The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
READY TO MAKE CONTRACT FOR
FIRE APPARATUS AT NEXT
MEETING.
Mr. Glenn Brings up Matter of Test.
Ing Brick-BOard of Health Wants
City to Establish Comfort Stations
Paving Work PrOgressing-Other
Matters.

day with just enough members to
make quorum, Aldermen Mex eiver,
| Wright, McLaurin and Wilder being
out of town and. the other members
of council being present.
A number Of matters were discuss
ed and acted upon. Mr.. Glenn report.
ed, for the fire committee, that he
would have contractors present at
the next meeting of council to make
bids for the apparatus which was
needed for the fire department. A
request was made by the Board of
| Health that public toilet houses be
, established by the city which may
be used by the negroes that come to
town. AS a motion had been made
to this effect previously Mr., McKeiver
was requested to carry out the reso-
luton.
Perhaps the matter Of most i'm
portance that came up was the re-
quest for franchise which was made
by Mr.. r.. l.. Rieha, a contractor and
engineer Of Baltimore in behalf of
the Baltimore Utilities Company.
This was the first matter which came
up when Council was called to order.
Mr.. A. V. Smell of the Chamber Of
Commerce introduced Mr.. Rieha to
the members OF Council and Mr..
Rieha stated that he had been over
the city to see If a gas plant would
be paying proposition here, at the
request OF capitalists Of New York
and Baltimore, and would make a
favorable report to these gentlemen
upon his return provided he could get
a satisfactory franchise for his COM
pany from council. Council asked
h'nl t. submit any franchise which
might be satisfactory to him and
they would take pleasure In consid-
ering 1T. The result of Mr.. Rieha's
conference with Council is stated
more fully elsewhere in this paper.
Mr.. G. d. Lide wanted to know
what license would be required Of
him as the representative of a Chica-
go house for soliciting orders for 10.
comotives and machinery. : ter the
matter was discussed, NJ. Lide was
Informed that his business as
stated by him was that Of a sales
man or drummer. and that there was
no license on this kind of business.
An application was received from
Mr.. c. l.. Martin for a position on the
police 70. re. AS there was no pres
ent vacancy the application was filed
for future reference.
letter from the Rowland Buggy
Company was read In which thanks
were returned to Council for their
action In exempting the company
from taxes for the next five years.
large number of claims were
read and ordered paid.
The report OF the City Water
Works was read and received as in
formation.
Mr.. w. l.. Lee. city engineer. re-
ported for the street committee, that
the paving work on Main street was
progressing rather slowly owing to
the fact that the contractors had not
yet gotten their steam mixer in oper-
alton as they had expected to do,
and as labor was very scarce. He
reported that the first block Of paw
ing had been completed and would
be ready to open for traffic I'm the
next ten days. He said that the
brick on the first block had not been
tested before they had been laid,
but that before the work had been
commenced he had written to Mr..
Waring that he must give a guaran-
tee in writing before the laying of the
brick could be commenced that the
brick would come up to the test.
Mr.. Waring had given this guarantee
that the brick would come up 20
specifications and he had allowed him
TO go on with the paving
He said that a "rattler" had lust
been put up and would be ready by
wednesday for the testing OF the
brick. but that ne did not think that
there was any chance of the brick
not coming up to specifications. Mr..
Glenn seemed TO think 1t best that
no more brick be laid until they had
been tested In tho "rattler" and made
motion To this effect. He was
heartily seconded i'm his motion by
Mr.. Booth. who said that he wanted
I" go on record as being against the
laying OF the brick without their be-
ing tested. The motion was passed