Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-20
HOUSING BILL SIGNED
BY MAYOR; GIVES
S1O,61O TO DIVISION
Money Transferred From
Appropriations to De-
partment of Health and
Charities and City Treas
urer.

An ordinance providing for the estab-
fishing OF a Division of Housing and
Sanitation in the Department of Public
Health and Charities OF the Bureau of
Health is among q ordinances signed
by Mayor Blankenburg and made public
at his office today.
This ordinance carries into effect pro-
visions of an Act OF Assembly approved
June II. 1t provides that the new de-
partment be financed by transfer of
s106l0 from the appropriations to the
Department of Public Health and Chari-
ties, Bureau of Health. and the City
Treasurer for the current year.
The new division will be managed by a
chief, at salary of $500 yearly; statis
tician. at $1,000, and three clerks at a sal
ary of 5000 each. One stenographer will be
employed at 5000 yearly and five inspect
ors at $1,000, two messengers at $3.50 each
and a cleaner, who will receive $500.
The law also provides that employees of
the Division of Sanitary and Tenement
House inspection may be transferred to
the new division without change of sal
airy.
other ordinances signed by the Mayor
are as follows:
COMMON COUNCIL
To authorize the opening OF the, unopened
to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway
bridge.
To authorize the opening OF the unopened
portion OF Passyunk avenue 100 feet wide, be-
tween 23d and 25th streets.
To revise the lines and grades Of the terri
tory bounded by RoNborough street, Frank
ford Creek. Frankford avenue. Adams avenue,
Cayuga street, street, Erie avenue and the
Delaware River. and to widen certain streets,
Selecting and approprating two certain tracts
OF ground along the Pennypack Creek In the
for he an6 oa EPeo Of the pops efe
and directing the Commissioners OF Fairmount
Park to 9sspme the custody and maintenance
To revise the lines and grades of those por-
@ BOUNDED by ' Broad street Spencer un1 aTenle
Church lane, ogontz avenue and 0Tth avenue
Selecting and appropriating a certain lot or
piece of ground bounded by o street. Lycom-
in the 33d Ward for sewage disposal purposes.
10 authorize the opening OF the unopened
portion of Medary avenue, from Broad street
To authorize the opening of goth street. from
To authorize the opening OF Broad street.
from Olney avenue to Grange street.
To authorize the opening OF the unopened
portion of Broad street, from Chelten avenue
to Haines street
To authorize the revision of the lines and
grades of Fountain street, from Umbria street
to the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norris
TO strike from the city plan Sd street from
Luzerne street to Pike street, and Pike street
from Sd street to American street, in the
To revise the lines and grades Of a portion
Aliens lane and TO place Emlen street on
the city plan.
To appropriate certain tracts of land in the
21st Ward for an extension OF Fairmount Park.
To appropriate a lot Of ground in the 35th
Ward FOR an addition to Burholme Park.
To condemn lot OF ground In the 40
Ward for public park purposes as an addition
to Hunting Park.
To authorize the opening Of the unopened
portion of Pine street from SD street to
Cohbs Creek Parkway.
To authorize the opening OF the unopened
portion of oath avenue between Snyder avenue
and Passyunk avenue ,,
To place on the city plan Arlington. Ashdale.
De Lancey, Euclid, Foster, Glenloeh, Graham
orkney, Rand. Redheld and Stafford streets.
Malvern and Susquehanna avenues, and TO
strike from the city plan Susquehanna avenue,
as now laid out. from 56th TO 57th street.
SELECT COUNCIL.
To authorize the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway Company to construct, operate and
maintain a railroad track or siding on Amer
lean street, between Indiana street and Cam
bria street. in the 33d Ward,