El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-18
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SHORT POLES
Several Property Holders
Register Kicks
MUST REMOVE SHACKS

MUST REMOVE SHACKS
The Council Transacted Bushes.
Promptly Under the Able DlreC
ton OF Acting Mayor Burton.
The city council came to or
s Mseo 1sss nl sresens without and MAYOR on
motion of Mr.. Badger Alderman Bur.
ton was chosen acting mayor protein.
II am much obliged to you, gentle
| men, but 1 would rather not have had
it," was the speech made by the new
| mayor on taking the chair.
AS the minutes were not yet read y
| the reading WAS dispensed with. The
mayor then called for the reports Of
| that he had nothing some one suggest
ed that the rollcall ought to come in
some where aud when this was acted on
it was found that every alderman in
the city was on hand.
The report of the city treasurer was
referred to the finance committee.
The following bills were allowed.
Ellis brothers. printing burial
PERMITS w
Fenchler brothers, supplies for
pest house. 10 10
Street commissioner, weekly
payroll for work on street
and park. ......-.........-.. oIOO
Fassett and Kelly, sundry hard
ware supplies for street COM
missioner's department.. 80. 4S4
Fssse,t and Kelly, city en-
gineer's department for
sewer work. Observation-Disclosures. l9I ~
nd l TAI
for sewer department. 1870. % o5
Ren.y Breiten, weld iron and
two braces for city engineers
department NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. "a
The report of City Engineer VIM
berly recommending that petitions ask
ing for the construction of sewer late
rails be granted was approved and re-
concentrations ordered carried out. On
recommend alton of Chairman Badger
of the street improvement committee
81. A. Kezer was granted permission
to lay q pipeline from the Consumers
Ice cOmpany's plant to his hotLoaee.
Chairman Drummer of the fire ard
water committee, recommended that
the owners of the Chinese shacks on
Oregon street be notified to move them
outside the FIRE limits and the recon-
mendation was adopted.
OWNERS PROTEST.
The following petition was then read
and received and filed:
Ell PASO, Texas, May II, 1900.
To the honorable Mayor and Board |
of Aldermen for the City of Ell Paso,
Texas.
Gentlemen: Replying to the petit
tion presented to your honorable body
at regular meeting two weeks since,
10 reference to the frame building IN
block "a, on South Oregon street, and
b longing to the estate of Thomas
Howard, ct ais of St. Louis, Mo-, MIR.
E. V. Berrien, the signer of the petit
tion, seems to have. ''all of sudden"
awakened from Van Wrinkle period
of lethargy, TO the idea that the frame
buildings, some little distance from
his property, are disgrace and men
ace TO his and other buildings In the
block.
During the existence of the buildings
no one of many other property owners
has made a similar complaint. 1t
is true the buildings are not |
Of modern construction or !
style, but they are not |
more likely to burn than some other |
block, also fronting On South Oregon |
street, and occupied by the very same |
class OF tenants.
The existence of the buildings COM |
planned of does not now, and has never !
added anything to the rate of insurance |
On any property in the block. The |
buildings are, perhaps, little off of |
The line of the block, but in no wise do |
hey obstruct the free passage in front
II them.
The owners of the property realize |
hat the property is too valuable for
uoh class OF improvements, and pro-
pose, In the near future, to remove
hem In order to erect q substanti al |
orick block. In the meantime 1 re-
pectfully ask your honorable body to
lefer action on the petition of Mr.. E
V. Berrien. Very respectfully,
estate OF THOMAS HOWARD, EFT AL,
BY I. 81. CONKLIN, Agent.
The following communication was
e ad:
Ell PASo, Texas, May II, 1890.
20 the honorable Mayor and City Coun-
oil of FL Psso. Texas.
Gentlemen: The undersigned would
call your attent ton to the
hort pole, to b used as brace by the
International Electric Light 81 Power
cm psny. placed on the north side of
.irsle Plaza, opposite the Mills and
'laZa blocks. ;
This pole Is detriment to adjacent d,
roperty, an eye sore apd nuisance,
nd we would respectfully petition
our honorable body TO orler it's re-
,oval.
Very respectfully.
HORACE B, STEVENS, Apt r
[. r.. WOOD, agent for and at the re- G
quest of AUG. G. Apd-eas.
JAMES MURDOCH,
HERALD News Co.,
Chairman Bruuner, of she fire and :
'ater committee, said that he had re-
eived more than one dozen complaints +