Arizona republican., 1910-02-22
VoTE WILL BE CAST APRIL !.
Initiative Taken For Great ing Office of Electrical Inspector Sidewalk Con struction and Its Irritat- ing Details

The city council last night approved and accepted the plans of Olmsted X C;ellellen for a deep sewer; called an election on the proposition of voting S460. 900 bonds for the construction of the sewer. the election to be held April :: passed a resolution author izing the registration of voters for the sewer bond election; passed a resolu- ton naming the polling places in each ward and the election officers. each councilman to be the inspector in his ward: acted favorably on the recom- mendation of the committee of the whole for the appointment of O. H. Christy as street superintendent to succeed Frank Fowler who has been filling the office temporarily; read first time and referred tO committee of the whole for careful consideration an ordinance creating the office of electric inspector and inspector of meters: instructed the city recorder to advertise for bids for 1000 feet of fire hose: instructed the city attorney {" present a resolution entering into a contract with the Anderson Fire Sup ply Co. for q new hose wagon: listened to and gave instructions concerning various matters in the city engineer ing department. arising through side walk construction: and acted upon nu- mclous matters uf lesser moment.
 In respect of the sewer plans the mayor reported as q matter of incl dental interest to forestall possible criticism in some quarters. that he had satisfied himself that the council could not have secured better engineers to plan the sewer During the past week he has been told by Mayor Boothe of Pasadena that this company was se
 lected to construct a sewer in South Pasadena after five months of per sonal investigation on his part. and inspection Of the company's work in various places. and he unhesitatingly said he believed il was the best firm in the United States for construction of that character. Tn the matter of the proposed bond issue which has been suggested at all the way from sS0O. .000 to S400,000. the latter amount was de- cided upon that the fund might be ample for the extension of the sewer to includeN the Brill addition which is not now covered by the plans. and the Collins and West Capitol additions WHICH are HON III lIpctSS bi btlIfG fOrcibly and legally annNed IL is pro- posed to make these additions come in and force municipal benefits upon them whether they want them or not.
 The registration resolution permits registration to within ten days of the election and states the usual qualifi- cations of voters. The polling places at the election will be in the Craig building corner Central avenue and Monroe; the Ford hotel: Second aye nue and Jefferson; and the city hall.
 The ordinances presented for the creation Of the office of electrical in- spector. is a very long one, covering several typewriter pages and it would seem. every possible point nec- essary in such an ordinance as to how and when inspection should be had. at the request of whom. the fees and who shall pay them. etc. Nevertheless it was considered that the ordinance is too important to be hastily passel and the council will devote an evening to its consideration and it's pruning if that be desirable. in the presence of technical advisers.
 The city engineers reported that since the sidewalk building era began about thirty miles of walk has been constructed and he believed it should be examined. checked up to see who has failed to build within the time limits given. and see that the walk built is in accordance with the reGula- tions. He reported that in connection with the placing of the corners by the city under a contract with one firm. the work had been well done except that in some instances the hired men employed by the contractor were lack ing in erudition and though they had tried hard tO carry out the regulation requiring the names of the streets to be stencilled in the walks they had misspeled them so noticeablv that if they remain it will be q standing ad- Vertisement of the illiteracy of Phoe- nix. The council ordered that pay ment for this work be held mp until the contractor replaces such squares with new ones bearing the names of the streets correctly spelled. It was also reported that in many instances the engineer had at the request of contractors run sidewalk lines and stalled the ground. for walks whirh were not subsequently, built He was instructed te give all such contracts. two months in which to build the walks or as an alternative to refuse to run any more lines for such con tractors until they have refunded to