The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-22
The Work on Kentucky and JEFF
ferson Street This Fall.
Hut Not until the Contractors Them
selves Ask for Extension OF
Time.
THE BUSINESS OF MEETING

after the brick Is laid TO Fourth ana
Fifth. provided the contractors ASK
for IT,
When the board met last night a
voluminous petition from property
owners along the thoroughfares
against attempting the work during
cold weather was read, but the
board refused to in anyway inter-
fere with the order TO begin WORK,
unless the contractors ask for IL.
Alderman Durrett was the only
member absent.
The mayors sale of city property
on CLAY street to Col. John Sinnott
for S110O was ratified.
The board of works was ordered
not to let a contract for grading and
crawling Yeiser and Hays avenues
next Wednesday A request has been
made by property owners to have the
street so feet instead of a 33 foot
street and the boards want the mat
ter held up until the question can be
settled
The offer of Mrs. Margaret Ar'z
of property to open 21st street was
referred to the street committee.
The city solicitor was instructed to
look into the matter of allowing the
First Baptist church and others to
pay for street reconstruction on the
ten year plan.
The proposition of James Clark to
taken charge OF -bage dump was
referred to the soliritcr and sanitary
committee. He wan c 10 a month in
warm weather and SIS in cold
weather
The aldermen, when the report of
the board of works was read regard
ing the extension of sanitary sewer
age. ordered the board of works to
investigate the feasibility of having
R sanitary engineer come here and
draw the plans for the new sewerage
district
The matter of passing an ordi-
nance providing fol- uniform streets
and sidewalks. and doing away with
the constant disagreements over the
character of street material, was at
the suggestion of Mayor Yelser re-
| ferred to the board of works.
A number of protests, petitions for
relief from overassessment. and
such things referred by the council
Monday. were similarly referred by
the aldermen.
The matter of employing former
Solicitor Puryear to prosecute a suit
against the 81 900 bond of the An
heuser-Busch Brewing company for
violation of the Sunday law, was re-
/ ferred to the finance committee.
Bills. salaries and other accounts
were allowed.
Ordinances were acted on as fol-
lows:
For concrete five foot sidewalks
on Jefferson between 18th and 18th,
first passage.
Ordinance for same kind from
18th to 25th on jefferson street, sec
ond passage.
First passage to ordinance 10 gray
ell Sowell street from Ashbrook ave-
nue. to Hayes avenue and Hayes ave
nue. from Sowell street to Bridge
street.
The ordinance committee was in
structed to have in a new ordinance
regarding the office of sewerage in
spector by the first of the year.
The matter of opening a street to
the box factory was referred to the
street committee.
The Water company was ordered
TO extend mains from 18th and Sa-
lem, TO Rowlandtown.
The board of works was ordered
TO proceed with the concrete cul-
vert on Caldwell street.
Dye & Stewart were granted IL
cense for saloon near Third and
Elizabeth.
Dennis Loving was given trans
fer of saloon license from 92S Hus-
bands street, to 10Th and Husbands.
The petition of butchers regarding
meat peddlars was tabled,
Twenty-Five dollars overpaid city
license was refunded Bradley Broth
ers.
request TO extend the sanitary
sewerage 80 IT. on Trimble from 5th
and Trimble was referred to the
board of works.
Solicitor Campbell was instructed
to draw up a deed from the city
TO the board of education, >of the old
fredericksburg school property.
The board of works was instruct
ed to do something to protect the
public from the freak street and
sidewalk on Second street between
Broadway and Kentucky.
The /. c. was ordered to afford "A
better drainage at Second and Mon
roe. switch interfering with the
flow of water.
The /. c. was given permission to
unload school coal on Second st.
Alderman Bell asked IL property
owners on South Side could not
build their own sidewalks. He said
some wanted to build them them
selves and others wanted to let their
own contracts. The matter was re-
ferred to the city engineer and city
solicitor.
The city engineer was instructed
to move the fountain at Third and
Elizabeth, several hundred feet
away where Elizabeth runs down
from Third.
The board then adjourned.
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