The herald., 1897-01-12

mands be denied: w. G. Schreiber for
| $3.50, Charles w. Walters for S150, Gus
Hanl1e for $25. X. B. Farmer e. Co. for
$16.24 Cass & Smurr Stove company for
] so cents, L. M. Culver for $1275, J, j.
| Mellus & Co. for $3.50.
| Your commStee have examined the
| following annual reports for the year
ending November 30 1896. and finding
| them correct recommend they be filed:
| Report of chief of police, tax collector,
school superintendent, city clerk, street
| superintendent, superintendent of build
| ings, water Overseer, city assessor,
] health officer, superintendent and sec
retary of city parks, plumbing inspector
and city attorney
| Recommend that the bond of Thomas
| S. Casey as water overseer, with John
r. Humphreys and M. T. Collins, be
| approved
Recommend that the bond of C. TT
| Hance as city clerk, and the Fidelity and
| Trust company of Maryland as surety
| be approved.
In the matter of the report of the city
| assessor, asking to be allowed one chief
| deputy for twelve months at $125 per
month and six additional deputies at
| $50 per month for six months. recon-
| mend that he be allowed one chief dep
| uty at $50 per month, as formerly paid
and six additional deputies at $50 per
month as formerly paid.
| WANTS A WATER PLANT
Councilman Blanchard moved that the
| water committee be instructed to confer
| with the city engineer, and report to the
| council as to the best procedure for ac-
quiring a water plant to be owned by the
city Adopted without debate.
Several deeds were presented for land
| for street purposes, and the same were
accepted and ordered recorded
| The SDecial order the hearing of prO-
| tests in the matter of Truman street,
| was by agreement continued until 2
| o'clock.
MATEO STREET OPENING
The next special order, the hearing of
protests against the proposed opening
of Mateo street, was taken up, and Mr..
Keller, of the Keller Mcdonald Lumber
company, addressed the council. He
said that the proposed Improvement
would practically ruin his property for
the purposes for which 1t is intended.
Not only this but they had been allowed
but $50 damages, whereas they had paid
a bonus of $3.50 alone on two lots to get
the privilege of putting in switch. Fur
ther, a majority of the property owners
had signed the protest against the pro-
| posed Improvement, which he regarded
| as wholly unnecessary.
On nmotion of Councilman Ashman, fur
ther consideration of the matter was
postponed for two weeks, the board OF
public works in the meantime to make
an investigation.
FIRST STREET PROTEST
The next special order, the hearing OF
protests against the action of the street
superintendent in accepting First street
| from Pearl street to Beaudry avenue
| was taken up.
Mr.. Blanchard, speaking for himself
as we'll as the contractor, asked that the
| council take some action in the matter
as it had been hanging fire for some
time. While he was not an expert, he
thought the work was done in salts
factory manner and the contractor
should have his money.
Mr. Kitchin, one of the protesting
property owners, did not agree with Mr.
| Blanchard. The work had not beer
done according to contract. The requi-
| site amount of gravel had not been put
on the sidewalk, nor had the same beer
rolled, as required by the specifications
Then cross-pieces should have been put
| in the cobble cutters, as the grade was
| very steep, and this was necessary to
prevent washing out
motion was made to defer action for
one week, the board of public works ir
the meantime to investigate, but before
| vote was taken the contractor, MIR
Riley, addressed the council. He said
| tnaL the WOTk ndu DteI QOHe pTODtIly
but admitted that no crosS-pieceS haC
been put in the cutters, saying that this
had never been done by him in any of his
work.
In answer to question by Councilman
| Hutchison, Mr. Riley admitted that the
, sidewalk had not been rolled, though this
vas required by the specifications. The
reason for this was that there was nc
roller in the city that could be used or
| sidewalk.
Councilman HutchiSon asked Mr. Ri
ley if he did not know this when he ac-
cepted the contract to which he replied
that he did. Mr.. Hutchison then said
that this thing of disregarding specifi-
cations by contractors had gone on Ions
enough. and he thought it was time tC
call halt. This matter was only one
of numerous other injustices done the
Neople, and it should be stopped He
therefore supported the motion to post
pone, and intimated that careful in
vestigation would be made. The motion
to defer action for one week prevailed.
SUPPLY COMMITTEE
The supply committee presented the
following report, which was adopted:
Recommend that the contract and
bond with the Cass & Smurr Stove COM
pany be approved
Recommend that the city clerk be in
structed to advertise for bids to supply
coal for the various departments of the
city.
Your supply committee wish it dis
tinctly understood that they will insist
upon a strict compliance in every de-
partment with the resolution adopted by
the council requiring that no purchase
be made before the requisition is allowed
for same. Anyone violating this require
ment will be held personally responsible
for amount of purchase. Where an emer-
gercy exists demanding immediate pur-
chase of supplies, it shall be
within the discretion of the city
clerk to draw requisition upor
the emergency fund therefor. Ap-
plication must be made to said clerl
before purchase is made.
Your committee respectfully suggest!
that each department be requested tt
number corsecutively and keep rec
ord of each requisition drawn therein.
| Also that cost of supplies be definitely
determined and itemized in requsiton.
Owing to the fact that one member o
this committee is also a member of tht
finance committee, we have deemed i
advisable to change the time of meeting
of this committee to Friday morning a
10 o'clock.
PUBLIC WORKS
The report of the board of public
works, as published in The Herald Sat
urday morning. was read and the vari
Gus recommendations adopted, togethe
with the following additional recon
mendation:
I'm the matter of the report of thu
city engineer in regard to the Maii
street paving, an appeal having beer