Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-02-08
MANY QUESTIONS
BEFORE COUNCIL
DIFFICULT PROB
LENS COME BEFORE ALDER
MEN AT REGULAR SES-
SION MONDAY EVE

S1ON MONDh1 EVE
The first reading of the long prom
) ised fire prevention ordinance, dis
cussions of Instructions in alleys,
lights for the college hill, water and
sewer extensions in the Fourth ward
and purchase of the fair grounds
buildings, made an unusually inter-
esting session of the regular monthly
meeting of the city council in the city
hall Monday night.
Mayor Blewett presided, and fol-
lowing aldermen were present: De-
Nault, Koehn, Murphy, Noel, Hall
and Haas.
The old question of the use of the
city hall for Socialist meetings again
came up with petition received from
! the local Socialists through a COM
mittee composed Of j. H. Rockafel
low, C. Marlett and A. G. Brastrup.
| The petition was denied as conflict
ing with an ordinance passed by the
council some time ago designating
the uses to be made of the second
floor of the city hall.
! A prolonged discussion of the uses
of alleys in general and the one run
ming west by the Clemens drug store
in particular, resulted from a COM
munication received from the Rath-
man-Hall company telling of incon-
venience experienced there on ac-
count of stairway being built in the
alley. The communication declared
that teams were unable to pass in
the alley on account of the obstruc-
tion and it was necessary for num-
ber of teams to back out of this place
daily. It.also pointed out the danger
to teams and pedestrians at the juno
tion of the alley and Fifth avenue on
account of obstructed view. All of
kthe aldermen were agreed that the
alleys of the city should be kept
clear, but some thought it unwise
at this time to force property owners
having improvements encroaching up
on the alleys in the business section
to remove them and that this parti-
cular alley should not be ordered
cleared until the council was in pos
ition to compel similar changes to be
made in all alleys where stairways
or aeroways had been placed. The
communication was ordered filed.
Fire Ordinance
The frequently discussed fire pre-
vention ordinance made it's first ap-
pearance at this meeting. After pro-
viding for the care of lights in barns,
shops and other places most liable to
fires, the putting up of stove pipes,
the keeping cleared of combustable
articles all buildings and yards and
the handling of oils and explosives,
the ordinance makes the chief of the
fire department., in measure, fire
marshall with power to enforce the
first part of the ordinance. Owners,
lessees and occupants of buildings are
held severely responsible for all
premises and penalty is attached.
1t was reported that the 2-inch wa
ter meter ordered for. use on the
main entering the Canham block
could not be placed in the manhole
and upon City Auditor Thompson
producing q letter from the manu-
facturers telling of their willingness
to exchange four 5-S-inch meters for
the large one, it was voted to send
the large one back and get the others.
It is believed that arrangements can
be made to use smaller meter at the
Canham block.
A petition was received asking for
an extension of the water mains a.
long Lincoln avenue from Fourth
Street to First avenue. There was
considerable talk regarding the loca-
tion of flush tank to care for sew
erage If the new main was installed
and the whole matter was finally
turned over to the sewer committee.
President Kurtz of the Stutsman
County Far association appeared be-
fore the council and reported that at
q meeting of the associations stock
holders the previous afternoon it had
been decided to ask the council to
take over all the buildings on the
fair grounds and assume the indebt-
edness Of the association Of $1,000
and a small amount Of interest. He
pointed ont briefly that the city ,
owned the fair grounds and that the
association was no longer in posi-
tion to ask state aid or enter into
the question of appropriations for
fairs. The buildings are worth $5,-
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