El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-12-20
COUNCIL HAS 4
PAVING SESSION
Protests Heard Against
Partial Paving of Mills,
Along G.. H. & S. A.


Paving matters. including protests
against projected contracts, petitions
I for new paving and engineers accept
ance of work already done. occupied
the time Of the city council at its
weekly meeting Thursday morning.
over which acting mayor j. j.. O'COu-
nor presided. i'm the absence or mayor
+ Charles Davis in Washington
Frank Powers and j. c. Peyton sub
mitted a qualified protest against the
paving Of Mills street. from Camp
bell to virginia Plans made for this
pavement contemplated a paved strip
Il feet wide. not including a main
spur track Of the c.. H. & $. A. rail-
road Hessrs. Powers and Peyton said
they did not protest against the
pavement generally, but desired that
the entire street be paved. including
the tracks
Hadn't Thought Of Paving Tracks
On the plans of city engineer g. a.
Williams. the railroad is taxed for the
paving OF that part of the street abut-
ting it's reservation. $50 feet long. the
cost for which would be S44&S-65. At
torney Maury Kemp was present al
the council meeting and said the rail-
not given the matter of paving over
the tracks any thought.
II developed during the discussion
that property holders had never
signed any petition for paving the
street IL was stated by them. too,
unloading place The matter was
taken under auyisement ly the coun-
ell.
Submits Paving Estimates
Estimates of costs OF paving the
following streets were filed by city
Piedras TO Grant. S1I.51S-23 payable
by property owners and S-214-2+ by
city, Laurel. from Cotton TO Grand
view, S1l.i5l.96 by property ana
s26OS.17 ly city; Arizona, from Laurel
to Graudview. S412I65 by property
souri, to River S21.246.1S by property
and S34S-.50 by city
Resolutions adopting the estimates
and setting January u Tor hearing
protests against said paving. were
adopted bv the council
New Petitions Received
Petitions Of property owners Tor
new paving were received referred
TO the council as "a whole as follows
san Diego. from Louisville TO Dakota
streets. West Main. from Buchanan to
West Boulevard, Highland Park car
Engineer FILES Acceptances.
The city engineer filed contract ac-
ceprauces as follows Timber bridge
at Loweusteiu and Los Angeles street,
built by r. y. Mckee at cost OF
s-60-.6s- paving West Main street
from West Missouri TO viaduct. show
ing cost TO property holders OF
S4gg3-U-- Co CITY OF S9S1-t1s and TO o.
II. g. = A. Railroad company Of S5s--s-
The petition OF the FL PasO sash &
Door company and Galoraitn-FoN-
worth Lumber company for fire hy-
drant at Mills and Willow streets.
was referred 10 the police. fire and
building committee.
Firemen Ordinance Passed.
The ordinance increasing the pay
Of city firemeu and eudOwinE them
with special police power, was passed
on final reading. 10 go into effect
January l. Under the new law the
lowest sTary in the department VIII
be S95. that paid the operator, while
salaries of all others run from 500
for fremen first year. 10 S2-7- the
chiefs salary.
The petition Of the Lone star Motor
company for permit 70 install gaso-
line tank at Leon and West san An
tonic streets, was granted
Births and Deaths Equal.
Births and deaths for the week end
ing Wednesday each totaled 81. ac-
c0rdiuE to the health departments re-
port The deaths were Is Americans.
Is AIeXicaus and one negro. and the
births were SIX Americans. s-5 MeNi-
cans and one negro Sixteen cases OF
conta gious diseases remained in the
city as follows One measles. four
scarlet fever. five typhoid fever, three
and three chickenpoN-
The department condemned -
pounds OF meat and three cows dur
ing the week and made SIX arrests for
violations Of the health laws
Sanitary commissioner L. D. HUI
lum reported having hauled 5Sl,4oo
pounds OF garbage, 1855 pounds Of
ashes and 1900 pounds OF manure
the first three days of the Red Cross
Christmas membership drive. accord
ing TO a statement made public today
by w L. Hathaway, chairman Of the
Pacific division.
This. IL was said. leaves approx
mately $4,000 members still to be oh
tanned out of The quota assigned 10