South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-10
CITY Gets BILL
FOR EXPENSE Of
COLLAPSE PROBE
Bills Are Filed Aggregating
S348.10 Covering InveStiga-
lion of Wreck of ShiyeIy-
Homer Building, Last Month.

Frequent explanations. for the ben
eft or the press" and Of those not
present. Of what took place last Tues
day night when the council convened
as a committee ia the hole, Tea
tured the session Of South Bend 5
municipal law makers Monday night
and incidentally, one or TWO matters
were sent back for further star
chamber elaboration.
Notable among these is the ordin-
ance prepared by City Atty SeebIrt'
apprOpriating $34S.lO from the gen
eral fund to the miscellaneous appro-
priation OF finance department fund,
10 cover the citys investigation OF the
Shively-Honer building collapse. that
being the expense 10 which the city
was put
The items cover rescue work, re
moval OF the debris TO get at the
cause Of the catastrophe, employment
OF stenOgrapheTs and photographers
by the investigating commission. and
the expense OF a number of brick
tests. Ex-Mayor GOetZ authorized the
expense, ard the committee approved
OF IL In secret, but Councilman Seifert
not being present asked to have il
referred back. which was done.
Councilman Goebel raised the Ques-
ton of requiring the owners Of the
debris, but City Atty. Seebirt explain
ed that such a requirement could not
be enforced, which is perhaps one Of
the things that Will be threshed out
when the council meets again.
Same with an ordinance providing
for two watchmsn. one at the St
Joseph and jhe other at the Carroll
st. crossing OF the Grand Trunk, with
penalties for failure OF from SIS to
$50 per day-the watchmen to serve
from a. m. to 2 o'clock, midnight
F1remen Salaries Up.
While apprOpriating money from
the general fund 10 this. that and the
other, TO cover unanticipated ex-
penses. and carry on improvements,
it may be that an effort will yet be
made to increase the salaries OF the
South Bend firemen, Notwithstanding
the decision OF the board OF safety
that it will be impossible under the
present budget.
Such, at least. is the possible i'm
port OF a motion by Councilman Hag-
erty requesting the board 10 report
back a petition referred TO it by the
council as inherited from the last ad-
ministratiOn. in which such increase
OF salaries Is requested. The petition
came to the old board of safety and
was referred to the old council who
left it over to this one" Councilman
Hagerty explained. We turned 1t
over to the new board. which SEEM
ingly has pigeon holed it"
The board OF safety was empowered
at the session to employ two police
captains at S1.1OO each per year, it
being explained that the office OF as
sistant chief having been abolished,
the two captains resulting from a
mere shifting of positions on the
force. il would mean no added draft
upon the police appropriations.
Install Two Telephones.
Supt. Toyne OF the waterwOrks de-
partment, was also empowered to in
stall two Bell telephones in the homes
OF two waterwOrks employees TO make
them convenient for night calls. The
city gets the telephones at a 20 per
cent discount, under the Central IN
ion franchise which provides for four
free phones, and a certain number ad-
dltional at that lower rate. Two men
have been kept at the water station
nights, in the past, the number being
now reduced to one, with the purpose
in view OF making the other two men
10 whom the phones are TO be furn-
ished. subject TO call.
BY ordinance which passed its third
reading. 1900 was transferred from
the general fund TO the streets and
alleys fund Of the board of public
works
'Ehe Bowman Cemetery association
proposition went back TO the COM
mittee OF the hole to give the sign
eTs. and people living in the vicinity.
a hearing. The proposition asks the
right TO lay out more burial lots, and