Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-13
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Resolution Passed Ordering More
Cars on South Omaha Line.
NEW LIGHTING BIDS RECEIVED

IeEe OF Furnishing illumination
for Three or Five Years,
az Council May Decide.
BY, a resolution introduced by the raH- /
road and viaduct committee before the
city council last night. the Omaha and
Council Bluffs Street Railway company
vas ordered to put more cars on the Six
teenth street line running between Omaha
and South Omaha. The resolution stipu-
lates that the company must put on three
or four cars as It sees lit. during the
morning between and and six in the
evening between and $50. Such action
was in response 20 a resolution introduced
by Councilman Bridges two weeks ago,
calling attention TO the inadequacy Of the
service between Omaha and South Omaha.
, Three companies the Omaha Gas COM
pany the Welsbach Street Lighting COM
pany OF America. and the American Street
Lighting company OF Baltimore submitted
bids for lighting the streets OF omaha
with gas Tor the next three or five years,
as the council may elect.
Bid of Gas Company.
The Omaha Street Lighting company
failed to send In a bid. The Omaha Gas
company offered to furnish gas and main
tenance for the lamps for $25 lamp per
year. either on the three-oF five-year plan.
The American Street Lighting company
was the only one TO differentiate between
the two terms. offering to furnish all
labor. equipment and gas for $26 per lamp
q year on the three-year plan or $3.50 on
the five-ysar specification. The welsbaoh
company bid s265O flat, either for three or
five years.
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bids, save in the one submitted by the
Baltimore company. In that It deducted
90 cents year IL the contract was made
for five years.
All bids were referred 10 the lighting
committee
To Inspect Picture shows.
The city attorney was ordered to draw
an ordinance, which will require and pro
vide for inspection Of moving picture
! shows and also provide for the general
lighting and installing of exist lights in all
theaters and public places OF amusement
City Electrician Michaelsen complained
of the laxity OF such regulations and re-
quested the council 20 pass an ordinance
governing these places.
Saturday morning at 1880 was set aside
by the council TO hear the professors
against the paving Of Eighteenth street
The protest sets forth that the signatures
to the petition for the paving Of the street
were obtained by Misrepresentation and
= the city fathers are asked to repeal the
ordinance.
protest from property owners In the
vicinity OF Twenty-fOurth and Burt streets
was filed, which stipulates that the street
car tracks between Burt and Cunning on
Twenty-fourth street are above the estab-
lished gfade OF the street They ask that
the company be forced 20 lower the tracks
as the abuttlng properly is being damaged.
protest against the change OF grade
OF Twenty-firsu street from Leavenworth
to Pierce street was referred~to the street
Improvement committee.
Keep Water COmpany's bond,
A request by the Omaha Water com
pany for the return OF $50 deposited as
a bond that streets torn up by the com
pany will be replaced, was denied on the
recommendation Of city Engineer Craig
The city engineer argues that the com
pany is continually cutting up the streets
and the money should not be returned.
Two bids were received for the hsulihg
Of dead animals. An unsigned estimate
asked 5000. while the City Garbage com
pany offered TO do the work at the rate
OF 81 each for large animals, % cents
for smaller ones and Is cents each for
cats.
stanley L. jackson was appointed as ar
attache OF the city engineers office at q
salary of $50 a month. The bond OF sestS
g. Vancahu, who were awarded the con
tract for laying sidewalks In the city dur
ing the year, was approved while IN,
claim OF Daisy carman for sass foi
< clothes destroyed while she was an In
mate OF the emergency hospital was de
MED.
Deeds defeating thirty feet on LAX
street from Thirtieth to Forty-first streets
for street purposes were accepted by tn
council.
Arc lamps were ordered installed a
Eighteenth and Williams street. Eight
and Forest streets. Fifty first and Pacifi
streets. Seventeenth and lizard streets
and Forty.third and Capitol avenues. Ga
lamps we're ordered In on Webster stree
betwosn Thirty eighth and Fortieth streets
and tho gas lamp at Eighth and Fores
was discontinued.
These ordinances were passed; For tn
grading OF elm street from Twenty-tbir'
to Twenty-fOurth street; for the change Q
Rrads OF Thirty-fifth street from Burt I
Cunning streets; for the changing OF IN
curb lines of Twenty seventh street fror
spaulding 20 Bristol streets. and for IN
paving OF Fourteenth street from DavOn
pert 20 Webster streets
These ordinances passed first and sec
ond readings and were referred; For IN
changing OF the grade OF Fortisth stree
from old Jackson 70 Jones streets; 70
changing the established grade OF ElIso
avenue from Twenty-tourth street 10 Flor
enoa; for the paving Of Twenty-fouFt
street from Florence boulevard to Forfeit
street, and for the changing OF the cur
lines Of Thirty-fifth avenue from HOWar