Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-23
Business at City
Government Meeting

At a meeting of the city government
Monday evening, the following orders
and petitions were read and approved:
A petition by l.. l.. Wellman was Of
fered for the granting of 3 license to
move the building opposite the Augusta
House on the East side of State street,
to a location on the East side OF State
street, Suth of the Augusta Steam
Laundry.
Ordered, that the New England Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company be and
is hereby authorized and permitted to
erect and maintain poles and wires to
lac placed thereon. together with such
supporting and strengthening fixtures
and wires as said company may deem
requisite in the streets and highways
of said city as hereinafter designated.
All construction under this permit shall
Re in accordance with the following
specifications. The poles shall be To-
Gated between the Travelled driveway
and lie limits of the highway, shall be
set firmly in the ground, and shall be
Of wood or other suitable material, and
the wires shall be run at the usual
height and along and across the high
way. After the poles and wires have
been located as specified in this per-
nit. alterations shall be made in the
loca ton or erection of the poles and
i'm the height of the wires if so direct
ed in the manner provided by law. The
streets and highways referred to are
Capitol street, from Sewall street. West
to the residence of Sherhurne Young,
approximately 700 feet.
An application by Nathan Goldberg
fer a pawn brokers' license was grant
ed d. l.. Hysom was granted an Auc-
tjeneers license and VIII Z. Bubar "a
cab drivers license.
Ordered. that there be allowed and
paid out of the money appropriated Tor
the respective departments, under
which the bills accrued, to the several
nersolfs named in the annexed Roll OF
Accounts No. I the sum set against
the names respectively, amounting IN
the aggregate to the sum of sso6Soo
which. when paid, will be in full dis
charge of said accounts. Cemeteries,
se72. IS; city rooms and buildings, soo.3S;
contingent, S7sE47; fire department,
ss6s.34; Highways, eastern district
sl8l4.7S; western district, sl9f4,sa; Ken
rcbec bridge. sl50.32; lighting streets,
se75.-5,5: park. $50; police, $2.44; print
ing and advertising, 1886; sewers,
s182. 80: stationery and blank books,
$3.50; support of poor, $lllS'ss' sweep
ing water street, S162.3I.
ordered that the wagon shed con-
nccted with the Bridge street hre std-
ton be rebuilt.
Ordered, that the salary oil the uiiN-
ers of hose trucks, No. l and z ana
Hook & Ladder Truck No. De III
creased $500 per month.
ordered, that the city of Augusta ac-
cent the sum of 800 bequeathed In the
Will of the late Sarah H. Breen, the IN
come to he used for the care of the Pet
or r. Rreen lot in Mt. Pleasant ceme-
terv in accordance with the ordinances
of said city.
ordered. that hydrant be installed
at the corner of Davenport and Bal
lard streets.
Ordered, that the mayor he author
lied to draw his warrant in favor oil
John H. Cogan & Co, to pay biiis
dated June "a, $2S7.53,' and July IL
s21Se3." amounting to $685. 6.
Ordered, that the Maine Central Kali
road Co, be and is hereby requested
and authorized to remove the overhead
foot bridge near the site of the old
station.
Ordered, that hydrant be installed
al the corner of Washington and JEFF
ferson streets.
Petition for Sidewalk.
petition was presented to the mayor
nd clio several
others, which reads follows:
1.-The undersigned respectfully repre-
sent that it would be for the interest OF
the cities of Augusta and Hallowef to
be connected by a sidewalk They there
fore respectfully pray that your honor
able body take such action as seems eX-
pedient toward building a sidewalk along
lower State street to the Hallowell line,
provided that the city of Hallowell Will
build a, sidewalk to meet it.
The matter referred to the city by the
Morningside Sheep Farms for the killing
of six sheep by dogs on May amount
ing to the sum of s4s and two sheep
killed in the same manner on June
amounting to SIS or sum total OF s5i
plus 500 additional, making in all the
sum of 500. was tabled.
Petitions for laying out four new
streets were referred to the joint stand
ing committee on highways and sewers.
The first was a petition to lay out an
extension to Washington street beginning
at the corner of said Washington street
and Munroe street, and running north a
distance of 500 feet: The second respect
fully represented that the petitioners
were owners or occupants of lots of land
in the Williams field, so called, in said
city. and would be benefited by the lay
ing out of a public highway as contin-
uance of Lincoln street extending wes-
terly from Cushman street to Pike
street, and that the acceptance BY said
city would connect their said lots with
said Cushman street and Lincoln street.
An application was received for the lay
ing out of a new street beginning at an
iron bolt in the north line of Cony street,
thence easterly in the north line of Cony
street in the southwest corner of land
owned and occupied by Frank A. Dennis;
thence running northerly at right angles
to Cony street in the west line of said
Dennis line. l72 feet, thence westerly
at right angles 10 feet to the northeast