The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-25
SCORES OUT TO SEE
COUNCIL IN ACTION
MONDAY EVENING
HUGE BATCH COMMUNICATIONS.
BOND SALE ORDINANCE CAR
RIED ovER-BoARp OF PUBLIC
WORKS DEMANDS AUDIT.

RIED OVERHEARD OF PUBLIC
WORKS DEMANDS AUDIT.
When six members of the Daytona
city council went to the city hall on
Monday evening to hold their regular
semi-monthly meeting, they found
their chamber nearly filed with fell
low citizens who had turned out, it
is understood, with the expectation
of hearing some "firecrackers" pop
ped.
Nothing doing in the fireworks
line.
Councilmen present: Klock, Conrad,
Stevens, Mills, Gougarty, Burdick
President Schmidt, on account of i'll
ness was absent and Councilman
Klock sat at the head of the cabinet
table and called for yeas and nays.
City Clerk Porter dragged forth a
stack of communications, petitions
bills. ETC., and proceeded to read and
read and read. The council sat ap
parently unconcerned, but the gallery
sat with it's mouth open, ears cooked
and primed for loud noise and a
great splatter. Vain expectations
wasted efforts.
Btis aggregating s213.25 were ap
proved and ordered paid.
| Half dozen or so property owners
submitted communications alleging
that their taxes for 1915 are too high
The complaints were ordered filed fol
future consideration.
| The report of Building Inspector
w. Z. French showed: Building.
erected or in course of construction
AZ; alterations, 8; number of inspec
tions made. So. The report covere,
the period between January 1st an,
May oath Inspector French directe,
attention to the alleged fact tha
many chimneys are carried too higl
above roofs.
Referred to the ordinance commit
tee was a petition signed by numel
Gus hotel proprietors asking counci
to adopt an ordinance regulatin
stands for public conveyances.
The application of 7. Z. Carroll, @
Jacksonville, for the position c
"chief inspector of sewerage an
drainage work was filed.
L oe ,,l
lie works dealt with an alleged attac
made upon that body by Mayor /
T. Titus. 1t was charged that th
mayor had threatened to remove" {
"oust' the members, and that othe
remarks made were damaging an
calculated to create the impressio
that the board of public works ha
not properly managed public affail
over which it has control The resol
ton included a demand that the cou
! | ell authorize q committee to inspe
the boards books and that the fin
ings of such committee be publisht
: in local newspaper of general circ
\ / laIlOH. L ne NHOlC iioteSi was
ferred to the finance committee f
disposal.
The clerk read letter from Gu
D ter & Sawyers. bond buyers of Jac
sonville, who complained that t
board of public works had not treat
the firm with proper considerable
! that Gunter & Sawyers had made
, effort to purchase the city's sewera
\ and drainage bonds at an attracti
y price, and that their offer had, in
sense. been ignored; that the firm
financially responsible and in GO
! standing with the commercial wor
N Council unanimously endorsed
tion to refer the letter to the boz
of public works, and the clerk
E. instructed to apprise Gunter & S;
r. yers of the action taken.
. o. ]. Read asked permission to
small portion of the city island.
proposes to exhibit number OF la
sea turtles and alligators. The r.
and Library association will disp
of the petition.
On motion of Councilman Stew
further action on the ordinance
=; thorizing the sale of 100000 VIC
of sewerage and drainage bonds