Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-08
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Three New Telephone Ordinances offered
for Consideration.
BIDS FOR FRANCHISES ARE MODIFIED
Each of the AspirRnts for Privilege
of Erecting second Hello
Plant Changes His orig
inaI Application.

Plant Changes His orig
inaI Application.
All three applicants for a second local ,
telephone franchise has new ordinances |
introduced at the city council meeting last |
night, cutting proposed rates and granting |
additional concessions. Albert Won Hon- /
mans new ordinance cuts the period Of I
the asked for grant from fifty to thirty |
years. The other interests maintain the
demand for fifty year term, but scale
measuraby under the former rates, which !
they declared several weeks ago were |
the lowest that could be offered and per
NIT them TO enlist capital legitimately in
the enterprise.
Features of the OHer.
The Helm Parmelee- Pollock people now
offer maximum rates of $50 for business and
S36 for residence phones, and besides this
offer to put in a measured service more
attractive than Won Hoffman's, namely for
81 a month for business instruments and 90
cents for residences, outgoing messages to
be paid for at the rate OF cents each,
incoming messages free. The Home peo-
pie offer maximum rates Of S72 and AS,
annually. They propose TO charge not to
up to 1900 and $40 S4 and SIS for resi-
dences, but for each $500 "just and reason
able increases" under the control of the
mayor and city council and not to ex-
ceed the maximum The Helm Parmelee-
Pollock Is much the same, except that 81
per year for each additional l,o0O phones
on the exchange is TO be charged for after
5000 are in use, until the maximum is at
tanned
All three new ordinancese were referred
to the telephone committee, which had ad-
vance notice Of the proceedings, Chairman
Sheldon stating that the old ordinances
would be placed on file by a report to be
introduced next week when the council is
TO choose among the three concerns.
Bids on Paving.
The Barber Asphalt company will do the
Farnam street paving from Thirteenth to
Eighteenth, being the lower of two bids
submitted for the job the other being from
Hugh Murphy. The asphalt is to be two
inches thick, on a five-inch concrete base.
Following are the bids received on this and
for other paving jobs;
Farnam Street Thirteenth 70 Eighteenth
| Barber Asphalt Paving company, asphalt,
| S222 stone in cutters and between street
| car tracks, *l.3I; extra concrete, $3.50 per
stone cutters and between tracks. Sl3O;
extra concrete 81. Both firms offered 30
cents yard for 1915 yards Of Sioux Falls
granite to be removed, and these were the
| only bids received on this score.
Thirty-fifth Avenue; Leavenworth to
rack boek s MuPnH National a'P@s
! company. brick block, $50 and S97, the
latter figure from this firm in all cases
brick block. $2.os Barber company. asphalt
Forty first Avenue, Seward to Hamilton
! HUGH Mnrphv agnhalt 81 m. bTiCk block
| S2.O2. National Construction company, brick
block. $3.50 and 1877. c. f. Fanning. brick
lSSh, si.sSH '"' f'' '' ''p''l''
Harney. Twentieth to Twenty fourth
Hugh s MURPHY asphalt Mes; SX brick pI1Gk hG$c
| block, $40 and S1.S7. c.. F. Tanning, brick
block, Sl7. Barber company. asphalt, $1.sl.
| Alley Between Sixteenth and Seventeenth,
! Howard and Jackson Streets-Hugh Muir
ply stone, S.25; brick block $50. Ma
tlonal Cons;Euctiop company, brick brick, block block
S2.55. Barber company, asphalt, N.S
City EnEineers' AppOintees.
Explaining that he considered the reten-
ton of his Office as though beginning a
new deal. City Engineer Rosewater sub
mtted lists Of appointments of foremen and
employees for the asphalt, sewer, sidewalk
and street inspection departments. The
council deferred action for a week. A
number OF the appointments are to Sep
tember l and others to the 18th, meaning
that other men will probably be selected
after those dates to fill the places, the
engineer not wishing to change a large
part of his force at once. Following are
the major portion OF the appointments:
Asphalt Plant-Superintendent and chem
ist- 81 ,3O0 a year, Lester Kirschbraun
street forman, $50 a month, ]. T. Donahue;
engineer, so a month, William Britton
watchman, $50 a month, Dan T. Custer;
seventy laborers at p cents an hour thirty
five at 25 cents an hour and twenty-five
at IS cents an hour, all on the assigned
list; paving foremen at $3 a day, A. T
Livingston and John ]. Condor; rollermar
at 1915 a day, J. Brown; bricklayer al
621k cents an hour, Ed Bridges.
Sewer Department-General foremen al
800 a month, William Hutton and Thomas
Collopy, and thirty-five employees.
Inspectors-General inspector az 800 g
month Joseph Mcdonald; sidewalk in
; spector 500 a month, ]. o. Snowden
sidewalk inspector. Ss5 a month. W. e
s'ockham; sidewalk inspector, Ss5 a month
Sam J. Rothwell, ali 10 September l only
! sidewalk inspectors at SIS. Mike Lee and
Lew Rothchild, TO September Is only.
An Assigned List: Sidewalk Inspector
; at $ a day-Tony Chichtek. Thomas Lewis
, S. r. Spratlin, Harry o, Kanlon, JOSEPH
p Brown, G. A. Sargent. ]. Perkins San
Morris, Charles Reisman, John Dennison
w. H. McCune; inspectors street improve
: ments at So a day-B. r. Smith, Pete
: Kiewtiz, Thomas Harrington, A NJ
Michaels Fred Dellone. William OCon
nor. Jerry Mcmahon, William Mulhall, WI
4 liam Silk, George Dolan, George Garllch
: W. II. Roberts; inspectors for sewer con
struction at 50 and "a a day-George DolaI
i and Maurice Sullivan. the lower price be
j ing for pipe sewers and the higher 70
brick work.
, The engineer stated that many OF tn
appointments had been made at the re
quest of councilmen and the mayor.
VIII Go With Eagles.
W. A. Messick acted spokesman 70
a committee of Eagles which asked tn
mayor, council and city clerk TO accom-
e pany the Omaha delegation to Milwaukee
{ In the effort to secure the 1907 convention
9 for Omaha Free transportation via IN
r Great Western, special train leaving a
j. 4 o'clock Sunday, was offered. Presiden
n / Johnson accented the invitation on behal