Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-11
CITY AFFAIRS.
Froceedings Of Monthly Meeting Of
the City Council.

the City Council.
The city council met Monday even.
ing in regular session, with Mayor
Bryne presiding and all seven of the
members of the aldermanic BODY in
their places.
After the reading and approval of
the journal of last meeting, a grist of
bills was read and referred to the.
finance committee.
The committee on Streets, Wharves
and Bridges made several reports.
Favorable report was made on the
proposal of Thomas Prather and wife
to deed to the city a strip off their
block of ground in Swan addition on
Eastside 20 to 80 feet in width, for
dedication as portion of Jefferson
street, in consideration of remission
OF taxes, penalty and interest due the
city on the block.
Councilman Scotield entered protest
against any purchase of real estate by
the city, even before any motion for
adoption OF the report had been made.
A discussion of the need of widen
ing Jefferson street, between Fourth
street and the Lincoln school building,
followed, and it was made to appear
that the dedication proposed by Mr..
Prather was essential to this desirable
improvement, but that the commit
tees report was not sufficiently broad
in its scope.
Councilman Savage presented this
view OF the case. Forbes said residents
on Jefferson street have been pay
ing taxes for &c years for street i'm
provements without locally sharing in
their benefits.
Remarks favorable to the general
tenor of the report, but not antagoniz-
ing the enlarged scope suggested, were
passed upon the report by Aldermen
White and Smedley, after which the
report was referred back to the COM
mittee for further consideration and
amendment.
A report from the same committee
was submitted for the vacating of Sny.
der's subdivision of Parker & Hays
addition, but was referred back to the
committee with instructions to con-
suit the attorney as to legal features.
An ordinance restoring the former
grade on Harrison avenue was reported
favorably from this committee, was
adopted and the ordinance was subse-
quently passed.
The grade of this avenue had been
lowered, and ditch cut through the
street, to depth of four feet, to ac-
commodate the Chaplin street car line.
Chairman Murphy of the commit
tee on Health, Police and Public
Property, reported that he had COM
piled with instructions in ordering
sewer connections from Olympia hotel
and the N. P. depot. He had subse-
quently made personal investigation
OF the existing sewerage of these places,
found them not unsanitary, and had
rescinded the order. The report was
placed on file.
Pat Dolan, J. S. Sanford and John
Gimblet were granted liquor licenses.
Fred Schomber as administrator of
the Barker estate was granted permits
sion to move the old Metropolitan res
taurant building from the corner of
Third and Washington streets to the
corner of Columbia and Fourth.
Robert Frost presented q COM
munication relating that the streets in
Swans addition were first plated so
feet wide, but in SO twenty feet OF the
streets running east and west through
that addition were vacated to conform
to the streets in the main plat OF Olym-
pia. As owner of lot 4 in block 81 of
that addition, and part owner Of more
territory in the same street to which
this property abuts, he proposed to
quiet the city's title in the twenty-foot
strip it still uses for consideration of
$l77.36 the amount he had paid for an
other twenty-foot strip just north of his
premises. The matter was referred to
the Judiciary committee.
City Attorney Troy was authorized
to perfect an appeal to the Supreme
court in the matter of the franklin
street improvement warrants.
The report of the Street Commits
sioner for May was received and placed
on file. In showed expenditures: Box
sewer on Third and Tullis, $1,000;
Tumwater hill road, $120.50; on park,
$l2; repairing SO, 10, total of 1857. 20,
from which is deducted $60.25 credit
from the county.
Bills were allowed as follows:
West Side Mill Co., lumber. ...$ So 90
Eastside Lumber Co., lumber -. Is 60
Savage & Scofield, bridge repair,
R. A. Fredlinger, wood. ....... so
P.J. O'Brien, blacksmithing.... 3 IS
+. w. Crombie, drugs. ......... so
J. w. Quick keep off of the grass" %
Nellie s. Mcintyre. stenography 5 90