The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-03-19
WANT HUMP LEFT
in MERRIWETHER
Property Owners File RemOnstr-
ance Against Improving
ThorOughfare.

coming before the Board. No new
matters were brought up and the
meeting was uneventful.
In response to a request made more
than year ago, that the ladies of the
Cemetery Association offer a new
name for the city cemetery, commu-
nication was read to the meeting in
which it was suggested that the name
be changed to Paramount" Cemetery
The Provident Association in max
ing its request for an appropriation
Of 500 stated that the demands made
upon the organization this winter had
been four times as heavy as any pre-
vious winter in the history of the Or
ganization.
The prayer was granted and the
clerk instructed to give a check for
500, the amount asked for.
The report of City Engineer Silver,
advising that his Investigations of the
records showed that the tract of land
dedicated by Louis Lorimier to the
City of Cape Girardeau extended west
to Pacific street, that Pacific street
was regularly made public thor
oughfare of the city, was received and
cOncurred in by the Council.
The request of the Missouri Public
Utilities Company that Water street
be closed from Mason to Olive in or
der that it might be used by the COM
pany as location for settling basin,
was denied by the Council.
The Council decided that in the fu-
ture the city engineer would be re-
quired to provide for his own type
writing, and that at such times that
the machine in the city Clerks office
was not in use, the engineer would b.
at liberty to take it to his office.
In the matter of appropriating
$1,000 for the installation Of sewers on
Hanover street, City Attorney r. H.
Whitclaw delivered his opinion to the
effect that the city had no authority
to use any money belonging to the
general revenue fund to the construc-
ton of sewers.
The Judiciary Committee in making
report upon the steps necessary in the
opening of Merriwether street from
Aquamsi to Sprigg, and other streets,
th2 improvements of which iS-contem-
plated, recommended the employment
of Thomas F. Lane, 10 conduct tEc le-
gal proceedings necessary, which re-
port was received and concurred in.
After deducting S27.2O for lights
that were not burning and other fail
ures on the part of the Missouri Pub
lie Utilities Co., from their original
bill of $62210, it was ordered that
warrant issue for S594.90, the balance
due.
Petition for the improvement of Pa
cific street from Good Hope to Nor
nal avenue was received.
The report of the Judiciary Com
mittce recommending the employment
of Thomas F. Lane in the matter OF
determining the damages created by
the intersection of Marriwether street
by the railroad, and the McMill case
against the city, was adopted.
In the matter of the remonstrance
filed by property owners against the
proposed grade line of Sprigg street,
submitted by Engineer Silver, claim
is made that no connection is shown
with intersecting streets from College
street south, and that the grade line
by ]. B. Ncsmith in 1874
was intended to be permanent.
Mr.. Silver in replying to the re-
stated that MIR. Dalton had
gotten an erroneous impression as to
to the extent of the fill, which in
stead of being feet would be about
feet.
Major Houck in behalf Of the re-
made the following re-
marks: IF you will permit me, I !
would like to say few words or this /
proposition to change the grade of
Sprigg street and the proposal to cs-
tablish new grade on that street.
Il do not think that the city cngi- !
necr will take the position that
grade has not been established on that |
street, it was established as | under
stand it in 1872, and the street was
partly paved and partly macadamized
and has had grade on the present
standard since that time, and | think
he grade compares favorably with
he grade of any street in the city of
cape Girardeau.
q doubt whether you will find in
his town street as long as Sprigg
treet with as uniform and easy a
trade as Sprigg street has; and of
curse, if there is any change of the
,rade of that street, two-feet grade
hange or six-feet grade change as