The record-union., 1897-10-19
ELECTION BOARDS SELECT TED.
TRUSTEES PASS AN ORDINANCE
RESPECTING COWS.
Diaries Must Get Outside the City
Limits Within the Next
Six Months.

The City Board of Trustees met in
regular weekly session last night, Trus-
tees Leonard, Wachhorst, Davis, Nc
Kay. Bentley, Devine, Tozer and Pen
nish being present.
Joseph Corey addressed the board,
saying that the street was fenced IN
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets on S, and it hindered people
from getting to his store
The matter was referred to the Sur
veyor, with instructions to establish
the line of the street, Superintendent
Of Streets Croly saying that the fence
had stood there for nearly twenty
years, and he thought the owner would
remove the fence when requested.
The usual bills were allowed. One
was for 81, 600 from the Street I'm
provement Company, the deferred pay
ment on the S-street sewer.
Mckay wanted to know if the sewer
had been satisfactorily repaired, as the
papers had been burning up the board
about the sewer.
They burn up the board for election
purposes" said Leonard '"They would
do that anyhow, and you should not
IlluQ DuIIlCQ up d lllIlO
They did it before the election was
called" said Mckay.
Devine said he would not vote to al
low the bill until the company had
paid all bills incurred in making the
repairs on the sewer.
superintendent of Streets Croly pre-
scented a report stating that the sewer
had been repaired to the satisfaction
of himself and the City Surveyor.
The bill was then laid over till all
the bills are settled.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Devine reported for the Street Com
mittee in favor of allowing a San Fran
cisco paper to put up a bulletin board
in front of it's agency, saying that the
ordinance allowed newspapers to have
bulletin boards in front of their Of
fees. The privilege was granted
The board decided to adopt the plans
for a suction valve at the Water
Works, and ordered blue prints of them
made.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
Thomas Lacy asked for a saloon Ii
cense at the southeast corner of
Twelfth and north B streets, and it was
granted
Property owners between Twenty
ninth and Thirtieth and M and o
streets asked the board to put flood
gate in the Thirty-first and Y-street
canal, to let off the f1oOd-water. The
request was referred to the Supeintend-
ent of Streets.
An ordinance to prevent playing ball
of any kind within the city limits and
lease or rent land or other place within
the limits of the city for the purpose
of playing ball in the open air, was
read
Devine said the ordinance was intro
duced to do away with Snowflake Park,
and wanted to know who introduced
it. He was informed that it had been
presented by L. l. Lewis, and said that
citizens should not bring such ordi-
nances to interfere with other peoples
investments. He moved that it be laid
ON the table, which was done, Tozer
voting no, as he said that ball playing
in vacant lots had become a nuisance.
il. Amman was granted a saloon Ii
cense at 730 K street
Property owners in the block between
and K, Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets, filed a remonstrance against
building a sewer in the alley. A simi-
lar petition was filed in the block be-
tween F and G, Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth streets. The former comprised
the majority of the block and stops the
improvement for six months The lat
ter was referred to the Surveyor.
Surveyor Mullenney reported that the
Board of Education only controls half
the block where the schoolhouse on
street, between Twenty and
Twenty-eighth streets, is situated, and
where the sidewalk has been con-
demned.
The matter was referred to the Su-
perintendent Of Streets.
Superintendent of Streets Croly re-
ported that the gate and screens con-
tracted for by ]. A Cunningham have
been constructed and, he thinks, in a
substantial manner, and he therefore
recommends the contract price be paid.
A majority of the property owners
protested against the construction Of a
sewer in the alley between L and NJ and
Eighteenth and Nineteenth
The petition of VIM. J. Cooper for a
saloon license at 601 P street came up,
and Devine moved that action on it be
postponed for a week, as there was