Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-08

appointed. The city engineer, to whom was
referred the statement OF General Manager
Holdrege Of the Burlington. that the cross
ing would be dangerous on account OF the
grade Of the street reported against the
opening. He declared that Twenty fourth
street on the south which has been brought
to the established grade, leads down to the
railroad tracks so s.eeply that a team could
not be stopped after it started down the
hill and consequently some serious acct
dents might occur This steep grade had
been established in anticipation of the con-
etruction Of a viaduct, which would have
to be 4GO feet in length In view of this
condition OF affairs City Engineer Rose
water advised that the street be not opened
The report was referred
Capitol Aycnuc Paving.
All the old ordinances ordering the re-
paving of Capitol avenue from Sixteenth TO
Twentieth streets we're repealed or placed
on file and couple of new ones were in
troduced, cutting the street into two dis
tricts, one Of which extends from sixteenth
TO Eighteenth and the other from Eighteenth
to Twentieth. This was done in order to
enable the block between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets to be parked in accordance
with the wishes of the people living there.
Other ordinances introduced read a first
and second time and referred were as fol-
lows; Paving Fifteenth street from Grace
street to point 176 feet south. paving
Dewey avenue from Thirty ninth to Forteth,
vacating a considerable number of streets
and alleys in Warrenton addition, a sup
Elemental February appropriation sheet,
changing the western fire limit so that it
extends to Twentieth street only from Far
nam to Dodge street The ordinance or
derng the grading of Phelps street from
Thirteenth to Sixteenth the city to pay one
half the cost, and another ordering the paw
ing of Thirty second avenue from Dodge to
Farnam were passed on the third reading.
A committee report recommended that the
city lease to the City Garbage company
portion of Leavenworth street east of Sixth,
which is not open to traffic upon which the
company proposes to erect Il stable. The
rental was to be $50 year. To this STUNT
vigorously objected, on the grounds that the
property owners adjoining objected to hav-
ing the stable on account of the stencil.
suggestion was made that the lease be not
, entered into unless the property owners
consent and STUNT therefore agreed that the
matter be referred again until waivers of
the property owners are secured.
petition was received from a number
of adjoining business firms asking that the
city market be not removed from Eleventh
and Howard streets this being in answer
to another petition received some time ago,
asking that the market be removed. This
matter had already been acted upon in COM
mittee of the whole, however, the council
having compromised the objections to the
market by making it's western boundary
the east side of Eleventh street This
change was confirmed and the city clerk
was formally instructed to advertise the
sale of market stalls. the auction to take
place at 10 a. m. on March %. The market
VIII be opened for business on April /.
The city comptroller reported that on Feb
ruary rs, 1899, he counted the cash in the
hands of the city treasurer and found it to
be as follows:
Cash i'm dra uer e g, 900 20