The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-11

AuditOr WIZ fill the Position.
Councilman A. w. Bryant and a
number Of residents of the north end
Of the city are today laughing quietly
Up their sleeves while at the same
time rather angry at councils action
Monday evening. For several months.
VI. l.. Paddock. n e. Krause. G.. NJ
Coonrad and others who have prop
erty between Mark and Farming and
Main and State streets. have been try
ing to get out of the mud" as they
express IT. Neither Mark nor Farm
ing streets are paved and a majority
of the property owners along the alley
running north and south between
Mark and Farming, have signed pc
ution asking that the alley be paved.
Council couldn't see II and a number
Of speeches were made expressing
willingness to pave the streets but
not the alleys between the two unim-
proved streets The city's share of
the Improvement. it IS claimed. would
be less than 500.
When the ordinance providing for
the Improvement was put to vote.
II was lost. with Ullom. Brookett.
Randall and Straycr voting against 1t
II is likely that the residents will now
circulate a petition asking that Farm.
ing street be paved from Prospect To
Greenwood. However what the pc
titioncrs are laughing at Is the fact
that almost Immediately after turning
down the alley Improvement. coun-
ell very gravely voted To locate an
electric light at the corner Of state
and Hecker streets. i'm the extreme
north end of the city. I'm fact. Heck
er street Is so extremely north that It
isn't within the corporate limits. Coun-
ell Will therefore. unless last nights
action is rescinded, pay $S4 year for
maintaining an electric light outside
the corporation, and I'M a vicinity in
which there are but two or three
inhabited dwellings Therefore. it is
to laugh, according to the disappolnt-
ed north-cndcrs.
Tie Hands of Trustees.
Aside from this action, about the
most important action taken at Mon
day evenings session was a move to
make city Auditor Harry S. Elliott
the goat" so to speak, in the sduab-
bic relative to the fixing Of salary
for The secretary OF the sinking fund
trus'ees. An ordinance was adopt
ed repeating n part Of an ordinance
passed May 10, 1908. authorizing the
sinking fund trustees to select sec
retary az such salary as the city coun-
ell should fix. This takes away the
power of appointing, from the sinking
fund trustees and, according to Mem
ber BrOckett a recent law makes the
city auditor the clerk of the trustees
ana no compensation Is provided for
this duty, other than his regular sal
lry.
Following this ordinance taking the
matter entirely out of the hands OF
the sinking fund trustees, the ordi-
nance providing for a salary Of $3.50
a year for the secretary to the trus-
lees, was given its third reading and
not vote was recorded for It. All
)f which means that the city auditor
win have the pleasure of doing the
clerical work for the sinking fund
trustees and he will receive for il just
what he is receiving now.
A number OF street and alley i'm
we're referred TO the street
and alley committee. The following
petitions were so acted upon: TO
pave George street from Ballentine
Ivenue TO Main street; to pave the
rst alley west of Prospect street be-
ween Center and Church streets; to
pave the alley between Prospect and
Main streets, running north from the
Big Four tracks to the second alley
east and west; to construct a
'our-foot sandstone sidewalk on the
outh side Of Wallace street from Main |
o State streets, and also a supple |
mental petition asking for the paving |
IF St. James street, this latter being |
merely a petition with a few more |
names on than the one originally pre- |
iented.
Paving Ordinance Killed.
A resolution was adopted authoriz- |
ng the city clerk to advertise the va
alton of n 12-foot and a 1G-foot alley |
N Scoheld Heights. Residents OF
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