The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-08-14
STREETS ARE
VACATED FOR
BIG four R. R.
Plan Building Of $4,000 Royad.
House at Second and
St. Charles
MANY PERMITS ARE ISSUED
Rich Attorney Asks for Time to
Hear from His
Client

vacation OF st. Charles street and a
portion of Railroad street at Second
street, where the Big Four railroad
company plans to erect a $4,000
round house, was passed at last
nights meeting of the City Council,
Officials Of the railroad company
declare that the work of building
the round house will be started az
once The company has never had
a round house in Cairo.
The II. L. Halliday Milling com
pany was granted permission to lay
down, maintain and operate rail-
road track ON the east side of Rail
road street from point 230 feet
south of Twentieth street to the
north side OF Eighteenth street,
This track is to connect with one
the company has lbeen using for
many years.
Concerning Main Sewer.
Mayor Parsons called the councils
attention to the fact that NJ Rut-
ledge of ST. Louis an attorney for
the Fidelity Bonding CO., of Baltl-
more was in the city yesterday III
consultation with him regarding
the repairing of the damaged main
sewer built by the Rich Construction
Co., the Fidelity Co., being on the
Rich Construction Co. bond. The
attorney asked for a few days time
in which to get word from Rich who
is in Europe They expect cable
gram from his in a day or two.
Ten car loads of Elco gravel was
ordered purchased Ten cars were
purchased recently, six of which
have been used 1t was explained
before the aldermen would agree to
order the purchase that the pur-
chase would be made only as the
material was needed. The repairing
of all the graveled cross streets has
been in progress the past two weeks.
A e6ommendation from the
etrest committee that the comptrol-
Ter be instructed to purchase weed
mower operated by horse power was
by motion of Alderman Greaney
laid over for further Investigation.
Alderman Greaney stated that he
believed good enough work was be-
ing done in this line by Jailer Lutz
and his gang of city prisoners,
Inspect Street Cleaning Work.
The street committees recommen-
dation as previously made by sub
committee of that body that an in
5pector be appointed who is to make
! daily report of the work done by
the street cleaning contractor, and
other instructions which he is 70
follow, was concurred in by the
council. The mayor, suggested that
in order not to incurs sany expense
to the city at present, for an in
spector, that he would have patrol
man placed on this Dob.
The Cairo Electric and Traction
Co. petitioned for permission to lay
down and operate temporary track
to join the Big Four on Commercial
avenue and extend across Poplar
street to the power house, the same
to be used in carrying building ma
terial, cinders, etc. The track has
already been laid but the company
wanted the order nevertheless.
The Outdoor Advertising Company
was granted permission to erect two
iron bill boards 100 feet in length
facinf Commercial avenue near Thir-
tieth street and one near Sixteenth
street.
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Nuisanoes to Be Abolished.
hhe building committee recon-
inended that the barn belonging to
Albert Hurst on Center and Pine
streets be declared a nuisance, that
II was a menace to the neighbor-
hood. was more than SO per cent
dilapidated and the nuisance must
be abated. The recommendation
was concurred in by the council as
was a similar report by the same
committee on two shacks owned by
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