Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-02
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
City Council Transacts Routine Business at
Its Session.
BOARD OF REVIEW NOT YET NAMED
Mayor Puts on Matter Another Week
at the Request of Members
of the Council who
Seek Time.

While the city council at its meeting
last night. transacted considerable routine
business. there was little done of public
interest. Contrary to expectations, the
mayor did not name the members Of the
Board OF Review, saying the members OF
the council preferred to have the matter
postponed for one week.
The muddy weather he's caused a de-
msnd for crosswalks. Mr. Smith offered
a motion directing the street foreman to
lay crosswalks at Twenty-ninth and w,
Twenty-slxth and Y, Twentieth and w,
Nineteenth and w. Eighteenth and W. and
Thirty-frnt and streets. o'Connor
wanted a walk laid at Thrty-third and i
streets Both councilmen made strong ar
Kuments for the walks they asked for. but
when Il vas learned that there Is now only
about 500 In the street repair fund, the
mayor said that the laying of the walks
would have to be postponed until there Is
more money in the fund.
A committee of the First Christian church
sent in a communication asking that grad
ing taxes, amounting to S11s, be Cancelled
The com mittee alleged that the tax Is
Illegal and wanted the amount erased from
the books. This matter was referred TO
the city attorney and the finance COM
stated that the congregation OF this church
expects TO commence the erection OF a new
house of worship before a great while.
City Attorney Murdoch and City Engineer
Beal repot ed favorably on the petition for
the grading OF c. street from Twenty-third
to Twenty-fourth streets. The report was
placed on file. The grading of this street
will most likely be done this summer.
An ordinance was read for the first time
providing for the laying of two-plank
sidewalk on the north side of jackson
street from Twelfth street to Railroad
avenue.
An amendment to ordinance No hT per-
tanning to vagrsnts. was read but as none
of the members of the council appeared
willing to father the document 1t con-
signed to the waste basket. This amended
ordinance was a great deal more radical
than some Of the rules of the Fire and Po-
lice board and the council would have
nothing to do with It,
Clerk shrigley was directed to draw
warrant for H750 TO pay interest on out
standing obligations.
After few bills had been ordered paid
the council adjourned for one week
&c. Board of Education.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
Board of Education was held last night.
but little business was transacted. dozen
or so applications for positions as teachers
and janitors were read and placed on nle.
A communication from Bohemian citizens
asking permission TO use a couple of rooms
at the Brown Park school for summer
school was read and the request granted.
Bills to the amount OF 5000 were allowed
This amount included teachers and jani-
tors salaries UP to June 1.
~ 7. arrhitaCt for
the board, were dispensed with, although
Mr.. Davis contract does not expire until
June o.. 1T was agreed that no more archi-
tects would be employed by contract. After
this architects will be employed after COM
petitive bids have been submitted.
No steps were taken to build an addition
TO Madison school, the matter going over
for one week.
A. c. Pancoast, the boards attorney who
was elected at the first meeting in May,
was paid for the month, although A. L.
fulton. the former attorney, has contract
binding the board until June s. Therefore
the board will be compelled to pay for the
services Of two attorneys for May.
HuatlIng for Coal.
The South Omaha packers are again con-
fronted with another coal famine large
proportion OF the coal used at the packing
plants comes from Kansas. Some ship
ments are made from Iowa and Missouri
but the bulk OF the supply is shipped from
Kansas. Under ordinary conditions the
coal comes along every day and in such
quantities that there is a reserve supply In
the upper yards. Since the floods COM
menced no coal from southern points has
been received and the reserve has got dowr
20 almost nothing. From thirty-five &c
fifty cars OF coal are consumed every day
by the packers, with a daily average fol
the year of fifty cars per day,
When the packers became aware yester
day OF the scarcity OF coal draft wal
Immediately made on local dealers for coal
The dealers here supplied what they coulc
spare and then the purchasing agents
turned their attention TO Omaha dealers
with the result that enough coal to las
several days was secured.
One OF the packers said that while h
was not greatly alarmed at the situation
II would be necessary to hustle for Goa
and hustle hard. orders have been sent I
Illinois for coal. and If the railroads cal
and way 20 get the product OF these mine
into the city IT viii be shipped regardless o
cost.
shipping Dressed Mehts South.
South Omaha packers are doing their hes
TO get refrigerator cars filled with dresse
meats and other packing house product
TO the flooded districts of the south. Wit
= shortage of supplies at Topeka and Kar
ERs City, the call for supply OF mea
naturally comes to this point. In case it
found impossible to get shipments throug
from here. meats will be sent from Chicag
10 ST. Louis, and thence north to the elite
In distress 1t was reported here last nigh