The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-21
SYMPATHY FOR
WEST SIDERS
TOO BAD CENTRAL CITY rs NOT
LOCATED THERE.
That's What Mr.. Clemons Said in
Select Council When Mr.. oliver
Told of Sinister Motives and Other
Things Behind Certain Items in
Bond ordinance--Recorder Vetoed
Resolution Providing for Return
Of Major Fincs--Director wormser
Reports s,1e4 Vaccinations.


Ten members of the select council
last night shut down on various at
tempts made by the other nine men,
bers present to amend the bond ordin-
ance by inserting new items and the
measure was passed on second reading
in substantially the same form IN
which IL came over from the common
branch.
The ordinance was first reported
favorably by committee and was then
passed on first reading. When 1t was
called up ON second reading Mr.. Cos
grove offered an amendment adding an
item of $500 for the opening of Price
street between North Main and Hyde
Park avenues. The vigorous objection
raised by Mr.. Clemons to the passage
OF any amendments prompted Mr.. OIL
Yer to make general attack on every
portion of the bond ordinance except
the 100000 item for the paying off OF
judgments
He declared that West Scranton was
entitled to something in the ordinance,
and thought that there was what he
termed sinister purpose" behind the
insertion of many Of the items in the
ordinance. Mr.. Clemon's sarcastic ref
erence to "the old cry of the West Side
having thirty-one per cent. Of the cftys
population" worked Mr.. Oliver UP still
more.
1--WE are the people," said he, "and
we want the rest of the city to under
stand it. We haven't got the most
valuable property in the city, but we've
got our share Of it and we pay big
proportion of the taxes. We know our
rights and we propose to insist upon
them"
REPLY TO MR.. OLIVER.
Its most unfortunate" said Mr..
Clemons, but many of the things pro-
vided for in this ordinance have got
to go to some place besides West
Scranton. We've got to have our GEN.
trail fire station in the central city and
the $4,000 for parks can't possibly be
expended on the West Side. It's alto
gether too bad that the central city
| is not located in West Scranton, and
appreciate the gentleman's feelings,
but we've got to put up with things
as they are"
The Cosgrove amendment was de-
| feated and then Mr.. Oliver introduced
| a couple Of amendments providing for
| a change in the title and inserting the
| sum Of 100000 for the erection of a
| viaduct, striking out all items in the
| original measure except the 100000 for
paying off judgments. Action on both
| amendments was indefinitely post
poned.
| A similar fate overlook amendments
| offered by Messrs. McAndrew and
O'Boyle. providing for new items Of
s., 900 and $4,000 for the repairing and
grading of Pettebone street and the
erection of fire house and police sta
| ton in Bellevue, respectively.
Mr.. Vaughan offered two amend
| ments, which were adopted without
opposition. The one provided for the
advertising of the proposed sale of the
| bonds and the sale of them to the high
est bidder, while the other provided
| that none of the money realized should
be expended until ordinances providing
| for the separate expenditures pass
| councils.
| RECORDERS VETO.
AS predicted in yesterdays Tribune,
Recorder Connell sent in a communi-
| cation vetoing the resolution directing
| the city solicitor to confess Judgment
| in the sum of 1904 in favor Of John J.
| Murphy, esq, the same being the
amount of fines collected by Magistrate
Howe from Charles Major and the in
mates of the alleged disorderly and
gambling house maintained by him.
The recorder stated that the money
was voluntarily paid over, and that he
was strongly against paying it back.
| A motion to pass it over his veto was
! lost by a vote OF IS to /, Chairman Chit
tenden being the only one who voted in
favor of passing the resolution. He ex-
| planned that he thought the place had
been properly conducted, and declared
| that an injustice had been done. Inas-
much as court reversed the magis-
trate's decision, the money would have
| to be paid back, anyway, he said. This
prompted Mr.. Vaughan to remark that
[ the place at the time 1t was raided was
| undoubtedly the rottenest in the city"
| Another communication was received
from Recorder Connell announcing the
| appointment of Rev. DR., Robert f. Y.
| Pierce, pastor of the Penn Avenue
| Baptist church, as a trustee of the
Scranton Public library to succeed Rev.
w. j. Ford, who has recently left the
city. The appointment was unani-
mously confirmed.
A communication from Director of
Public Safety F. l.. Wormser, sent in
compliance with a recently passed reso-
luton, set forth that S,I9t persons OF
| both sexes had been vaccinated at the
expense OF the city, at a cost OF about
$1,000.
The committee on laws and ordI-
nances created some surprise by pre-
senting a lengthy written report recon-
mending that the resolution directing
| the preparation of an estimate OF the
| cost of dredging the Lackawanna river
| be not passed.
| The reasons advanced against the
project and against the clearly allied
one of widening the river to. its orig
inal width were many and varied. II
was pointed out that dredging would
be impracticable. unless 1t could be
continued for a very considerable dis
tance below the city line, because the
| slow flow of the stream below would