The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-05
JAS. F. JORDAN THE MAN
HIS SALARY WAS FIXED AT 5000
A YEAR
AN INCREASE IN SALARIES PROPOSED
No Successor to Hunnicutt Chosen--Schoo
Committee Asks Hearing in OPP
position to Rental on Centen-
NAL School Building,
NAL School Building,

W@ @Si'SSi
The Board of Aldermen last night
created a new office with 5000 salary
attachment and chose a man to fill it.
The new health ordinances have so in
creased Sanitary Inspector Sales duties
that it was deemed necessary for him
to have an assistant and Mr.. James +.
Jordan was selected for the place.
The ordinance creating the office was
introduced by Alderman Drewry and is
as follows:
The work now being done through the
Health and Street Cleaning Department
has been increased to such an extent, that
it is necessary to give the department
an assistant sanitary inspector.
Therefore be it resolved by the Board
of Aldermen:
Resolved /. That an assistant SAM
tary Inspector be elected to serve under
the direction and supervision of the
Sanitary Inspector.
2. That he shall be vested with the
same authority and powers delegated to
policemen by the city charter and ordl-
nances.
Bird. He shall wear a uniform and
badge, and snail receive for his services
the sum of six hundred dollars per an
mum, payable art the rate of fifty dol
lars per month, TO be paid out of funds
collected from privy license tax.
4th. His term of office shall begin from
date of election and shall expire i'll
May, 1898, or as soon as his successor
n, IL oil
Thereafter he shall be elected be-ennially
in the month of May.
JOHN G. DREWRY.
This ordinance didn't go through.
though, without opposition. Aldermen
johnson and Robinson didn't see the nee
essity for another sanitary inspector and
besides they didn't think the condition of
the city treasury such as to justify the
creation of a new officer. If more
money was to be spent 1T ought TO be
spent giving better schools to its children
and furnishing water TO its inhabitants.
Alderman Drewry explained that as the
health department was now constituted
the revenue coming in from it will, aftel
the first year, pay its own expenses.
The ordinance was adopted, Aldermen
johnson and Johnson voting against it.
Commissioner of the Sinking Fund, B.
r.. Lacy, be paid salary of $16.66 a
month, provided this salary be not more
than the one per cent allowed by the
city charter Alderman Mcdonald
amended the motion TO increase the
salary to $50 IA month, provided this be
not over the 1 per cent commission. The
amendment was adopted.
The police committee report
made by Alderman Parrish, re-
commended that the salary of
Sergeants Thompson and Mullen
be increased from $500 to 500 This
being in violation of the city charter,
the Recommendation was referred to the
finance committee.
In the report of the Street committee,
read by Alderman DrewTy, was the fol-
lowing touching the Hargett street car
line to the rock quarry and the proposed
Athletic park:
.We have considered very maturely
since our last meeting the ACCESSIBILITY
of building a street car track out Har-
gett street to the rock quarry in order
to handle the stone which is now being
gotten out at the quarry. We become
more and more convinced each day of
the feasibility and wisdom Of this plan
and of its absolute necessity in order
to work the quarry successfully. We
believe that a satisfactory arrangement
can be made with the Raleigh Street
Car Company which will be of mutual
benefit to them as well as the city. We
ask permission of the Board to make the
following proposition:
1.-THE city 10 lay the track out Hargett
street to the rock quarry, track TO be
III sIya 4lA
track now owned and operated by the
street car people.
1.-The street car people to use this track
with their passenger coaches free of
cost, provided they will put up poles and
wire the line and will haul our stone from
the rock quarry along their line into the
city. The city is to furnish the freight
cars on which the stone is to be loaded
and to do the loading and unloading and
switching of cars, etc. In consideration
for this service the city is to pave and
7nacadamiZe the streets now occupied
by the car company without charging
any part of this work to the company
This contract to remain i'll force for ten
years, at the expiration Of which time
the street car people are to be given
the track by the city and after that
time the city is to pay a reasonable
freight rate for all stone hauled into
the city. If the street car people will
not accept this proposition we recon-
mend that the track be built out Har-
gett street as suggested, on by the Ma
tional cemetery, to the rock quarry, and
that the city secure in addition to the
necessary freight cars for hauling the
stone, several small passenger cars
whic can be operated with mules in con
nection with hauling the stone and run
in connection with our freight cars an
independent street car line.
'"TIhis line can be built and equipped fol
about 100000 and will more than pay
for itself the first year in hauling stone
"a stock company is being formed to
build an Athletic Park on the Gatline
property adjoining the National cemetery
The park is to be well equipped with al
of the modern improvements and up-to
date requirements for athletic sportc.
Raleigh is very much in need of a
Park of this Sort BY building this park