Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-08-18
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Order of the City CounciI---
Build New Sidewalks

( The city council held a long and
busy session last evening and many
matters of interest and Importance
were disposed of, besides the regu-
lar routine work.
Judge Main is still confined to his
bed with illness and had not been
able to prepare the minutes for the
last meeting at which he acted as
clerk, SO the reading of the minutes
of the last three meetings were dis
pensed with and then the council
proceeded to consider the matters
to come before it.
The first committee called was
that on streets and alleys, and Coun-
Gilman McEuen stated that ]. T.
Scott had made a request to him for
the establishment of a grade on
Occur d'Alene street, so that he could
lay cement sidewalk in front of
his property, and he made a motion
to the effect that an engineer be
employed to set the stakes so that
this might be done, and upon a vote
being taken it was carried. Council
man McEuen then called attention
to the fact that Second street was
being obstructed by a lumber pile,
and also by a building which had
the appellation of an office, and he
made a motion that the necessary
legal steps be taken looking to its
removal, and on a vote the motion
prevailed. Attention was then called
to the grading of an alley south of
Sherman street from Third to Fifth
streets, and after some discussion it
was decided to have an engineer
grade this and set stakes so that
property owners might construct their
sidewalks. Lakeside street was next
taken up for consideration. The
street commissioner advised the coun-
ell that the property owners would,
If a grade was established, grade
this street from First to Second, and
the street committee was vested with
power to see that this was done.
The street commissioner announced
that the sidewalk on the north side
of Lakeside from Fourth to Sixth was
in bad condition-the worst of any
sidewalk in town, he said, and asked
that proper action be taken to see
to it that sidewalks were constructed,
and this was done. The commits
sioner further suggested that there
were a number on this street who
desired to construct cement walks,
and Councilman Hamilton made a
motion that the committee on
streets and alleys make arrangements
so that any property owner desiring
it could have stakes set and a grade
established for the laying of walks
of this kind within the next 80 days.
| Councilman Bodler asked that prop
erty owners on the north side of
Sherman between Second and Third
be given notice of the necessity of
construction of sidewalks, and a mo-
ton to this end prevailed.
The matter of removing the ruins
of the auditorium building was dis
cussed, but it developed that the
losses on it had not yet been adjusted
and it was decided to let it remain
until the adjustment was made
The committee on light, water and
fire made a report on the application
of Taylor Brothers and Mrs Teresa
Graham to have their respective
buildings, known as the Office and
Central saloon, repaired. The COM
mittee reported that, together with
the chief of the fire department, II
had made an examination of the
buildings, that it had found them a
menace. and condemned them as a
nuisance to the adjacent buildings
and that notice had been served or
the owners to have them removed
within 80 days. The report was ac-
eepted and filed. The committee al.
so reported that it had taken up the
matter of securing four hydrants for
the main which is to be laid down
Mullan avenue, and that they could
be secured for $50 each. By a mo.
ton made and carried the committee
was authorized to purchase them. Al
this juncture # Was suggested that
the Fort grounds were in need of 8
fire station. and also in need of more
hydrants. and the committee on light
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