The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-02-17
Much of the Important business Was
Left Open for Further
Action
TRACK EXTENSION DEFERRED

Mayor Yeiser recommended that .
toilet closet be placed in the women's
department of the city Jail and also
that similar closet be placed on the
second floor OF the city hall. The
matter was referred to the public i'm
provement committees Of both boards
with the mayor.
Mayor Yeiser stated that as the
city ordinances had been revised he
thought the next thing to do was to
have came printed together with the
charter. but no action was taken.
A petition from many merchants
aad clerks was read and referred to
the joint license committee. The pc
tition asked that the labor license tax
ordinance be repealed as to the clerk
clause.
The bill against the city, presented
by the News Democrat Publishing Co.
for the month of January, and smount-
ing to s42. SO, was allowed condition
ally. There seemed to still be some
friction in regard to the three cent
compromise recently effected, as the
city wants to pay cents per line for
the first insertion and cents for ev.
cry subsequent insertion. This was
not embodied in the agreement reached
by the council and publishing compa-
ny.
The regular bills against the city
were allowed along with the / y per
cent commission to the tax collector
for collections up until February l6,
1904 The motion to allow the school
board the amount asked with which
to operate the schools was adopted.
Contractor 4. q. Terrell presented
three estimates against the city ana
board of education for payment. One
was against @. NJ. Leake for s52. IS.
for work done ON Ninth street proper
ty. A contract was entered into by
Mr.. Lsake and Mayor Lang, who was
at that time in office, to the effect that
IL Mr.. Leake would give the city
enough property with which to open
q street that the city would stand his
expense Of street Improvement The
certificate of ex-Msyor Lang was pre-
sented and the estimate allowed Mr..
Terrell. The other two estimates were
against the school board for work done
on streets running in front OF school
houses and were referred to the school
board.
The matter of placing steel shelving
in the tressurer's vault at the city
hall was referred to the mayor and
public improvement committees OF
both boards.
There was much talk over the re-
quest from the Seacoast Mineral 90.
and the basket factory people for a
spur railroad track running along Mey.
ers street. Tho matter had been re-
feired to Engineer Washington by the
committees that met last week to dis
cuss the matter and Mr.. Washington
thought the street too narrow. Coup.
Gilman Potter talked against granting
the spur as it made the street too mar.
row, he thought. Councilmen Han
non and Taylor spoke against ii also
for the same reasons as Councilman
Potter. Councilman Voolfolk and
Hummel strongly advocated granting
the privilege. Mr.. George Dams, sec
rotary Of the Commercial club, made
a short talk saying the basket factory
people would not come here unless
they could get the track. The motion
to allow the spur to be placed in was
lost and Councilman Hummel's mo.
tlOn W h'tNhAhb
second the matter was for the time
being dropped.
First reading was given the amend
ment to the superintendent crdinanc,
which substituted s37, 900 for streets
instead of s22, 900 and s35. 900 for
schools instead OF S27, 900.
The matter Of increasing the mum
Der Of firemen to 10 with two captains
and one chief was referred. The ordi
nance raises the salary of the firemer
to $50 pr month and the captains t.
500 per month.
Councilman Hummel did not thini
that this was right and stated that thu
court of appeals had decided that thu
power to Fix such salaries lay with
| the oouncil and that the council Woul(