Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-29
CITY DADS.
Council Meeting Was Short, Mat
ters Disposed of Rapidly.

terS disposed OF hapidly'
The following members were pres
ent at last nights session of the City
Council: Bachman, Wittlig, Davis,
Marsch, Lambert, Loffland and Traut-
man
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
Building permits were granted to w.
M. Cohart, Third street above Marion
Ed. Hardy, Third street above Marion;
J. A. Plumer & Son, two, Third street
above Marion, and on New street,
F. w. Wommer, Front street; Frank
Ranger, Fifth and Wooster.
A request was received from mem
bers of the G. A. r. posts for the free
use of tne Auditorium for Memorial
Day exercises On motion of Mr..
Trautman the request was granted.
The Building committee asked for
further time for the consideration Of
the erection of tool house for the city
ne tiuIc was BlNSu Lucll,
The Paving committee also asked
for further time for consideration of
the paving question in the east end,
which was granted.
Mr.. Davis stated that there is bad
place on Elm street where the ditch
was filled when the sewer work on
that street was done, and that the wat
er runs over the sidewalks and causes
a very disagreeable place for pedes-
trians to cross. The matter was re-
ferred to the Street Commissioner
with instructions to make the neces-
sary gutter to carry off the water.
An estimate for the cost of the stone
arch in the neighborhood of the Collar
brickyard was submitted by the Engi-
neer and read by the Clerk. The cost
was stated to be $514. The cost of
brick would be 1852, or 1852 less than
the cost of stone.
The Clerk was instructed to adver-
tlse for bids for the construction of the
arch with brick.
The Clerk called the attention of the
Council to the matter that there had
been a contract made for tn purchase
of 500 feet of fire hose and that a note
was given for the amount which was
to be payable one year after date with
out interest. The Clerk was instruct
ed to draw warrant on the Fire fund
for the amount to pay the note.
President Bachman called attention
to the TACT that this was the last meet
ing ~efore elction, and that it was in
tended that the voting places for the
various wards should be named, and
that there was petition in the Coun-
Gil room from members of the Second
ward asking that the voting place be
located on Putnam street. He said,
however, that the petition was address
se1 to the two Councllmen from that
ward neither of whom were present at
the meeting and that in course of reg
ular order the Council as assembled
had no right to pay any attention to
the petition. He instructed the Clerk
to read the petition Notwithstanding
that fact 1t was signed by about six
ty-five persons and asked that the vot-
ing place for the Second ward be To-
Gated on Putnam street, near Second,
in the Brenan room.
AS soon as the petition had been
read, Mr.. Davis rose to make a motion
that the voting place for this ward be
placed on Greene street, just as it had
been heretofore. 1t was pointed out
to him that the only motion which
could be considered at that time was
one pending the receipt of the petition.
The petition was received and placed
on file.
The president said that there had
been disposition on the part of some
persons to run the whole spring cleo
ton into politics and he did not think
that it was the proper thing to be done
That since he could remember the vot-
ing place for the Second ward had
been on Greene street, and that he
thought it was only a scheme OF some
kind. He said that as neither of the
Second ward members were present,
hat he thought that it would not do
any good at all to consider the matter
which was addressed to them. He
said that he had in mind last week two
Or three places and he would name
hem, in consideration of the fact that
The members were absent. He men
Toned the new room of Campbell's on
Greene street, between Second and
Third, and the sample room at the
Bellevue, which had been used at some
times for election purposes and he
thought 1t could be again. There was
active discussion of the
reason why they should want differ
ent location than the one usually
chosen. Mr. Wittlig thought that it
was all right if there were so many
people who wished to have the voting
place on Putnam street, that 1t would
be well to have it located there.
Mr., Marsch made a motion that the
Campbell room on Greene street be Sc
ectei and the motion prevailed
The voting places were finally Sc
ected as follows:
First Ward the sample room of the
Hotel Yale.
Second Ward, Campbell's room on