The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-24
COUNCIL TURNS
DOWN CONTRACTS
MOTOR FIRE APPARATUS AND
STREET FLusHER NOT NEEDED
OLD COUNCILS ACTION INVALID
Bids for Street Cleaning Are Opened
But No Contracts Are Let AS Bids
Were IncompIete-other Bust.
ness Attended To.

1.-THE work of the Sewers council at
the second regular session OF the
council Monday evening.
When the claim list was presented
| the bill for nine hundred dollars OF
the Studebaker Company for street
flushing apparatus, made and entered
| into by vote of the former council,
twas thrown out by the auditing COM
mittee. Then Councilman Roberts
moved that the city clerk be instruct
ed to inform the Studebaker people
that the city had no use for the street
fusher, that the claims for the same
would not be paid and that the proper
ty stood at the disposal OF the COM
ipany.
1t is said that the apparatus washes
out the binder of the pavement and
that it is not suited to the require
ments of the city. Mr.. Roberts offer
ed in substantiation of his claims and
statements pamphlet of papers, ad-
dresses of engineers, concerning eX-
perience with the practice of street
flushing, as being undesirable and
damaging to pavement in general.
Councilman J. G. Roberts, chairman
of the special committe appointed to
investigate the legality of the pur-
chase of the motor fire truck and
chemical tank apparatus by the Rey-
nolds council. made report to the
council that after conference with the
city solicitor they had reached the
conclusion that the warrants issued
| by the city were wholly outside the
powers of the city as laid down by
the statute and that the warrants
were clearly illegal, that the city was
not responsible for the same and that
no collection could be made by reason
of the illegality of the warrants. On
motion of Mr.. Roberts City Solicitor
Fl. B. Mccoy was instructed to inform
the American LaFrance Company of
which the apparatus was purchased
under contract that the warrants is
sued by the former authority of the
council were wholly illegal and that
the present council was not disposed
to legalize them. Asked as to his in
Itention concerning the disposition of
the fire apparatus. DR.. Roberts stated,
Let them come here and make us
some kind of decent price on the
truck and may be we'll take it. If
oan oasiIr, INV = co,,nIe of horses for
H. oId trnck " rho council voted
o,,i,,,o,,sr,, IN s,,nnort of tho Rob.
ortt n,ntio,,
e.,.o. cI.,,i,r
Bids for street cleaning were open
ed by the meeting but on account of
the incomplete form of some of the
bids the matter was laid over. Three
bids were openedg That of w. w.
Wareham was for $2.75O.OO. annual
cost Anril 1 TO November
Mcdonald e. COMPANY was for 81
500 40 on the basis of the "Baugh
contract"
John d. Long named a price for so
many square yards covered stated
number of times, but the bid was not
totaled.
Other Matters.
On motion of Councilman William
Laffollette the street committee is re.
nuested 70 confer with the M. G. st.
IL, Ry, management concerning the
nIacing of fagman at the High ave-
nue crossing between the hours of
six and twelve o'clock D m. as well
as during the daytjme hours. as is
now the practice Should the com.
many resist the accommodation. an
ordinance will he passed requiring the
same
Claims were allowed and warrants
authorized
,idouo,l, l., ,o.;,;onoa for along
.ba 49, s;dn sc Somtb Seventh straef
hatuoon Sixth "a Sononth avonnes
~ s,I =, oau my 80 thoro is M
III - . aLinn nooass. ~
40 orossipao ns .hn stroat which
Nv" 80 los ~ ,,i,h tho naw
Ill, Ill nSorod T., %ho sidnr,aiL com.
H. No. 49,. ~ inuostisa,o
",C'0 ~
Names On the petitloh lo[ Ine sue
walk were: Al WetnerWah'so ~ w. FOX
Dell jennings T. w. hunt Cai Cnoru
hatie shields u. w. Dehhls, 0aran
Mchim, Alice M. oWearlheeh' JONI
fioyd, Hawkeye Sutton Co, II; l,ren
ders, II. N. Bennett ana >; u Rug
way. Referred 10 sldeWaik commit
zee 10 report FRIDAY evening -,
oihclal PONDS Oh Cl,y eollcitor "a
D: mccoy ana street commissioner a
w. stanton were received ana ap
proved and the bond OIL Weils q
stump LOT sewer ana trench "orh