Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-10
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
New Water Hydrants Located BY City,
Orders Are In Operation.
OBJECT is TO PROTECT PETERS MILLS
Construction of These Plants WIN Go
Forward NOW that the water
Facilities Have Been
Provided.

Acting upon an order Issued by the navor
and council water hydrants have been To-
Gated at Twenty-seventh and h. TWENTY
eighth and B and Twenty-ninth and n
Notice that these hydrants were IN service
was received by the city clerk Wednesday
| afternoon.
The object OF locating these hydrants is
for the purpose OF furnishing water and
| hre protection to the NJ c. Peters cereal
mills When Mr.. Peters asked the CITY
council to vacate certain streets and ALLEYS
In the northern portion Of the city he also
asked for water. Now that the water has
been turned on the construction Of the
cereal mills will go forward rapidly.
great deal Of work has already been
done by the Peters company. Barns for
J hay and alfalfa are under construction and
work has been started on the brick boiler
house. steel tank is being erected to hold
molasses which is part Of the stock food
product turned out by this concern
Graders are wanted to do some work for
the Burlington, which is to lay a single
track on Twenty-ninth street from A to d
streets. At the present time most OF the
graders In the city are working and cannot
| get away to do this work About 5000
yards Of dirt is to be moved and ofYicials
| OF the Burlington road were In the city
yesterday hunting up a grading outft that
| could so to work at once. This mill when
completed will add one more to the Indus
tries Of South Omaha and the expectation
| is that moro mills OF a similar nature will
soon follow.
VIII buy Patrol Wagon.
ohciais OF the city have Investigated the
needs OF the police department enough to
| recognise that patrol wagon is needed
and one wifi be purchased as soon as the
new fire department headquarters are ready
for occupancy. Chairman Mason OF the
Police board seems to think that a one
horse wagon will be sufficient but council
men are opposed TO anything OF the kind
and will purchase an up-to-date wagon and
a team. This will necessitate the hiring OF
a driver and a conductor. making four ad-
| ditional men, two for day and two for
4 night duty. The team and wagon will be
housed at fire department headquarters and
the cost of maintenance will come out OF
the fire and police funds.
! When a patrol wagon is placed in service
! officers on beats will not be compelled to
| walk prisoners to the police station, but
| can send in a wagon call from the nearest
patrol box. This will give patrolmen more
time on their beats and the service will be
greatly improved by the installation OF a
wagon and driver.
In addition to a wagon the police depart
ment needs at least two mounted officers,
one for day and the other for night duty,
but this cannot be done with the amount
set aside by the council for police service.
Taxpayers get very little, really. for the
amount paid for police. Seventeen men
are on the rolls at cost OF over 81 800 a
month. Six uniformed men work days and
| the same number nights, and these can
| cover but a very little territory. AS laid
! out now the patrolmen's beats are on
| Twenty-fourth street from A to Q, on Q
street on L street and on Missouri avenue
A man is also detailed on n street, but he
stands liable TO be called away any minute
South Omaha ought, to have at, least
twenty patrolmen," said Chief Briggs. But
there is no money 70 pay this number Of
men.
PaperInE school Houses.
contract has been let by the Board of
Education for the papering of the Central
| and West Side schools houses. Joseph
Koutsky, who has the contract said last
evening that It would take not less than
1000 rolls Of paper for the Central school
and about 400 rolls for the West Side
school his work is to commence at once,
| In order that the rooms may be ready
! when the schools open next month. The
janitors recently elected will report for
| duty a week before the schools open in
order that the buildings may be cleaned
and aired
None of the additions to buildings will
be ready by September /. The Corrlgan
| school is nearly ready. but the Madison
and Lincoln buildings are way behind. At
Corrisan the work will be completed with
| 90 h. A..
touches on the heating apparatus
In making out his list OF teachers and
the assignment OF rooms TO pupils, Super
| intendent Mclean Is not taking into con-
| sideration the additions to buildings. II
was only within a day or two that Con-
/ tractor Crush started to work moving the
| frame building at Twenty-sixth and NJ
| streets to Twenty-third and streets This
building was to be in place by August
10, but the building is still on Jacks at
| the original site. with all these delays
there will be an overcrowded condition OF
the present school buildings until some of
the additions are completed and ready to
be used.
BeaI seeks Promotion.
! Wednesday afternoon Herman Beal, the
present city engineer OF South Omaha
made a filing and is now a declared candi-
date for the office of county surveyor. Mr..
Beal has been city engineer in South
Omaha for twelve years He has always
| been republican and is considered one
OF the beet engineers In the line of work
he has been engaged on. He can not only
survey, but he can make plans for bridges
| and buildings and IL considered by his
friends in this vicinity to be In every way
competent to NIL the ONCE OF county sur
| veyor. During his term OF oficeholdng in
South Omaha Mr. Beal has looked after
the city's interests and has attended to his
duties to the satisfaction of the city ON
cials and the public in general.
Paving Case Comes Up Soon,
City Attorney Lambert has filed a mo-
tion with one Of the Judges OF the district
court requesting that the injunction against
the letting of a contract for the paving
of Twenty-fourth street be heard as soon
as possible The statement was made
Wednesday afternoon by Mr.. Lambert that
the case would be called for hearing be-
fore Judge Kennedy on August IS Per-
haps there may be delays, but the city at
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