The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-08

stiles in making the budget for the
year Do not forget the outstanding
warrants and the $4,000 for the two
5 per cent bonds.
We also recommend that each de-
partment be required to live within the
amount appropriated, and that no addi
tional amount need be expected
We also recommend that the surplus
i'm the Sinking Fund be put to work
instead of laying idle Your COMMITTEES
does not think it out of place to mention
the fact that they had succeeded in the
past year IN investing $4,000 in Raleigh
real estate mortgages, gilt edge. which
is producing in the fund $40 per year
that it had not been receiving. We also
recommend that book be prepared
for the entry of all back taxes from
1882 to date, in this way the amount
due can be ascertained at once, and We
think the city will gain one hundred
times the expense of same. We also
learn that an act was passed allowing
a legal collection of all back taxes fol
five years past. We recommend that
all real estate on which such taxes have
not been paid, be sold with this years
sale of real estate. and that the city take
a deed for same, according to law.
Your committee also wish to express
their thanks to Mr. H. f. Smith fol
his faithful and laborous services tc
the committee as clerk. All of which is
respectfully submitted.
c. c. MCDONALD. Chairman,
JOHN c. DREWRY.
II. w. MILLER.
Aldermen Mcdonald, for the Finance
committee. made the following recon-
mendations, which were adopted:
THE Finance committee to wncm was
referred the location of hydrants r com
mend that the water main be GAtendcd
to the corner of Saunders and Tucker
streets and that one hydrant be plac d
at the corner of East and Oakwood
avenue.
'.As to the one for the corner Of Jones
and Elm streets and corner Of Swain
and Cabarrus streets, we ask for further
time in order to consult with III" Chief
of the Fire department, as to the ne
cessEty for same.
Your committee - whom was REFER
ed the location OF fire alarm boxes, re-
commend that one be placed at the cor
ner of Fayetteville and Cabarrus streets
and one at or near the STANDARD Oil
Company's plant"
Aldermen Mcdonald also presented Fhe
annual reports of the Fire committee
and Light committee, which were adopt
ed. These were publisaal IN the News
and Observer yesterday.
Chief Mailer, of the Fire department.
made the following report, which was
referred to the Finance committee:
During the past Is months have
furnished the street and sewer depart
1nents with Il total of 1.S00 fet Of hose
for sewer flushing, etc. At present the
fire department is short 500 feet of thrir
required amount Of hose and would ask
that authority be given for the purchase
of 1000 feet at once, charging 20 feet
To sewer and street departments which
think would be Il fair allowance for
LOO fest furnished hen!
Mr.. w u. Blake, Street Commissioner.
and Engineer Of Sewers. ade Il report
on the new intake connection of the
Raleigh Water Company stating that The
work had been completed in a satisfac-
tory manner and that he did not ap-
prehend any further trouble from aci.l
contamination.
PHYSICIANS FINAL REPORT.
The committee of Physicians nla,;v
their final report. 1t is as follows:
March 18th 1899
ITO tbs Honorable Board Of Aldermen
Of the City of Raleigh.
''Gentlenen: Your committee of nhy-
siG;ans, appointed early i'll the present
month to investigate the condition of
the city's watersupply. submits herewith
its final report, which is supplementary
to the report presented to you on the
10th instant.
In furtherance of the purpose then
stated to You, we sent q sample of the
city water to the Bacteriologist of the
State Board Of Health, DR.. Albert Az
derson, Of Wilson, \. c., and a'<9 10
DR.. a. G. Abbott. Director of the Lab
oratory Of Hygiene Of the University
of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. for
meteorological examination In addition,
we submitted another sample 20 the
State Chemist, Mr.. A. " Blair, for
chemical analysis. The reports of these
three gentlemen are hereto attached
THE chemical analysis shows decided
Improvement in the water, when com
pared with the analysis made On the
DIST and 24th of February. but, on ac-
count Of unnatural hardness anal a CON
siderable quantity of sulpnat" of ron,
which is also unnatural. it must still
be ruled out of the class ct pure, health
ful water
Both of the psychologists report an
absence of all deleterious bacteria from
the samples of water we sent item.
Therefore, with the exception Of the
sllphuric acid contamination which
ought to be corrected and ue"paftcr pre-
vented by the new location of the waieI'
|company's SUPPLY pipe NJ = distance from
The Phosphate millS--tha city has 4
very good water thoth CHI micaliy aad
bacteriologically)- resent
But it must not be forgotten, that,
owing to the character OF the water
shed, the fact that our water is pure
at any definite date is NO guarantee that
il will continue So And, indeed. both
Drs. Andersen and Abbott have, n the
|past, found intestinal bacilli II j..
In conclusion, your committee desires
To reiterate and emphasize the recon-
|mendaticnS made in its preliminary re-
port Of March 10. The most important
thing TO be done. in order TO secure the
continued purity of our Wmer-suqply
is the constant and careful policing of