The record-union., 1897-04-27

granted the loan of the city's flags for
the exercises of planting the Memorial
Grove
LICENSES GRANTED.
F. c. Corson's application for night
license for his concert hall came up,
and A. NJ. Seymour appeared and said
that Mr.. Corson intended to conduct
legitimate vaudeville show, like the Or
pheum in San Francisco and was will
ing to have any reasonable regulations
imposed on him.
The license was granted, Mckay and
ToZer not voting.
BIDS RECEIVED.
Bids for pig lead were opened as fol-
lows: Schaw, Ingram, hatcher &
Co, Sc 60 per 100 pounds; Baker &
Hamilton, Sc so. The bids were refer
red to the Finance Committee.
Bids for the construction of the tool
house We're: J. E. Harris, 81 ,024; Silas
earle, S1,055; Henry Elliott & Bro,
1884 so; J. M. Hastings, S1,O41. The
contract was awarded to Elliott & Bro.
WANT A REDUCTION.
The Assessor desired to meet the
board, as the property owners on J
be lowered. The board decided to meet
him on Wednesday night in adjourned
meeting.
MISCELLANEOUS
A communication was read from
Swanson & Co. to the effect that as
they considered the city responsible for
keeping bridges and the Y-street canal
in repair, they would go on and build
the bridge needed and send the bill to
the city
The petition for a license to keep sa-
loon of V. Mariana & Co. at JOG K
street was referred to the Chief of Po-
lice.
The application of Caroline Meyer for
permission to connect directly with the
sewer on n street, between Fourth and
Fifth, was referred to the Street Com
mittee, as We're those of w. H. Devlin
to connect with the sewer at and P,
Tenth and Eleventh; Anita Para, Third
street, L and NJ, and one at Sixth ar
Seventh, L and NJ.
The purchase of horses for a ,gine
was referred to the Chairman of the
Fire Department Committee.
The recommendation of Superintend-
ent Of Streets Croly for laying cobbles
and crosswalks at the police station
was adopted.
J. J. Alderman, COZ K street, was
granted a saloon license.
The Prison Directors having agreed
to allow the city to have crushed rock
without advance payment, on condition
that the Mayor and President of the
board sign a contract to allow the bills
therefor at the first meeting of the
board, the Mayor and President were
authorized to sign such a contract.
Bentley rose to a question of privi-
lege. He had been abused because he
had objected to the Improvement of
the P-street Plaza on account of the
lack of funds, and the statement had
been made that he opposed it because
it was not in his ward which he denied.
He had also been told that some mem
bers of the board had said that the
plaza would have been improved if he
had not opposed it.
Devine said Bentley had not been
responsible for the non-imprOvement,
which had been due to the fact that
there was a scarcity of funds for such
work.
FILTRATION AGAIN.
Leonard brought up the matter of
filtration of the city water, and said
he was satisfied he had found a plan
of natural filtration. Experiments to
test it would only cost about SO, and
he would like money appropriated for
that purpose. 1t would be necessary
to do this in order to estimate the
cost of filtering the water to supply
the city.
Devine wanted to make the change
to filtration. in order to silence the OPP
position of the papers and head off the
robbing scheme of the corporation that
wished to furnish water to the city.
Davis said that filters were in use in
private houses all over the city, and
he would never vote for an expensive
filtering plant for the city.
Leonard said the system he spoke of
was a gravel and sand filtration and
could be a crib system or otherwise.
Bentley moved that the matter be re-
ferred to. the Water Committee and
Devine moved to amend by appropri-
ating the $50 asked by Leonard. The
amendment carried by the votes Of De-
vine and Wachhorst, the rest not vot-
ing.
The board then adjourned till
Wednesday night.