The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-11
THE ALDERMEN.
Proceedings of the Regular Meeting Yes.
ferday The Police R~eorganized Ten
Colored Policemen El~cted-Going for
the W~aterworks Company.

| Green, a. j. Walker. a. J. Hewlett.
John g. Norwood. II. c. Twfning. D. J..
| Benson and =. F. Keith. The three
democratic aldermen, w. E. Springer.
owen. Fennell and W. E. Yopp, still alb
sent themselves from the meetings.
The minutes Of the last meeting were
read and approved.
Committee reports were called for.
Alderman Hewlett reported that the
roo of Front street market needs re-
pairing and recommended that it be
painted. He also recommended that
the market restaurant occupied by
Kenyon Byrd, coIored, be replastered.
The resignation of Captain Michael
Griffin, as captain of the police force.
was presented and on motion was ac-
cepted.
Alderman Hewlett nominated the fol-
lowing police force:
Captain-Robert Green.
Lieutenant-D. S. Bender.
First Sergeant-ThOs. Lossin.
Second Sergeant-R. F. Gore.
Third Sergeant-L. A. Hewlett.
l. iOIllcI-bdNI bryant, cOlOTeu,
j. Nick McDufie, colored, H. j. White
head, colored, Willis Richardson, col
ored, II. B. Green, cOlored, Joseph An
dersOn, colored, Lewis Geyer, colored,
j.. H. Sharp, colored, George Bell, COL
ored, T. p. Toomer, colOred. Rowan
Green, J. n. Wells, r. H. Benson, H.
H. W0ebse, r. NJ. hurry, I. F. Hug
gins, j.. w. Holmes, H. r. Kuhl, L. P.
Thomas, Sam Hall, S. D.. Gurganus,
w. d. George, j. H. Mcdonald, c. O..
Knox, w. J. Harris, j. w. Smith, J.. A.
Sutton.
The nomination was seconded and the
above officers were unanimously elect
ed as a whole.
Policeman Lewis Gordon, who was
one of the old force, was dropped from
the list by this election. He has been
specially on duty at the Wilmington
SeacOast railway depot. On motion of
Alderman Keith, it was decided that
the city will furnish Officer Gordon
with a uniform if the railroad
Will pay his salary, and that he be
pocJCNb ~ liz tIt 1OlC4i VI biN I'm
of police.
Alderman Keith, of the light commit
tee, reported that the Wilmington
Street Railway Company, the new con-
tractors, commenced lighting the city
June 1st, and thai he thought the
lights will gradually come up to all ex-
pectatiOns.
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board ordered a gas lamp to be placed
on Orange street in front Of Abbie
Chadbourn memorial hail., First Pres
byterian church.
On motion of Alderman Walker, it
! was ordered that Woods street be open
ed from the hospital to Rankin street.
Alderman Green reported complaints
of the condition of Third street be-
tween Queen and Castle streets. Re
ferred to the streets and wharves COM
mittee.
On motion of Alderman Keith it was
ordered that the wharf at the foot of
! Chestnut street be repaired.
On motion of Alderman Green, it was
ordered that water hydrants be placed
at Eighth and Wooster streets n at
! Seventh and Swami streets.
Alderman Walker wanted one of the
hydrants placed at Sixth and Swami
| streets, and Mi. c.. C. Parker appeared
before the board and urged Sixth and
Swami streets as the location for it.
| The matter was referred to the water
| works committee.
Mr.. Joe King, Jr., clerk to the mayor.
appeared in person before the board
| rendered his resignation, laying
five pages of written matter upon the
| clerks desk, giving his va for so
doing.
| Without noticing the resignation, AL
! derman Keith called upon the city
clerk to read the contract between the
city and the Clarendon WaterWorks
| Company. He said there was COM
| plant that the waterworks company
was not complying with it's contract
! as to pressure. He stated that Chief
! Charles Schnibben and himself took
the Adrian engine to Fourth and Dock
! streets and tested the pressure, finding
it to be only twenty pounds. He said
his pressure threw a stream only
twenty feet high. He said he called
up this matter because it had been
complained that at the Hemenway
school fire, the stream of water for a
long time did not reach to the second
story of the building. On this account
some one had to be dispatched to the
water station to tell the superintend-
emit to put on more pressure.
City Clerk F. B. Rice read the con-
tract which contains a guarantee that
water good for domestic shall
be furnished and that there shall be a
pressure sufficient to throw a stream
100 feet high.
Alderman Keith, continuing, said it
appeared that the WaterwOrks Com
pany was not fulfilling its contract,