Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-14
Council Bluffs,
DELAY IN PAYING MAIN STREET
All Wires Must Be Placed Under
Ground Before Work Begins.
SIX MONTHS NOTICE IS NEEDED
Committee Of Councilman and CITY
Officers Is Appointed 20 Draft OrdI-
nsnce--Manswa Line Fran
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IL was clearly forecasted at the city
council meeting Monday night that it will
be well along toward the last part OF next
simmer OF perhaps late In the fall before
the much desired work Of repaving Broad
way and Main street, removing the granite
blocks ana substituting Galesburg block
VIII be accomplished. The wise decision
TO require all wire companies to put their
Tires under ground is the cause. Dis
cussion Of the matter disclosed the fact
that the wire companies claim six months
notice before they begin the work of CON
duit construction. and the council cannot
give the legal official notice until the neces-
sary ordinance mas been passed. The ordi-
nance cannot be put into working shape
before January, and the six months usher
in July. Then " the companies resist,
as they always have. and court appeals
and pole-chopping stunts must be resorted
to, several months more will be consumed
The matter came before the council last
evening in the shape OF a special report
at the request Of the mayor from City Elec-
trician Mckinley stating the number of
wire companies affected and the extent of
their lines involved. It included both tele-
phone companies, the Western Union and
the Postal Telegraph companies and the
electric light company and also the wires
OF the IRE and police departments The
matter was referred to the council com
mittee on fire, police and telegraph the
mayor city solicitor, city engineer and
city electrician to work out the plan of
the ordinance required, which must specify
the number and location of the poles to
be removed
Manewa Line Franchise. e.
The street railway company filed
written application asking for an official
statement OF the amount OF paving to be
raid for on the streets over which the pro-
posed extension OF the lines will pass
giving the amount each property owner is
to receive. The attorneys for the COM
pany took advantage OF the fact to again
specifically state that this action was the
positive and direct recognition by the coun-
Gil OF the Lake Manawa fifty-year charter.
The matter was referred to the engineer
and to the council committee OF the
whole, which will assess the benefits after
the same manner as paving is assessed.
The company win pay for seven feet Of
the paving on all streets occupied.
A paving resolution passed last August
and which went astray and escaped the
official records ordering the resurfacing
Of South Sixth and Seventh streets where
the old brick service is worn out, was re-
vived and again passed. The territory in
volved is from Fifth to Eighth avenues on
South Sixth street and Seventh to Eighth
avenues on South Seventh.
The usual flood of protests against
paving assessments poured in, involv-
ing Benton street, Madison avenue.
Kappel avenue and South Eleventh street.
X. M. slyter gave notice of appeal from
the assessment OF his property on Eleventh
and filed the bond required
City Solicitor Kimball reported that he
had been able to discover no other source
for securing the funds to pay for the
condemnation of property necessary for
the opening OF Vine street from Bryant to
North Main. except by drafts upon the
general or Improvement funds, and as both
OF those funds were burdened with all they
could carry, he saw no way Of granting
the petition OF citizens to have the street
opened at this time.
The matter was about to be passed up
when Alderman Beebe insisted that there
could be and should be a way found for
the needed Improvement that IT had been
done several times in other parts OF town
and this was the most important Of such
extensions He was so earnest and con-
vincing that he forced reference of the re-
port to the committee OF the whole, so the
entire council, including the mayor, could
engage In the search.
Permit for Electric Sign.
Permission was granted to erect electric
/ signs in front of the new shoe store loca-
ton Of s. A. Pierce & Co.. 5s5 Broadway,
Paul Gaito's shoe shop. and the Citizens
Electric Light company for a South Main
street location.
An old claim Of s12 for breaking win
dow light at 1921 West Broadway by city
employees washing the mud from the paw
! ing in June, 1909 was referred to the
| judiciary committee. The mayor was in
structed to sign an agreement with the
Imperial Milling company for permission
to lay its tracks on First avenue between
Thirty-second and Thirty-fourth streets
for the use OF the new grain elevator which
| is being built there.
] A ten-ineh sewer was ordered on Twelfth
avenue from Third street TO the east line
OF High scTset. A sidewalk resolution was
presented ordering a walk on Gale avenue
from Fleming, and 1t was referred to the
committee Of the whole. An ordinance
was passed reducing the width OF Bloomer
between the curbs from twenty-six to
| twenty-four feet.
Mayor Maioney refused to let his COM
munication concerning the control OF In
dian creek floods be merely filed, but in
sisted that IL be referred TO committee
OF three members. the mayor. city engi-
neer and city attorney, to report back to
the council. The council adjourned 10 meet
wednesday morning to assess sidewalks
for Contractor Nelson.
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