The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-16
City. Council Proceedings

The board of mayor and aldermen of
the CITY of Grenada met in regular ses-
sion June 5.
Present-Mayor Tatum, Recorder
James, Marshal Hall, Aldermen Brown.
Moody, Pressgrove, Keeton and Whit.
aker.
Minutes of former meetings read and
approved.
Street committee was instructed to
take charge of street sprinkler and to
make such arrangements as they deem
necessary in regard to sprinkling GER
tain streets.
The question of laying a sidewalk on
north side of a portion of Third street
was referred to street committee, with
instructions to report to board at next
meeting.
Two petitions praying the boar I'd to
reduce the widths of Commerce, Wa
ter and West streets, signed by j.. j..
Hardy, Cowles Horton ct al, were re-
ferred to street committee.
The following report was read and
ordered spread on the minutes:
To the honorable board of mayor and
aldermen: We, your committee of the
board, appointed to act in conjunction
with a committee of citizens in regard
to a change in width of certain streets
in the West ward, report as follows:
We recommend that Water street,
from Margin street to the Y. & M. V.
Ky. track, be made a width of SO feet,
measured from the west line of said
street, as same is now shown by Gibbs
map and Ferguson map and survey. In
regard to West street, we recommend
that said street be made a width of so
feet from Margin street throughout its
length to Y. & M. V. Ry., measured
from the center of said street, as
shown by the hub stakes of Ferguson
survey map and Gibbs map of the city.
In the matter of College street, we
recommend that it be made a width of
So feet from Margin street to the Y. &
M. V. Ky. track, measured fl the
intersection of South street with Col
lege street at Gerard's corner, as
shown by the present sidewalk tbs reon
laid.
We recommend as a part hereof that
sidewalks be put down on College-St.,
as heretofore ordered.
All property owners along and on all
of the above mentioned streets have
agreed to this change except ]. T. Ma
son, on west side of College street, who
while not pressing any objections, de-
clined to sign the petition, because of
the fact that streets running east and
west throughout the same territory
were not taken into consideration by
your committees, which said commit
tees had not the right to do under the
order passed by the board.
When the parties who receive by this
adjustment of the streets, any portion
OF what has heretofore been included
as streets by the city as shown by its
maps and Surveys, have signified their
acceptance of the same and agreed to
pay for the sidewalk as though put
down on what has heretofore been ION
sidered the true line, we recommend
that sidewalks be put down on such of
said streets as have here tofore been
included ir the order for putting down
Of sidewalks on said streets.
We respectfully submit that the above
n foregoing is a happy solution of
the long pending question of the width
OF said streets and that the same as
decided on by this committee is wide
enough for all purposes and as wide as
any of the streets of the city and in
some cases wider than any of the
streets OF the city save those which run
through the old town of Pittsburg. AS
an illustration, we call your attention
to the fact that College street south of
Margin is only 49.5 feet wide,
while, by this report, that part of said
street north of Line street is made
81 feet WIDE, and thereby joins College
at Line on a better angle, making same
have a better appearance. We request
the adoption OF the above report as
submitted.
lSigned by aldermen com. Brown.
P~ressgrove, keeton; by citizens com.
w. b. Barnes, 7. j. Brown, Cowles
Horton.]
Inc following ordinance was passed:
Be 1t ordained by the Board of AL
dermen of the city of Grenada, in repu-
lar session assembled, that whereas
there has been more or less dispute for
years over the width of the streets
hereinafter named, and whereas the
board heretofore appointed a commit
tee to act in conjunction with a com
mittee of citizens for the purpose of
adjusting same, and whereas said
committees have made a report, which
is spread on the minutes of the board,
and deeming the report of said commit
tee as fully covering the questions in
volved, and further believing that the
width of various streets as recommen.
ded by said committees, to be fully suf-
ficient in all respects for the future
growth and development of the city,
same being equal in width, or wider,
than of all other streets in SAID CITY
save Main and College venue
1t is therefore ordered that Water
street, from Margin street to the Y. &
M. V. r. R, tracks, be, and the same
is hereby declared to be Fifty feet
wide. measured from the western line
of said street, and that West street,
from Margin street to Y. & M: R.
r., is hereby declared to be Fifty feet
wide, measured from the center hub OF
said street as shown by the city maps
and surveys; and that College street,
from Margin street to the Y. & M. v,
R. R. track, be. and the same is hereby
declared to be Fifty-seven feet wide
all of said streets being in the Yves,
ward of the city Of Grenada and ir
what was once known as the town O.
Pittsburg.
All parties are hereby directed ane
ordered to remove all distractions from