El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-02
Aldermen Object To the Size
Of McKie's Bill For
City Printing.
NEW CITY PARK PROJECT
Is Endorsed, And the City Will Attend
To the Grading.-The New Pump
House Discussed. Board OF
Health Reyived.-The Electric
Light Contract Considered.

Last night the city council met IL
regular weekly session after two week.
of idleness.
Mayor Msgoffin came In promptly a
7:30 and called the council to order
No minutes were read as the city CLERK
was sick and his brother Jake was act
ing clerk. The clerk called the roll
and all answered to their names except
Alderman Drummer who came In later
THE NEW CITY PARK.
There were some ladies present who
had done q bit of lobbying with the
councilmen before the meeting was
called to order, and the mayor, stating
that they might not want to sit through
the whole meeting OF the council until
their petition could be read in its
order. said that the council would dis
pense with its regular order of busi'
ness and hear what they wanted to
cay.
The ladies presented the following
petition, which was read by Alderman
Clifford:
"The undersigned have in hand an
entertainment with the view OF i'm
proving the city park north OF the
Southern Pacific railroad, and they be-
lieve that by means thereof they Will
be enabled to raise some several hun
dred dollars; and they request the CO.
operation of the city council In the
matter, and will request the city coun-
Gil TO remove the tool house on the
southeast corner of the said park, as
soon as practicable, and the old fence
surrounding the same, and also to pillow
and level of the ground and lay out
the walks, and the undersigned will
undertake to raise sufficient money to
procure and plant the trees and grass
and to pay for all necessary labor OF
putting out the same; As soon
ingness to cooperate in the matter
and to remove the building, ETC., &C.
tive work will be begun at once, and q
strong effort made to raise all neces-
sary funds to accomplish she object in
view. We would request that the
council take action upon this matter at
once, so that we will know definitely
what course to pursue as the trees
should be ordered now"
The above petition was signed by
Mrs. G. N. Buckler and A. 8. Greig.
The petition was granted.
Alderman Clifford said he thought o
committee ought to be officially ap-
pointed to look after the work OF i'm
proving these grounds and he suggest
ed that Mrs. Buckler and Mr.. Greig
and the street and grade commissioner
act as that committee. The city engi-
ner was instructed to run the grade so
as to let the ladies go to work as soon
rs they wanted to.
SMALLPOX.
On report of officers being called for,
DIR. Race, the city health officer. told
the council that he had attended to
many cases of smallpox and he has
been unable to find out where the dis
ease comes from. He said that he had
three new patients, and in all those
who have had the disease so far there
80 nh ha1 f-o Tod
He said that he and his assistants had
vaccinated over seven hundred persons
since they had been appointed to help
him out, and that they were doing
good work and he hoped the city would
let him keep them a while longer.
This was agreed to.
City Attorney Kemp read q short
note from Mr.. Del Buono stating that
now the city had extended its sewer
through block 1876 of Csmpbell's Ad-
dition he wished the council would
compel those who had not done 80 to
connect with 1t. 1t was so ordered.
BILLS
The finance committee was next cal
led on for report, and Alderman Cliff
ford presented the following bills:
Fassett and Kelly, 4 cars pipe. 1896.
rest mousse Oils ........- 1901
Buchanan s. Powers. .... 11.35
Engineering dept. 5.
Chairman Clifford made motion
moved that DR.. Races assistants be
allowed their pay up to Dec. 1. This
was done.
The clerk presented the city's pay
roll for approval: 1t had already been
paid and amounted to S2821.68.
The amount of the monthly pay roll
for the sewer extension work was
SlO35.36. The amount was allowed and
ordered paid.
THE OFFICIAL PAPER"
At this point of the meeting there
was general howl by the council. |
The cause of the howl was Alderman
Clifford's reading the bill from the |
acknowledgement, A. B. McKie, for /
proclamation, which amounted to /
1856. 80.
Mr.. Clifford said that 1t was too
much. The number of times printed |
was 81. City Attorney Kemp said that
81 times was too many and the city /
ought not to pay for that number. MIR. /
McKie who was present said that was /
no fault OF his, that the city clerk had |
told him that number and he had IL |
down on the copy. Judge Kemp then |
said IL the city clerk bad made the |
mistake he ought to be made to pay |
the difference.
Judge Kemp said he thought the bill |
ought to be paid according to the city 3 |
contract with Mr.. McKie and not at
the rate he had charged. This seemed |
to anger the ex-editor and he said that |
he was under no printing contract with |
the city as his contract had run out |
and his was not the official paper and |
he would not submit TO any reduction !
of his bill. One of the aldermen was
heard to say, "Good, I'm glad OF it. |
He's got the council by the seat of the !