The record-union., 1898-05-24
SIX DOLLARS, FIFTEEN CENTS
THE CITY WILL BE LIGHTED
EVERY NIGHT.
Contract Let to the Sacramento
Electric, Gas and Railway
Company Last Night.

The City Board Of Trustees met IN
regular weekly session last night, Trus-
tees Mckay, Tebbets, Douglas Paine,
Dolan, Kent, Brown and Devine being
present
Grove L. Johnson presented a claim
OF w. E. Henry for damages in the
matter Of the contract entered into by
the city with A. F. Fish and ]. H.
Henry for supplying the city with clear
water. 1t recited the circumstances Of
the contract and claimed a total Of
damages of SOL, ,003 %
The board unanimously rejected the
claim, and Mr.. Johnson thanked them
for their promptness and took his leave
c. A. Elliott. Of the City Board of
Education. for the board, presented
the plans for the proposed new High
School prepared by the board in accord
ance with the request Of the Board of
Trustees. He said the plans and spe-
cifications had been prepared by Archi-
tect James Seadler for the Board Of
Education. and the amount estimated
for the construction of the building
was $50, G36. the remainder Of the 800. =
900 asked for going toward the pur-
chase of a lot for the school Tha Board
of Education had likewise the old Perry
Seminary lot, which. when sold. would,
he thought. make enough for the pur-
chase of the lot.
The plans We're referred to the COM
mittee having charge of calling the dec
tion for bonds
MAYORS MESSAGES.
The following messages from the
Mayor We're read and filed:
To the Board of Trustees: I hereby
nominate and, by and with your con-
sent, appoint D. D. Swift to be driver
of Engine No. ! of Sacramento Fire
Department, vice John Hollingsworth,
deceased. Very respectfully,
WIN. LAND, Mayor
To the Board of Trustees: The Sur
veyor's Department has this day not
flied me that the sidewalk around the
old Postoffice building on the northwest
corner of Fourth and K streets is un-
safe and dangerous to the lives of cit
izens passing over it. 1, therefore,
recommend to your honorable board
that a resolution be passed condemn
ing said sidewalk and that the Super
intendent Of Streets be directed to in
close the same with a fence. Very re-
spectfully. VIM. LAND. Mayor.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Trustee Paine, for the Street Com
mittee, reported in regard to the dairy
near East Park that the proprietor was
making arrangements 10 move out of
the city, and would go within a month.
Devine did not want the poor man
hurried if he was getting ready to go,
and moved that the committee be
granted further time in which to re-
port Carried.
Trustee Paine also reported that the
committee had made arrangements for
moving the garbage outside the city.
Kent believed that the report ought
not to be accepted. as the stuff would
be dumped in the American River bot
tom east of Twelfth street. where there
are no leVees. and where, when the
river rises, it Will wash down all the
dead cats and decaying garbage into
the Sacramento River. from which we
have to drink all the year. The State
is taking measures to dispose of its
sewage. which is not one-tenth ae bad.
He moved that the report be not re
ceived. but met with no second.
Trustee Tebbets said the locality Sc
Iected was big excavation. from which
the water cannot wash it until the Sac
ramento River rises twenty feet higher
than at present The Trustees must
find some place to put the garbage un-
til it can build a crematory, which, un-
fortunately. it is not able to do at pres
ent He thought that the ground Sc
Iected was much better than south Of
the city. and the north wind blows only
a few days in the summer.
A DEBATE ON WATER.
Trustee Devine supported Kents mo-
ton as he thought that the locality Sc
lected would. when the river rises, pol
lutte the water of the Sacramento
River. He thought that the waters OF
the Sacramento were purer than hose
Of almost any other river in the world
notwithstanding certain professional
men and professional liars who write
for newspapers hold to the contrary
and give the black eye to this city. One
of the san Francisco papers has started
a crusade of that sort. The typhoid
fever now prevalent was not due to the
water the city uses.
Dr. Huntington, being called on, said
that there was scarcely a winter fO1
the past sixteen years when the water
has not been up to the north levee. The
garbage. if placed as proposed wouH
be raised from its pit and left by the
water as it reCedes, to spread contagion
and that is the most dangerous time fOI
infection. It would be criminal to take
such action as is proposed. He had
been investigating for the last ninety
days. and the most recent investiga-
tions show that the statement that