The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-17
COUNCIL AFTER
THE SCORCHERS
Ordinance Ordered Restricting
Them to Six Miles an Hour.
First Ordinance Regulating Working
of Carnegie Library
Passed.
PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL

Inc COuuCll uelu its ASsuAoA AHSS'
ing last night at the city hall, as the
carnival parade was postponed and
the expected adjournment was un
necessary. Councilmen Watson and
smedley were absent.
The mayor handed in the ordinance
authorizing the refunding Of the s2O,-
600 railroad shop bonds, which was
given first passage.
He fled with the board notice Of
the East Tennessee Telephone COM
pany's suit to prevent the collection of
two licenses in Paducah, one in the
shape of 800 and the other in the
shape of 81 for each pole owned inside
the city by the company. He said
that the city treasurer had been in.
structed not to receive any money
from the company if it should in the
meantime offer 1t. and this action was
ratified.
The city solicitor was ordered TO
look after the above suit, also after the
appeal OF the KatteriohD case from
police court relative to wagon license,
and the appellate court decision in the
Registers suit against the city on the
tax list publication.
nLo ,,,.rox x.ac author;1ad m sion
on behalf OF the city sixty days
option on the Old Fort property for
$500. This does not mean that the
property will necessarily be purchased.
The mayor announced that the board
of health had elected two sanitary OFF,
GERS, but that he thought only one was
necessary. The city pest house keeper,
he stated, was idle part of the time,
although under salary, and might be
used as a sanitary officer. He didn't
say what the city would do when
patients got in the pest house, but he
was instructed by the council to order
Mr.. Wheels to do the work of one OF
the officers. If the aldermen concur,
one of the two newly elected sanitary
officers will be dispensed with.
The ordinance repeating the 1890
closing ordinance was handed in with
the mayors veto, but the members
promptly passed it over his veto, as
the ordinance is no better than no
ordinance at all, never having been
enforced. Mr.. Riglesberger voted to
sustain the veto.
Auditor Alex Kirkland stated that
number of inquiries had come in
from eastern concerns relative to Pa
ducahs reputation of the overtime
river bonds few years ago. A circu-
lar letter was prepared and submitted,
giving Q full explanation of the affair,
and the council approved it and or
dered il sent out to those desiring to
know about it. before bidding on the
new bond issue.
Necessary money was ordered ad-
vanced to AGREE and Neimann, who
are building the Tenth and Jones
street fire station.
A petition was received stating that
Judge James Campbell had built a
fencs on public alley opening into
Broadway between 18th and 18th, and
asking that he be compelled to remove
it. Referred to the board of public
works.
First passage was given to an ordi-
nance prescribing fine Of from &5 to
s25 for taking books from the public
library without following the rules,
or for keeping book for longer than
two weeks, a fine OF from s5 to 800.
All fines collected are to be paid into
the city treasury to 90 towards the
library fund.
Second passage was given the fol-
lowing ordinances: Providing for i'm
provemeut of alleyway intersecting the
block bounded by Norton, Jones, 10th
aud 18th. finiEg property owners for
failing to repair sidewalks fronting
their property; filming people dumping
ashes on public grounds; fining peo-
pie who let refuse drop from wagons
onto streets and one fning parties
who obstruct public cutters and pre-
vent the free flow OF water down
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