The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-06
City Council Takes Action on I'm
portant Improvements. .
PLANK PAVING AND SIDEWALKS.
Protests of Employees Whose Salaries
Were Not Raised Creates Discord
Among City Fathers-Captnfns of
Fire Department object to Re-
ceiving Less Than Engineers
Under Them-Reconsider Bill.

Street improvements occupied AZ great
share of the meeting of the city council
last night, and much important action In
this line was taken. The council ordered
the following work:
For replanking Ninth avenue, from Yes
Ter way to Jackson street; for repianking
Westlake. Lake and Ewing avenues. from
clyde 10 Aurora streets, which u IN the
town OF Fremont, beginning at the end Of
the city bridge near the old Paclnc MIL
and following the street car line 10 within
a block of where that line leaves the rail-
road track on its way to Green lake; for
planking James street, from Second TO
Sixth avenues; for planking Spring street,
between First and Third avenues Tor re-
planking Jefferson street between Yesler
way and Fourth avenue; for grazing,
parking and laying wooden sidewalks on
Mercer street east. from Broadway TO Bel
mont avenue. at on estimated cost OF
1880, for grading and parking Eastlake
avenue Howard place. Howard avenue
north and Lynn street east. from Mercer
street 10 the south line of the Denny
Thurman addition.
The matter of replanking Yesler way,
from Fifth to Fifteenth avenues, and the
proposed Jackson street improvements
were laid over for a week, and similar
action was taken regarding paving the
alley In block 8, Maynards addition.
Bills were passed providing for the 9TH
er improvements. as follows: FOR SIDE
walking and parking Highland drive. from
Seventh avenue west to Boren avenue,
the sidewalks and curbs to be or con-
crete: for planking the alley between
Western ana First avenues ana 0HiNeI-
sity and Union streets to lay a two-inch
water main for short distance in Re
publican street and Boren avenue Tor
laying two.inch water MAN l IN Se's seo
feet: for filling in the block on Fifth ave-
nue. and Lane street, owned by the city,
where the city stables are located.
A bill came UP for it's first reading pro-
viding for grading. sidewalking and park
ing Prospect street. from Second to Fifth
avenues.
The council declared its intention of
making the following improvements, and
set March ~ as the night when the prop
erty-owners would be heard: To lay an
iron stone pipe sewer in Twenty-fourth
avenue south, from Dearborn to Day
street, in Irving street from $50 feet east
of Twentyfourth avenue south TO that
avenue and Day street from Twenty
fourth avenue south to Bradner place. to
connect with the main sewer crossing Day
street east OF Twenty sixth avenue south;
to lay an ironstone pipe sewer In Irving
street from $50 feet east of Twenty fourth
avenue south to Bradner place; to grade
park and sidewalk Alder street from
Broadway to Twelfth avenue: to lay
sewer In Eighteenth avenue, from 100 feet
north of Yesler way to l2O feet south OF
Marion street.
Trouble over Salaries.
The passage of the ordinance increas-
ing salaries of various city employees has
raised storm of protest from those not
effected and others VINO re Zee, An snat tney
ton of II came with the reading of the
request of the Seattle Building Trades
Council that carpenters employed by the
city be paid the union schedule of 50 a
day. Then this was followed by nu-
merously signed petition from the street
department protesting against the omis-
sion OF those employees from the fruits OF
the saRry ordinance, and from the team
sters and cart drivers, who asked that
they be paid $50 a month Tor double
teams and $50 n month for single teams.
Lastly came the protest OF the captains
OF the fire department, VINO protested be-
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raised above them In pay. and that even
the engineers under them were advanced
50 that they got greater pay than their
supcriors the captains. gill moved thar
consideration of this be indefinitely post
poned and followed with a statement of
his reasons. holding that the captains did
not deserve any more pay than the or
binary firemen; that their life was lazy
one without responsibility, and that the
engineers deserved much greater pay, etc
He said that the captains had always been
a disturbing element in the department.
and that he would be In favor of abolish
ing the office OF captain. He followed
this with praises for the carpenters and
said he favored that they be paid the
union scale This statement brought
protest from Criehton. who said GIN
working for reelection.
Crichton followed with a short speech on
the alleged multifarious uutics OF the fire
captains, and believed that IL there was
any difference in salaries, as compared
with the captains OF police, II should be In
favor OF the former.
McArdie later introduced a bill providing
that the head carpenter OF the city be paid
S. q a day, ordinary carpenters 81 "A day,
and common aborers s.. q day. This hin
aud all the other matters relating TO sal
aries we're referred 10 the committees on
labor aud finance.
Routine of the Council.
Tho matter Of the revocation of the
LIQUOR license OF Charles W. Shomo was
laid over for a week.
The Tacoma city council was Invited %
visit the Seattle council at it's session Of
February ~,
r. n Fsrr and others pctitioned for an
arc light at Thlrty-second avenue and Yes
/ Ter way, referred
Tho Puget Sound Min Company asked
/ that the city iay water pipes In Madison
/ IN IL