The record-union., 1899-05-03
CHINESE BONES TO REMAIN.
TRUSTEES OvERRULE MAYOR
LANDS ORDER.
Bids for Street Sprink1ing-Ten
and X Streets Soon to be
Repaired.


AT last nights session of the CITY
Board of Trustees L. T. Hatfield au-
dressed the Board with relation 10
lighting the city streets. He requested
the Board to take immediate steps loI
advertising for bids in order that aii
parties who desired to do so mlsHe
have time to prepare figures. he salo
the present contract would expire III
Slxty-two days, which time he CONSUL
cred no more than sufficient for pros
pective bidders.
On motion of Trustee Kent, the mat
ter was referred to the Street Commit
tee.
Mr. Hatfield also called attention 70
the fact that the contract for furnlsh-
ing motive power for the sewer pump
would soon expire, and on motion 'ol
Trustee Tebbets the matter was re-
ferred to the Sewer Committee, with
instructions to draft the necessary ad-
vertisement for bids.
MAYORS MESSAGES.
Al message was received from the
Mayor. stating that he had counted the
cash placed before him by the City
Treasurer and found in his possession
$1S6, 115 in gold and $4.2S in silver,
total of $1S6, 1923 This amount
agrees with the books of the City Au-
ditor and City Treasurer.
Also that Assistant Chief of the Fire
Department L. Montgaillard, who re-
ceived injuries. at the Metropolitan The
alter fire which rendered him unable
to fulfill the duties of his Office, had
reported fer duty, and that the Mayor
had instructed Chief Guthrie to relieve
the Acting Assistant Chief, Robert
Hunt, and to reinstate said Montgail-
lard as Assistant Chief on the first day
of May.
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
Tebbets read letter from Attorney
Clinton L. White to the effect that the
index to the city charter prepared by
Charles T. Hughes was very valuable
and would be cheap at $50. He moved
that the city purchase the index at the
figure offered by Mr. Hughes-$99- Car
ried.
BODIES WILL REMAIN.
The matter of ordering the removal
of Chinese bodies from Helvetia Gene
terry was taken up, and Trustee Kent
moved that the Superintendent of City
Cemeteries be instructed to let them
remain until ordered by the Board
to remove them.
Dolan moved as an amendment that
the matter be referred to the Corpora
ton Counsel for an opinion as to
whether or not the Board could ignore
the order of the Mayor directing such
removal
Tebbets favored Kent's motion. He
said that, as he understood the matter,
the Superintendent of City Cemeteries
had been ordered by the Mayor to re-
move 200 or more Chinese bodies for
the purpose of raising money to i'm
prove the cemetery. The cemeteries of
the city, he said, were under control Of
the Board of Trustees, and he knew of
no reason why bodies should be or
dered removed by the Mayor for the
purpose of gain without first receiving
the consent of the families or friends
of the dead He thought the proper
thing to do was to let the bodies re-
main until requests for their removal
should be received from the Chinese
companies to which they had belonged.
He understood that at the first step
taken toward removing the bodies
mandamuS proceedings would be
brought against the city.
Dolan withdrew his amendment and
Kent's motion was carried by a unani-
nous vote.
ACTION DEFERRED.
Bids for 5000 feet of iron sewer pipe
We're received from Schaw. Ingham,
hatcher & Co. for $50 50 per ton; Baker
& Hamilton, $50 10 per ton: Holbrook.
Merrill & Stetson, S33, and the Martin
Pine of c.,
cisco. S29. 80
Objection was made to entering into
aieontract with the San Francisco firm
without first investigating as to its re-
liability and further objections were
made to manufacturing firm being al
lowed to compete with retailers by bid
ding at wholesale rates.
In the end the matter of awarding
the contract went over one week.
STREET SPFINKLING BIDS.
Bids for sprinkling the streets were
opened as follows:
John Hughes-District 1, So. 800; dis
trict =. $1,000: district 8, So 100; dis
trict 4, $1,000: district ;, 81 200; district
g. 81 500; district Z, 81 400
Antonio King-District 6: $500
A. F. De Rosa-District 4, 81 800.
Hugh Latham-District ), SS45.
Jose Observation-Disclosures 4, 81 .397.
Antonio Mendez-District, 6, 5000.
L. E. Spurgeon-District g, 5000
f. Twaddle-District ), 81 600
r. w Parker-District 3 81 $50
Silva & McGuire-District l, 1924
Gus Smith-District l, 81, 600: district
2, $3.50; district 8. 81. 1879; district 4,
81 400; district >, $500; district Is,
81 600; district Z, 81 .125.
NJ. Jacinto-District =, $3.50.
t. Nj. Burns and Henry Dehn-Dis-
trict 3, $3.50; district 6, SLIGO; dis
trict Z, 5000.
Frank Brown-District 5, $500: dis
trict 4. $500.
John Wall-District 4, $1,000; district
8, $685..
Meiss Brothers-District 4, S1,499;
district ). 5000
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