Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-10-23

Mrs. Peter Ward and Thomas Me
Caffery who live in thc hollow between
Welsh Hill and the Fourth Ward were
before Council last Friday night for
the third time, to see whether
tile borough could not do something
to furnish them with a suitable outlet
from their properties. Their com
plaint has been that the alley existing
there is so nearly unpassable that groc-
ers Will 30 longer deliver goods and
that they are practically shut in. The
two properties were bought from the
Reading Iron Company, WHO owns the
land intersected by the street complain
ed Of At the first meeting in Sept
ember a doubt was raised as to wheth-
er or not the thoroughfare, which is
commonly known as Holly street, "
has any legal existence as street and
whether the borough has any right to
enter upon it for repairs. The matter
was referred to the Borough solicitor,
who last night made his report
He had referred the matter, he said,
to George W. West, Borough Surveyor,
who in turn reported that he had no
knowledge of any such a thoroughfare
as Holly street " This Mr. Gearhart
said ended the matter as far as he
could go He outlined a procedure by
which the two property owners shut
in might secure an outlet. The ad
vice will probably be acted upon and
street
Mr. Kemmer called attention to the
fact that the contract for the iron
bridge over MahOning creek at Center
street, called for the completion of the
structure on October 10th. Nelson
Buchanan & Co, of Chambersburg
and Pittsburg, are the contractors, and
they have nov vouchsafed single line
in explanation of the delay. On mo-
tion the secretary was instructed TO
write Nelson Buchanan & Go. inform
ing them that the time limit has eX-
pired and asking that the bridge be
completed ut once.
Mr. Davis reported that the cutters
about town are in a very bad cOndi-
tion, many of them Overgrown with
weeds and others choked up with mud
and refuse. He yenturcd the opinion
that if they were not cleaned out this
fall before next spring we would pay
very dearly for the neglect with flood
ed pavements and cellars. Many prop
ertv owners look after the cutters
themselves and keep them in good re-
pairs. 1t was not clear to Council,
however, that this is duty that de-
wolves upon the owners of property
and on motion it was decided that the
street commissioner give the matter
his Immediate attention, cleaning out
the cutters at every place where i'll
need of it.
Chief Engineer Freeze called the at
tention of Council to the fact that the
new hose recently purchased has not
as yet been tested. On motion the
matter was left in the hands of the
Chief, who was asked to fix a time for
the test, when the fire committee of
Council would make it point to be
present. The date decided upon by
Chief Freeze was Monday afternoon
next at , o'clock.
On motion of Mr.. Montgomery the
purchase of a second hand stove was
ordered for use in the lookup. The
one on duty up to the present has be-
come worthless and was sold for old
iron
On motion it was ordered that
telephone extension bell be installed
in the private residence of Chief
Mincemoyer so as to connect him with
the phone in the clerks office. In
this way the Chief can be reached at
all hours day or night.
The following bills were approved
for naympnt