Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-26
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
City Council Spends Time Awarding
Paving Contracts.
BIDS FOR SIDEWALKS
One Contractor hut small Fraction
Below Every Other On All Ma
teriaIs-N eErOes Fined
for Gambling.


for GamblinE.
The session Of the city council last night
was consumed with the advancement Of
paving propositions and the opening OF bids
for permanent sidewalks.
The petitions designating materials, the
award Of the contracts and the approval
of the contract and bonds of the fortunate
contractors in seven OF the nine paving
districts were the several steps in the pro-
cedure. The paving Of T~wenty-first street
north Of Missouri avenue was awarded to
the National Construction company. The
same company secured the paving OF Nine
tenth street, F street and Eighteenth
street. The msterial used Is asphaltie con-
crete.
Dan Harmon secured the contract for b
street, G street, ] street, Twenty-second
street, Twentieth and A streets. The ma
terlal used is brick paving block. Jensen
& Letter received the award for Twenty
first street from N to Railroad avenue and
for Twenty-second street from NJ to N.
The material to be used is brick block.
The petition designating materials on
Thirty-ninth avenue was withheld at the
request Of the offerman Plumbing, Heat
ing and Construction company, the bidders
whose petition was most largely signed.
A communication was received from the
park board protesting against the petition
for paving Hector boulevard with creo-
soted wood block. The park board de-
clared 1t would cost about SIS, 900 more than
the other materials. The matter was re-
ferred to the city attorney, and it is not
known that the resolution of the park
board can nave any effect In setting aside
the petition designating the materials to
be used in this paving. The city owns the
property on one side of this boulevard and
will have to pay a larger proportion of
the expense than in the case OF the other
streets.
ROyv1ey Good GueSser.
Considerable amusement was caused when
the bids for permanent sidewalks were
opened. G. Mancini of Florence bid ia
cents per square foot for concrete or arti-
ficial stone, IL cents for brick, 8 cents for
pine curb and 30 cents for grading. W, H.
Rowley bid IL 74-1O0 cents for stone, 0 $500
cents for brick and 20 cents for grading.
Gus Hamil bid Il cents for stone. 10 cents
for brick. 4 cents for pine curb and Is cents
for grading. The point which caused the
amusement was that Rowley bid the least
possible fraction under his competitors in
each case.
The ordinance for the paving of A street
from Twenty-third to T~wenty-sixth was
passed, and the ordinance to pave B street
from Twenty-eighth to Twenty-ninth also
passed.
The award of the official publications
was made to ]. M. Tanner and the Daily
Democrat designated as the official paper.
A communication was received from the
Federation of Labor asking that an ordi-
nance be passed to compel the employment
of none but union labor on all public
works. h communication was placed on
file.
Candidates for Council File.
A number of additional names were filed
yesterday and will be represented on the
party tickets at the primary election.
Those filing yesterday were -J~H Carbray,
socialist, councilman in the Second ward;
Joe Pivonke, democratic candidate for the
Board of Fire and Police commissioners;
John Franek, democratic councilman In
the Second ward; Thomas P. Peterson, re-
publican in the Seventh ward; Anton Bazaar,
republican candidate in the Seventh ward;
George K~rigbaum, democratic councilman
in the Seventh ward; ". e. Schneider,
democratic candidate for the board of edu-
cation; and William Orchard, also demo-
cratic candidate for the board OF education.
Police Court Crowded.
Thirty-one negroes Of the city were tried
in police court yesterday morning, the
process requiring all of the forenoon The
charge against all the men was gambling.
The owners of the places where the games
were found in operation were tried first.
William Dooley and James Dodd pleaded
guilty and were fined SIS and costs. Sam
Palmer plead not guilty and was tried and
found guilty and fined S25 and costs. The
other men who were inmates and more or
less active participants were fined all the
way from 81 to IS. The judge dismissed a
number for lack of actual evidence that
they were in the game.
Melcher Drug store RObbed.
The Melcher drug store was robbed Sun
day night of SIS and a check for -. The
entrance was made through a rear window
and the back door was then unlocked.
The porter who had been working at the
place was suspected and was located by
the Omaha police. His name is Frank
Stepany. Mr.. Melcher had a great deal of
confidence in the porter and 1t was with
reluctance that he was compelled to think
that the man had broken into the store.
He was led to this conclusion because the
porter was the only person outside of the
employees who knew where the money was
kept. Stepany will be held for further
examination.
Ounta Man Comes Today.
Lewis NJ. Seaver OF New York, secretary
to the National Humane alliance. will be
in South Omaha this morning to look over
the situation and come to a final agree
ment as to the water fountain which was
donated over a year ago to the city of
South Omaha The original intention was
to place the fountain at Twenty-fifth and
o streets. But this has been made inn
possible for the reason that the street
must be used by the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway company in the
extension Of it's line on West l. street.
Magic City Gossip.
]. ], Breen has prepared a new mis-
demeanor ordinance which he expects "a
introduce shortly before the city council,
The Willing Workers of the Christian
church will meet with Mrs, Sevich, 1915
North Twenty-seventh street. Wednesday
afternoon.
Telephone s6s and get a case of letters
Gold Top bottled beer. Delivered at YOU
residence. Henry j. letter.
Miss Angelina Mills and Nora Wilson
colored, were arrested yesterday on charge
/ Of DprturV. They were said to have com.