Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-08-25

| Mulberry and Church streets.
| This arrangement 1T WAS understood,
was purely temporary,a as little later
when paving reaches the lower end OF
| Mill street, which will cause con
gestion about Lower Mulberry street,
it may be necessary to remove the
market to one of the streets on the
southern side of town, while still
later when the improvements are all
completed it may not be found i'm
practicable to bring the market back
to Mill street
4 Friday was the date for the Ian
nual election to fill the various posi-
tions about the Water Works The
election resulted as follows:
Superintendent of the Water Works.
p. j. Keefer;.
First and second engineers, Jacob
Byerly and Edward Bell.
Firemen, George Hullihen and Ed
ward Wertman.
A petition was received signed by
twenty residents of the Third Ward
asking that the alley running from
Walnut to Bloom streets. across the
triangular tract west of j. B. Gear
hart's store, which is unnecessary
aud never used. be vacated by Council.
The triangular tract at present has
no one to take care of it and is very
unsightly and the petitioners, all of
whom reside near, agreed that if the
allev intersecting it be vacated they
will grade AMI sod the tract and see
that it is tax care of.
The alley can only be vacated by
enacting an ordinance. On motion OF
Mr. GoeseI it was decided to vacate
the alley provided the petitioners will
bear the expense incidental to cnIct-
ing an ordinance.
On motion J. j. Smith of Sunbury
was employed by the Borough as an
inspector to look after the work of
street paving. Mr.. Smith is highly
recommended His salary is to be
$500 per day.
Mr.. Reifsnydrr reported that the
canal bridge on Beaver street was
found to be unsafe and that he had
Sechler. General Manager of the Stove
and Manufacturing Company, he said,
had made proposition to the effect
that lie would fill up the canal at that
point provided the Borough or the d.
l. & W Railroad Company would
furnish the pipe for water course.
Council was uncertain as to the own
ership of the canal bridge and no ac-
tion was taken.
Considerable discussion was in
dulged in concerning poles for the
new light plant Mr. Goeser in view
of the great number of poles that
would accumulate upon our streets
favored the leasing of poles from the
Standard Electric Light Company.
Messis. Vastine, Lloyd and Reifsny-
der opposed such a course. They did
not like the idea of entering into a
contract for ten years. They admitted
the inconvenience of having to con
tend with 300 or more additional poles
but they had entered into contract
with the Rnmsey Electrical Manufac-
turing Company which required them
to furnish the poles and the members
did not feel like modifying the agree
ment.
The agreement proposed by the
Light Company was read before Coun-
Gil MIR Davis favored leasing the
poles on Mill street. The agreement,
however, included the poles on Mill,
Market and Bloom streets.
On motion of Mr. Lloyd. seconded
by Mr. Reifsnyder it was ordered that
the light plant be erected according to
the contract
Charles Chalfant, ESD, represent
ing the Danville and Sunbury Street
Railway was before Council TO pre-
sent an ordinance relating 30 right
of way through certain streets of the
Borough He handed the ordinance
to the clerk and asked that it be re-
ferred to the Committee on Streets
and Bridges and to the Borough So
licitor. No action was taken.
The following members were present
Davis, DIETRICH, Goesar, Swank,
Fenstormacher, Boyer, Reifsnyder,
Vastine, Joseph Gibson and Lloyd.
The following bills were approved
for payment:
BOROUGH DEPARTMENT.
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