Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-03-06
A POPULAR VOTE
TO BE TAKEN ON THE
MUNICIPAL LIGHT
ING
Question, at the City Election 10 MAY
Tickets to be Prepared and Submit
Last Night.

ted-Regular Session of Council
Last Night.
The city council held its frs
March meeting last night with al
members present.
After the roll call the routine bust
ness vas taken up. Mr.. Blickwede
recommended that the street com
missioner be instructed to construct
a gutter across the sidewalk on the
east sidr of south eleventh street be
tween | and ] streets. The recon-
Inendation was concurred in.
The matter of the bad condition
of the alley between eighth and ninth
streets from G TO II was referred tc
to the committee on streets and al
leys. Mr.. Blickwedel moved that the
street commissioner be instructed &c
clean out the ditch on south | street
from ninth and eleventh streets. Re
ferred to street commissioner.
A communication from a commit
tee of the board of trustees of ST.
Stephen shospital asked that the bill
north c street be paid by the city, as
lEC doSpludl 10 d LID Ok luStlbu-
ton. The request was granted and
the city will pay the bill.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Mr.. Kennepohl offered the follow
ing resolution:
Resolved, By the common council
of the city OF Richmond that IL is the
sense of the common council of the
4. - ~f Dsal~@- A.. za,1 4o,,,1@
council shall proceed to build, erect
and equip an electric light plant,
with sufficient power to furnish
lights of sufficient number and power
TO light all the streets, alleys, ave
nues, highways, public buildings and
public grounds of the city, as well as
TO furnish all private consumers with
electric light that may desire to use
the same; and be it further
Resolved, That it is the duty Of
| the common council to thoroughly
| acquaint itself with all the facts re
lating to and in connection with the
building and operating of an electric
light plant.
The resolution passed by a unani-
nous vote.
# WI. IACDlChDl lin thCA pIC@Ihtto q
resolution providing that the matter
Of municipal ownership of al electric
light plant be submitted to the peo-
pie at the coming spring election.
This resolution also passed unani-
rnously.
A petition was presented to cause
TO be constructed an intercepting
sewer from south E and sixth streets
north to south A street; also a lateral
on south G street from sixth tC
eighth. Referred to b. p. l.
A petition for a stone or brick
crossing across south seventh street
just south of the alley between the
Huntington hotel and Stevenson's
livery barn was granted.
Mr.. Whelan called attention to the
condition of north tenth street from
the bridge north to the corporation
streets and alleys.
John H. A. Schneider pre-
sented a claim to overcharge
for rolling north D street between
t II afHfsnth 1893 agd north sixteenth
not allowed. Mr.. Schneider ssfass
presented a claim for sodding sousn
seventh street and south tenth
street parks, amounting to $151.3 30.
This account was presented to the
council and they allowed but $136. 30
and retained SIS until June l. The
matter was laid over.
Mr.. Whelan called attention to the
bad condition of the alley between
north tenth and eleventh streets,
from G. to ]. Referred to committee
on streets and alleys.
A petition was presented for the
grading, graveling and bowldering
the first alley south OF Main street,
between south twentieth and twenty
first streets. Referred to board OF
public improvements.
The petition for an alley between
fourth and fifth streets, running
from south A to south B streets, was
referred to the city commissioners.
The contract for repairing the en-
gineer's wagon was let to the Schnei-
der Carriage company.
The committee on public buildings
and grounds reported that the
proposition to heat the city building
with steam generation by the cream
atory would be more costly than the
present system. The report was
filed and adopted.
The committee on streets and al
1eys to whom was referred the mat.
ter of repairing the street roller re
ported that the Kelly o.
Springfield had offered to allow 81, O0(
for the old roller in part pay for q
new one. and recommended that the
committee be instructed to close such
il contract, Mr.. Kennepohl said that
the old roller could be put in good re
pair for $500. The committee was
instructed to find out the cost of put
ting the roller ia repair and report a,
the next meeting.
The finance committee reported
that it is necessary to make
a temporary loan of SIS, 00C
in anticipation of the spring
taxes, for the purpose of meeting the
current expenses of the city govern
ment, and presented a resolution
providing that the finance commit
tee be authorized to negotiate said
loan. The resolution was adopted.
An ordinance was adopted making
it unlawful for any person to modest,
use or interfere with the curb boxes
Of the Richmond City Water Works.
A communication from II. T. Var
van in regard to his system of heat
ing was received and placed on file.
In this communication Mr.. Yaryan
expressed the belief that the plan of
having a light plant connected with
a heating plant for entire city is not
feasible at this time