The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-06-07
WILL INVENTORY
CITY PROPERTY
Finance Committee of Board
of Aldermen Suggests
street improvements Considered and
Alley Repairs Are Properly
Referred.
ALDERMEN IN SHORT SESSION.

The city will hereafter take a semi
annual inventory of city property,
this being decided last night by the
board of aldermen on recommends
ton OF the finance committee.
The passage of Improvement ordi-
nances and other routine work con-
stituted the business of the board in
short session.
| Alderman Baker was absent.
City street light feed wires were
ordered removed from the East Ten
nessee Telephone company's poles.
A street running between Sixth
and Seventh, George and Husbands
streets. was ordered graded and gray
eled, property owners agreeing to
dedicate the necessary property.
An ordinance regulating the plac-
ing of surface toilet water closets in
yards and on alleys, was ordered
drafted.
Mayor Yeiser stated that many all
leys in the city are filthy and impass-
able, and stated the average cost for
placing them in condition would be
$40 each. He recommended improv-
ing them at once. and the board re-
ferred it to the street committee for
an investigation, to report back rec
concentrations.
Finance Reports.
The report of the finance commit
tee for salaries. accounts. etc.
amounting to $1O,11297 was filed.
A report from the city treasurer,
showing a balance of $19,671.19 in
the treasury at the close of May, was
filed
Three extra accounts were pre-
scented, one an increase in salary to
w. j. Mcpherson. electrical inspec-
tor to $10O per month, and for a
typewriter for Judge ID. A. Cross,
and a third for a typewriter for Fire
lChief James Wood
Alderman Hubbard stated that he
understood that Police Judge ID. A.
Cross, without asking the boards or
consulting anyone, bought type
writer and had been using it for his
private law practice, when he could
step across the street and get what
official work he had to have done, by
the city stenographer.
The committee had recommended
ALLOWING the accounts, and the three
items were allowed.
A motion to have each department
file an inventory OF property in its
possession with the city auditor on
December 81 and June 80 of each
year, carried.
Mayor Yeiser was authorized to
borrow. If necessary, sum not ex-
ceding $4,000, TO tide the city over
until June tax collections are in.
Ordinances.
Ordinances for sidewalks and gut
tiers on Broadway from the old city
limits at the Illinois Central hospi-
tai. to Twenty-ffth street. First
passage.
Ordinance for sidewalks, curb and
cutters on Eighth street from Wash
ington street to Tennessee street.
Second passage.
Ordinance for grading and gravel
street to Terrell street. Second
passage.
Ordinance for grading and gravel
ing Boyd street from Sixth street to
Seventh street. Second passage.
Ordinance for grading and gravel
ing Kincaid street from Bridge street
712 feet west. Second passage.
Ordinance for sidewalks, curb and
cutters on Ohio street from Third
street to Thirteenth street. Second
passage.
Ordinance for sidewalks on Fifth
street from Clay street to T'rimble
street. Second passage.
Ordinance for grading and gravel
ing Finley street from Seventh street
to Eighth street. Second passage.
Ordinance for sidewalks. curb and
cutters on Tennessee street from
Third street to Twelfth street. Sec
ond passage