The daily Alaskan., 1914-05-19
.REGU-AR HEETIN6 0F THE
 TOWN COUNCIL LAST NIGHT
Discuss Question of New Sidewalks
 Bond of Town. Treasurer FiIed--Asks
 For Additional Public School Teacher

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 At the regular meeting Of the ! Skagway town council last night the mayor and full board of counciImen 1 were present.
 Roll call
 Minutes of previous meeting read and approved.
 A report from the school board stating that it required $70O to pay the expenses Of the public sc&ool until June 9th, the end of the term, was read and on motion 1 was accepted and placed ou file and a warrant ordered drawn for the ' amount asked for. .. ! Councilman Magee reported the election of officers in the Skagway 1 Volunteer Fire department and on motion his report was accepted and the action of the Fire department ratified.
 Councilman Ashley reported that about half the stumps had been re moved from Alaska street, between l Seventh and Eighth, at a cost of about SGOO, which will bring the . total expense up to about S2O. He l also reported the expiration of the . street light contract with the Home l Power Co. on the 18th inst. He . further reported repairs on some I. of the sidewalks in town, but said that it was very UusatisCactory work, for the reason that the mudsiIs were so rotten in most . instances that the nails would not hold. Mir. Ashley also stated that Le had had an estimate made of Ithg cost of new fiv5-fOot side walk, constructed out of 2xS inch lumber for 20 blocks on state street, and that 1t footed up about 45a per foot. He thought, however, that by purchasing all the material 1 necessary for the rebuilding of the i sidewalks at one time wholesale . rates could be secured, which 1 would greatly reduce the cost, and .tlao by having the lumber come sawed in the requisite lengths for the walks another great saving could be made
 i Councilman HilIery thought the . building and repairing of sidewalks would be the most important thing . the present council would have to attend to, and he was in favor of going ahead with the work, even . though a deficit was creat9d at the .,uL of the year.
 l Councilman Ashley then said ! that most of the sidewalks in town l were in bad shape, some Of them ] dangerously so. With reference to the sidewalks on State and other outlying streets, where there is Q + good d5aI of travel, but sidewalk only upon one side, he drought that it would be good idea to consult the pro- Y perly owners on each side and sec if they would not be willing to bear d proporl.onate part of the expense. Mayor Kennedy suggested that it w~uld be @ good plan to call Q special meeting of the council at au early date, to which all property | owners would be invited, to see '. whether or not the latter would 1v willing to cooperate with the 2 council along these lines.
 The street commissioner was in- Ns'.ucted to prepare a list of resi- dent and nonresident property owners who would be affected by .tna proposed improvements and to turn the same over to the public works and public property commit 'tye.
 The whole matter was finally re- 1 ferred to the committee on public works and public property, with l |eower to call a special meeting of inc council whenever they saw fit, and to invite the attendance at same of the taxpayers of the town,