The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-14

room cottage for Mrs. Margaret G.
Bailey. on Walnut street, between
Third and Fourth streets.
To J. d. Stsljes. to erect a noe story
dwelling on Market street. between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets.
To. E. W. Manning. Jr-. to erect 4
boat hose az the foot OF Queen street.
If It does MT conflict with the fire or
dinance.
To Mrs. Minn3e McCallurn - erect a
stable al Eighth and Ann streets.
To B. c. Wright, 10 erect a 7 story
dwelling on Queen street. between
Fourth and Fifth streets.
The clerk read the report Of DR.. w.
d. Mcmillan, superintendent o. heath.
for the month OF December. In his
report DR.. Mcmillan states that three
| dwellings have been q~uarantined on
| account Of scarlet fever; that during
| the montn there has been recovered
twenty-seven wfhite and r~w'enty-four
coloTed births; That there were six
teen deaths of whites and eighteen COL
ored: thai six white and two colored
bodies have beer brought I'D the city
for interment, and permits have been
granted to send three bodies out of
the city. He reports that h quarters
of the firemen are spacious. we'll kept
and clean, and the city prison in clean
| and the temperature comfortably reg
ulated.
The clerk read the report OF Captain
Charles ~Scnibben, chief OF the fire de-
pag'tment, for the month OF December,
as follows:
During the month of December We
had ten alarms. The damage amount
ed to SEQ. from the following causes:
n by rats, two by sparks from Chin
ney, n by defective flue one in
! ~cendiary, one by box of bad ashes. two
by false alarms, one by lamp explosion,
one by chimney burning out.
4 recommend that the city furnish
all the firemen with helmets and
badges, as they have bought coats
and boots, ana the helmets are very
much needed. / also find that at
Fourth and Princess streets is in bad
condition, for responding to alarms in
the northern part of the city. The
street car tracks are three inches high
er than the street, and going over tbs
tracks injuries the apparatus. The
cutters on Fourth and Chestnut,
Third and Walnut, Seventh and Chest
nut streets should be made level with
the street by putting planks over the
CUTTERS. BY doing so. 1t VIII save
the apparatus and horses and will save
n finn in I;pr a.. oi,,~-,- "a a., ,,
With reference TO the condition of the
streets mentioned by Chief Scnfbben,
the mayor said they had been attended
to, except the crossing at Fourth and
Princess street. On motion Of Alder
man Keith, the clerk was instructed ia
notify the Street Railway Company to
have the street fixed so their track can
be
On motion of Alderman Norwood. the
clerk was instructed to call the atten-
ton of the Street railway company Il
the fact that their tracks are higher
that the street at the crossing of Sixth
and Ann streets, Sixth and Nun streets
and Sixth and Church streets, render.
ing these crossings almost impossible
City Treasurer F. B.. Rice read hi.
report for December, showing: Balance
on rand December /, SIS, 301. 81; receipt.
during the month $21, $50. 95; dfsburse.
ments during the month $7,941.11; bal
ance on hand January 1st, SOS, S41.11.
Alderman Green complained thai
the promised hydrants at Sixth and
Wooster and Sixth and Swami streets
had not been put in. Alderman Keith
explained that the order had been giver
for thse hydrants.
After t~ransacting several matters Of
no special interest, the board adjourned
One Minute Cough Cure cures quick.