Evening star., 1903-07-15
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Meeting Of the City Courcl
Held Last Night.
ORDINANCES ACTED ON
MANY MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
WERE ELECTED.
Stolen Silver Recovered in the Trial Of
VIM Landum-Other Items
of Interest.
ORDINANCES ACTED ON
Evening Star Bureau.
7O1 King Street.

ALfAANDftlA, Nd, July lo Ijo'.
The last meeting of the city council for
| the summer was held last evening, when
a large volume of routine business was
| transacted and several municipal officers
| were elected. A communication was re-
| ceived from Mayor Simpson advising
| against the sending of the city fire engines
| to points at considerable distance outside
| the corporation limits for the reduction of
| fires. The communication also called at
tention to the ordinance requiring the Home
Telephone Company to replace its wooden
| poles with iron ones. The opinion was eX-
pressed that it is unjust to enforce this
requirement unless other companies main
| tanning wooden poles within the city are
compelled to make the same change, but
the mayor believed that all the wooden
poles in the streets should give place to
iron ones. His communication was referred
to the committee on general laws In an
other communication the mayor suggested
the advsablity of change IN the pres mt
method of disseminating charity to the
outdoor poor He criticised the present
method and expressed the belief that bet
ter results could be obtained by th. adop-
ton of arrangements between the ci y and
the Cooperative Charities Association,
| local interdenominational organization.
This was referred to the committee on
poor.
A long discussion followed the reading of
a report from the joint committee on
streets and general laws on an ordinance
to regulate the tanning of public sewers.
Tho original ordinance had been amended
by the committea 30 as to provide for an
assessment of 81 per foot for the distance
from the front of each lot from which a con-
nection to a sewer is made. Mr.. Snowden
thought this plan unfair but it was de-
Tended by Mr.. Leadbeater. chairman of the
street committee, who stated that it was
about tho host hat could he devised after
I y ti,-.. ir,t-o float hI IN
committee. The matter was finally laid
over until the next meeting
A fayorahl report was received from the
street committee on a resolution d 3pro-
nriating as amended a total of $50 =, I'M
prove Gibb0n street west from Lex. street
to Royal street and to do similar work in
F,irfax street from Wilkes street to Frank
lin street rho renort was ,donta1 A rc-
mort from tho same committees recom,ncnd
mo tho annronria tion Of the s,,no of s.OO for
wor,, on a sewer cast In Duke street from
pov.l straat to tho narson,ea of 81 J.ry..
C,tbo1ic Churcb was .donted A o,o Ge-
hat az to the adyisa biIitv of alIowin, ,iti-
IONS to construct nriIate severe I'VE. cc
"a sionad hv the ranort of tho street com
nittea ~, Tho netition of Col E,r.ncis
Sm,th for nnrroiSsion to conStrro+ n .ou,ar
~ g, ,s,Ih stront sou+h ~ voIea s,r.ot
Tba con,rni+tao raoommandad thot tb .itw
hn;1d ~ seu,a nd la to ~ ar
nri.tion of ssnn' C,hairnan aaaba,tar ay
ppiained that The cnrnlnittaa disannro,..a in
ranar,I of Tho nlan for ,ri,-, 70 sa1rars
CnI,naiI for ,ha hi 49, 10 dRisno.aa ~ 80 wa.
,r ~, f;n - 10 ~ ~ .t.. W @ - ~
| n toat o.o,,'t;o m ~ ~ 80 s.,.,,
| flr H. c"r,truction of a ,birtn foot go,
| roadw,y IN r. nkIin s+raat fro-a W,sn:no
| to, straat 70 Aired sSraot u,aS adontad &c
VS. aiso :, rosni,,tion .rnronr;.tina =. s5n1 IN
praveI Grade and pI,ttar 81 as,nb stre,t
| So, ~. t. 80. ',," 4. We .t JPN
| or;atin, t eann ~ . rnd 80 ~ an
| io nf H. hTI, 80. ] ~ 80. for,
! DE- tot .. St nrI tnt "'' '-''
| - -. ~. " .;t; % 80. pt 80. ,, ,.,
" Q. o1,' ~ - onp w. ~ 10
certain improvements in the Peabody
i sot.oi II uulis .hu , J. Soiiii,li zee VI.
| thar the sum of 81 0:lo he annroDrjated anJ
| the report was adopted. A resolution tc
| the effect that the city engineer be directed
20 IePoit u coucii I'm. .ne peet iiieans VI ui an
| nnrno~atio, una u-os rafarrad 70 ~. otro.l
! committee resolution offered by Ml
| Burke to appropriate $50 to drain AMI
| ditch the lowlands on each side of Prlrce
| street from Peyton street to Hoff's run. was
| referred to the street committee.
Common council concurred in the action
| of the board of aldermen resolutions
apprOpriating 5000 to improve Wolfe street
| frcm Lee street to Union street: OD t.
| improve Wolfe street from Fairfax street
| to Pitt street: $1,000 to repair the cutters
| and construct a twenty-foOt roadway IL
| iDp ct RI