The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-13
PROPERTY OWNERS
FILE REMONSTRANCE
Declare They Have Been AS
sessed 81, $50 on Strip
of Ground.
PLANS FOR NEW DAM
Board of Works Also Takes
Up New Bookkeeping
Systems.

Attorneys for property owners on
both sides of the Boyd alley in West
Richmond occupied the time of the
board of works today demonstrating
against the assessments for benefits
which have been levied. Represent
ing William L., Rebecca A. S., Bessie
and Martha Boyd, Henry u. Johnson
and Perry Freeman showed that a to-
tai assessment had been made against
Mr.. Boyd and his heirs amounting to
S1,150.
This they argued was on a strip of
land which lay between two alleys,
and did not abut street, therefore be-
ing of no use except as COW pas
ture. Martha and Bessie Boyd, they
said, had been assessed $44603 for the
concrete alley touching land which
was assessed for taxation at only
$500. Mr.. Johnson said property
holders on the east side of the alley
should be made to bear expenses for
the improv ement as they received ben
Gifts and had asked for the improve
ment of the alley.
Attorney Jessup presented re-
monstrance signed by w. N. Johnson
and other property owners on the east
side of the highway in which they
agreed that they should pay more
than landowners on the west side of
the Improvement but protested that
the city should pay more than $73.25
as its share. The matter was taken
under Amusement by the board.
Consider Dam Plans.
Consideration of plans and specifi-
cations for replacing the dam in
Whitewater river near the electric
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ed by J. B. Wharton, of the Light,
Heat and Power company, was de-
ferred until spring. The plans, drawn
by II. c. Shaw of New York, an ex-
pert hydraulic engineer, call for a
structure of concrete to cost $1,000.
The face of the dam would incline
with the current of the river, being
constructed of reinforced concrete
with supporting buttresses every
Twelve feet.
Water flowing over the dam would
fall into a pool, to prevent washing
On the lower surface.
A new listing and adding machine
will be purchased for the offices of
The municipal light plant, and the one
now in use to be taken to the con-
trollers office, who will turn over the
pne he Is using to the city engineer
The cost Of the new machine is $3.50.
The board will pay the light plant
$3.50 for the machine which it now
has, and the additional 1910 necessary
for the purchase of the listing and ad-
dition device will be provided from
the funds of the city plant.
Requires 238 Accounts.
Superintendent Johnson said the
new system of bookkeeping called for
23S accounts instead or the twenty
now carried, but was more compact
and easily understood, giving more de-
tailed information. He called atten-
ton to the fact that there was not
room in the offices for the records.
Appraisers were ordered to set a
value on the dead and dying trees in
Glen Miller park that they might be
sold and replaced with smaller trees
Ben Bird and John Penery, who
have been serving as extra firemen at
stations and 1, respectively, were
made members of the regular force to
take the places Of Thomas Boyd and
Charles Carter.
Wants official Here.
President Kennepohl of the board
was instructed to write the superin-
tendent of the G. & o. railroad asking
him to be present at the next meet
ting Of the board to consider the ques-
ton of widening North Third street
Primary assessment roll on the alley
north of Charles street, between Ridge
and Hunt streets, showing cost OF
$1,427.20 was approved and adopted.
The alley west of South Seventh
between G and II streets will only cost
the city $1.21 according to the primary
assessment roll which was approved
by the board. The total cost is 1913
Property holders $50 feet back were
assessed in drawing up the roll on the
improvement Of the alley between
Tenth and Eleventh streets, north OF
the Westcott Hotel The cost to the
city will be $66.01, from the total cost
of S739.
John Smelly withdrew his remOn.
STRANGE to the vacation of the alley
ahutted by his property north of South
c street between Second and Third
streets.
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