Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-11-13
REGULAR SESSION
CITY COUNCIL
First Time in Several Months--City
Marshal on carpet-SideWalks
Talked OF.

Inc CITY COUNCIL met last night III
regular monthly session, Mayor
Thomas b. Catron presiding. There
were present, Councilmen H. s.
Kaune, R. L. Baca, J. H. Walker, Gel
so Lopez, G. W. Armijo. Pedro Quin-
tana and Teodosio Castillo. A. p. Hill
was at his post as clerk
For the first time in several months
the mayor and nearly all of the alder
men We're in attendance at the meet
ing and considerable business of a
routine nature was disposed of dur
ing the hour and half that the ses-
sion lasted. II looked for a time as
though there would not be quorum
and the mayor dispatched messen-
ger after one of the absentees. A few
minutes later three councilmen came
struggling in and the meeting was
called to order.
After listening to the reading of the
minutes of the last meeting and the
monthly reports of the various city Of
tlcials, the council proceeded with the
unfinished and new business brought
to it's attention. City Marshal Charles
Conklin did not have any report to
submit for the past month as no COM
mitments had been served or fines col
lected. Justice of the Peace Jose Ma
Garcia who is also the police magis
trate reported number of arrests.
The offenders tried and found guilty
of infractions of the city ordinances
were given time In which to pay theil
fines and turned loose. Mayor Catron
reported that he had employed two
extra policemen for each of the -four
precincts on election day.
City Marshal Conklin was taken to
task for his seeming negligence in the
matter of detailing the policemen to
regular beats. Councilman Kaune
called attention to the fact that he
had seen three policemen parading up
and down the streets in the business
center together when the ought to be
patroling in separate parts of the city.
He said that one of the policemen was
in the habit of lounging in the pa"k,
and he had seen this particular officer
holding down one of the benches for
hours at time. The matter was re-
ferred to the committee on police for
investigation, and report will be
made at the next meeting.
The committee on streets and
bridges was instructed to take the ne
cessary legal steps to proceed with
the construction of the proposed side
walk from the Capitol building to the
Union Depot, Some of the property
owners interested are willing to go
ahead and lay the pavement, but sew
eral of them have not as yet signified
their intention of doing likewise. At
torney r. H. Hanna was present at
the meeting in behalf of one of the
owners of property abutting the pro-
posed sidewalk and he stated that his
client was anxious to have the pave
ment laid by the city and to have the
expense pro-rated among the property
holders.
The committee on streets and
bridges was authorized to proceed to
contract for the brick that would be
required to build the entire Sidewalk
The paving brick will be purchased
from the Territorial penitentiary
Twenty.three thousand brick will be
needed, according to the estimate OF
City Engineer ]. H. Walker.
Leo Hersch was present with pc.
tition to have an ordinance passed for
the building Of side walk on the
west side of Washington Avenue. He
recently built himself handsome
home at the northwest corner oi
Washington and Hillside Avenues. He
said that he was ready to lay the
sidewalk alongside his property as
soon as an ordinance was passed to
that effect and he was assured that
the other property owners would do
the same,
! Mr.. Hersch attended the council