Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-11
WATER OFFICIALS
SALARIES INCREASED
City Commissioner Vansnat Also
Gets A Raise OF $500
MONTHLY COUNCIL MEETING
Permit Asked By Major DOuw To Place
Tablet On No 2 New Fire Head
quarters Porter Hail."

Full of business, with its city cof-
fers presumably full as we'll, the
monthly meeting of the Mayor and City
Council was held last night at the
Council Chamber, full Board being
present.
Money was dispensed with gener-
Gus hand, salaries were raised on all
sides. Four members of the Annapo-
| lis Water Company were voted an in
| crease-Messrs. Zeller and F. H.
Thompson 5000 a year each, increase.
and Messrs. Brady and Linthicum.
engineer and superintendent, respec.
lively We're given an increase of $100
l a year
City Commissioner w Fl. Vansant
had his salary increased from $500 to
| $1,000 per year, an addition of three
hundred dollars. This was voted upon
almost unanimously by the Council,
there being but one dissenting vote
| The question was brought up by AL
derman Parkinson who opposed the
raise of the City Commissioner last
Spring, and by whom it was defeated.
On this occasion Alderman Parkinson
4 made q motion to reconsider the or
| der and the vote was taken with the
| desired result Nearly every member
of the Board took occasion to attest to
the efficiency of the City Commission
er.
Major Douw appeared before the
Board as chairman of committee for
No. Independent Fire Company.
composed of John Taylor, Albert
Knackstedt. G. w Tucker, asking per-
mission to place a bronze memorial
tablet on the new fire quarters. Duke
of Gloucester and Market street, in
honor of the memory of Capt. Porter,
and naming the building Porter
Hail."
The permit will probably be granted
at the next meeting of the City Coun-
Gil
The question came before the Coun-
Gil of the increase of salary of Will
lam Farrell, janitor, which will also
be considered at the next meeting of
the Board
Parking automobiles was discussed
by the Board, and it appears that the
question of parking cars is a matter
| altogether in the hands of the Road
Commission and not city authorities.
The State road from Washington to
| Upper Marlboro has been completed,
and will be extended from Marlboro
to Annapolis Automobile tourists
travelling this road will need a park
ing place to be settled upon by the
4 O 4 ~.
Oliver Holland was elected care
taker of the Water Witch aerial truck.
The W., B. & A. Electric Line,
| through its auditor paid to the city
| it's quarterly franchise tax, as noted
| elsewhere in these columns. 1t was
the largest sum paid the city by the
Electric Line since the road has been
established
Roy Tydings was elected City Clerk
to succeed the late Philip E. Porter.
Renews Contract.
At last nights meeting of the Mayor
and City Council the Annapolis Pub
lie Utilities Company renewed its
yearly contract with the city for fur
nishing electric light at $40 per year
each for are lights, and $12 per year
each for incandescent lights. The
contract is for five years and is at the
same figure for light that the contract
was made in 1912, five years ago, when
coal was not so scarce and high, and
labor then was not at a premium.
| That higher figure for the lights
was not asked is a matter favorably
discussed by the Board, who was
agreeably surprised that there was
not an advance in price.
Detail Of Proceedings.
| City Commissioner w H. Vansant
acted in the capacity of City Clerk,
and after roll call Counsellor George
E. Rullman offered the following
resolution:
BY the Mayor, Counselor and Alder
men Of the City of Annapolis:
| Resolved, That, Whereas, Divine
Providence working in its mystery has
seen fit to remove from our midst our
friend and fellow worker. Philip Ell
wood Porter, that we here record in
i sorrow this. our feeble tribute to his
memory.
Endeared to US by his loyalness,
devotion to duty, friendship and good
nature. having proven his worth as
| Clerk TO this Board, as Fire Marshal
and good citizenship during many
years, we deplore his demise By it
true friend. a good citizen and a
gentleman is gone from among us.
We feel that we cannot express
just mere sympathy for his bereaved
family and loved ones, but join with
them in grief, and take this means as
its expression.
Ordered, That copy of this resolu-
ton be spread upon the minutes of
this Board and that the Clerk is here
by directed TO forward copy thereof
to the family of our deceased friend
and co-worker. Philip Elwood Porter.
The Counsellor paid glowing trib-
ute to the late City Clerk, and said
in conclusion that his funeral was all
that was necessary TO show the es-
TEEN in which he had been held by