Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-12-07
CITY COUNCIL
In Regular Session Last Evening.
Some Things They Did.

attendance,
bMinutesnOf ilast meeting we're read
and Trautman offered ag >objectfpb to
the way N Which his motion to liave
the Solicitor. Rrepafei pppprs GOV The
condemnation of property for widen
irg Court street in connection with the
Race and German property was re-
corded. The Clerk was instructed to
make the change in the record and the
minutes were approved
A communication from Nye & Fol
lett, representing George Emerlick,
was read, asking that Council appoint
committee to confer with the attor-
neys on the question as to whether
Mr.. Emerlick is entitled to damages
from the city for injuries sustained'by
falling into a hole in the pavement
near the Hagan & Schad store on Sec
ond street. on m9tlqn the President
appointed Blume, Davis and Wood to
meet the gentlemen and hold aeopfer-
ence on the subject.
y 5A petition signed by poperty owners
along -uskingum street, asking that
the name of that street be changed to
Pioneer street, was received and
placed on file. .-. '..~ *t
I Davis made a motion to have the
Clerk instructed to order signs for
street names as adopted some weeks
Tago. The motion was voted on and
carried. After looking the matter up
it was found that it remained in the
| hands of the Street committee with
pow to buy the signs, and Mr.. Davis
said they would act on the matter Of
ordering the signs Wednesday sure.
Cochlan introduced the matter Of
renting the Auditorium, and stated
that there was trouble as to the dates
on which the managers wanted to
bring shows here, stating that one of
the managers wanted to give a three
nights show on the 18th, 18th and 14th
and the other manager has the 18Th
reserved.
Mr. Trautman produced a letter
from the manager of the Haverly Min
strels to Manager Luchs, saying if they
played to this city it must be on the
18th or 18th, preferably the 18th.
Cochlan said the letter does not
prove the show booked but just in
consideration of me date. Wood says
he has no doubt if Haverlys Minstrels
were to play here on the 18th the town
would have been billed before this
time, and so long as there are two
managers there will be trouble and if
everybody is to manage the hall, the
Council had better make rules to hold
them down.
Trautman suggested that the SIC
which is required from the managers
to hold a date should be forfeited to
the city if the manager failed to bring
the attraction, and Wood fastened tc
agree with him.
Cochlan offered motion to instruct
the Solicitor to draft resolution tC
have managers pay $40 Tor each date
reserved by them and if they dom
cancel the date within ten days an(
fail to get an attractiCn, the money tt
be forfeited to the city. An amend
ment was offered by Blume VINO sait
as there was already an ordinance
regulating the matterit would be nee
essary to rescind that and daft new
ordinance emDodying the clause spec
flied by Cochlans motion. The motion
carried as amended,
Bachman SAL the bill boards alonl
Front street were so located as t
cause teams to drive over the higl
curbing and it was injuring the curb
ing. He thought something should bt
done. / wis moved to have the board
removed and Trautman offered al
amendment to this--that the matter bt
left in the hands of the Building
committee to consider the matter. The
motion carried as amended.
Cochlan made motion that Man
Lne Janitor of the City building for the
use Of the hall oil Dec. 18th, the mon
ey to be forfelled if he failed to bring
an attraction here. The motion was
ruled out of order.
The ordinance for assessment oi
abutting property on Scanned street
from FroRt to the west side of Fifth
for the issuance of bonds for the pay.
ment of the ocammel street improve
ment was read, and under suspension
of the rules was passed to the second
and third readings by title and adopt
ed. - |tt
, The, question was asked if the, ,Solic-
itor had prepared papers for institut-
ing 6dndemnation suits for theine6es-
sary land to widen Court street in the
hace addition. He replied that he had
drafted an ordin9e0h4 as to the
cost to the city, the amount could be
paid for the land condemned from any
fund which the Council saw fit to
make the appropriation and to assess
ahutting property to pay it, There
are statues covering just such transac-
tions, giving the city the right to
assess the abutting property for the
amount to reiml urse the city for the
money paid for the condemned prop
erty. The Solicitor cited a case of
1omebody" VS.. the Village of Nor
wood, where the action was sustained
by me Circuit Court of Hamilton Co.