The Cairo bulletin., 1906-06-19

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Thlrty-fourth street ........ 1929 so
| Sycamore street ........ 3,249.5G
Elm street ........,. 2.92624
These streets are 10 be filed TO the
@2foot grade and the payment for
the work is divided into FIVE yearly in
stallments.
In order to bring the matter before
the council Alderman Meehan moved
TO receive the report of the Board and
refer the ordinance 10 the ordinance
and street committees.
Alderman Fuller said he was on
posed 10 the ordinance. because il was
not comprehensive enough: il should
provide for filling all the low streets o.
the city
Alderman Burke wanted the sewers
put in before the streets were filled
and asked Judge Lansden If this could
not be done under the law.
Judge Lansden replied in the affirm |
alive. saying that so far as the law
was concerned the sewers could be mt |
in at any time; il was merely a ones |
ton of engineering If aldermen did |
not wish to do the filling first they
could hold it back as long as they
might chose in order to put in the
sewers first. So far as Alderman Full.
ers objection was concerned. ii could
not be carried out under the law.
The law required that the streets TO
De flled must be in connected terri
DRY and must be as nearly similar in
he nature OF the improvement pro
,osed 10 be done, as practicable After
the situation thoroughly It
lad been decided to divide the city In.
o districts in each of which the con.
Iitions Of the several streets embraced
herein was similar, and ii would be
ecessary TO frame and adopt a sep
rate ordinance for each district. The
ordnance before the council was for {
treets which were to be raised TO The d
anne grade. The streets west OF !
Washington avenue were TO be of J
iSher grade and il would not be fair
D tax people on the east side for the
Xtra fill 10 be put on the streets on
he west side and such an ordinance
iould not stand in law.
Alderman Fuller could not see why
lie sewer proposition and the street
ling proposition could nor be EN-.
odied In one ordinance.
Judge Lansden replied that the pro
Dsed new sewer system of the CITY
ould depend upon the binding of he !
ife Commercial avenue main: that
main wa, 20 ho built by a general
y upon ail the property Of The city.
I'D /; would therefore be impossible
eabody II in an ordinance providing
v he filing OF streets in certain .
,rtiuns of the city.
Both Aldermen Burke and Fuller =
ated that property owners had come :,
them and urged them to vote =
'ainst this ordinance until sewers J.
Pre- put into the steets. -
Judge Lansden replied IL aldermen n
luld listen TO protests of citizens. 90
ey never would accomplish anything
r i was impossible for citizens 10
rec upon any proposition. The law
u now stood had taken questions of
bic improvement out of the hands ad
citizens and placed the power old
HE such Improvements into the 10
nds Of the city council. and il was ! =,
: them 10 decide what should he as
ne. II aldermen would listen TO and 80
guided by citizens who opposed i'm
1vemenis. they would never stick
sde into she ground He. personally
I thai the filling Of the streets was
much greater importance than sew Er
ng them. bnt II aldermen did MOI Or
Sd 10 do this thes could pass the rel
eel filling ordinance and then let ba
! matter resi- Until sewers had beer
10. filling the streets one after an.
Ter as they were severed. And IL
any reason the sewer proposition
through they could go ahead with la
filling anyway. The sewer prop lilo
lion was big one and IL had taken Ian,
CD time to prepare the ordinance als