Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-28
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Property Owners on Q Street Are Clamor-
ing for Pavement
WANT THoRoUGHFkRE WEST TO LIMITS
chief Briggs and Hts Omcers Express
the Opinion that sneak Thieves
Have Been Banished from
south Omaha.

In the early part OF the year property
owners and residents on Q street west Of
Thirty-third filed petitions asking that the
street be paved from Thirty-third street
west to the city limits. Then when the law
went into effect changing the method of
payment OF the special taxes and putting
the bulk of the burden on the property
owners, the matter was dropped. Now that
Missouri avenue and Twenty-fourth street
are to be paved according to the old law
the Q street people are again clamoring for
pavement. While those interested in
this Improvement do not expect to get
much done this year the statement was
made yesterday that another petition was
to be circulated and the matter brought
before the council before long. BY starting
now It is asserted that there will be plenty
of time for the city engineer to establish
the grades and for the council to pass the
ordinances. Then bids for bonds can be
advertised for and the sale completed and
the contract let so that everything will be
in readiness for work to commence in the
spring. AS a general thing It takes the
attorneys for bond buyers several weeks to
pass on the legality of a bond issue. and
also considerable time in getting the ordi-
nance in shape and the histories prepared
Bonds must be advertised fourteen days
before bids can be opened
Those who have talked the matter over
deem it advisable to start on the matter
next month as at least thirty days or per-
haps more, will be required to secure the
necessary signatures to the petition.
In cases where the property owner is a
nonresident considerable correspondence
must necessarily epsue, and this all takes
time
on account of the rapid increase in travel
out Q street way the pavement of this
thoroughfare is deemed a necessity.
With the pavement Of this street to the
western city limits County Commissioner
Tranor asserts that it will not be a diff
cult matter to induce the Burlington to
construct a vladuct across the grade cross
ing just west of the city limits. This mat
ter Of a bridge has been taken up with
the railroad company and the impression
Mr.. Trainor has is that the railroad will
build a bridge just as soon as the city
makes a showing towards paving the street
Clearing the City of Thieves.
Heads of the police department in South
! Omaha are satisfied now that the city has
at last been ridded of the gangs of sneak
thieves and house breakers that have been
operating here for about three weeks
No new cases of robberies have been re-
| ported for forty-eight hours and Chief
| Briggs thinks that the gangs have been
| broken up. Quite a number of suspects
| have been arrested Some were ordered
| out OF the city and several given county
| Jail sentences. Still others are working a
| scythe cutting weeds on the streets. Steal
! ing brass in the railroad yards still goes on
! to some extent but these thefts, too, are
| falling off.
! Two School Houses PRpered.
Every room in the Central school build
| ing has been papered within the last two
weeks and several of the rooms al the West
! Side school. Painters are now at work at
| some OF the school houses getting the build
ings in shape for the opening of the schools
! When the janitors report for duty the floors
will be scrubbed and the windows cleaned
and the buildings thoroughly aired Every
school building will be put in first class
| condition before September II, when the
schools will open
| VIII Pay Salaries Tonight.
! Tonight when the city council meets the
pay roll for August for fremen and police
men will be passed and warrants drawn to
be dated September /. At the next reg
ular meeting Of the council will not be held
until September the city officials thought
It no more than right to pay the city en-
ployes a little ahead of time Regular bills
and claims paid out OF the general fund
will go over until the first meeting in Sep
/ tember.
The ordinance providing for the issuing
OF bonds to pay for grading of Sixteenth
| street from Missouri avenue to 1 street is
to be passed