El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-13
WANT c. H. To
OPEN STREETS
East Ell 9aso Property Own
ers Petition to Have Four
Streets Opened.

Property owners of East FL Paso. in
2 petition filed with the city council
thursday morning. ask that the Gal
weston, Harrisburg & san Antonio rail
road be required to open through their
right of way stevens avenue and Ce-
bada, Luna and RaynOr streets.
Inc petition sets forth that conven-
fence OF the residents of all the com
munlty around those streets demands
that they be opened. The petition Will
whole.
Another petition Of the same nature
asking that Latta. Rivera and Pera
streets be opened through properly
belonging to Joe Dunno was referred
to the council as a whole
FOrty-fOur Deaths.
The report of the sanitary commits
Sloner Tor the week showed 244 loaus
OF garbage. or 51.10O pounds, hauled.
lie weekly report of the city health
OFFICER showed A deaths, OF which IL
were Americans. &c AIexicans and tour
negroes. Births numbered IS, Of which
II were Americans and II MeXicans.
contagious diseases remaining were -
measles, 10 scarlet fever, eight small
no%, two typhoid fever. seven dtph-
iberia, six chickenpOx and six typhus
fever.
Petitions Filed.
The following petitions were received
and referred.
Taxation and Finance-EI Paso &
southeastern, for cancellation of pen
alt1es and interest Of various proper
ties; B. F. Darbyshire. for cancella-
ton of tax penalties.
Water and auitary-PrOperty own
efs Tor sewer extension from CeDada
20 Ftndley street and Findley to Es
treIla street; 7. Guerra. for sewer eX-
tension to block 20. Bassett addition.
Police, Fire and Building-A. J. Ba-
ron, for permit to construct balconies
at Myrtle and Cotton avenues.
TO have Nevada street, IN the 1900
block, put on grade.
To Audit City Books.
Bids for the auditing of the city's
books were opened and taken under
amusement. Bids were as follows: II.
IL Hendrick, one senior accountant.
S'3 per day and three juniors at $3.50
each. not to exceed S1575: Edwin Wick
stead, jr., So per day, one supervising
accountant SO for assistants maxi
mum charge. $1,000: Clarence Long
necker, principals. $l5 per day, jun
lors SO per day. +. A. MOssman SASS;
ThurstOn Audit Co. $1,000; T. G. Mas
quelette & Co, sS75. Crockett Couch
man & Co, Kansas City, s25 per
day for supervising accountant, SIS
per day for juniors. maximum charge,
$500. with $3.50 additional to list de-
lnQuent taxes.
Petitions Granted.
The following petitions were
Great Western Oil Co. for permit to
install two 1900 gallon steel storage
tanks at Laurel and Olive streets i.
B. Grigsby. for permit to construct
balconies on Alexandria apartments,
+. a. Miller. for permit to erect bar
Der pole at 103 San Francisco street.
Blaugrund &, Rosenberg, for permit TO
build a cement gutter in block 3S, Mills
map; George Look, for permit to erect
two electric light poles in front OF
Fisher hotel; Joe Zelman, for permit
tC construct concrete cutters at Over
land and Stanton streets; Frank Brenk
for sewer extension to lots II and l..
block 46, Bassett addition: BrOaddus q
LeBaron, for sewer extension to block
20, Bassett addition; property owners,
for sew er extension to block %. Alex
ande- addition property owners, for
sewer extension to block 10 Lattas
addition.
Soap FaetOr-.
Cepeda Gonzales and Casas were
granted permit to conduct a soap
factory at Luna and San Antonio
An ordinance was adopted accepting
the paving Of Piedras street from
Bliss street to the alley in block It.
East Ell Paso. The report Of the city
engineer showed s26, 9S61S due the FL
Paso Bitulthic company on this work
An ordinance was also adopted ac-
cepting the paving OF Nevada street.
from Oregon to Los Angeles streets
There is due the FL Paso Bitulithic
company S4924.5O on this work. accord
ing to the report of the city engineer.
The bid of the FL PasO Bitulithic
company at Sl7715 per square yard for
standard bitulithic for the paving of
Alameda avenue. between Texas street
and Boone avenue was accepted An
of S17.795.95 is set aside
by the city to pay its proportion Of
the cost of the work.