The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-14
AN IMPORTANT
COUNCIL SESSION
Report Of Viewers Of Commercial
Street CnOfirmed by Ordnance.
TWENTY DAYS FOR APPEAL
Flee rie Light Contract With West Shore
Mil Company closed-Tilt 90 the
Ellsworth Bill.

Ellsworth Bill.
Tnc adjourned me,llng Of the city
council. held last night passed several
important measures. which should have
been attended 90 before this. In the
opinion u many Of the wide awake
business men. Tho report Of the View
crs, awarding damages ANA asserting
benefits upon tho extension Of Com.
nerclal stree, 60 Twenty -thlrd. or the
depot Sltc. was adopted and an crdl-
nance passed confirming the report and
ordering the condemnation proceedings
and assessments entered upon the lien
docket. Propcrty.owntrs. under the
charter u the cay. have twenty days
In which 70 appeal from the awards.
After the completion " the cpudemua-
ton proceedings the regular routine
for stree, improvements must BE- gone
through with. and perhaps after a few
moons there viii be a thoruughfarc
connecting the city with the new de-
pot The other important ordinance
passed was the oHe authorizing the
committee on streets and public ways
10 contrAo, with thu wes, Shore Mills
Company Tor the electrlc lighting Of the
d,y with not less than 60 lamps. at
price Of $3.50 per month for term
Of two years.
when Mayor Taylor called the meet
ing to order all the members were AZ
their desks. and tn regular order OF
business was taken up. the reaAing OF
tas minutes being dispensed with.
The petition of H. l.. JEFFREY for the
issuance OF q retail liquor license to
himself instead of to jeffrey & Bonn, a.
originally asked for was referred to
the committee On health and pollcr
with Instructions to rcpoN before ad-
joumment.
\ communication was read from the
city water commission granting the
city a release from tts contract with
the commission TO Hight the city. pro,
viding the contract with the West
Shore Mills Company was cloed withia
Ave days FNled.
\ communication from the city At
torWey. which stated that suit hal been
commcnced against the city by q. VIM
gate ot nj. to enjoln the collection OF
assessments on the Grand avenue inn
provements was referred to the COM
mittee on ways and means with In
strucuons 20 defend the suit.
The request OF the Badollet estate
To have Cancelled ON the lien docket
certain liens ON property which had
been paid was referred to the commit
tee ON ways and means.
The report OF the viewers. Messrs. j,
II. Mansell, c. W. stone and r. O.
Truningcr upon the extension OF Com
mercial street from Seventeenth toI
Twenty-third, or the depot site, then
came up for consideration, The audi
tor read the body OF the report. which
was a lengthy document clothed with
all the verbiage known to n Philadel-
phla lawyer. and here ten minutes
pause was held while the members OF
the council studied law Il little TO learn
what the next steps were that could be
taken to expedite the measure. Cuun-
Gilman Welch called for the reading NJ
the full report. and the long list of
assessments was then read off by the
city attorney. The footings cf the ms
sessments showed total damages OF
S5,SiS75; benefits. $5.7i47j; balance or
damages over benefits, $99-which
amount the viewers awarded to w, 5. !
Kinney for damage that would be doAe
TO one of his buildings,
An ordinance was thereupon intro,
duced, and read the first and second
times, confirming the report of the
viewers and directing uhe entry of the
assessments ON the lien docket, Onl
motion of Parker the rules We're sus-
pended and the ordinance was read the
third time and passed. McGregor and
Trullinger before voting on the nnal
passage of the ordinance, asked num-
Der Of questions concerning the fnan-
cling of the street They We're assured
that the city was absolutely safe.
Welch suggested that II would have
been much cheaper to build n side
street out to the depot from Exchange,
and the purpose desired would be serv-
ed lust as well as the expensive eN-
tension Of Commercial. Trullnger an1
McGregor both agreed with this prOpo-
sEtion, and stated further that the city
might lose from $4,000 to $4,000 on the
Commercial street scheme. The mayor
and Parker were firm In the opinion
that the cit ycould lose nothing In the
premises and that the Commercial
street project was the best one to put