The age-herald., 1899-06-22

nicipalities, and the allowing of half sal- ary to John T. Evans private secretary of the mayor for time he lost on account of sickness last winter.
 Mayor Rambow's Recomme ndation
 The board was called to order last night by Alderman Rainbow, who is acting as mayor in the absence of Mayor Drennen. Immediately after the reading of the min- utes the following recommendations were submitted by the acting mayor:
 My attention has on several occa-
 sions been called to the unsanitary con-
 dtion of the south side Of Fourth ave-
 nue from Twentieth street to the east end of the market house, and the only
 remedy for this is to construct gutter
 of vitrifed brick. The west half of
 this block already has this gutter. All
 along the east of this block is occupied
 by fish stands, commission merchants, etc., and a great deal of unhealthy
 matter Is thrown into this gutter and
 remains there until it is removed by
 the trash wagons or heavy rains; and If this gutter was placed there it would be easily flushed and this matter washed away. I therefore recommend that this work be done immediately.
 My attention has also been called to the great nuisance of sweeping the streets at night. This sweeping is done
 between II and 12 o'clock. and it causes
 
 be great annoyance to the public re- turning from the theater etc. Before
 this sweeping is done the streets should
 be sPrinkled, and thereby lay the dust. l am informed that the firm that owns and operates the street sprinklers will not do this work for less than $5 per night, and l therefore recommend that the city purchase a street sprinkler for
 this purpose.
 would further rnpO1OrpDd that tho pound officer be instructed to begin on July l operating the dog wagon and take up all stray dogs whose owners have not paid into the city treasury the sum of g for dog tax for the year 1899. A great many dogs are running on the streets and they prove great nuisance to the public.
 .'T ask that you give these matters your immediate attention"
 Alderman Gray moved that all of the re- concentrations be approved, except that which referred to the expenditure of money the latter to go to the finance committee. The finance committee then made it's re- port as stated above.
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 Chairman Altman, of the judiciary com mittee, recommended that Mir Marcus license be collected. that the anti-bicycle or sidewalk ordinance was in due form. as
  tieth street. for paving Second avenue, for curbing certain portions of Twentieth street as well as a storm sewer in that street, and for storm sewer in Ninteenth street He reported adversely on number of pri- Vate petitions, but favorably on one of Mrs. J. L. Meade's asking to be allowed S75 on improvement taxes.
 Two important matters that of the adop- tion by the city of an official newspaper, and Alderman Lynaug.h's ordinance requir- ing all saloons to close every night at mid night and remain closed until the next morning at o'clock, were passed over by the committee until the next meeting.
 Later in the meeting the bicycle ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting gaming be- tween whites and blacks were passed and are now in force.
 Two More Police Recommended
 Chairman Jones. of the police and sanita- tion committee, recommended that the city jail be wired at the cost of BPS and incan- descent lights put in, which would cost less than SEQ per month. By doing this the S36. At the request of the police commission and Chief Austin, this committee recOm- mended that all stolen property on hand al the police station which had never been claimed be disposed of in the most advan. tageous manner possible. In future he rec commenced that Sucn BOOuS De kept TOT d period of six months, and then sold, unless they were needed in evidence on the trial of cases.
 The committee recommended that only two extra patrolmen be allowed to the po- lice commission for increasing the present force. It will be remembered that the com mittee had put in a request for ten addi- tional patrolmen. At this point Alderman Daly moved further discussion of the ques- tion be put off until the board went into executive session.
 In that meeting there was quite an ani- mated discussion over what increase in the force should be allowed, but it was finally decided to appoint a special committee con- sistng of Aldermen Moore, Daily Wheeler, Ward and Lynaugh to confer with the police commission as to what could be done.
 $2,691 for Repairing Schools
 After the report of the police and sani- tation committee had been disposed of, Chairman Meighan, of the parks and pub lie buildings committee, made report of the conditions existing in the public schools of the city. He said that his committee, together with the board of education, had gone through all of the buildings and found them all in deplorable condition. He cited Powell school as an example. There, he said, most of the clustering was falling down, all of the varnish had worked off the woodwork the curtains were rotten they could not be moved up and down, there was practically no furniture in the building except the desks themselves, the cellar filled with water whenever it rained, and many other complaints of this nature. He made an itemized statement showing the cost of putting each school in repair as follows Powell, $5SS; Henley, s641; Paul Hayne, s637; Cameron, s2S5; Lane, S295; Slater, S245. Total S2,6g. He offered a resolution that this amount be appropriated for these repairs, which resolu- ton was referred to the finance commit tee.
 S1,5OO for Auditorium
 Alderman Gray then introduced a resolu- ton that $750 be appropriated this August and s750 in October of next year to the Auditorium company for assisting in the completion of that building, in return for which the city was to have the use of the building two nights a year for ten years for the public school commencement exer- cses. This resolution came as a report of special committee appointed to con- fer with committee from the Auditorium company.
 The Executive Session