The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-07
CITY COUNCIL IN
REGULAR SESSION.
THIRTEENTH STREET CROSSING
coNsIDERED-DIsPosITIoN or
GARBAGE - REoUIslTIoN sys.
TEN ADOPTED DUPLICATION
OF PAVEMENT PAYMENTS.

The city council met last night in
It's regular monthly session, transact
ing no great amount of city business
OF any rurport. All but three of the
aldermen were in attendance at the
meeting.
Mayor Lowell gave a report of the
trip OF Mr.. Anders and himself and
told what was being done with
the plans for the proposed filtration
plant, as a result of this trip. He said
that Mr.. Anders was now making a.
number OF Celebrations on the present
plans in the head house and pine gal
lery, and that G. Arthur Brown. the
consulting engineer, has advised the
city engineer to simply prepare his
speclhcations so that the contracting
companies would not be hampered bv
minute plans and operations.
III will be some time before Mr.
Brown, the consulting engineer, can
come to Fargo, and knowing the haste
of the city officials he advised the
council to employ good draughtsman
TO assist Mr. Anders in rushing the
plans toward completion. To that end
the city ordered that a man be en-
ployed to help the city engineer in his
work, and draughtsman will be
loaned the city by Mr.. Brown for a
snort time to assist in preparing the
necessary specifications and plans.
Mayor Lowell called the attention of
the council to the advertisement which
appeared in The Forum regarding Sen
ate Bill No. 296 which had been passed
by the legislature. He also called
the attention to the news item in the
same paper which stated that is was
possible that the governor might veto
this bill. On the strength of this, he
had, just before the meeting of the
council telegraphed to Gov John
Burke, asking him not to veto the
measure, stating that he was writing
a letter explaining the needs Of cities
for such measure.
The mayor also called the attention
of the council to the fact that as yet
no crossing was provided for along the
N. p. tracks, west of Eighth street, un.
til Fifteenth street was reached and
pointed out the fact that the high
school students living on the north
side were greatly inconvenience by
this lack of a proper crossing. The
n. P officials made the city an offer 20
establish a crossing at Thirteenth
street and withdraw the one at Fiji
teenth street Such an offer did not
appeal to the council for the time be-
ing so the matter was referred to the
aldermen from the Fourth and Fifth
wards.
The reports of number of the cor
poration officers were received ac-
copied and placed on file. The chief
of policies report showed that fifteen
arrests had been made and 1866 taken
in for fines.
Through a petition of Miss Ina
Bowers to have some funds returned
to her (Which was allowed) for dupli-
cation of payment of street paving,
it was discovered that there were a
number of cases in the city where the
same thing had occurred. Several of
the aldermen came up with citings
from their constituents where the con-
tractors had been paid twice for doing
the same work.
The parties in front of whose prop
erty the work was done, had paid the
contractor for the work, and then
again the city assessed these same
people
paid again from the funds of the city.
Most of the duplication in payments
had been made to J. H. Marden, and
the questions, all of which desired
attention, by the men who presented
them, were referred to the city attor-
ney and city engineer
The council ordered the proper Of
ficials to sell the city's interest in the
cid detention hospital to the county for
the sum of $500, the city having an
offer from the county to this amount.
Alderman Clapp presented a bill
from the firm Of Engerud, Holt &
Frame for fees which had been con-
tracted in clearing up some of the
city's titles to alleys in the Third and
Fourth wards. The law firm had held
UP the judgment awaiting their fees
and consequently the city and property
holders affected, had no clear title.
The question was referred to the city
attorney and the aldermen from the
Third and Fourth wards.
A number of bills, smaller than the
usual amount, were read and allowed
Alderman Mcdonald reported that
the committee which had been ap-
pointed to fix upon some kind of a
reuuisition system for the city, had
selected the triple system Of filing,
with a serial number. The system
is the same that is now in use by the
Union Light, Heat & Power Co. and
il was decided to adopt this and the
city auditor was empowered to order
the required number for all the city
departments.
The mayor reported that the Union
Light, Heat & Power Co, had made
the city an offer to furnish power to
operate the new filtration plant. The
matter was not taken up, but from the
prevailing sentiment, 1t is not proba-
Bile that the offer will be accepted.
The question Of the disposition of
the city garbage was brought up by
the mayor who suggested that some
kind Of an ordinance be passed requir-
ing uniform garbage can and that
the city advertise for bids to remove
Ali garbage Alderman Bowers re-
rorted that a gentleman had stated to