Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-09
The CITY COUNCIL
0UACkENBUSH RESENTS RECKLESS
NEWSPAPER STORIES.
Street improvements Continue to
Hold Leading Place in City oOsnCil
BuSine IS. Theater Licenses ReQu.
lated. General He eating Franchise
Is Passed.

one OF the longest sessions held Tor
some time. The usual routine bust.
ness was taken care of, and the fol
lowing measures adopted. The street
committee reported the necessary i'm
provement OF Market street west of
X, by planking and the report was
adopted.
They also recommended that Cur
tbs street, from Clark to Lawrence
street, be re-decked.
The police, fire and light committee
recommended the installation OF the
Gamewell system Of police boxes in
conjunction with the present fire box
es. The cost to be $l,294.3S per year
for a period of four years. The mea-
sure as read was adopted, and work
will begin at once to connect \p the
ten signal stations. 1t was pointed
out that the services of at least two
patrolmen could be dispensed with
under this system.
Hits, as chairman of the street
committee, wished the city to remove
the shacks that adjoin the West&
Slade Grocery cOmpany's property, be
removed at once and it was SO ord
cred.
An extra man. on the Heron street
bridge to help the present two men
who have been working twelve hours,
was allowed at the same salary paid
the present tender.
The application for the renewal of
the license Of the California Wine
House was granted and the transfer
OF the license at 306 South G street
to Edward Dolan was allowed.
An ordinance for the improvement
of Broadway to Market and Wishkah
streets, was put on the final reading
and passed.
The clerk was instructed to offer
for sale the present acreage and the
house now used as pest house. This
land is situated on the Wishkah river
and is supposed to comprise some
twenty acres. An offer of $2,400 was
declined.
An ordinance was adopted for the
improvement of Hume street
street from Broadway to F, the
estimated cost is $1,000, and is for
grading, grubbing, etc.
After much discussion for and
against the franchise for a central
heating plant, was granted to Carl
L. Peterson. This ends a matter that
has been before the body for some
time.
Wishkah, G and Broadway streets,
at the request Of the committee on ar
rangements for the carnival on the
Fourth, were set aside for the attrac-
tions that will be here during that
time.
An ordinance was passed providing
that health officer is to inspect each
oil trf and
etc that are on sale in the stores in
Aberdeen and to make written re-
port to the standing committee.
An ordinance fixing the license OF
theaters of all classes was passed.
This measure provides that license
of $25.O0 be charged per year, if paid
in advance, for operating theater,
or charge of ten dollars each calend-
,er month for the privilege.
Councilman Newell was granted a
thirty day leave of absence.
The bid of the Washington Pipe C
Foundry company for 5,400 feet of
six inch water pipe was the lowest
one opened and the same was award
ed them at % cents foot.
A. Wallin was awarded the contract
of improving H street from Eighth to
Nlntn at cost OF pl,o i4.oU.
The real interesting part of the
meeting came when Quackenbush, in
a lengthy speech, fiayed the press for
limiting that all was not as it should
be with the council, in the manner of
letting contracts for street filling and
work of all kinds. He impressed up
on the minds of those present, that
as long as he had been member OF
that body, he had never seen, nor
heard of any improvement that was
contemplated or was made that it was
not at the request of the property
owners themselves, and that every
protest that had been made to the
council, had received just, and due
consideration. The fact that local
paper had made the statement that
they were trying to railroad certain
work through the council, against the
protest of property owners, was TAX,
en- exception to, and he for one want,
ed the people to know what he
thought of the matter.
Elder followed with several remarks
of a like nature, and also thought the
attacks were made with the idea OF
feathering the nest of someone politi'
Cally inclined.