The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-25
ALDERMEN HOLD
ROUTINE SESSION
Street Car Fender Ordinance
Given It's Qnietus
Discuss Garbage Incinerating Plant
and Refer Matter to Special
Committee.
SOME SANITARY QUESTIONS

One hour was consumed last night
by the board of aldermen I'm regular
session. Business all routine. a rati-
fication of the principal business of
the council.
President Palmer and Alderman
Baker were absent.
Alderman Chamblin was unani-
mously elected chairman pro TEN.
Il Minutes Of the last regular meet
ing were adopted.
Mayor Yeiser presented bill from
c. l.. Dunlap for $40 for plastering
at Riverside hospital, which was al
lowed
! An IBcinerating Plant.
Mayor Yeiser suggested to let a
contract for burning sanitary gar
bage. or to build an incinerating
plant to destroy garbage. The board
referred the matter to a special COM
mittee to act at once. Chairman
Chamblin appointed the sanitary com.
/ mittee
Mayor Yeiser was instructed to ad-
vertise for bids for city coal for the
next year, the present contract hav-
ing expired.
Miscellaneous Business.
| A petition asking that a right-of-
way over Second street from Jeffei
son street TO Broadway not be grant
ed the Southern Electric railroad, as
1t would interfere with shipping, was
presented by merchants. 1t was re-
ceived and filed.
Several prayers for relief from
overassessment, and alleged errone-
Gus assessment, were referred to the
tax book supervisors.
Petitions for extension of water
mains were referred to the Paducah
Water company.
Several deeds to lots in Oak Grove
cemetery were ratified.
4 A report from Health Officer w. 7.
Graves saying that unsanitary condi-
lions at Eleventh and Jefferson
streets. and at the canning factory,
have been remedled, but that It was
nearly impossible to maintain perfect
sanitary conditions at the canning
factory because Of inadequate sewer
age service. The report was received
and filed.
The report of a special COMMITTEES
saying that the city is not responsible
for imperfections in sewering at Mr..
Herman Friedmans residence. on
Broadway near Twelfth street, was
filed.
II Andrew Hall threatened to sue the
city for a sewer being run through
his property on Plunkett Hill. The
committee and cit yenglneer report
ed that the sewer does not go through
Halls property.
Petitions for street lights in vari-
Gus parts Of the city were referred TO
the board of public works.
| VIII Reynolds was refunded s75I
paid into the city treasury for a
coffee house license application which
he withdrew.
A report recommending that no
passageway be opened over private
railroad property from the Illinois
Central shops to Clark and Jackson
streets was filed.
Extension of water mains on
Salem avenue was reported by the
water company, and fire hydrants or
dered placed on the city rental list.
An ordinance fixing salaries Of
city officers for the next year was or
dered drafted.
The suggestion to build a 20-foot
driveway of gravel on the levee to
save horses from injury was referred
to the street committee.
| Recommendation to purchase 20
sewer manhole caps from Thomas
Bridges Sons, at less cost than the
city has been bearing for them, were
favorably acted on.
A street light was ordered strung
at Nineteenth and Broadway.
Finance Report.
| The finance committees report of
salaries. accounts, etc, for the first
half month, was adopted.
Ordinances.
| Resolution releasing the Aetna
Indemnity company as bondsman for
the Peoples Home Telephone COM
pany, now out OF existence First
reading The rule was suspended ana
the resolution given second reading,
Ordinance requiring every street
car operated within the city limits to
be provided with tenders. Penalties
for a violation are fro mss to $40 for
each offense.
| Alderman Hubbard thought that
such an expense should not be heaped
on the Paducah Traction company
as it seemed to him to be a useless
expense, because traffic was not so
congested at present that pedestrians
are in danger. He cited vast expendi-
lures of the traction company in the
past, and of the great expense the
company is even now laboring under
He also stated the ordinance did not
Specify what kind of tenders should
be Installed