The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-12

A considerable amount of routine
business was transacted at last nights s
meeting of the common council and 1t
adjourned to meet next Thursday night
as lis next regular meeting night will
be Christmas.
At the next meeting Senator-elect p.
r. Calpin and Representative-elect Fred
Phillips will resign their seats from the
Sixth and Eleventh wards as they will
enter upon their legislative duties ut
Harrisburg on the first Monday in Jan
uary.
1t is probable that no one will be
elected for the uneXpired term of Mr..
Phillips, as it is only about three
months. Mr. Calpin has IL year and
three months to serve, but few months
ago q joint committee of council re-
duced the representation Of the Sixth
ward from two members to one and it
is probable that the retiring senator
elect may have no successor.
When the select council resolution
was read last night providing for a
mandamus on the director of public
works to compel him to cause u bridge
to be erected over the Roaring Brook at
Ash street, Mr.. Keller wanted to know
the purpose of it and If it was the fair
thing to do under the circumstances.
THE bridge is necessary, and I want
to see it built" said Mr.. Keller, but is
this the quickest and best way to get
this improvement?
Mr.. Glenn moved that the resolution
be referred to the city solicitor for an
opinion as to the powers of the director
in the matter of building bridges. This
motion was adopted
These resolutions We're introduced and
adopted: For fire hydrant at Reynolds
and Adams avenue in First ward; re-
questing the streets and bridge commit
tee to visit North Main avenue and
Reese street and ascertain the condi
ton of the sidewalks on Main avenue
and to recommend some means to i'm
prove the present condition; directing
the recorder to execute a lease on be-
half Of the city of Scranton with the
owners of the Keyser Valley hose house
for term of three years at a rental Of
$3.50 per year; directing that the sewer
assessment against the Calvinistic
Methodist church at South Main ave-
nue. and Lands street, Sixth ward, be
eXonerated and the city controller is
hereby requested TO include in his esti
mate for the fiscal year, 1903, the
amount of said assessment.
The new ordinances introduced and
referred to committee We're: For two
electric lights in the First ward at
Rock and Gilbert streets and on Mary
street near Leggetts Creek breaker;
for an electric light at Academy street
and Fillmore avenue in the Fifth ward;
for an electric light at Blucher avenue
and Elm street, in the Nineteenth ward;
for electric lights in the Twentieth
ward at South Webster avenue and Lo-
Gust street. Cedar avenue and Camp
bell street and Irving avenue and Palm
street. Among the ordinances passed
on first and second readings was one
creating the office of ordinance inspect
or concerning which there has been so
much controversy and another award
ing The Tribune Publishing company
the contract for printing and binding
report.
The following ordinances passed on
third reading: For an electric light at
Grand View avenue and Boulevard,
merging certain uneXpended balances
of the year 1901 and providing for the
payment of certain deficiencies prior to
the year 1902; authorizing the purchase
of q street sprinkler and street sweeper;
for an electric light in the Seventh ward
in Lords court, Seventh ward; provid
ing rules for the public parks of the
city; for an electric light at South
Webster avenue and Ripple street,