The record-union., 1897-02-17
THE WIDTH OF SIDEWALKS.
Ordinance Relating TO II to be Rigidly
Enforced.
improvement of the Fiftee enth-Street
Plaza Under Discussion by
the Trustees.

A quorum of the Board of Trustees
was obtained last night at I:25 p. m,
Tozer, Bentley and Wachhorst being
then absent.
The remonstrance against the inn
provement of Seventeenth street, from
j to o street, was rejected, as the board
had acquired jurisdiction over the
street for the purpose of Improvements,
Bills for the services of two boiler
makers for the Risdon Iron Works who
had been retained FOR some days by Or
Gers of the board were taken up
After considerable discussion, in which
several members spoke in opposition to
the claim, as the opponents thought the
Risdon Iron Works should have paid
for the men themselves, the matter was
postponed till next Monday night.
quired very particularly into the mat
ter, and had become assured that the
men had fairly earned the money
through the information they had given
to the firemen and others The firemen
had not been firing properly, and much
coal had been wasted through that
fact; that these boilers must be fired
differently from a tubular boiler.
Davine wanted to know if the two
men We're needed to guard the boilers
for the company until they were ac-
cepted, and Leonard said they We're
there to give advice as TO the treatment
of them.
Devine moved that the Chief Engi-
neer of the Water Works be requested
to go down and make an inspection of
the sewage pumping plant and report
to the board, and it was 50 ordered.
A go-as- you please discussion took
place, including the Y-street pump, the
Water Works, the S-Street pumping
plant and the steam roller and the
Specifications for running the sewage
plant
The specification for the latter COM
Felling the contractor to keep the plant
in repair was eliminated, the contract
ors declining to bid if it were retained
but was reconsidered and restored.
Kent said that the young man who
runs the steam roller did not handle
it properly, and had run it into the
curbing several times, damaging the
roller. He offered a resolution notify
ing the Street Superintendent that the
city would hold him responsible fo1
damage to the roller arising from any
4IlCOupeItIlL ellSlIleeI IIlI tQ ps AliAi-
Lost
Resolutions of intention were adopted
for improving with macadam Ninth
street, from O to Q, and the alley be-
tween P and Q streets, from Sixth to
Ninth, with cobbles; also l street, from
Front to Fifth, with basalt blocks on
concrete, and the alley between H and
l, Sixth and Seventh streets, with ba-
salt blocks; X street, from Fourteenth
TO Fifteenth, with macadam.
A resolution that the ordinance relat-
ing to the width of sidewalks be rigidly
enforced, was adopted unanimously.
A resolution authorizing the Superin-
tendent of Streets to enter into a com
tract with J. w. Mcdonald to fill in
the west side of Twelfth street at the
south side of the R-Street crossing with
the surplus earth excavated from the s.
street sewer at the price specified in
the contract for sewer work for earth
hauling. was adopted.
Kent said il was time to improve the
Fifteenth-Street plaza by sowing it to
grass. as the matter has lain over for
the past two years. He moved that the
Mayor be instructed TO put two men at
work to sow it and put it in condition.
Devine said that the City Engineer
had stated that il would take several
hundred loads of loan to raise it in the
center before it is sowed
Kent said that if the matter is put off
three or four weeks again it will be too
late. as 1t has been before. The people
out there will buy the trees.
The matter was postponed for a
week
The Chief Engineer reported that the
electric heater in the engine house was
not doing the work as expected, and
that some action should be taken in
she matter. He also recommended that
Engine No. 9 be painted.
Pennish wanted the painting adver-
tised for so that every one could have
a chance at the city's work. The Mayor
would object otherwise.
Devine thought the cheapest work
was not always the best, and that the
work be done under the direction of the
Chief Engineer. He so moved.
Devine's motion was carried
The Street Superintendent was in
structed TO place crossings at the alleys
on Sixth street, between Q and r, and
Third street, between n and O, and
Eighteenth street, between r and S.
and to repair the cave in the Y-street
levee at Eighteenth street
The board then adjourned