Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — The City Council. [ARTICLE]

The City Council.

All members present with Mayo Eger in the chair. The firms of Coen & Brady and Jesse C. Gwin, petitioned for a watering trough, to be supplied with oitt water, near Coen & Brady’s place of business. The street committee was directed to have the same put in, the expense of installing to be paid by the peti 1 tioners. Mrs. Marv E. Thompson filed a remonstrance against building the t 800 feet or so of cement walk on j Washington and Milroy streets Referred to street committee. J. F. Warren filed a report the auditing of the accounts of the 1 former city treasurer, C. C- Starr, for the past five years. It shows , that a very large sum in the aggr«- j gate has been paid ever to him, ; but that every dollar has been paid . out on vouchers or turned over to ( the new treasurer. Apparently ; however, there is a balance of $196.28 of waterworks fund still in the hands of McCoy 9 & Co.’s bank, j Also in the same bank an apparent balance of $50.70 in the light fund, j Several different parties have col- j looted money for these two funds, j and the accounts are hard to get straightened out just right. The Treasurer’s report shows the following balances on hand. Corporation fund, $2364.50., Road Fund, $357.05; Waterworks; fund, $1859.40. Special Addition- ■ al, $890.86. Sinking Fund, $2844.40. Electric Light Fund, $344.79. The City Commissioners filed their report in the matter of the proposed widenitg of Clark street by a strip 7 feet wide added to it along its north side from Forest to Jefferson street. The street is only 40 feet wide, at present, and j thus quite too narrow for a good j street. Moreover there are shade trees along the north side, in the street, and these will have to be sacrificed, in building a cement j walk, as the street now is. The , Commissioners reported the fol- ; lowing damages allowed the various property owners affected: J. F. Antrim, $27.26; Mary H. Bate?, j $21.56; Thomas Kennedy, s2l; i Berry Paris, $56; Flora E. Green- j field, $35; Anna M. Harrison, $47. The Council considered these dam- j ages aggregated too much and j they rejected the reoort. They also ordered a cement walk on the north side of the street, as it now is laid out. The Marshal was directed to have certain property owners along Milroy street, to remove certain fences which encroach upon the street. Bome 16 claims were considered and allowed.