to confer with the
Union Railroad Company.
The committee on education is going
TO recommend the indefinite postpone
ment of the bill for an ordinance author
izing the school committee To appoint
school house Ianitors. This bill is sup
posed to have originated with MIR. West
and was introduced by Mr.. Gardiner OF
the Fifth Ward. The second supposition
is that the motive was furnished by the
removal OF an incompetent ianitor In Mr.
Vests district by the committee on edu-
cation. Mr.. West is not now a member of
that committee of the Council. but he is
one OF the influential members OF the
school committee.
There is another report coming, per-
haps tonight, and perhaps two weeks
hence, that looks like the second part of
the game of tit for tat.
MIR. West wanted the ~janitor resolution
passed and the committee of which MIR.
Rathbone Gardner Is chairman is going
TO recommend the indefinite postpone
ment . That Is the tat part.
Mr.. Gardiner presented a resolution
providing for the appointment of a special
committee to consider a reunion OF the
charter. And the committee OF which
Mr.. West is chairman, is not
going to recommend the passage Of ii to-
night IL he can prevent 1t. According TO
the docket the committee on ordinances
will report favorably and recommend the
appointment of q commission for revision
but MIR. West said today that that was
not SO. He explained that that was the
first conclusion which the committee
came to but that 1t would be reeonsfdcred
luls hlltTuONn. IL was IDls lOTCuOOu Ih0b
Mr.. West learned the probable fate of the
proposed scheme for appointing jani-
tors. The other members OF the ordi-
nance committee knew nothing OF Mr..
Nests change of mind.
There is To TO be q report from the park
commissioners tonight relative to a
casino at Roger Williams PARK, and also
a resolution directing the Union Railroad
Company TO remove What Cheer Cottage.
AS there are q number OF measures on the
docket involving dollars and cents and
also a few old time bones of contention
the session this evening is apt to be a
lively one. Among the side issues is the
report of the joint special committee APP
pointed to investigate the management of
The office OF the sealer of weights and
measures, with an accompanying reso-
luton directing the committee on ordi-
naucos to prepare an ordinance regulating
the Office OF sealer of weights and meas
ures N superintendent of street signs
and numbers.