Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-04-17
CITY COULCIL Meeting
Proposition Being Considered to DI
vert $4,000 Water Tower Bond
Issue to Extension Of
Water System.

The City Council met last night at
the usual hour. There were present
Mayor Harris, Aldermen Wilson, Wick,
Haswell, DAILY and City Secretary John
A. Moore and Deputy Secretary G. II.
Lewis.
The Council was called to order,
and Capt. w. X. Saunders petitioned
the Council for an increase OF $50 in
| the allowance for the library. 1t was
granted and the total amount appro-
priated for new books in the Carnegie
Library Is $500.
, Il. H. Spell was reappointed sexton
for the City Cemetery, and instructed
to confer with Chairman Wick of the
cemetery committee. Owing to lax
ness on the part of those whose duty
1t is to make an official report OF
deaths, the matter has not been kept
up. The Council passed an order that
physicians and undertakers must COM
ply strictly with the law.
A petition signed by twenty-one citi-
zens Of South Bryan street for water
mains of size to furnish fire protec-
ton be given that section, was read.
Eighteen homes are connected up on
one two-inch water main, and the
nearest fire plug is at the international
and Great Northern depot. Some OF
the finest homes in the city are IN
that section of town.
/ The following school trustees were
reelected by the Council to serve the
( ensuing year: NJ. H. James, w. l.
James, A. NJ Waldrop, and Eugene
Edge.
The Council passed motion that
the dog tax ordinance be enforced, and
that license tags should be ordered
and issued to owners of dogs at 81
each.
The American Steam Laundry petit
ton for a decrease in water rates was
discussed. The laundry uses about
one hundred thousand gallons of wa
ter a month, which is much more than
is used by the gins, which are allowed
special rate. The Council decided
TO defer action until the new well has
l been tried out, and an accurate est
4 mate be made of the water the CITY
will have during the summer months
City Health Officer DR.. K. j. Hunhi
cult reported the insanitary condition
iog p number OF toilets and temporary
sewers in the city, and warned the
tCcrucil of the danger in them.
The Council decided that the. con
nection ordinance will be enforced
and all public boarding houses, hotels
and business houses will be notified by
the CITY Secretary to file application
for sewer connections within thirty
DAYS. with a penalty of not less than
ar nor more than 800 for failure &c
comply. :,
charged against the Bryan Baptlsl
Academy at a time when there was n. a.
one in the building has been inVestl
Gated nv the City Secretary, and re
mort was made to the Council Inc
Council decided that, as the meters
show that the water went somewhere
no refund can be made.
motion was carried that City Elec
trician Reynolds be required to attenS
the Council meetings.
The City Secretary was requested Z
. furnish the Council with abstracts
showing water, light and sewer con
nections.
The t1nance committees "es iI
ed to confer with Mr.. A. b. carson
and determine the cost of his prepar
! ing water. light and sewer maps o
the city. The committee will repor
AT next Council meeting.
H. T. Lawler of the Bryan PoWe.
Company appeared before the Council
and a committee, composed of Alder
men Haswell and Wilson, was ap
, pointed to confer with Mr.. Lawler OF
the proposition which is being ad
vanced to arrange with the powe