El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

w iSAtiONoA3 hO"ONOiS PiOSCto-
ings instituted in accordance with the
aforesaid section 161 of said city char
ter.
Sec. 3. AS compensation for their
services there shall be paid out of the
city treasury. on warrants drawn on
the proper fund, to the aforesaid de-
partment, salaries as follows in month
ly payments: To the chief, per
month; to the assistant chief, - per
month; to the engineer, - per
month; to each OF the other active fire.
men, - per month; and the city
council ehall make provision for
the prompt payment OF the aforesaid
sums.
Sec. All ordinances heretofore
passed providing for the maintenance
Of q volunteer fire department are
hereby repealed: except in 60 far as
they may furnish rules OF government
and discipline, conduct and duty, that
may be applicable to the paid fire de-
partmeot hereby created.
Sec. 5-This ordinance shall take
effect on the first day of January.
Mr.. Clifford for the committee on
finance presented bills as follows:
From the street commissioners for
team hire for December, s67. %; in
,erest on indebtedness to the Electric
Light company, e5l.O5; weekly street
pay roll, $25, 81. Approved.
The clerk read the December city
pay roll amounting to $2030.03, which
was allowed. The clerk presented .
request from the fire department for
847O in cash for the December pay roll
of the department., allowed. The clerk
presented letter from the depart
ment notifying the council of the re-
cent election of new department ON
and okinn for tim hu
the council. On Mr.. SCOTS recon-
mendation, the matter was deferred
until today's session. Secretary W.
T. Kitchens of hose Two, sent In q
communication notifying the council
of the excellent record of Driver
Mitchell of the hose wagon. Received
and fled.
Mr.. Del Buopo here created little
diversion by registering large
d ep a mex men 'E for io.ine around
and doing nothing. It was but . short
time ago that he noted one of these
rustling street department hands put
ing in time for which he was paid by
the city, doing come heavy thinking,
erstwbile keeping himself from fall
ing over by leaning on his broom.
!a hard working child Of toll was
found fshing for gold fish in the plaza
know why the city's money should be
paid out for such exhausting toll as
this.
Mayor Magofin suggested that
instead of paying the city engineer
$125 monthly and such fees as he col
lected, up to 81, 900 annually, the salary
be fixed at s., 900, and the fees also FIX
required to have his lot surveyed end
the fees for same turned into the
treasury. This method he thought
would be entirely satisfactory.
Clifford-'If we keep on raising
salaries We will have no money to pay
debts with. In these hard times we
are already paying big enough sala-
ries."
The mayor, however, held that it
were best to compel builders to have
their property surveyed 70 that it
they were building, and there would
be no danger of building on another's
lands.
At this point q wall from the janitor
about there being no more coal fell on
the minds of the councilmen with .
dull aud sickeninR thud. The clerk
said ten tons would be necessary to
pull through the winter with, as tho
steamer heater consumed q whole lot
of coal. Some aldermen here declared
that the council had been assured that
this heater would consume only two
buckets of coal per day, and here the
steamer was eating her head off. The
purchase of ceal was referred to the
acequia committee with power to act,
though wha. the defunct sceQuia had
to do with the city's coal supplies for
the winter was not Immediately ap-
parent.