Arizona republican., 1910-09-07
MONTHLY MEETING
 OF CITY COUNCIL
A Strictly Business Session Devoted to Fiscal Matters and Street
 Improvements.

The city council last night held it's regular monthly meeting. It was straight business and plenty of it. comprising street, alley, gutter, side | walk, engineering and financial dis l cussion. The first hour and a half was devoted tO auditing bills to the amount of between eleven and twelve thousand dollars $l0.901.23 of which were ordered paid from the general fund, S4,455.6S from the water works fund and $130 from the library fund The general fund being low d resolu- ton was passed allowing the loan or a sufficient amount from the wa ter works fund to pay the general fund warrants.
 J. D. Lopcr, superintendent of the city schools announced to the coun- ciI that he had asked the city attor- ncy to prepare an ordinance prohlDlt- ing the vending of ice cream cones by itnerant peddlers in the vicinity of the city schools, especially the central building He said that last year this became a great nuisance and something of a menace to the school children, the teachers and the parents of pupils. Six or elght peddlers spent much of their time hanging around the school houses. pandering to the weakness of the children for ice cream. As a result the children were constantly begging nicilles at home and buying cones which were not always filled with ice cream of a desirable sort The mayor promised the superintendent the matter would be looked into and probably acted upon before school opens.
 City Engineer Turney reported to the council that work in his depart l. mcnt just now is a little slack but will probably be very lively little later He suggested that now would be a good time to undertake the fixing of street grades in five of the additions to the city where grades have not yet been established. It Is a job that will take four or five months perhaps and cost ap- proximately $500. He said he knew that m some instances sidewalks and other improvements would have been made before now if he had been able to furnish the grades. The council agreed with him and so ordered.
 Councilman Hackctt brought up the matter of the cesspools the city had been maintaining for a number ol years under the misnomer of drain age guttcrs at the corner of tlrst avenue and Washington street and Second avenue and Washington EN- erybodv in the world is agreed that they should be remedied; the ques- ton was should the city do 1t or undertake to make the abutting prop ertv owners do it It was settled that as the property owners had built tine walks and gutters once, and as the trouble at First and Wash ington was at the corners which the city always pays for, the city shoulu correct the nuisance. Engineer TUT ney stated that he had given the corner in question careful exam ination and found that it is three or four inches higher than the gutter above it on Washington street. He said the lowering of the corner would not make an ideal gutter on tlrst avenue below as the grade IS only 2Is inches to the block, but 1t would help a great deal and do away with the accumulation above. The street commissioner was instructed to se- cure bids and proceed to correct the evil. at the same time making the cross bridges the full II feet of the sidewalk width instead of the pres ent narrow bridges It was at first
 4l,.. 1 Ford hotel corner but the engineer said that dealt with an iTrigatlng ditch. concerning the correction of which he preferred to make further investigation before recommending action.
 At the request of the city marshal William C. Alyord and Harry Gaskln were appointed special policemen without pay, the former to serve at Eastiake park and the latter on SoHh First avenue. two outlying dls- tricts that cannot be well protected by the regular force, and the men being willing.
 Bids were received for the con struction of a sidewalk, curb and gutter around the Y. M. C. A. park Sb Ndlltti. dl liit Npi iANi VI n N'N : avenue and Monroe street. The bids | were referred to the city engineer and the recorder for computation and | comparison.
 The street commissioner reported | the need of auxiliary city corrals in | the capitol and the East Collins ad- | ditions. both because the main corral 1 of two lots is now crowded with | 43 horses and SD many wagons and | road machines that all cannot be ac- commodated. because more room IS needed to sequestrate sick horses and because the sprinllling and road work in those additions can be done more through the saving of | time. The matter of leasing or rent