Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-10-05

business, most OF the matters consid
cred and discussed being referred
back to the committees OF the coun'
Gil for further consideration and &C
ton by the committees.
, In Regular Session.
The council me. IN regular session
last night with President ID. 5. Jones
IN the chair and the following mem
beers present: Christie, Cooke, Cox,
Ford, Harris, Hmdley. Hutchins, w.
re. Jones, Nelson, Reyner. w. A.
Spruill, Via, West and Whitley. Coun-
Gilman Christie offered the opening
prayer.
| BY unanimous vote. the council
conourred IN the amendment made by
the board of aldermen to the original
resolution directing an audit OF the
books OF the city auditor increasing
! the appropriation for this work from
$3.50 TO $3.50.
A resolution appropriating $50 for
| the Newport News Public Play
grounds Association was adopted by
. unanimous vote.
No More Mules Yet.
an appropriation OF more than $1,000,
resolution appropriating $1,000 with
which to purchase four mules for the
street department was laid on the Ia
BILE for one month as the rules re-
uuire. This resolution came from the
committee on highways and sewers
and was not sent to the finance com
mittee.
Following an address by Chairman
f. /. Ford, OF the finance committee.
asking that his committee be allowed
to pass upon all appropriations before
they are presented to the council, the
council referred a resolution appro-
priating $500 for a new street sweep
or and harness to the finance COM
mittee.
Resolution IL Reccmmltteo.
Another resolution from the high
ways and sewers committee appropri-
ating $500 with which to build sew
err on Thirtieth street from Hunting
ton avenue to Virginia avenue was
sent back TO the committee by a
unanimous vote.
Chairman Via. of the highways and
sewers committee. explained that this
sewer is designed to relieve the over.
flow OF water on Huntington avenue
and the side streets near Thirtieth
street. He said that the water fire.
quently has backed up in the base
ment OF the Trinity Methodist church
and that the church Is threatening
to sue the city. He explained that IT.
was not certain whether the proposed
S-inch sewer would relieve the situa-
ton.
Mr.. Ford said that he did not think
this matter had been handled in a
business like way and that the city
engineer should have drawn up plans
o. the proposed sewer and the COM
mittee should have sent the plans to
the council so that the solans could
act intelligently on the matter.
City to Furnish Trees.
Much opposition developed 70 an
ordinance from the highways and
sewers committee directing the city
street force to cut down all cotton
wood and North Carolina poplar
shade trees in the city and prohibit
ing the planting of such trees in the
future and, after much discussion. the
ordinance was amended so as to re-
quest the property owners who have
cottonwood or North Carolina pop
lar trees in front of their houses to
cut such trees down and directing
the city engineer to furnish shade
trees to property owners who have
cut the trees down.
An ordinance increasing the salary
of the rodman In the city engineers
office from $50 per month to $50 per
. month was referred to the finance
committee after short discussion in
which several members declared
themselves as opposed to any in
crease of salaries at this time.
After a very lengthy debate, in
which DR.. Aaron Jeffery and Superin-
tendent Of Garbage Harris participat-
ed. the council recommitted an ordi-
nance from the health committee re-
lating to the construction OF drv
closets in the city.
Amount Of Fine Reduced.
An ordinance amending Me city
| penalty for violating that ordinance
from a fine OF not less than $50 nor
more than 500 to a fine of not less
than s. nor more than s25 was unsni-
mousIy adopted.
City Attorney J. A. Massie was d.
rected by the council to write the
Cleveland Trinidad Paving Company
that II may defer making any repairs
to the. street asphaI; paving on
Washington avenue and on Twenty
fifth street until n Is ready to make
the final repairs to the pavement at
the expiration Of the ten year guar
sntee.
An ordinance authorizing =. G
LEM to connect somee Of his houses
or Twenty-ffth street with the sewer
OF Wickham avenue was unanimously
adopted.