The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-06-27
Busy Session
Of City Dads
Contract for Paving Reported let
and Action Of COMMITTEES rati-
fled. Other Business.

AT city councils session laSt FRIDAY
night Keenan,. Kessler, Hurst, Moore,
Lewis, Hart, Long and Seely were
present, and Mayor Grille presided.
The reading Of the minutes Of the
previous meeting was dispensed with.
Street Superintendent 1senhart
made - written report of the work
done on the streets. He reported a
piece OF pavement on Pike near depot
street completed, Lee street Is partly
worked out, also Sixth. Some work
has been done on Cemetery street. a
culvert IN the East End is finished. A
culvert at the West End has been
dltched. Some holes have been rocked
ON Main.
An ordinance was introduced by
Councilman Seely requiring hotels,
restaurants and boarding houses to
pay $40 licensef for porter; that said
porter shall wear badge OF bis hotel;
that transfer wagons with two horses
shall pay license of 90; transfer wag-
olls with one horse, 50: hacks with
two horses, s5; and hacks with one
horse, Ss. The penalty shall be a fine
ofnot less than 81 or more than $40,
and in default imprisonment Of from
] to 30 days. The ordinance shall take
effect in 10 days after its passage. The
ordinance passed its first passage,
Keenan, and Hurst voting against 1t.
Bills were allowed as follows;
Street pay roll..... 81
Water works. .................. Oh 10
d. ID. Britt. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES" "a 90
Fire Department. ............. 81 90
The water Committee recommended
the purchase Of IL inch cast iron
pipe from the water station to the
tanks; also a 2 inch line on Webster
avenue. The recommendations were
adopted.
The committee on walks and pave
ments reported that pavements On
Main between Sixth and Fourthshould
be made Of cement; that repairs are
necessary on Main from Second to Wa
ter; also relaid and repaired on Pike
from Third toWater and on the North
side of Pike east of Elk creek; brick
pavements on both sides Of Clay
street; brick pavement five feet wide
on east side Of Oak; the laying Of
sawed stone between the Waldo hotel
and the Baptist church; also repairing
of West Pike and Locust west Of Syca
more. All this work was directed to
be in Clarksburg brick and done by
the city streetpaving furce, except the
stone work on Main between the Wal
do hotel and the Baptist church, which
has already been contracted for.
The finance and street committee
jointly reported that the contract haa
been let for the pavement onN Fourth
north Of the Glen Elk bridge and w.
Pike street west of Sixth. The con-
tractor is P. S. Boxley. The work is
to be finished August 20. The action
Of the committee was ratified, Ham
mond brick is to be used at $1.74 a
square yard. The curbing is to be 4
by "a inches and will cost "A cents per
linear foot. The water inlets cost
s40.50 each.
NJ. Frost & Company were given a
rebate OF license tax for one month.
The application of ]. F. Jones for a
brick pavement at his apartment
house was referred TO the street COM
mittee.
Councilman Kearns' motion that
nine hours constitute a days labor in
the water works and street depart
ments carried unanimously.
The petition of Mrs. Carrie Nc
Wicker for a retaining wall on Mouth
cello avenue was referred to the street
committee.
Building permits we're granted to
Mrs. Elizabeth Boring for stable on
Mechanic street, to S. H. Guss for one
story frame dwelling corner Of Me-
chanic and Sumner, to d. and o. p.
Boughner for one store corrugated iron
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