The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-04
m|Ck Work BY COUNCIL.
CRY EMPLOYEES ARE PAlD OFF roR
THE MONTE.
Franchise foe Co.'S
sessAaiea street Car AAnes ID ne-
ferreA. After = Warn Debate, -.
= Speeial comniatee - S4ven.

Tome quick work Was doue yesterday IN
- matter Of paying on the city employees,
= that they might have . little extra
noeDding money for the Fourth Of July.
~ council had agreed II , previous meet
~ to pay for one-haif month n advance
n Tie usual pay dAy. which comes on the
fnuth Of each month. AT 10 O'Clock yes
A6eday morning the auditing COMMITTEES
- and approved the pay roll The coun-
= INST at noon and passed the requisite
neusoprfafion bill. and III q little after 1
eieiock the compfrcIer's and treasursr's
cl3ces were busy paysne on the employees.
- total amount diabursed being more
en- $4,000. II was distributed a. follows:
General fund, sis.3e4.Ss water. c.7zs1:
en- park. ssss: library. tSN.7s: total, ST.
4ne session Of the city council, which
ceuvsned yesterday al noon. was not In
the nature Of an extra neses0n- At the
eogulax session last week adjournment
Vas taken until noon yesterday. instead OF
% o'clock last night In view OF the fact
that the exefcises for the celebration OF
ne Fourth began last night.
In addition TO the apprcpris ton for pay
,nx employees. the chief Dusiness before the
council WAS the appropriation Of 9eD to-
ward the celebration Of the Fourth. and
tho Fslyth- Lowman consolidated street car
franchise. which. after considerable dis
cusston. vas referred 10 4 new committee
Of seven
The passage Of the bill appropriating $50
Tor the celebration Was . foregone conciu-
sion. test vote was taken on the mat
ter some tiEno ago. and the ball WAS re-
9erred to DIR. Crichfon ~ = committee OF
one. tnstruct.nw him 10 report 1t back TO
The eounciI fnvorably- This he did. and
tho bill was promptly passed.
The franchise blfi Was not no promptly
disposed al. II was called up by Muldoon,
who moved 10 take II from the hands OF
the committee ON corporations and refer
Il 10 . special committee OF seven. to be
q amend by referring TO the committee
At the whole. before which he contended
The matter must finally come The amend
-CAstiemAn. Crawford. crichton. Hin, Ma
vim, RUDE Nays-Diller. Gill. James.
1cArdle, Muldoon, Taylor. Rinehart-7.
eomm,ssss 81 seS S was "a then carried e ~
The following vote: Yeas-Crawfort, Dti-
Ter. ON. James. McAsdle, Mnidoon.. Tay-
-, Rinshsrt-s. Nays-Cssiieman. crfeh-
The chair subsequently, appointed the
following ~ the special committee OF sew
On: James. Crawford. Taylor. Diller. GIN.
The report Of the port warden for tho
monih Of June was referred to the COM
mittee on harbors and wharves Other
coQ1mtuicAIio08 ana pcfttto0& were REFER
red to committees a. follows:
Prom w. 7. Baker, proposing to light the
city for period Of ten years. sappiying
~ arc lights Of 1000 candle power each,
II SD each per month. the city TO supply
the poles and care for the system. and the
entire system to be transferred 10 tho city
free Of cost at the expiration Of the period
Of ten years: committee on lights.
Petition Of John b. Wright for permits
sion to lease the water mains In Fremont
for establishing q private water system;
ford. councilman from the Ninth ward.
Communication from the hoard OF public
works, inclosing two petitions from W. +.
Baker for leave to construct pole Inca ahou.
the city. said petitions being approved by
tn board: committee on corporations
Offer of Fred Gasch. to eompromise
grade tax. adjudication.
Petition for two-inch wates main on
Twenty ninth avenue, fire and water.
yef wallace, OF the ire department. 10 pay
his board bill. finance.
Roger 3. Greene. for correction Of assess
menf: claims.
For tho vacation OF Jacobs avenue:
streets
An important Improvement was ordered
n the grading. sidcwalkinE and parking OF
East Denny way, between Twentieth and
Twenty first avenues. the Improvement TO
~ made under the bond system.
A petition from the Seattle & Montana
Railway Company. more familsariy known
~ the Great Northern. tor the establish
ncnt of two fire alarm boxes at Smith
cove, 50 as to AFFORD protection for the
hrge property % the company now located
there, Nas referred TO the committee on
0re and water.