The record-union., 1897-03-09

and it cannot be told yet how it will
wear. The asphaltum on this coast is
| different from that in the East.
| kents motion was carried.
! Resolutions of intention to improve
the alley between l and j. Third and
| Fourth streets, with cobbles, and +
street, from Sixth to Twentieth, with
macadam was adopted
Devine said it was proposed to change
| the crown of the new streets, raised
from inches to inches more than now.
| The Surveyor said that the raise of
streets in other cities is fifty per cent.
less than they are here. The idea of
building a street is to get it as fiat as
possible and have the water run off. If
the grade of the cross streets is raised
the water will not run out of the cutters
| where they are not raised in the same
! way as the streets running the other
| way.
| Devine said that unless a grade is es-
tablished with a higher crown than at
present he would vote for no more i'm
I proVement of streets.
The Surveyor explained that the Leg
islature had passed a law establishing
the grade of streets, and it can only be
changed legally by petition of three
fourths Of the property-owners of the
street presented before the resolution of
intention is adopted
A resolution of intention to improve
the alley between P and Q, Third and
Fourth streets, with cobbles was passed.
A resolution instructing the Superin
! tendent of Streets to grant Dainton &
Wall thirty days extension of their time
to clean out the Thirty -first-street canal
was adopted.
Poundmaster Cooksley addressed the
board in relation to the reduction of his
salary to $40 a month. He could not
afford to do the work, as the horses
taken up are most of them a dead loss
to him.
Leonard said that the Humane So
ciety wished to take the pound at the
same salary.
Mr.. Cooksley said the Chairman was
i in error, as the society would not run
it at those figures.
Devine moved that the matter be re-
ferred to the Chairman, to confer with
the Humane Society, and see if it will
! take the pound and run it as under
present conditions.
Bentley said that it should be ex-
planned to the society just what is ex-
pected and not leave the matter at loose
ends. He had been informed that there
| could be sharp practice in various
ways.
| Mr.. Cooksley said that until this year
only one set of tags has been issued
in year. This year two sets of tags
have been issued and his receipts have
been cut down.
| City Collector Robertson then ex-
planned that it was in accordance with
| the new ordinance
| Davis rose to a question Of privilege
and said he wanted to make a few re-
marks to vindicate himself from some
remarks that had been made about
him.
Leonard declined to hear the remarks
as the board had agreed not to bring
the matter before the board.
Davis appealed from the decision of
the Chair, as he did not wish to sit
down under the imputations The gem
tleman who had made the remarks had
| left the meeting without retracting
! them.
The appeal was not sustained and
Davis said he would publish his re-
marks in the papers.
! Saloon licenses petitioned for by Ben
! Durrer, 101 Front street and S. & A
! Conn, 22G J street, were referred to
the Chief of Police
| The Chief of the Fire Department
was instructed to purchase a three
| gallon fire extinguisher for each of the
! hose wagons
| Devine moved that the seats around
the trees at the Plaza be removed and
/ the ground under the trees seeded to
grass, but he received no second.
| Kent offered a resolution that the
! Plaza at Fifteenth and 2 streets be
| seeded to grass.
! Tozer objected, that the residents
around there wanted it graded first.
Devine said that by the time the
| Plaza is properly filled in it will be too
| late to seed it.
Bentley said there was no use of try
/ ing to make Plaza until the city was
ready to Put down crosswalks and care
| for it. Otherwise the boys will run all
over it ard spoil it. The boards first
duty is to get the sewerage system
completed before eXpending money on
/ parks and plazas.
! The matter was laid over for a week
the Surveyor to prepare a plan for
| plaza.
Bentley moved that the Building
! Committee be instructed to provide for
the comfort of those who attend the
meetings of the board by procuring
! benches to fill the space outside the
rail. Carried
The board then adjourned.