The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
PAY YOUR DEBTS
OR LOSE YOUR JOB
Conditions forState Buildings
to Have Lights.
THESE NOT ACCEPTABLE
Green Trading Stamp Company Must Pay Ii.
cense Of Ten 0oIlars---The Wrong Body
in Cemetery Lot al Mount
Hope.

The city aldermen were in session last
night, and while there was much presented
there was little done.
The Board by its action emphasized the
fact that it wanted the city employees to
pay their debts or get out.
Among other things it placed license
tax of $40 year on the Green Trading
Stamp Company, and also put some cou-
ditions on the right it gave the States
Prison to erect poles and string wires
through the city to the State buildings
that Superintendent Mann says can not
be met.
The Aldermen got down to reports OF
Committee safter City Clerk Wilson had
read to them what they had done at the
last meeting. The first of these to be
heard was the report of the Finance Com
mittee, from which the following is
culled
The collection of Chief of Police Null
Inns for August was reported as $S10.94
and that of Tax Collector Lumsden for
general tax s242S9; special tax, $Se.97;
costs, s23S2. Total, s347.6S.
The claims examined and approved
amounted to s6,0o7.67, some of the items
being salaries. Chief of Police and pay
roll salaried officers $1,93764 Pay rolls,
administration 1880; Health, S220.03 !;
Sanitary, $214.10; Street, s7S0.61; pump,
s51.3O; fire, $321.s5; Park, S1O9.25; Gene
terry $3.50. Total, $1,73334. The bills
audited amounted to $2336.69, among
these being 5000 voted the two miitery
companies and S400 to the four fire COM
panies.
The Street Committee made its report
of work going on and of the disposition
of the stree hands. The police report,
already published in the News and OBJ
server, showed 1872 arrests for August and
the cause of these.
The Light Committee made its report
and submitted three recommendations on
matters before them Two of these were
referred back to the committee and the
one concerning the request from the
States Prison for furnishing electric
lights to the States buildings was adopt
ed, this unanimously and without dis
eussion, after a talk concerning the re.
quest had been made by Superintendent
Mann, of the Prison. The report on this
was from two committees. as follows:
The Street Committee and Light Com
mittee, to whom was referred the apph-
catioR of the North Carolina State
Prison for a franchise to build and main
tain a line of poles and wire through the
streets of the city of Raleigh for the
purpose of carrying an electrical current
from that institution into the city for
the purpose of lighting the State Capitol
the Governors Mansion, the Agricultural
Department. the Supreme Court building
and the Blind Institution, report that
they have considered the same carefully.
We recommend that the application be
granted subject to the following restric-
tions
1.-The States Prison to erect and
maintain arc lights at the four corners
of the blocks occupied by the Capitol. the
Governors Mansion and the Blind In
stitution, and also to maintain lights at
the four entrances to Capitol Square,
from Fayetteville, Hillsboro and Halifax
streets, and New Bern Avenue as are
now maintained.
1.-The Council of State to give their
consent to the States Prison giving bond,
and they giving bond, that these lights
will be lit, kept burning and in all re-
spects maintained up to the standard of
the present city lighting contract, and
under the same regulations.
3.-The line to be constructed on
streets designated by the Board of Elec
trical Control, as in the case of other
electrical and power companies, and the
work to be done under the supervision
of that board.
With these instructions we recommend
that the franchise be granted to the
States Prison.
VIM BoylaD, P. B. Griffs, c. A. Separk
(Street Committee); c. A. Separk, w. NJ.
NOVEL;, VIM. Boylan, Light Committee).
Superintendent Mann addressed the
board and stated that it was not the pur-
pose of the State to make money out of
the State plant, but that the Council of
State thought it could save money by us