Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-05
PAVING STILL UNDECIDED
commercial Club Not Ready to Give City
Council Definite Answer
QUESTION GOES OVER FOR ONE WEEK
City Ready 60 Deed Lots 90 Develop
ment Company IL IL VIII Pay for
Paving AID CurbinE in
Front of same.

The regular monthly session OF the city
council last night was one of the shortest on
record, there being only a few routine mat
ters to demand the attention OF the coun-
cilmen. A conference had been held dur
ing the afternoon between Mayor Macrae,
the members of the streets and alleys
committee and the officers of the street
fair and carnival company and the execu-
tive committee of the Commercial club
relative TO the paving of Broadway. Moth
ing definite was arrived at In this confer
ence, and the carnival company officers
and the members of the executive COM
mittee of the Commercial club agreed to
appear before the council In the evening
but for some reason not disclosed not a
single member of either organisation put
in an appearance.
At the conference the officers of the car
nival committee and the executive com
mittee of the Commercial club slgnihed
their willingness to contribute the $1,000
left over from last years street fair to-
wards the cost of paving Broadway pro-
vided the entire thoroughfare from Twen-
tieth street to the approach of the motor
bridge was improved. At the same
time IL was suggested that action in the
matter be postponed until some agreement
proposed Council Bluffs Development COM
pany relative to the latter acquiring the
100 lots on Broadway owned by the city. on
condition that the company in question
would agree to pay the paving assessment
against this property. Although at meet
ing last week stock in this proposed COM
pany was subscribed and articles Of incor-
poration adopted, the Incorporation has as
yet not been perfected. The members of
the city council, it rs understood. are pre-
pared to convey these lots to the proposed
development company in the event of the
latter agreeing to bear the burden of the
paving and curbing assessments, 1t was
stated at last nights council meeting that
probably something definite would be
reached before the next meeting, which
will be next Monday night.
Ordinance IL Defective.
The ordinance providing for the vacating
| of that portion of Eleventh street where 1t
terminates, near Fourth avenue and con-
veying SAME to ]. X. Cooper and Julius
Keppner, who offered to purchase same
| from the city, was found to be defective in
certain respects. and City Solicitor Kimball
/ agreed to bring in an amended one at the
next meeting.
Property owners on Glen avenue filed
notice of appeal to the district court from
assessments for the paving of Park ave-
nue. between Pomona street and the en-
trance to Paramount park. They also ap-
pealed against the J. assessment for the
cutbing. Al II
| Regarding the proposition of G.. H. Scott,
] late judge of the superior court. 30 revise
/ and recompile the city, ordinances for $500,
a question was raised fRs to the ability of
! the city to pay for this work. That a
new compilation of the city ordinances is
needed was admitted and the finance com
| mittee was Instructed to make report at
| the next meeting as TO funds available for
| this purpose
City Solicitor Kimball reported that, in
his opinion, the street railway company was
not empowered under Its franchise TO do a
| commercial business IN furnishing electric
current, and that It had no right to use
the streets and alleys of the city for poles
and wires for such a purpose. Action on
his report was postponed until the next
| meeting.
A communication from c. C. Clifton
secretary of the West End Improvement
| club conveying the thanks of that organi-
cation to the city council for its action
in ordering Broadway paved. was received
while Il is nice to receive the thanks
of this club. how much nicer it would be II
the residents of that section of the city
would raise say about 5000 to assist II
the paving of this thoroughfare, which they
have been urging for the last three years,
remarked Mayor Macrae when Clerk Sapi
read the communication from Mr.. Clifton
The council will meet as a committee o.
the whole Friday afternoon,
Combination gas and electric chandelier
and the celebrated Welsbach incandescen
gas burners. Why not see usy before YOU
buy. We can certainly please you on prize
and quality of goods. stephan Bros. 81
Mast RroadUau