Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-21
ORATORY IN THE COUNCIL
Property Owners Protest on Moving Frame
Building Into Fire Limits.
LEONARD EVERETT SAYS IT is SPITE WORK
KeeIine Heirs Protest on Paving East
Pierce street and Serve Notice
They VIII Not Pay for
the Same.

The permission granted by the city coun-
Gil to Leonard Everett to move a two-story
frame building onto Twelfth street near
Broadway after the FIRE limits had been ex-
tended by ordinance to include this portion
Of the city, has aroused a strong protest
from owners Of property in that locality and
they made themselves heard at the meeting
Of the city council last night. The protest
ing property owners were willing, however,
that Mr.. Everett be permitted to move the
building, which he proposes converting into
a hotel. provided he would agree to veneer
1t with brick. Mr.. Everett protested
strongly against such requirement being
placed upon him, and in an impassioned
speech accused members Of the city coun-
Gil of venting their personal spite against
him in this matter. He called attention to
the fact that another citizen had been per-
mitted to move a frame building within the
fire limits without any question, but when
1t came TO the matter OF his moving such
a building his personal enemies IN the
council worked OF their private grudges
against him. by extending the fire limits
for the sole purpose of placing a stumbling
block in his way. A motion requiring Mr..
Everett to veneer the building with brick
within thirty days after its removal to
Twelfth street, as demanded by the adjoin-
ing property owners, prevailed. but this &C
tion was later rescinded as the aldermen
failed to see how they could enforce It
after having previously given Mr.. Everett
permission to move the building there with
out any conditions attached.
Protest on Paving.
Mrs. Sophie Keeline and heirs Of George
Keeline filed a formal protest against the
paving, %curblng, grading and sewering Of
Feast Pierce street in front Of their prop
erty and notifying the council that they
would refuse to pay the assessment for
such Improvement. In their protest they
allege that the ~thoroughfare is a state road
and was never dedicated or accepted as a
street and that their holdings are held for
agricultural purposes only and not subject
to municipal taxation and that same had
been so decided by the district court.
The ordinance providing for the change
of grade on Voorhis street was passed after
numerously signed petitions for and protests
against had been read and fled.
A committee consisting Of Mrs. F. NJ.
Wood, Mrs. H. Erickson and Mrs. c. C.
Copeland asked the city to donate one Of it's
lots in Ferry addition for the building OF
a union mission and Sunday school to be
used for no other purpose. Action was de-
ferred on the request.
A petition for the opening of Fourth and
Fifth avenues from Twenty-seventh to
Thirty-ffth street, and Of Twenty-second
and Thirty-fourth streets between Third
and Fifth avenues. was referred to the COM
mittee of the whole.
The contract for supplying the city build
ing police station and fire houses with coal
was awarded to the Carbon Coal company
on its bid OF Centerville lump at S3.9S per
ton. This company now has the contract
for the city, county, school and federal
buildings.
The request of DR.. II. 1. Woodbury. that
the paving assessment against his lot at the
! corner of Seventh street and First avenue
be reduced, led to a lengthy discussion and
some exceedingly pointed remarks from AL
derman Casper, who opposed making any
deduction. The matter was finally laid over
to the next regular meeting.
The Mason City & Fort Dodge Railroad
company was granted permission to con-
struct a temporary bridge over Indian creek
Immediately south OF Ninth avenue, and
maintain same to July !, 1903.
A resolution calling for the laying Of sew
eral miles of new brick sidewalks was in
trOduced. but Alderman Casper opposed ac-
tion on 1t on the grounds that 1t was too
late to do any work this year and that con-
| tracts for much of the kind Of work we're
still uncompleted. After much discussion
the consideration of the resolution was de-
ferred until the regular meeting in De.
cember.