Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-29
A LIVELY SESSION.
Continued from Fifth Page)

the old city hall and it's fixtures, adopted
by the common council, were referred to
the committee on public buildings in
inconvenience.
The board concurred with the council
in referring to the public buildings COM
mittee the order introduced by Council
man Powell for bath house at the lake
for women and children.
The board concurred in the reference
to the committee on fire department of
the order relative to a fixed compensa-
ton for substitute members Of the fire
department.
The report Of the committee on finance
relative to the sale of the Lakeside mill
and machinery and settling claims for
the taking of the waters of Kettle
brook, was received and the order
adopted. The same disposition was
made Of the report and order relative
to the installation of the new central
Office fire alarm system in the new fire
department headquarters.
A street sprinkling assessment
against the John Madden heirs, on
Ward street, was abated, and an order
was adopted, requesting the city treas
urer to take steps to collect the unpaid
street sprdnkling assessments of 1895
and 1896.
The board concurred with the council
In referring to the committee on light
ing streets, orders for the location of
electric lights on Southbridge street,
near Wellington coal yard, and near
the corner of Bradley and Washington
streets.
Action on the reports of the commit
tee on streets on the petitions of the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
Companies, for permission to lay un-
derground conduits from Main street
through Front street to the Union sta
tion, was postponed until the next
meeting,
An order was adopted abating the as
sessmeuts against Thomas Mulhern and
jeremiah D. Sullivan on Perry avenue,
for the amounts of $4.03 and 1888, re-
spectively, and reassessing them ON the
estates of Peter Mills and Thomas w.
Hannigan.
The following petitions were referred:
c. B. Rawson, compensation for dam
age to his estate caused by relocating
West BoylSton street; l. Z. Bigelow, fire
alarm box in the vicinity of West Boyls-
ton street, Sherburne and Stowell ave-
nues; Joseph s. Perry, fire alarm box
at the corner Of Vernon and Upsala
streets; w. c. Jewett, electric lights on
Grove street; Cornelius Flynn, electric
| light at Harrison and Blake street; M. s.
| Beaman, electric light at Westminster
and Forbes streets; c. A. Bartlett, sewer
| in Beeching street; George Butler, sewer
in Lenox street; Samuel D. Waite, sewer
| in Midland street; Frank II. Kelly, sewer
| in Pleasant street; w. N. Brown, side
walk on Austin street from Mason to
| Dewey street; NJ. B. Stratton, sidewalk
on Earle street from Elizabeth to Ed
ward street; Graves Brothers, crosswalk
at the corner of Dix and Gould.ng
| streets; NJ. S. Beaman, crosSwalk from
the north side of Forbes street across
Lincoln street; Patrick Doherty, that
Jackson street from Southbridge street
| to the railroad be not watered; Henry
| H Chamberlin, that Park avenue be
tween haywood street and Goes square
| be not watered; H. H. Bigelow, that
| Shrewsbury street from Plum street to
Adams street be not watered; Edwin H.
Curtis, relative to the uisapplicatiOn of
the name Adams square given to the
tract of land at the intersection of Burn
coat, Millbrook and Melrose streets.
| Adjourned for one week