The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-06
THE COMMON COUNCIL
A Breezy Session Of the Clty's House Of
Representatives.
Mr.. EAST SPRINGS A REAL SENSATION.
Says IIc Will Io,d nD appropriation
For street improvements I'm nli
Other Pnrts OF Tho city II tho
Fourth wards Demands nre Not
Grnntod.

lHe common tCuncli met in rcEulat
October session last evening, President
Winston Iii THE chair ,the followlng
members responding 10 their names
Councilmcn Is. B lIllio'tt. l.. w. Davis
III. G. Davis, Isidgcwell McAianus
Herman, Cannon, IIalrInt Camp, Den.
MS. East Allen, Peclle, lIccht. Ander.
son. Mcfarland, Hannah Seneca, and
Ycntman
The dm.r;tcr OF street improvements
caused very much of n SenSaIuiCu 4
quorum WAS obtained fer the cons.dc.
ration of vart&us propn%ltiCns but Ghe
resolution for thc Improvement of
Chapel street caused the fun There
were at first only thirtecn rncInbefs
present, b,ut GIbScntecS were Summoned
from every direction. Captain Phil.
fcHtman being summoned while under
going military inspections He was tlt
lilSt one VI the requisite eighteen 80 ~.
rive. and tho Chapel street re=ri,cs!-:
was ahe first street Improvement. n..,..s,
taken up Mr. L.. l5. East, who made L
light for this resolution durins; mis- tern
as councilman from the FCurth w1i'l
has been succeeded by Mr. j. Frank
East. AMI just mt this junC.ure iE,-..
gentleman lookup rhe work laid down
by his bi'.ther. He aroSa and announce
| ed that hc and his colleagues from the
fourth ward have decided THAT 10 more
| improvements resolutions. requiring ;hl
| thrcc-fGlit!l vote in the CCur ellis, shal
be made In future until proper rccogni,
ton in matters Of the kind IS extended
| to the ward they represent.
lie said the Fourth ward had beer
| given one good street in twenty years
ana that four streets up there had been
improved IN the last forty years. At
the end Of half n century lie snid the
ward has Il sChOolhouSe. Must one rest
| I11F tr.,,l 1. ntt
public streets improved for public use,
and We propose 10 have a. few of the
| crumbs thnt fall from the municipal i,a.
bic. We are not o)struGtiOnists, but
We desire to protect our ward Chanel
street us the outlet for all the traffic
from along the Cottage Toll road, rrin.
cess Anne and orrcr reads, and It i.
dusty In dry wGahcr and almost i'm
paSSiblc in wet. | shall not abandon
the position ] have taken"
MIR. East was warmly replied to b,
several members, but he held his own
Mr.. Camp approved the position of
Mr. East and stated rs his personal
opiLlon that Atlantic City should get all
the improvements she can during her
seven remaining years of scmi-lnde-
pcndcnce, for the city, he holds, Is not
generous in the mattcr Of improvements
10 the citizens OF its outlying wards.
came up and was defeated Mess.s.
East, Cannon, Allen and McFarlant
voting for it.
The reports OF tho special cnmmtt ttrtecs
on the Improvement Of Randolph,
Duke, Dartmouth. I3oush and Holt
streets. On motion OF Mr.. Peclle all OF
these were tabled indefinitely
Mr.. East thcn 'ann'5iinccd his willing
ness to treat with the other Counciimer
u Il
compromise.
THE Board of Electrical Controls lct.
dcr, regarding the BELL Phone company's
poles, was referred back.
The Atlantic CITY bridge matter then
came up, and MIR. II. c. Davis was APP.
pointed one of a committee of three to
negotiate for tho purchase of the prop
crty. y letter from the bridge com.
pany was read as was one from the City
Attorney, whose suggestion was adopt
cd
a committee, consisting OF Mcssrs
L. w. Davis, Ridgwcll and Hecht, was
aplAoimcd to the armor plate factory
commission, ITO entlcavor no secure the
factory for Norfolk Portsmouth.
4 series of resolutions for transfer
ring S26l In paving account and appro.
prating $2,i0G.50 for balance with
which TO pave 1Ioit street. was adopt.
cd butt resolutions of eXpedicncy for
the paving OF this street were tcmpora.
rily passed by. as 1t required eighteen
votes to pass it,
An extension Of 'twcnty-fou months
was given tho Norfolk Terminal com.
pany in which ITO bcgin work. Tripoli
and James streets were substituted for
Duke street.
Several applications DO rebuild, APP
proved by the Fire Committee, were
| adopted.
The request of Ehe Southern Bell
Telephone company Ito string a cable
was rufuscd.