Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-11
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Estimates for City Expenditures for Com
ing Year Made BY Council.
APPROPRIATIONS CALL FOR LARGE SUM
Levy Of Eight mills VIII BE Needed
to Raise the s1T4OOO DIstrib-
uted Among the varI-
Gus Funds.

Chairman Dworak OF the finance commit
tee OF the city council handed i'm a report
to the mayor and council last night show
ing the amounts necessary to be raised by
taxation for the carrying on OF the NUM-
clpal government for the fiscal year com
mencinE August ].
The salaries Of the mayor, treasurer,
deputy treasurer tax collector, police Judge.
clerk deputy clerk. city attorney, assist
ant city attorney. city engineer and assist
ants, councilmen, city physician. inspectors
and fire and police commissioners will
amount to S26.5OO Charity is marked down
for $1,000, rent OF city offices. fire halls, etc,
1880, printing and advertising 5000. jail
and board Of prisoners $500, elections and
registration $500, health department $500
supplies for city offices $500 insurance $500
and miscellaneous items $500
Fire department expenses including sala-
ries and new IRE hall, $4,000 police depart
ment $4,000 and public lights $4,000.
For the payment Of hydrant rentals $4,000
IS needed. The sum OF 81, 900 is appropriated
for the public library and 1000 is set aside
for the park fund. Street repairs will cost,
according 70 the estimate, 1900. About
$1,000 is needed to pay judgments. The
interest fund calls for $4,000. This makes
a total OF $174,O0O
The entire revenue OF the city for the
fiscal year ending July 81 OF this year was
S1S9,l99. OF this sum S667 94 was derived
from taxation. City Treasurer Howe re-
ported a balance on hand on July l of
$9O,196.
The report Of the finance committee was
adopted and the levy ordinance and APP
preparation ordinance will be drafted in
accordance with the report. 1t is under
stood that the levy will be mills.
lengthy protest was presented against
the paving of Twenty fourth street. This
protest was referred to the city attorney
and city engineer. The demonstrators pro-
tested against the laying of any kind of
pavement on Twenty-fourth street at this
time and the statement was made that
more than 50 per cent Of the property own
ers had signed the petition.
Fire hydrants were ordered located as
follows: Twelfth and l. Twelfth and ],
Nineteenth and II, Fifteenth and ], Six
teenth and j, Seventeenth and =, Twenty
first and @, Twenty-hfth and Washington,
Thrty-fourth and V, Thrty-fourth and w,
Thirty eighth and V, Forteth and S, Forty
second and s. Forty-fourth and 8, Thirty
ninth and =, Thrty-ifth and II, Twenty
seventh and b, Twenty-eighth and b,
Twenty-ninth and r and Twenty-seventh
and jefferson streets.
A motion by Hewitt was carried making
Twenty-third street a boulevard from the
city limits on the north to M street.
The lease of the ground occupied by
fire hall No. expires in September and
there is some talk OF the city purchasing
ground and moving the building.
Ten cinder sidewalk ordinances were in
troduced and referred. The new plumbers
ordinance was passed and also the ordi-
nance prohibiting the breaking through of
funeral professions by street cars or vehi-
cles.
Special meetings will be held during the
week to take up the levy ordinance.
Mrs. John Carney Dies.
telegram was received In South Omaha
last night announcing the death Monday
afternoon Of Mrs John Carney at Craw.
ford Colo. The deceased was formerly
Miss Tessie O'Toole and about year ago
married Dr. John Gainey of this city and
moved to Colorado. Both DR.. Carney and
his wife have hosts of friends here who
have anxiously watched the daily reports
from the bedside of the sick woman. DR..
Carney has started from Colorado for
South Omaha with the body and is ex-
pected to reach here about Thursday. The
arrangements for the funeral will be an
nounced after the arrival of DR.. Gainey.
sand Brick Scarce.
Local contractors declare that sand
a
hard to get. All brick yards in the vicinity
of South Omaha are working full blast
and at Avery two shifts of men are work
= ing. Owing to the damp weather the brick
u do not dry after being nodded and this
causes delay. Contractors are now send
ing out of the city for brick, as the supply
here is not equal to the demand. Owing
TO the shortage of the brick crop many
who contemplated building this year are
holding of and only brick work absolutely
necessary is being done here now.
Buainess Dull Again.
South Omaha streets are again wearing
q deserted look and merchants are com
planning about falling of in trade. II
is certainly the dull season OF the year
here as far as trade is concerned. Very
few idle men are to be seen on the streets
and the packing houses are working about
the usual hours for the summer season
but In spite of men being at work there
appears 10 be but little going on In tn,
mercantile line. Some merchants do no
look for lively times for another month
then they expect that when the grass cat
tie come in business will be better.
Twenty-third street improvements
For some months an effort has beer
made to secure signers to a petition fo