The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-01-20
COUNCIL HEARS
MAYORS MESSAGE
CITY SPRING FLOW IS STEADY
Ordinance Introduced TO Regulate
Pool Rooms Council Organizes
For 1910.

tor the coming year were made.
Besides the business OF opening the
new year number OF of other mat
ters we're taken up by the council to
make an interesting session.
City Engineer Morse reported to
the council that he had visited the
City Spring with ". L.. Clark on Men
day aud taken measurements of the
TOW OF the water IN oIuer 10 ascertain
II the cold weather had any effect on
1t. lhe measurements showed that the
flow OF The spring was practically the
same as It had been at other times.
According to Mondays measure there
IL flow of about 920, UOU gallons
day and this corresponds closely with
previous measurements taken at val ..
lous seasons, which show that the
flow has varied less than 20, UOU gal
Ions day according to the oaloula-
tions OF different engineers at various
times OF the year.
Ordinance No. 224 regulating public
pool, GaGd and bar rooms, bowling
alleys anu soft drink establishments,
was introduced and passed first read
ing. The ordinance makes the plopri-
etor liable to tiue OF from $50 TO SlOO
| it he allows minors under Is years to
loiter about his place, or II the place
10 open after midnight or on Sunday.
| The ordinance aiso makes youth VINO
misrepI esents his age to the proprle-
tor liable to the same tine.
The Mayor appointed the following
committees OF the council to serve
duIing the coming year: Judiciary
Hall, Brosius aud Arnold Finance
Slooom, Arnold ana Wright; Streets
brosius, Wright and Slocom; FIRE and
Water - Wright, Higgins and Hall ;
health-Arnold, hall and Hugglns;
Printing aud Polioe-Iluggins, Slo-
com and BrusIus. Il. Z. Lewis was
Ie.appointed Ie Marshal ana Street Com
mmlssioneI and IN. Morse was again
appointed City Engineer. J. M. Wright
WAS elected president Of the CounolL
| The Council made new contract with
Al. Darby as City Attorney by which
ne is to receive 500 salary for attend
Ing to all the legal affair OF the city
excepting those which may arise IN
connection with the new municipal
water plant.
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demonstrated against the improve
ment OF that thoi oughLare until attei
the laying of the wafer mains OF the
new municipal water plant ana also
against the contract being let when
only one bid was submitted. This WIS
referred to the street committee to see
il any agreement on the matter ooul0
be reached with VIC. Aldred, to whom
the contract for the improvement has
already been let. Mr.. AltTed's ~, ,oUU
bond was submitted and accepted.
| Report of the assessments on prop
erty for a sewer ON Cascade street be-
tween Ienth and Fifteenth was adopt
ed aud an ordinance levying the as
sessments passed first reading.
The reports of the street viewers on
Sherman avenue and along the rail-
road we're referred tU the street oom-
mittee.
The Recorder was ordered to dlaw
Warrants iefunding the licenses paid
last fall by the Fruit Faii Association
he was also given power to pay fol
the advertising OF the municipal wat
or bonds In the foreign papers.
f., The message of Mayor Mcdonald
lis given heie in full;
TO ihe City Council:
7 Genttemen-I Ihe Charter OF the City
OF Hood River provides that once each
year the Mayor state to the Council
the condition OF the City, financial
and otherwise, and recommend such
| measures for the peace, health, iui-
| movement and prosperity OF the City
I as be may deem expedient
II | find that on January /, 1909, war
rants we're s5627 65 besides accrued
interest, which, with the necessary
i running expenses, brought our indeht'
edness up to nearly $1,000 by the time
| tnXes we're aValIa ble, aud lett little toI
the needs of the City during the year
| md the amount outstanding ut the
I fist ot the present year S266o 10 auo
accrued interest, so that we should
iieach tax collecting time within oui
constitutional limits OF indebtedness
Owing to the increased valuation,
YOU will to enabled to increase the
las year & good work.
Three thousand seven hundred ant
sixty feet of cement walk, besides lonl
stretches OF wood walk have been lalt
during the year all without a single
protest, which shows "A cOmmendaEl'
lpubilc spirit aud confidence OF th'
public in your plaLs tor civic I'M
luroVement. | hope to see the amour
OF cement walk laid during the com
ing year greatly increased.
recommend that as soon as fund
are available, that the grade leading
to the city on the least side OF hOO'
River be improved sufficient for tn
J needs OF travel over it.
On November Il, 1909, the city vot
ed you authority to create indebted
ness sufficient to install complet
water system.
Iurge you to push that work as las
as IL consistent with good work an'
good tinancieiing, as the need OF tb
City for u better water water suppy /
increasing every month.
: | would recommend that no furtbe
work he done improving streets until
the water pipes for the new System
are laid. recommend that as 500
, as the pipes are laid in the ire limit
that you proceed to grade the str ct
10 the tire district aud improve wit
hard surface or macadam, replacln
all wood walks with cement walks, an
following up all improvements alread
planned. / recommend that the cit
buy a steam roller for use as soon Il
you aIe ready for street work and
the present proposed supply of roc
{ does not prove satisfactory that yo
! install bv purchase or rent lare
rock crusher in quarry adjacent
the city. am satisfied that you wi
use 3O0, 900 TO 500, 0OO yards of crushe
rock to take care of improvement
now proposed aud no doubt when thu
: Ia disposed OF there will be deman
for as much more.
1t will be much cheaper for the Gil