The record-union., 1899-10-03
COAL, OIL OR ELECTRICITY.
WHAT SHALL BE USED AT THE
WATER WORKS?
Propositions the City Will Have
an Opportunity to
Consider.

AT the meeting of the Board of Trus-
tees last night, Trustees Mckay IeO-
bets, Douglas, Paine, Dolan, Brown
Kent and Devine were present.
A message from the Mayor was read'
stating that he had, with the Presl-
dent and City Attorney, counted the
cash placed before him by the CITY
Treasurer. and found it to amount 10
$62s320.41
A number of claims were allowed.
The Committee on Resolutions re-
ported the following, in memorlam,
which was adopted:
Thomas Dwyer, Chief of Police OF
the city of Sacramento, having passed
from life to death, we, the Board or
Trustees of this city, feel in his de-
mise an ever-present bereavement and
severe loss.
ITO his memory your committee de-
sires to say few words, forgetting
idle fiattery or fulsome praise, his un-
assumed and unaffected manners, his
transparent honesty and habitual kind
ness necessarily secured for him the
attachment of all who came in con-
tact with him. No man was ever more
devoted to family, no man more loyal
10 the city, or more earnest in the per-
Torrance of the duties of his office
than he he loved his fellow-man ana
denied to none the true sympathy Oh
a generous nature of which he pos
sessed Let us rest in the belief
that. after a life we'll spent with IT'S
every duty faithfully performed, the
soul of Thomas Dwyer has found rest
eternal in the presence of his God
Resolved, That, while recognizing
that God in His infinite wisdom doeth
all things we'll, yet appreciating the
irreparabIe loss sustained by his grief
stricken wife and family, we, the
Board of Trustees, extend to them our
heartfelt sympathy in this the hour
Of their aff1iction, and commend them
to our Heavenly Father for consola-
ton and guidance.
Resolved, That a copy Of these reso-
lutions be spread upon the records or
the Board of Trustees, and a copy sent
TO the wife and family Of our departed
officer and friend.
Jacobson & Nygean were granted a
saloon license at 1909 Fourth street.
]. E. Hicks & Co, 1915 Eighth street,
We're also granted a saloon license.
julius Daniel was granted license
at 1901 c street, Douglas voting no,
and Mckay not voting. Douglas stated
that some of the citizens had told him
they would present a remonstrance'
but they had not done so.
Auditor Young returned without his
approval a claim of $265 by Thomas
jenkins for a pair of horses for the
patrol wagon, on the ground that 1t
had not been advertised for and was
over S100
on motion of Tebbets, the contract
was rescinded, and the Clerk ordered
TO advertise for bids for horses.
A resolution of intention to macad-
amize the alley between 1 and J, Fifth
and Sixth, was adopted.
DUSTY STREETS.
Paine said his telephone had been
kept hot for some days with complaints
that there We're no sprinkling wagons
at work. He thought the grayeled
streets should be taken care of. as
they are all going to pieces.
Superintendent of Streets Touhey
said there was no money in the sprink-
ling fund.
Dolan wanted to know why the cob
bled cross streets between ] and h
We're sprinkled, while the macadam-
lied streets are allowed to go dry, as
we'll as ] and X streets. He hoped
the two latter would be kept sprinkled'
so that people on the street cars would
not be covered with dust.
Devine said that certain alleys had
been complained of to him, being filled
with refuse.
Superintendent Touhey said it was
not his duty to clean the alleys, and
it would keep six teams at work to
do so.
Dolan said the streets and alleys
were under his control.
Kent thought that part of the money
spent in sweeping ] and K streets
could be more prohtably expended in
washing them twice a week and flush
ing the sewers. He advocated the use
of oil to keep down the dust and keep
the streets hard and moved that the
SUPERINTENDENT of Streets be instruc-
ted TO confer with the county officials
of Fresno and Pasadena and ascertain
the cost OF OIL. he DelleNeu II poor
economy to let the streets deteriorate
so that they will cost more than double
next year
Dolan favored the proposition and
said he had been told it worked we'll
and cheaply. Devine also favored it,
and deprecated sprinkling the bitumi-
nized streets on the ground that it
would take out the oil and injure them.
Kent thought they should be oiled
every four or five years, after being
washed
Tebbets thought too much water was
spent in the summer on the streets,
when there is a breeze to cool the air
and that the funds should be saved for
fan sprinkling, when there is no wind
and the dust hangs in the air, suffocat-
ing the people. He thought now was
the time for sprinking, and tnat pro-