The record-union., 1897-04-13

indefinitely postponed and the motion
was carried.
Davis reported in favor of putting in
the six-inch pipe, at the electric car
barn alley, M and n, Twenty-si to
Twenty as there is undoubted-
ly too little pressure there for fire pur-
poses, and the City Taper can use the
four-inch pipe at present there for an
other place
T. A. W. Shock said there is very lit
tie pressure there and as the cars are
very infiammable, if fire starts at any
time, it will be very disastrous one,
the Nineteenth-street engine being so
far away.
On motion of Bentley the City Taper
was instructed to put in a six-inch pipe
in those two blocks and put a hydrant
at Twenty Eighth street.
Davis moved to amend that the City
Taper put the four-inch pipe taken up
between and K, Twenty-sixth and
Twenty eighth streets. Carried.
Devine asked further time in which
to report on the pound ordinance, as
the Corporation Counsel is in doubt as
to whether the Board can give the pro-
ceeds of the pound to the Humane So
ciety.
He also recommended that the plac-
ing of frames for caskets at the re-
ceiving vaults be readvertised for, as he
thought provision for four caskets in
stead of six would be enough, and the
specifications made for the previous bid
do not make the frames strong enough
to hold six caskets.
Bentley moved the matter go over
till next week, till the board can COM
municate with Contractor Lyman. Car
ried.
Devine, for the Street Committee,
suggested that where the street railway
company is repairing the bitumen
street along it's tracks, and hole ex-
tends few inches beyond the two-foot
limit, it repair the whole place and that
the Street Superintendent reciprocate.
He moved that the Street Superinten
dent confer with Mr.. Gilbert of the
company. So ordered.
Street Superintendent Croly suggest
ed that the Clerk be instructed to notify
the California Petroleum and Asphalt
Company to repair Tenth street from
L to N, and the board so instructed the
Clerk.
An ordinance prohibiting the erection
of melting works within a dangerous
distance of buildings was laid over for
a week.
SPICY REPORT.
Bentley, for the Police Committee, re-
ported in reference to the message of
the Mayor and the Chief of Policies re-
port. In reference to the statement
that, with the present police force,
gambling cannot be suppressed without
neglect of other duties: that in the
past one determined officed has sue
past one determined officer has sue
the committee think it can be so done
now, without employment of private
detectives, if the officers do their duty
and are given positive instructions.
Many of the officers, the report says,
do not maintain the dignity of their
office SO as to command respect, but
become so familiar with the gamblers
that they show Enthusiastically an un-
willingness to swear to complaints
when it is clearly their duty to do so.
The resolution asking for a report was
not introduced by the committee with
an intent to usurp the functions of the
Mayor, whom it recognizes as the head
of the Police Department, but in ac-
cordance with Section %, which spe-
officially states that THE board shall
have the power to prohibit all gaming
and all gambling in disorderly houses"
it attempted to assist the Mayor. 1t
deplores the fact that the board by a
bare majority has laid over the pool
room ordinance until time when the
proprietors of the pool-rooms will likely
close their rooms of their own accord.
1t is the opinion of the Chief of Po-
lice and some of his subordinates and
of many of the staunchest citizens
that the pool-rooms are infinitely worse
in their effects than other forms of
gambling and the committee recon-
mends that the action of the board in
laying over the ordinance be reconsid
cred and that the ordinance be adopted
and enforced.
The fact that a citizen has been con-
victed by a jury of business men of
permitting the playing of illegal games
in his house shows that the community
is alive to the vicious effects of such
games. The following resolution is
therefore offered for adoption:
Resolved, That the Mayor be instruct
ed to instruct the Chief of Police;
l. To close and suppress all gam
bling games now running in violation
of the law.
.. To that end, to instruct his subor-
dinate officers to arrest all property
owners gamblers or bystanders i'm
plicated under the law.
8. To serve notices Immediately on all
persons supposed to be proprietors or
property-owners interested in illegal
games, that such games are supposed to
exist by their consent and that they
must suppress them at once or be held
liable.
f. To instruct all officers serving such
notices that they must make an entry
in their books at the time, setting forth
the times and places of serving such no
tees.
) In view of the fact that the bulk Of
the illegal gambling is done between the
hours of and 10 p. m. the Chief of Po
lice might well employ the day force on
occasions for an hour or two of extra
service.
Mckay moved that the report be re-
ceived and adopted and that the board
request the Mayor and Chief of Police to
carry out it's recommendations.
Kent said that it did not seem right
TO have to instruct the Mayor to carry