The record-union., 1897-05-11
WILL TEST ELECTRICITY.
Il Will be Tried on the S Street Sewage
Pump.
The Board of Trustees Adopted
SprinkIing Specifications
last Evening.

The City Board of Trustees met IN
regular weekly session last night. Trus-
tees Leonard Wachhorst, Kent, DAVIS,
Mckay. Devine, Bentley, Tozer and
Pennish all being present and on time
showing that the enforcement OF the
rule fining tardy members worked well.
The following message was received
from the Mayor:
To the Honorable Board of Trustees:
On the Sth of last March L prepared
and presented to your board an ordi-
nance prohibiting pool-selling in this
city, but, for some reason, you have
refused to act upon it, although more
than two months have passed since it
was filed with your board. In former
messages to you upon this subject L
have endeavored to show you the evils
arising from permitting this form OF
gambling to exist in Sacramento.
Every member of your board is famil
lar with this business, and you are re-
SpOnsible for the existence of this great
evil in our midst, to say nothing of
the continual drain from our city of
from 81 900 to $1,000 for each and
every day during the operation of this
gambling device, for which the city re-
ceives no benefit whatever.
The existence of poOl-selling in any
community tends to cause a depression
in all kinds of legitimate business,
many homes to be broken up, and a
great many of our boys and young men
to be debauched in mind and body and
unfit for the honorable occupations of
life; and it is because of these evils
that / once more urge upon you the
necessity of passing the ordinance
which l, more than two months ago,
presented to you. or a similar one in
order that pool-sellfng, the most vi
cious form of gambling known, may be
suppressed in this city. Respectful
ly submitted,
c. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
The message was placed on file.
1t being finance night, a large num-
Der of bills were allowed
Mrs. NJ. Pennish presented bill of
Sl3 for the use of her land for sewage
and NJ. F. Dolan a like one of 800.
Pennish explained that Mrs Pennish
had been paid a like bill every year
for the past ten years the city using
her land as a reservoir for sewage.
Both bills were referred to the Sewer
age Committee.
Emil Steinman and delegation of
the Native Sons addressed the board
in relation to an appropriation of $50
for the purpose of aiding in having
open-air concerts. He thought it
would be proper for the board to assist
in making the concerts a credit to the
city. The committee hoped to have the
first concert on Sunday night and hoped
TO get the privilege of the Capitol Park
for alternate concerts
Henry P. Brown also addressed the
board, saying that the business men
have responded literally to the appeal
but are called on to assist in all these
matters. They think. however. that
the expense should be borne by the city
at large, if the board could find a way
in which to do So
The matter was referred to the FL
nance Committee
The Turnverein Society was granted
permission to stretch a banner across
K street
T. P. Ryan asked permission to make
direct connection with the sewer at
Tenth and S, and Devine favored the
request.
Leonard said he did not want to op-
pose Mr.. Ryan. but ne did not believe
in favoring some and not others J.
Plunkett had been refused his request
for direct connection because he had
not had a pipe put in the sewer when
it was constructed. He believed that
proper connection could be safely
made and did not believe in any dis
elimination in the matter.
The permission was granted
NOT LEGAL.
NTaupy ra+Yrrad h
approval the bill of ". H. Devine of
$26 for provisions furnished the hobos
who recently came to the city from
San Francisco.
Mckay moved that the bill be passed
over the Mayors veto but it only re-
ceived five votes. Tozer voting no, and
Davis. Pennish and Leonard not vot-
ing.
THE PUMPING BID
Mckay moved that the bid of the
Sacramento Electric Gas and Rail-
way Company for power at IL cents
an hour TO pump out the sewage. be
allowed.
Mr.. Lawrence of the company, in
response to a question. made some ex-
plantations. He thought that by the
1st of July the river would be so
much lower that the sewage would be
easier to move. BY electricity. every
hour that the pump stands still the
city viii gain that much in expense.
He had not been able to find out what
the cost Of running the pump has
been, or how many horse power is be-
ing used at present. The board must
remember that there is a distinction
between the cost Of running the pump
and the cost per horse power of run
ming 1t. As soon as an electrical mo-
tor is attached TO the pump it can be
readily determined how much power
can be used.
Leonard called Davis to the chair
and said that he was informed by Mr.
Ridley that the pump could be run
more cheaply by coal than by cleo
tricity. To accept the bid and not
know whether the city was using sev-
enty-five- horse power or ninety-horse
power would not be wise Some peo-
pie question whether the motor will
run the pump or not. He thought the
company should hitch on the motor
and show the board what it could do.
DeVine said that the new district be-
low the city is running its drainage
plant al cost of SIS a day with a
larger pump than this pump is. He
opposed hurrying into contract with
the electric company.
Bentley asked Mr. Lawrence if the
company would be willing to connect
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