The Pensacola journal., 1911-12-19
WORKS BOARD
HELD A BRIEF
BUSY MEETING
SEVERAL MATTERS RECEIVED
CONSIDERATION AT SESSION
LAST NIGHT, THIS BEING THE
TIME FOR THE REGULAR MEET
ING.

With Chairman Blocker presiding
and Messrs. Schad and Higgins present,
brief, but busy meeting of the board
of public works was held yesterday af-
ternoon at o'clock in the office OF the
city clerk. This was the time for the
regular meeting, but the principal
matter to be considered was the hear
ing of the complaints of any property
owners against whom apportionment
warrants had been issued for the con-
struction of sidewalks recently. A
number of complaints were heard, but
none Of them were considered worthy
to set aside the warrants.
Proceedings.
After the minutes had been read and
approved, the complaints of the prop
erty owners were heard, after which
a communication from the city attor-
ney replying to the request from the
board of works that he advise the
board how to proceed to have the wa
ter and gas connections made on the
streets which are to be paved In the
near future The communication ad-
vised the board how to proceed to give
the proper notice and stated the at
torney would give the matter OF ar
ranging the forms of notice, ETC., his
attention. The communication was
received and filed.
line report vi LnS StItCI oupCA
tendent showing the amount of work
done in his department, the locations
where clay, sand and cinders had been
used on the streets, the work done by
carpentersy etc. The report was re-
ceived and filed.
1t was decided to request the mayor
to order a set of steel filings for the
street sweeper, ii being the opinion OF
the street superintendent and the board
that the steel filings will give better
satisfaction than either the oak or rat
tan, which have been used in the past.
In communication, the plumbing
inspector called attention to the con-
dition of the sewer in the east end of
the city, formerly used to drain Pala-
fox. Chase, Intendencia and Tarragona
streets and recommended that new
eight Inch sewers be put in at certain
localities in this section. In this con-
nection, Chairman Blocker stated that
he had already taken the matter up
with the board of bond trustees and
that they had agreed to put in the new
sewer. The communication was re-
ceived and filed.
Chairman Blocker called the atten-
tion of the lighting committee to the
reed of a light on Manresa street.
saying that this was a dark alley and
that q number of robberies had oc-
Cured in it.
On motion OF SCIldO, d COAh-
munication was ordered addressed to
the marshal calling his attention to
parties driving across the sidewalk on
West Chase street, between e and #
streets.
ST. Michael Cemetery Sidewalk.
A communication was read from the
city attorney, in which he advised that
as to the sidewalk laid on Florida
Blanca street, adjoining st. Michaers
cemetery, against which the custodians
Of the cemetery had protested and
had asked that they be relieved from
pax ing for the sidewalk, claiming that
this Is not a sidewalk, but the prop
erty of the cemetery, the board had
been right in ordering the sidewalk
and that the cemetery people should
be held responsible for the payment
for it. The clerk was directed to write
]. J. Sullivan, attorney for the ceme-
terry, of the advice of the city attorney
and to inform him that the board had
no jurisdiction in the matter other than
to press the collection of the appor-
tionment warrant issued.
1t was decided to grant the South
ern Bell Telephone Co. permission to
tear up the pavement for q distance of
about twenty feet at the corner of
Palafox and Gregory and at Palafox