The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-18

ditlon to his house at $40 Monroe
street was referred.
At the instance of Mayor Yeiser an
ordinance was ordered drawn prohlb-
ting corrugated iron stables, houses.
etc, within the fire limits. The sta
bies on South First street recently
burned. were iron covered, making
a regular fire trap.
The finance committee report Of
accounts, salaries, etc, amounting to
] 1874, was received and fled
The ordinance prohibiting splitting
in public places was given second
! reading.
An ordinance requiring all milk
dealers VINO use vehicle in selling
milk; who make a regular business
of selling milk, pay regular license
tax of IS per annum. Mayor Yeiser
stated that some farmers came to the
city no more than once a week and
had a little milk and butter to sell,
and IL the old ordinance, requiring
all who came to the city to sell milk
to take out a license, was retained,
would serve to drive some country
men out of the city. The ordinance
was given first passage which means
that farmers who come to the city
once or twice per week, may come in
and sell milk and butter without pay
ing a license.
The ordinance regulating the sale
Nd - a.
city was given second passage 1t
gives the Inspector the right to put
coal oil on condemned meats.
The ordinance for the improve
ment of North Nineteenth street was
given second reading.
The ordinance repeating the power
of Mayor Yeiser to revoke liquor IL
cense in event of a violation of the
law, was read.
Councilman McBroom spoke at
length against passing the ordinance
saying that 1t was a backward step,
and the board should not pass it.
Councilman Taylor stated that
since the Sunday closing law was
so rigidly enforced, boys bought
beer by the keg, got under a tobacco
shed, got drunk.And fought all day
long.
There was much discussion in re-
gard to the matter and when the
vote was taken the ordinance was
given second passage, Councilmen.
Agnew, Barnett, Kolb. McBroom and
Riglesberger voting against it.
The ordinance for the improve
ment of pavements on Jefferson
street, from Second to Ninth street,
was given second passage.
The ordinance for the improve
ment of Kentucky avenue from First
to Ninth street was presented.
At this juncture President Ingram
assigned the chair to Councilman
ellison and made a speech in expla-
nation of the misunderstanding the
board seemed TO have relative to the
middle occasioned by the injunction
suit brought against the city by the
street car company. He stated that
all streets the city intends to inn
prove which ordinances are now be-
fore the board. were crossed by
street car tracks and until the mud
die was settled the street improve
ment ordinances should be held up
while-until the matter was set
tied and the city knows what she
is doing. President Ingram intimat-
ed that some CUMBERLAND work" was
being done in the suspension of the
Third street Improvement, ana until
the litigation as TO who will pay
for concrete under the car tracks,
the city or street car company, Is
settled, would be dangerous TO the
city. On Jefferson and Kentucky av-
enue the Improvement will have to
cross the car tracks on Sixth street.
The ordinance was lost by vote
OF s to 4, Councilmen Kolb, Nc
Broom, Rehkopf and Riglesbsrger
voting yea. 49,
The ordinance for the improve
ment OF Jefferson from Second to
Ninth street was presented and Pres
ldent Ingram again urged that the
ordinance be suspended until the
nllsdtlOn Was sctlleu.
The ordinance was laid on the ta-
BILE.
The ordinance for the improve
ment of sidewalks from First to
Ninth on Kentucky avenue was Civ
en- second passage,
President Ingram moved thar the
board reconsider the action taken IN
killing the Kentucky avenue street
improvement ordinance. The motion
was carried and the motion to lay
the ordinance on the table was
adopted.
Mayor feiser stated that the hos
pital board had estimated the cost
OF furnishing the new city hospital
at $4,000 and the estimate was re-
ferred to the finance committee. Al
A petition from property owners
asking that an alley between Fifth
and Sixth, Tennessee and Ohio