Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19
CITY COUNCIL
Holds Monthly Meeting Monday Night
and Has Busy Session


| and business was transacted as fol-
| lows:
Roll of Accounts No. 5, amounting
in the aggregate to s4401.29, was APP
| proved and ordered paid
A petition from the Kennebec Light
| and Heat Co. asking for a grant tC
| relocate three poles on Swan street
was referred to the committee on
street street lights with power to act.
| A petition from Manley II. Pike and
others asking the city to accept a
street running from Sewall street to
| Jackson street was referred to the
proper committee.
| A communication from Seth Will
liams Post, G. A. R., relative to the
care of the Post lot" so-called. in
Mt. Pleasant cemetery, was referred
to the mayor and committee on bury
| ing grounds with power to act.
a petition from 27S boys asking that
| playground be established at Cush-
| nee Heights was referred to special
committee consisting of the mayor
Alderman Hall and Councilmen
LemieuX and Cote
| An order providing for special
committee to examine the card index
! of the Journals Of the Board of Alder
men and the vital statistics of the city
| and report to the mayor, was referred
| to a special committee consisting of
Alderman White and Councilmen
Holway and CARL
An order was passed accepting the
bequest of the late Ellen Nj. Buckmin-
stcr Of 500 for the perpetual care of
the Caldwell family lot in the ceme-
| terry.
An order for a fire alarm box on
| Western avenue near Florence street
was referred to the proper committee
The following petitions were report
ed favorablv on by the committee or
highways and sewers and the reports
We're accepted in concurrence:
For the matchmaking of the Thorn
| aston road from the present finished
road to the Spaulding brook.
For a sewer on Cony and Pine
streets
For a sewer at the back of Towards
store on Gannett street.
For repairing the sidewalk on Sew
all street between the residence o
Mrs. Martha Milliknn and Green street
For concrete sidewalk on the cas-
side Of State street in front of Tx
| Congregational church.
| For q concrete sidewalk on the nortl
side of Western avenue from Scwal
street to the residence of Charles A
! Milliken.
, For merchandising Green stree
from Chapel to Sewall street.
For q concrete sidewalk on lowe
| ctr
east side of the street to the house o
E. l.. Bangs.
For a concrete cross walk on Wash
irgton street at York street.
For a concrete cross walk on OXFORD
street across jefferson street.
For a cross walk on the northern
side of Green street across Chape
street.
For cross walk on Arsenal street.
For travelling Canal street, ditchins
tho same and repairing culverts.
For a concrete sidewalk on the nortl
side of Child street from Charles Nc
Farland's to State street.
For d concrete sidewalk on the NORTH
side of Waldo street easterly from
the east side of Washington street.
For a sewer on lower Sewall street
A proposal from the Kenpebec Ligh
. and Heat Co that the company furnish
the tar for building a concrete side
walk in front of it's gas works on Mt
Vernon avenue was referred to the
committee on highways and sewers
AMI the mayor, with power to act.
The report of the committee on city
buildings, relative to the installation OF
fire escapes on the City building was
accepted and the recommendatio tons
were adopted. The committee was au-
thOriZed to contract for the same at a
price not to exceed $500.
In board of municipal officers j. NJ
Nichols was authorized 10 occupy one
| third of Center street in front of his
residence while repairing the same, the
section Of the street occupied to be
properly fenced and lighted.
Thaddeus Stevens was granted a IL
cense to have charge Of the steam
boiler at the Cony High school and
| Frank y. Glidden that at the City hos
pital.
An order was passed which directed
that the Lewiston. Augusta & Water
| vile Street Railway be and hereby
| sdirected and required Immediately
to repair the damage done to the side
walks along the east side of Bangor
street in the construction of it's tracks.
| by building a new sidewalk along the
east side of Bangor street from the
Williams Grammar scho6lhouse north
erly and across Whiteny brook to the
residence of William Sampson, the
| same to be done to the satisfaction of
| the Mayor and the committee on high
| ways and sewers"
In joint convention the members of