The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-04

the Reservation Sidewalk.
Rules governing the fire department
of the city were adopted by select
council last night They cover a mul.
titude of pages of typewriter mat
ter. After motion to adjourn had
been made and a majority of the men,
bers had their overcoats and hats i'll
hands. Mr.. Roche thrust himself into
the breach and saved the day for the
rules. He hoped the meeting would
not adjourn till the rules were con-
sidered.
A copy of the rules was handed to
Clerk Morris. and with it a resolution
making them operative by Mr.. Schroed-
er. Wade Finn urged to refer them
to the committee. Mr.. Lansing thought
there was one defect in them; namely.
a section putting into the hands of
the board of engineers the power to
rem.'ve men. chief Hickey was given
tho floor to give p synopsis of the rules.
THO differerce tween the new rules
and the old Nat it regulates the
prrmanent mel at hours they are
- Keep, when t. so to meals, where
flepp. how 20 dress, when and how
exercise their horses, how to keep
ne apparatus, what to do in respond
inS to fires, etc, etc. The motion to
rush them through carried by vote
oe ; to Z, Messrs. Kearney, Thomas
Roche. Melvin, Shea, Sanderson. Nc
Cam. T'rcble and Coyne voting in the
affirmative, and Messrs. Ross, Finn
Robinson, Schroeder, Lansing and
O'Boyle and Chittenden in the mega
tive.
Mr.. Finn reported for the special
committee that investigated the
charges against Mayor Bailey and Mr..
| Mccain. The report was an exonera-
| ton of these gentlemen and accom-
panying it was the Transcribed evidence
| taken at the hearir~ i7 tho mayors
Office last Monday EVENING.
The bid Of the Barber Asphalt COM
| panv for paving Forest court from
! Spruce street to the southerly end of
! it was the only one received. The
| grading and paving will be done for
! 3! yard and SO cents a foot for
/ straight curbing and 9S cents for cir
/ GUAR curbing. The contract was
/ awarded to the company.
TAYLOR CONFIRMED.
Mayor Bailey sent in a communica-
liOIl JoSepH lHSpbt-
tor of the paving contract on Hyde
Park avenue, between Lafayette and
Division streets. on motion of Mr..
! Coyne the nomination was considered
forthwith and una animously confirmed
On third reading the only measure
passed was the ordinance providing for
sidewalks on both sides OF the gas
house bridge on Scranton street. Tn
| broi Of
the resolution providing for four new
| fire hydrants in the Fairview plot in
| the Fifteenth ward was referred to
committee. The resolution providing
for the purchase of a team for the
Cumberlands, one horse for the Nay
Augs and one for the chief, and ten
horse blankets were conciIrred in, but
later on Mr.. Finn strove to have the
purchase of team for the Cumber-
lands reConsidered, arguing that they
responded last yeaI to only three fires
! and do not need the team. He did
not succeed in his purpose
Donahoe & OBoyle We're granted an
extension of three weeks on the South
| Wyoming avenue sewer. other resolu-
tions that passed were as follows: Per-
mitting the Scranton Railway COM
pany to fill between the rails and put
planks on the outside on Railroad ave-
nue. and Seventh street: permitting
NJ. j. Larkin on Chestnut street and
B. f. Dunn, on Delaware street, to
connect their properties with the sew
ers in their respective districts; direct
ing the repair of the hvdrant at the
corner of LaCkGwanna and Penn ave-
nues; providing for the purchase Of
n team for the General Phiunev's;
providing for the lease of the premises
at 5l1 Pittston avenue and the barn at
5lS Hickory street from CaSmer Hart
man at sum not greater than S25 a
month for the balance Of the fiscal
year; that the street commissioner be
Instructed, in issuing permits for the
excavations under sidewalks for coal
or other vaults on the corner of streets
or alleys, to reserve sufficient of the
| sidewalk to allow the placing of the
round curbs at the corners, and it
! shall he the duty of the street COM
missioner to see that this reservation
is enforced: that the city engineer be
instructed 10 establish on each block
uniform grade for sidewalks from
the reservation line to the curb line
and that he furnish in all cases the
levels for the four corners of the side
walks, and see to 1t that the sidewalks
are laid in conformity with the levels
| given.