Little Falls herald., 1908-03-06
CITY CouNCIl

CITY COUNCIL
The city council met il regular
monthly session Monday evening, all
the aldermen being present wita the
exception of Alderman 0ermain.
The Hewitt Btidge company con.
tract for the repairing Of the north
wagon bridge, which work has just
been complet d. was the first matter
brought t. the attention of the
council. There was some discussion
over the trasses running along the
side Of the bridge being out of line.
Foreman G. T. CHASER Gf the bridge
company stated that that could not
be helped as one of the piers on the
upper side Of the bridge had been
thrown out Of place and lowered
through damage caused by either a
log jam or floating ice, and that to
Hx that it would have been necessary
to raise the pier, which vas not
called for in the contract. When
asked by one of the aldermen whether
the spans on the sides of the bridge
could not have besn strajghtened by
tho moving of them either one way
or the othvr, and another alderman
hinted tat the spans were straight
before the bridge company started
their repair work, OverseeF e. Butler.
speaking for tae company. stated
that although the spans were croaked,
which was no fault of the company
as that was the way they had found
them when they started work, it
was not specified in the contract that
such work should be done. To a
quiry as to Why they had not called
for an engineer to inspect the bridge
when they saw that other repairs
we1e needed. as one had been
volunteered to them should they need
one, Mr.. Butler said the city Inspect or
was t:ere during the work and that it
was for him to have mads objections.
When the council asked to be allowed
to inspect the work once more before
passing on the work, Mr.. CHASER
answered that although the council
had Inspected the work once before
he had no objections and that he and
Mr.. Bntler would accompany them on
this inspect )in trip but the ere = had
to leave at once as there was other
work to be done at once at another
place. -
The next matter to come 10 was q
proposition made by Chief George
Emder of the IRE department. that
several chemical babcocks which were
not needed, be sold to the new
Randall fire department. which is
being organized in that village, and
which had asked the local department
for some of the extra chemical
material it might have on hand. To
this the city council agreed.
The inspecting of tho new copies of
the city charter and ordinances next
took place. and it was found that the
sixteen blank pages, which according
to contract should have been con-
tanned in the back part of each book,
had been left .oat. Mr.. Hoblit of the
Democrat Pub. company, which had
this contract, stated that these had
been omitted unintentionally and
that his company would now put these
extra pages in il dls1red, but that it
would cause q full months delay.
The council thereupon decided to
accept the work as it was
It further authorized the city clerk
to Issue to the city attorney. to A. p.
Blanchard, and to each member of
the council q leather covered copy,
and to Donat Trettle, In recoguiti0
OF his work. a paper.covered copy of
this book, free of charge. It fixed the
price of the leather covered copies at
~ and the paper. covered ones at 81.
Bills allowed: