The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-08
THE CITY
COUNCIL
FIRST Passage Given the Tax
Rate Ordinance Last Night.
The Bond Issue Taken Ur-A Com
mittec Appointed to Look After
the North Side. Station.
MUCH BUSINESS TRANSACTED


realty owned by whites amounting TO
s6,ii2.b50 an increase Of $500, 943
over the assessment by Assessor Stew
arr Dick realty owned by colorod PEG.
pie, sl93, 5I5, an increase of $i4.335
total realty assessment 90, SAG, 1906.
Personal property owned by whites
s2,256, asa, an increase OF seas, $50
over assessors assessment; colorcd
personal property 1888. an increase
OF 81. 100. Total personal assessment
S2,d65.si7. which added to the total
realty assessment makes grand to-
tai of %. $3.50
The rcport showed that City Asses.
sor Dick had failed 20 assess 1871 pieces
Of property valued at sl24, 400 aud
personal estate valued nt slGi, ss5,
max ing n total of sssG, 2s5. Tho fran
chises owned by the Independent Tel.
ephonc company and Psducah Steam
Heating company, wero reduced in
vsluo from Is. 600 TO $500
Market Master Frank smodley
asked permission 10 let merchants
who dosiri 10 buy up marketing at
Wholesale, begin buying at O'Clock
inst al OF s o'clock. and the matter
was referred. The grooers had here.
tofore bought up NIL good marketing
before the residents could get down
TO the market house and the ordinance
compelling them 10 wait until s
O'Clock was passed to remedy the mat
t.r.
The matter OF purchasing typewut-
ers for the Offices of Mayor. Clerk and
Auditor, was referred TO Tie finance
committee.
The request of City Jsilcr Tom
Evitts for permission 20 build sta
ble in the rear of his residence, with
in the FIRE limits, was referred.
The street inspector ami city epgi-
noer were ordered TO repair defective
drainage at Twelfth and Madison
streets.
Tho ordinance committee was in
structcd TO draft an ordinance specify
ing what shall lie weighed on tho city
scales and fixing price on each Diff
orcnt article
The board appropriated 800 TO the
Charity Club TO assist in caring for the
poor.
Mayor Yeiser stated that he thought
something should be done immediate
ly toward establishing an additional
fire station ON the north side, ana
recommended that new station he
built ON the city property near Tenth
and Clay streets or the brick build
ing at those two streets be rented
and used ms a station temporarily.
He stated that Chief Woods
thought he might get along with six
teen men instead Of nineteen as pro.
vidod for in the last act passed by the
city governing the fire departments.
and suggested the police and fire com.
missionors appoint no moro men than
was necossary--if Chief Woods could
get along with sixteen not to appoint
the full nineteen men provided for by
the ordinance.
Mayor Yeiser stated that he thought
the demands OF the insurance compa-
MES are excessive, and suggested the
city meet the insurance men and adj
just the matter in a compromise, II
possible. The fire commissioners and
fire committee was ordered 10 bring
in estimates Of the cost of the new sta
ton.
The matter Of appropriating $4,000
to the Carnegie library board to buy
books, so the library can DO opened
this summer, was referred.
The report Of City Solicitor Puryear
recommending that the city delin-
quent tax list be published once each
week for two weeks in the official or
gan, was. concurred in.
Mayor Yeiser reported the passage
of the second class city charter amen d
ments, and stated that he had heard
unofficially that the Legislature had
passed an act by which cities of the
second class may fix the salary of the
jailer, and il this DO true tho city
would win its suit, which jsiler Tom