The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-02-21
If Action of the Council Counts
for Anything.
City Solicitor Puryear Decides Ten
Year Plan Cannot BE Adopted
at the PresePt.
BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

board was held last night,
and the most important matters de-
cided were the reconstruction of
Third street from Kentucky to
Fourth and Broad, the first passage
of an ordinance requiring connection
with the sanitary sewerage by May 1,
1908, and the rendering of an opin-
ion by the city solicitor that the ten
year plan of paying for street recon
struction cannot be adopted in Pa
ducah under present conditions.
Councilman John Rehkopf was the
only member of the board absent.
Mayor Yeiser reported that he had
signed the ordinances pertaining to
the back tax collector and city cleo
trician.
Mayor Yeiser presented the formal
resignation of City Physician Robert
Rivers which was accepted and the
appointment of DR. Johnston Bass,
temporarily, ratified.
Summons in a suit brought by
John Porter against the city for S10,-
600 damages were filed, and referred
to the city solicitor; also summons
in suit brought by DR.. Foster
against the city for $4,000 damages
for personal injuries.
A petition from residents on Ten
nessee street from 18th to 18th
street, for a walk Of some kind, was
presented. Mayor Yeiser stated that
ne understood another petition was
being gotten up for another plank
walk near this section, and his rec
ommendation to refer to the board
of public works was ratified.
The mayor stated that there was a
debt of over $4,000 on the new city
hospital. and suggested that the old
hospital be sold and the debts of the
new hospital wiped out. His sugges-
ton that the old hospital be adver-
tised for sale was amended and mo-
ton to refer to Mayor Yeiser was
adopted.
The matter of renting a portion of
the Potter farm, which was bought
for new cemetery purposes, was re-
ferred to the cemetery committee. A
farmer wanted to build barn in one
corner of the farm.
Specifications for building a plank
walk on South Sixth street, from
George to Bockmon street, were pre-
scented by the board of public works.
The cost would be 1925, because
piles would have to be driven to pre-
vent the walk from washing away.
The board of public works simply
asked the will of the council-wheth-
err the walk be built or not.
The motion to refer to the joint
street committee was adopted.
The board of public works report
ed that one trestle on Caldwell ave-
nue., near the l. c. depot, was in a
bad condition, and suggested that a
concrete culvert be built or the tres
tie be rebuilt As this improvement
will benefit the I. C. railroad and
Paducah City Railway Co. the mat
ter was referred to the joint street
committee to see if they will stand
| part of the expense.
Secretary Saunders Fowler, of the
board of public works, reported thai
he had been in correspondence with
government officials relative to i'm
lprovements to Livingston Point to
protect the local harbor and stated
the inspectors could do nothing more
than make an inspection this year
The report was received and filed
The finance committees report
showing the expenditures in salaries
etc, was received and filed. It show
ed total expenditure of s2,S22.S3.
Ordinance providing for the re-
construction of South Third street
from Kentucky avenue to Fourth and
Broad streets, was read. Councilman
Kolb moved the ordinance be placed
on first passage. Councilman Rigles-
berger read petition from property
owners on South Third street urging
the board not to pass the ordinance
because they did not think the street
needed any Improvements other than
what have been made the past few
years.
Mr.. George Jones. an ex-council-
man. stated that Broad street was moi