Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-09
Many Matters
| Attended To at
tCity Council Meeting

The Mayor and Board of Aldermen
| met for Is minute session Monday
| night at the Council Rooms and
| transacted several items of routine
| business. The roll of accounts am
ounting to s1o.647.12 was passed upon
the approval of the Finance Commit
tee. Alderman Amesbury requested
the Council to take some action on
| the old Peacock place at the corner
of Washington avenue and Spruce
street. This place was termed a IRE
menace and the owner ordered to
have 1t fixed up some time ago. May
or Price announced that he would see
Attorney @. W. Heselton and have
Mr.. Peacock fix the place up imme-
diately.
Alderman w. A. S. Perkins Of Ward
Two presented the matter Of the
Highland Avenue cemetery to the
Council, and declared that it's condi-
| ton at the present time was deplor-
able, the grass had been allowed to
grow up and no fence had been placed
at the place where the old -hearse
house had been removed. The Coun-
Gil voted to instruct Mr.. Moore. First
Assessor and Overseer of the Poor to
have the place put In suitable condi-
ton.
Mayor Price then presented to the
Council both sides of the question Of
the removal OF the hose at the foot
Of Winter Hill. This Is occupied by
the Alert Hose Company and through
their own efforts the boys of this
company have. purchased motorized
apparatus and kept the quarters In
excellent condition. The place is
centrally located, near the r. p. Haz-
Yard plant, and within easy access Of
all members of the company. 1t has
been a Gardiner institution for a
number of. years. In building the
new Winter Street bridge this hose
house would have to be moved some
20 or % feet upstream, and 1t had
been suggested that it be moved to
the site of the old hose house at the
corner of Water street, and Central
street SO that the residents of Ward
Four could use it for a hose house
and polling place, something that
they need very much. While Mayor
Price pointed out that the Council
was DESTROYS Of giving the residents
of that ward their proper considera
ton as citizens of Gardiner he ex-
pressed his personal opinion that in
view of the reasons given before that
1t would be for the best to allow the
Alert Hose House to remain at its
present location, or within a, few feet
of IL. and next year when the appro-
priation bill was made up he suggest
ed that provision be made for the
| erection of a combination hose house
and polling place for Ward Four. AL
derman Perkins referred to the pro-
! lection offered the manufacturing
[ plants by the hose house in its pres
ent location while Alda4nan Ladd
| pointed out that both were needed
and approved of the Mayors sugges-
! ton that the Ward place be built
| next year. Alderman Amesbury Of
| Ward also expressed his approsa-
/ tion of the Mayors suggestion which
was incorporated into a motion and
! assed.
| 1t was voted upon approval of Chief
/ Dunn to allow the Stewart Williams
contracting Co, to use the hose house
as an Office while the bridge is under
construction. Chief Dunn offered the
suggestion at this time that while the
hose house was being moved that IL
should be moved far enough away
from the foot Of the hill to eliminate
the blind corner which now exists
there. This spot has been the scene
Of several accidents and the moving
! of the building will mean the motor
lists coming down from New Mills can
see traffic coming across the bridge.
! Chief Dunn's suggestion was approx
+ ed and action will be taken accord
/ ingly.