Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-02
STREET OPENING HELD UP
Appraisers for Twenty-Second Street
Find Cost Too Great.
TWO DISTRICTS TO BE MADE
Council Committee of the Whole to
Recommend that City Hall be
Insured to the Amount
of $25O,OOO.
TWO DISTRICTS TO BE MAI

Plans for the opening of Twenty-second
street, from Howard to Dodge, will not
go forward for some time. Otto Bau-
man, one of the appraisers appointed to
investigate and report, informed the coun-
Gil committee of the whole Monday after
noon that 1t would be a waste of time
and money to go ahead under the ordi-
nance recently passed by the council. For
the appraisers, he advised that two dis
tricts be created, one from Howard to
Farnam and the other from Farnam to
Dodge, They had found, said Mr.. Bau-
man, that it would require $4,000 to
$500 o more than the $4,000 allowed by
law as the maximum of cost in any one
district, because of the great growth in
the value of Farnam street property.
On the showing made by Mr.. Bauman
the committee requested Councilman
Johnson to bring in this evening an or
dinance repeating the ordinance recently
passed, and also to have two new ordi-
nances prepared to create the two dis
tricts suggested.
The city clerk will this evening be in
structed, by resolution, to advertise for
sealed bids for insuring the city hall for
$3.50, 900, either for three or five years.
While discussing the insurance PROPOSE
ton, a majority Of the councilmeA en-
ddrsed a suggestion from Chairman Funk
houser that the boilers be moved out
under the street, from their present posi-
ton under the city hall rotunda, The
suggestion also embodied the idea tina
when the boilers are moved the ground
floor Of the hall should be fitted up fol-
offices for various city officials, especially
the police and fire departments.
New Track on Dodge.
An ordinance permitting the Union Pa.
cifio to build a track along the south side
Of Dodge street, from Ninth to Tenth
street, was given a favorable recommend
alton. 1t was stated that this new track II
needed to enable Hayden Brothers to e
ahead with plans they nave in mind fol
a mammoth warehouse to be erected where
their present warehouse now stands. OF
the southeast corner Of Tenth and Dodge
streets.
Tit ordinance to put the poundmaster or
a yearly salary Of 1850 was endorsed fol-
passage. 1t provides that the salary shall
be paid from the dog pound fund, and II
that fund becomes exhausted the salary
ceases.
City Attorney Burnham was handed the
Job of finding out IL there is any money
in the general fund available for pay
ing the 1881 damages awarded the own.
ers of property abutting the proposed
Dodge street ~viaduct; and, II so. when
1t can be paid. Neither the village OF
Dundee or the count board will pay
any part Of the damages and the council.
men want to know where the money IL
coming from before they take any fur.
ther steps toward the building Of the via
duct.
Opening OF Saratoga street will be de-
ferred until the city engineer reports az
to the possibility OF securing a uniform
width, what rights street squatters may
have, and the cost OF the work.
After some argument pro and con, the
COMMITTEES gave its sanction to a recon-.
mendation OF Street COMMISSIONS Flynn
that the day Waterman at the city too
house be paid go a month instead Of $50
and that the assistant street commissioner
who provides his own horse and buggy