The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-07-29
WILLIAM McKIV0R GETS
SECOND STREET PAVEMENT
No Quorum of Council On Last Mon
day Night Meeting Held On
Tuesday Night Following.

The most important feature of the
council meeting last Tuesday evening
was the awarding of the contract for
grading and curbing Second street from
b to Walnut to Contractor McKivor.
While the bid is somewhat higher than
was the one for paving the avenue, Mr..
McKivor speaking in favor of it said,
"both labor and material are higher
now than when Yakima avenue was
macadamized, and l propose to use as
top dressing, crushed pieces of gravel
stone, which will form lasting cement,
instead of the dusty covering now seen
on the avenue" The bid was finally
accepted with Councilman Reed voting
in the negative. The contract caffs--for
$685. per lineal foot or total cost of
curbing and grading of ll,176. Mr..
McKivor's bid was the only one received.
Two bids were rejected by the coun-
Gil for putting down macadamized side
walk on the east side of Second street
between B and d streets. McKivor bid
$l.10 per lineal foot and Aumiller &
Lull A cents per lineal foot if the city
furnished crushed rock for the top dress
ing. 1t is expected that at the next
meeting petition will be presented
asking for cement walk.
Bids were received for supplying the
fire department with 500 feet of new
fire hose. Fawcett Bros. bid and sub
mitted two grades-the "Amazon," ca
pable of 500 pounds pressure and of
standing four years use at SOC per foot,
and Fearless" capable of standing
400 pounds pressure for the same length
OF use, at zoe per foot. The Yakima
Hardware Company also BID and pro-
posed the Boston Betting Co.'S 21a-inch
Imperial cotton hose at 771a cents
foot. The bids were referred to the COM
mittee on fire department, together with
the fire chief. with power to act.
The clerk was instructed to advertise
for bids for the construction of sewer
on Selah St., for the accommodation of
the owners OF the buildings to the north
of Yakima avenue.
The Christian Cooperative Telephone
company, now operating in the Sunny
side country, petitioned for franchise
to erect system in this city. There
was no discussion and the petition was
laid over.
City Marshal Grant was appointed
street commissioner to fill out the bal
ance of the year and it was provided
that he be paid SIS per month addition
al. Harry Larsen was appointed police
officer to fill vacancy.
A lively debate was held over the
matter of the final passage of the ordi-
nance for the Seventh street sewer. 1t
was thought by the signers that some
land outside the city should be included.
Mayor Fechter spoke OF a conversation
he had had with City Attorney Snyder.
Mr.. Snyder requested that another
attorney be asked for advice as the mat
ter of sewering the city was most i'm
portant. "Mr Snyder expressed his
doubt to me-" said the mayor, "as to
whether or not the city could enforce
the collection of moneys paid under the
ordinances as they now read, and that
other attorneys were of the opinion they
could be enforced. For this reason he
requested the advice of another attor-
ney." Nothing was done in the matter,
however, and the final readings OF the
ordinance were not gone through with,
leaving the matter just as it had been.
The following bills were ordered paid.
j. A. Taggard, $50; Columbia Meat
Market, 80 cents Wyman & Fraser, 81;
d. X. Barton, 1885; Yakima Water,
Light & Power Co., water and light,
Sl2.l5; Taft & Taft, $3.50; Charles F.
Kraus, $50. 27 Yakima Hardware Co.,
sl4.25; Yakima Water, Light and Power
Co., fire alarm, $69.95; II. j. Rouch,
1915; Fawcett Bros, $3.50; A. +. Lar
son, 500. go; North Yakima Milling Co.,
S35.07 w. \. Bounds, $40; George Fin
ley $3.50; Kohls Shoe Co., $3.50; Jas
per Mikkelson, 500; c. ii. Denley 4
Co., $3.50.
City Clerk ii. b. Doust then read his
quarterly report and council adjourned.