Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-20

SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. !

A large amount of routine business was
disposed of by the city council at a meet
ing held Tuesday afternoon. Ordinances
| were passed authorizing the issuing of bonds
to pay for grading performed during the
fall and assessing the cost of the work up
against the property benefited. For the
grading of Twenty second street from o TO
Q five bonds Of $3.50 each will be issued,
making a total of s3,250. These bonds will
bear date of November l, 1899, and bear 6
per cent interest. Bonds to the amount of
s5SS were ordered issued for the grading of
i street from Twenty-fourth to Twenty
fifth. The grading of Twenty first from Q
to S cost $3.50 and 6 per cent bonds will
be issued to pay for this work.
An ordinance levying a special tax,
amounting to s1.475. for the grading OF Six
teenth street from NJ to a point $50 feet
north os Missouri avenue, was passed. as
was also an ordinance for the laying OF GER
tain wooden sidewalks under Thomas Geary's
contract.
A petition bearing about 300 signatures
asking the council to comptf the extension
of the @ street car line, was presented and
commented on. 1t is desired by the people
of the Third and Fourth wards TO have the
street car line, which now stops at Thirty
third, extended to Forty second and Q.
Further, it is desired that a committee of
the council meet with a committee from the
South Side Improvement club for the pur-
pose Of taking this matter up with the Off
GERS of the street railway company. Messrs
Kelly, Fitle, Wear Trainor and Ensor will
compose the committee from the council.
Councilman Trainor said that many COM
plants are being made about the service
on the Q street stub line. He asserted that
ln lob,
induce the street car people to give the
service on this line which the business war
rants. Several others spoke in favor of
better street car service and an effort will be
made to bring the motor company managers
to a realization of the necessity for i'm
provements on the line in question.
A motion was offered locating electric
street lights at Twenty fifth and streets,
Thirteenth and o and Twenty ninth and r.
Before the council voted on this motion
Mayor EIsor announced that he would veto
it, as the lighting fund was nearly ex-
hausted. Trainor stated that under the
existing condition OF affairs lights were
needed and the motion was carried, notwith-
standing the mayors remarks.
In order to meet maturties at the fiscal
agency January / City Clerk Carpenter will
draw warrants for 81, 1852. This is the semi
annual interest on an issue of $4,000 fund
ing bonds, Arrangements will be made TO
borrow 1886 to redeem coupons on paving
district No. 13.
The city has been sued by the Grant Paw
ing company for S1,60G. due for repairing
the asphalt pavement on Twenty fourth
street This work was performed during
the summer, but for lack of funds the COM
pany was not compensated. By motion the
city attorney was instructed to confess
judgment in this case for the amount sued
for.
City Attorney Montgomery called the at
tention OF the council to the Twenty fourth
street paving cases. He said that a num-
Der of new suits will soon be called in the
district court and that he very much de-
sired to carry one case 10 the supreme court
This Will be done. BY stipulation between
the attorneys interested the testimony given
in the Stenger case will be used, thus saving
the time and expense of going all over The
ground again.
Trainor suggested that the mayor employ
a number of detectives to stop holdups and
robberies. The mayor said that in the mat
ter OF regulating the city he desired the
advice and support of the council and that
advice will be acceptable at any time.
sort OF informal talk on this subject fol-
lowed. The mayor stated that he had one
or two men employed now, who were
with the tough element. and upon
tips given by these men wholesale arrests
had recently been made, Mention was made
OF the fact that since the ground has frozen