San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-27
COUNCIL MEETING.
WEST END TO GET FIRE PROTEC-
TI0N AT LAST.
A Good Policeman Fired-Koch Resigns
Petitions and Resolutions Adopt
ed - Emergency Clause on
Street Work.

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The following petitions and
communications were read:
Citizens, asking that COM
mittee examine Callaghan ave
nue.. Referred to street and
bridge committee.
Citizens, that San Luis street
be graded and graveled from Pc
COS to Medina streets. Referred
to street and bridge committee.
Citizens, protesting against
closing Alamo ditch. Referred
to ditch committee.
Henrietta Kalteyer, protesting
against closing of alley in rear
her premises, and that resolu-
ton permitting d. Sullivan to
close same be rescinded. Refer
ed to street and bridge commit
tee.
Waterworks company, commu-
nication in reference to laying
water mains in Sixth ward and
at South Heights, and saying
that of the seventy people at
West End who had agreed to
take water if mains were extend
ed to that suburb, only seven
teen had kept their promise. Re
ferred to aldermen of Sixth and
Seventh wards.
Jerry L. Newton, asking if city
wants to sell small piece of land
bounded by Lafitte, Lasalle, Mat
agorda and Narp streets. Refer
ed to committee on markets,park
and public buildings.
Citizens, for crOsswalk on Mar
tin street at intersection of JEFF
ferson street. Granted.
Citizens, for bridge over Ala
Fan creek on Rivas street. Re
ferred to street and bridge COM
mittee.
j. H. Reynolds, asking pay
ment of a claim of 5000 with 6
per cent interest for property ia
ken for Denver street. Referred
to finance committee.
j. FL. Reynolds, for correction
of assessment. Referred to as
sessment committee.
Citizens, protesting against
the removal of an electric light,
corner of Chestnut and Dawson
streets. Granted.
j. Hansen, to open a meat mar
ket at 301 East Commerce street.
Granted.
City engineer, reporting that
pipe on Herff street will have to
be lowered two feet and grade
of street lowered to drain Herff
street. No action taken.
John Koch, resignation as
steward of city hospital, effec-
tive at once. Accepted.
Alderman Dreiss, chairman of
the finance committee, presented
a resolution appropriating $751;
% for lumber and material for a
fOOtbridge across San Pedro
creek on South Flores street.
Adopted.
Alderman Dreiss also pre-
scented the report of Fire Chief
TObin with an estimate of the
cost of a combination chemical
engine and hose, cart and neces-
sary hose and other apparatus
for a fire station at West End,
amounting to $1,000. The com
mittee made no recommended
ton, but waited to hear from the
representatives of West End, who
were present in the council
chamber.
Mr.. S. D. Scudder was given
permission to address the coun-
Gil in behalf of the citizens of
West End. In beginning Mr..
Scudder explained why all of the
20 people who had signed the ap-
plication for an extension of wa
ter mains had not yet become
water takers by saying that
many of them were so far from
the main that as yet it had not
been practicable for them to
make the lateral connection,
which has to be done at
their own expense. He then
made an earnest plea for the es-
tablishment of a fire station at
West End, and said the residents
of that suburb would furnish the
and lot for the station and form
would organize a volunteer de-
partment, and only asked that
the city equip the station and
furnish oRs man to take charge
of it.
At the co-zclusion of Mr.. scud-