Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-16
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Bids for New City Hall Received by the
City Council.
LOWEST OVER FoRTY-THRsE THOUSAND
Delegates to odd Fellows Grand
Lodge Are Arriving and Local
Committees Kept Busy
Caring for Them.
LOWEST OVER FoRTY-THRtt THOUSAND

The most important business W the city
council last night was the consideration
Of bids for the city hall Two legal BIDS
were received. The first. by McDon-
aid g. Book. offered to construct the build
ings according to- the plans of the city
engineer for s4S,17o. The second bid
was submitted by Johnson ARM
strong for s46.5i2. There is $4,000 available.
II is likely. therefore. that the contract
will be awrded - Mcdonald * Book. one
other bid was Submitted, but as it was
not accompanied by a certified check was
rejected.
Special ordinance No. lS1, heing an or
dinance levying a special tax 10 cover the
cost Of paving Twentyfourth street, was
put on it's final passage
The final estimates for the sradiug Of
Twenty-second street from S to Y were al
lowed. The first estimate for the paving
and gutteriug of Twenty-third street
1925 49, was allowed Parks a Co, plumb
ers, were allowed $4,000 for the construc-
ton of a sanitary sewer i'm district No ll3
Ordinance No. 1919 to grade street from
Eighteenth to Twenty-fifth was given its
first reading.
Tho building inspector gave notice that
he was about to close up the building Of
Mrs. Pivonka on the alley between Twenty
nth and Twenty-sixth on y, it being in an
unsafe condition.
The city treasurer save noti e that S3,5I'.1S
was due at the fiscal agency in New
York November I, the same being annual
interest on bonds and matured obligations
Of the city.
A petition was received for the change
of grade in the alley to block 81, South
Omaha. Another asked the extension Of
. a., afEa
from L to w and for hydrant at w
street. Forty-fourth street was closed for
travel at the point where the Union Pa
ciic cutoff crosses it, A new viaduct is
TO he built there Immediately.
Hydrants were ordered 400 and 500 feet
west of Thirteenth on Polk street and one
500 feet west Of Forty-second street on
F. The city attorney was instructed TO
draft an ordinance for the grading OF
Thirty-ninth street from to Y.
Another electric are light was ordered
at Twenty-sxth and Monroe streets.
The council then adjourned to meet
Wednesday evening TO take up the bids
on the city hall.
Switchman Killed.
Thomas J. Troup of Council Bluffs, a
switchman for the Chicago Great Western
railroad. was almost instantly killed IN
South Omaha yesterday afternoon. Troup
| was standing on the top of a freight car
! which was being backed in upon the de-
| livery tracks from the main line. The train
was brought to a rather sudden halt and
| the slack of the string came out with a
sudden jerk which threw him over the
| back end of the car. He dropped head
foremost upon the knuckle of the coupler
The blow stunned him and his body fell
across the rail. The cars were still moving
| slowly backward and before the engineer
could stop the string the first truck had
passed over Troups body. one OF the
wheels cut his legs off just below the hips
which were also shattered, The other vince
passed over him below the knees. The. blow
on the head was sufficient. to have eauseC
death. A doctor was hastily summoned ant
also the ambulance. The man was taker
aboard and started for the hospital. but HI
died en- route He was then taken to Brew
ers undertaking parlors.
Troup leaves wife and three childre,
who live at Avenue A and Twenty-thirC
street. Council Bluffs. He has been il
the service OF the Chicago Great Western
for about five years. Before that time HI
had served for some time with the Uniol
Pacific. He had been railroad man al
his life He was a man of SO years. Of ac
tive build.
Odd Fellows are Arriving.
The advance guards of the grand lodg
delegates of the Independent Order of ODD
Fellows arrived on the evening trains las
night Throughout the day the reception
committees were at the 'depots directing
the arrivals. Most OF the officers arrived
and took up their headquarters at tn
New Commercial hotel. The hotel ha
been given over to the principal member
! of the order for the week. The first func
ton of the sessions took place last evening
ut Odd Fellows hall. This was the Deco
ration of Chivalry conferred by the de
partment commander and Patriarchs Mill
tant. The ceremony, also included tn
.