Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-07-24
Board of Aldermen.

AC adl dQJOufHeu Injecting VI th
Board of Aldermen of the City of Al
exandria, Va, held July %, 1913, Their
were present
! F. F. Marbury,, Esq, president; AM
Messrs. Hill, Brill, Ogden, Ballenger
Field and Fitzgerald.
The following were received frcn
| the Common Council and their acticl
concurred in
A resolution appropriating $3.50 t,
defray the expenses of Mr.. Urbal
Lambert in obtaining a decision of tn
! Court of Appeals, determining hi
legal rights to seat in the Commc,
Council from the First Ward.
A resolution to pay the expenses O
Nh Urban Lambert and Mr.. 2o5er
S. Barrett, in the case recently decid
ed by the Court Of Appeals.
A petition from Mrs deishlcy f0l
a sewer at No .124 South Fairfax st
A communication fr>n: the Depart
ment Of health requesting that some
arrangements be made TO flush thG
city sewers each week.
A communication from the depart.
ment of Health, requesting repairs
to the pumps on the north side Of
Prince street between Fayette and
Henry streets.
A petition from Mrs. M. A. Shinn
to erect frame kitchen at No. 200
Payne street.
A petition of Mrs. Florence Beach,
widow of the late Jefferson D. Beach,
asking for S163.61 for SO days time
lost on account of sickness Of her late
husband from the police force. Ayes,
6; noes, O..
A petition from Miss Lucy NJ.
Graves to remodel dwelling corner
Fairfax and Gibbon streets, and ex-
tend the walks of the back building
s feet above the present aeighC.
Permission to Charles PoinGc%ter to
erect frame house, two stories, with
FIRE proof roof at the corne. of Orc
noco and Pitt streets.
A resolution authorizing the Com
mittee on Streets and City Engineer,
to purchase paving brick for North
Alfred street, without advertising,
same price as quoted April IS, 1913,
for other street work.
A petition from property owners
on Columbus street between Queen
and Princess streets, for soft
macadam roadway with 2 LIFT. vitri-
fed brick cutters with granite curb.
A resolution providing for the cree
ton of an arc light at the intersec-
ton of Oronoco and Union streets,
passed by the Common Council, was
received from that board.
Fir. Ballenger moved to concur IN
thc action of the Common Council.
This was lost by the following vote:
ACES, Messrs. Ballenger. Field and
G ,-den-3. Noes, Messrs. Brill, Fitz-
{ raid and Mr.. President.
The resolution was then referred
to committee on light by the follow
ING vote: Ayes, Messrs. Brill, Field,
Fitzgerald and Mr.. President.
Noes:Messrs, Ballenger and Ogden
Mr.. Fiebi, from the joint committee
on Schools and Finance, to whom had
been referred sundry papers looking
TO the erection of a new high school
building at Cameron and West streets,
submitted 4 report.
The report was amended by the
following vote: Ayes, Messrs. Hill,
Nield, Ogden, Fitzgerald and Mr.;
President. Noes, Mesrs. Brill and
Rallengcr-2.
The report, las amended, was then
adopted by the following vote: Ayes,
Messrs. Hill, Ogden, Field, Fitzgerald,
Mr.. President. Noes, Messrs. Brill,
and Ballenger-2.
The following is the report as
amended and adopted
Your joint committees. Finance
and Schools, who have had under con-
sideration for some time the erection
of new high school building, feel
very keenly the need of such az build
inr in the near future. The lot which
we purchased at the corner of West
and Cameron. streets, has consider
able portion lying outside the city
limits, and the city has lot on the
corner of Washington and Wolfe SITS,
adjoining Washington School build
ING, the size is about eighty-seven by
one hundred and ffty-six feet (S7x
1861 r,
Our financial condition is as fol-
lows:
On June l we Dwell temporary
loan of S45,0O000. Our appropriation
bin for the present fiscal year, IN
Guiding this temporary loan, exceeds
our estimated receipts for the same
period, s10,00O.OO;; u,
In addition to this, the street work
now under construction, and other
items for which appropriations have
heen made, aggregate 4l,7lo,oof
viking a total of ISL, 1850, which
viii be needed June /, 1914, to carry
rs through, should ws not make an
cher appropriations for any extraor'
binary purpose during the present MS
In view of these facts now staring
ne in the face, we deem it advisable
70 go slow. for some months, AT
East We feel that to erect the mgr
erhool on the Wes5 street lot WouA1
antail 4 further expenditure OF at
least s4O,OOO.OO, including the ap:
+he c;ta grading etc, anC