The age-herald., 1902-03-06

| % Railway to build bridge overhead 7 % at Thirteenth avenue and Twenty . < seventh street, North, passed .
 The meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen last night was long and dam aging to the nerves. The dullness of routine work was disturbed only one time and that by protest from citizens living on Avenue F regarding assess ments for improvements made on the l street.
 The protests were occasioned by the reading of assessments made on property | abutting the avenue which was recently l paved in accordance with ordinance No 50 from Eighth to Twentieth streets The reasons for the protests were:
 The amount is excessive for work done
 Amount is out of proportion to amounts charged for similar work.
 Formal protests were read from MT Henry Behrens, MT. Robert Magnus, MT S. W. Jones, MT. John Lentz, MT F. Bunker, MT. H. H. Behrens, William Aiken, Mrs. Martha Mosely, MT. Arthur Magnus and MT. Thomas E. Lappage.
 Assessments Made Final.
 Alderman Kerr moved that the as- sessments be made fiial. This was ob- jected to by Alderman Harrington, who said he represented his people and thought the price excessive and that the matter should be investigated before they should be made to pay 1t. He claimed the street was now worse than it had 1 been and that inferior chert was used. l He wanted a committee appointed to investigate.
 City Engineer Kendrlck was called upon by Mayor Drennen to state if the work was contract work and if contractors re- ceived only contract price. He replied in the affirmative Alderman Kerr in- formed the protesting alderman that the passing of the ordinance was absolutely necessary according to the law and that 1t did not alter the rights of the people in the least
 MT. Lappage stated that he could have done the work for $2O, whereas the price paid was $5O.4O per yard. He insisted the 1 street was worse than it had been and said the rain had made it a perfect mud hole.
 VIII Clean the Streets.
 Alderman Jones then interposed with plan suggested by the Mayor which had the effect of satisfying the property own- CTS. This was to have the city engineer | put the street in good condition without any extra charge. With this agreement the ordinance was passed. Immediately after its passage a motion of Alderman Jones' to have MT Kendrick do the prom ised work was passed.
 The final assessments on ordinances 24, 25 and 2S were passed. The first provided for work on Second and Third avenues from Twenty-fourth to Twenty-sixth streets. The second for sidewalk im- provements on Third avenue from Twen- ty-fourth to Twenty-sixth streets; on Second avenue from Twenty-fourth to Twenty-sixth streets; and on Twenty fourth street from Second to Third avenue. Ordinance 2S provided for i'm provements on Twenty-fourth street from First to Second avenue. Final assess ment on number 7S, which provided for | work on Twentieth street from Park to Eighth avenue, was also confirmed. An ordinance to ascertain assessment on number was passed also.
 | Upon recommendation of the street committee contracts were awarded as follows:
 Ordinance ss, grading. macademizing. and curbing in Jonesville to Dunn and Lallande Bros. for $40,7A16.
 Ordinance 99. for curbing and paving in s5sS2
 Ordinance no. work on Twelfth street to Burkhalter & Company for $12, ,161. Ordinances Introduced. Ordinances 112 121 122 and 123 were in- troduced. Number 112 provided for side walk Improvements on Avenues F and G from Twenty-seventh to Twenty-ninth, Juniper avenue, Hickory avenue and Vine street to Pine avenue. Number 121 pro- vided for sidewalks on Twenty-third street from Avenue E to Magnolia street, on Twenty-second street from Avenue A to Avenue H; on Avenue E from Twenty second to Twenty-fourth street; and on north of Avenue E from Twenty-fourth to Twenty-seventh street. Number 122 provided for sidewalks on Twenty-third street from Avenue E to Avenue F, from Avenue H to Magnolia avenue; on east of Twenty-third street from Avenue F to Avenue H; and on south of Avenue E from Twenty-first to Twenty-fourth street. Number 12S provided for sanitary sewers in the neghborhood of St. Charles avenue, Florida street and Georgia street.
 Must Erect Bridge.
 An ordinance was introduced by Alder man J. R. Copeland and passed requiring the Southern Railway to erect an over head bridge at Thirteenth avenue and | Twenty-seventh street, North. It pro- 1 vided that if the work was not done in