The record-union., 1898-01-11
LOWELL FOR POLICE CHIEF.
MAYOR LAND SENDS IN HIS
NAME FOR CONFIRMATION.
Ordinance introduced to Prohibit
the Operations of the Trading
Stamp Movement.


The CITY Board of Trustees met in
regular weekly session last light, Irus-
regular weekly session last night. Tfus-
tees Mckay. Tebbets. Douglas, Paine,
Brown being present.
The following messages from the
Mayor We're read:
To the Board of Trustees: BY and
With your consent, 1 hereby appoint the
following named persons to the follow
ing named offices and positions:
VIM M Lowell to be Chief of Police.
vice M. NJ. Drew. term expired.
George F. Meister to be Superinten-
dent of Cemeteries, vice G. w. f1cks,
term expired.
VIM. LAND, Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: My at
tention has been called to the bad condi-
ton of Twelfth street, from the north
levee to street, and I respectfully rec
ommend to your honorable board that
the same be repaired by giving it a COW
ering of macadam. Respectfully SUBJ
mitted VIM. LAND, Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: The de-
mand for macadam is already greater
than the available supply, and as soon
as work is begun on the Folsom road the
demand will be much greater. There
fore l would suggest to your honorable
board that fifty carloads of macadam be
Immediately secured for repair pur-
poses. Respectfully submitted,
VIM. LAND, Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: 1 respect
fully recommend that five vent pipes
be placed in the S-street sewer as fol-
lows: One at each of the following
named cross streets: Third, Sixth,
Ninth, Thirteenth and Fifteenth streets.
Very respectfully,
VIM. LAND, Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: The ca
pacity of the coal bunker at the pump
ing plant is about one carload. l am sat
isfied that considerable sum could De
saved the city in the handling of the
coal used at the plant if ii were possible
to handle a larger quantity at one time.
/ therefore respectfully recommend to
your honorable board that bunkers be
built of about ten carload capacity. Re
specially submitted,
VIM. LAND, Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: My atten-
ton has been called to the fact that the
intersection of Twentieth and streets
is quite dark and inasmuch as street
is the chief thoroughfare for pedestrians
living west of Twenty first street to the
car line, I would respectfully recommend
that an electric light be placed at the
corner of Twentieth and T streets. Very
respectfully, WIN. LAND, Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: In order
to further protect pedestrians against
being run over by careless bicycle
riders, 1 would respectfully recommend
your honorable board that Section ) of
Ordinance No. 327, regulating the use
of bicycles, etc, be amended so as TO re-
quire that every person riding bicycle,
etc, in the night time in any public
street, etc, must have lamp and keep
the same lighted, in addition to bell or
horn. AS the ordinance now reads, it
appears that bicyclists may use their
preference as between a lamp or bell
or horn, and in my judgment a lamp
should be required in addition to a bell
or horn. Respectfully submitted,
VIM. LAND, Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: / hereby
notify your honorable board that on
the 4th day of January 1898, Iappointed
Messrs. o. S. Flint and Lewis De Lew
as experts for the purpose of expert
ing the books of the city officials and of
the different departments of the city
government for the fiscal year of 1897,
and that on said day they entered up
on the discharge of their duties as such
experts. Very respectfully,
VIM. LAND, Mayor.
The communication regarding the
purchase of crushed rock was placed III
the hands of the Street Committee, as
was the one relating to Twelfth street,
with instructions to report on them next
week.
The communication regarding coal
bunkers was referred to the Sewer Com
lnittee. That regarding a light at
Twentieth and T streets, was deferred
till Nav LIST.
The one regarding the bicycle ordi-
nance was referred to the Street COM
mittee.
The usual number of claims We're al
lowed.
The bin Of s. W. Butler of $50 for NOV
ing the citys safe was not audited by
the Finance Committee, but the amount
was considered reasonable and the bill
allowed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Devine for the Committee on Build
ings reported that the City Surveyor
and superintendent of Streets We're
badlys cramped for room Additional
building as the other offices for so a
month each additional. He thought it
would be well to secure them, and it was
so ordered.
Bentley of the Finance Committee
said that II had investigated the re-
quest for an appropriation for Exempt
Firemen's Relief Fund, and found the
object a worthy one and that the gen.
tlemen who We're distributing the funds
were working unselhshly and with dis
erection. 1t therefore recommended that
1000 be set apart for the fund and the
recommendation was adopted and a
resolution to that effect passed.
He reported adversely on sending the
militia TO San Francisco to the Golden
Jubilee, in the present condition of the
city's funds, and the report was
adopted.