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Philadelphia Times

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 08, 1900

Page

5

City Hall News Vote Down Amendments Passes With Nine Nays

City council debated many proposed amendments but approved the ordinance with nine votes against. Officials introduced numerous new bills as committees stay active and busy with hearings.

Park Commission Meetings And Council Petition Session

Friday schedule includes 1.30 P M committee on police of Park Commission and 2 P M monthly Park Commissioners meeting with committee appointments. A 12.30 P M special committee will consider a Fifth ward petition opposing retention of Councilman BR Courtland Horr.

Park Commission Fifth Ward Courtland Horr

Peaceful Session Passes Major City Widening and Bridge Plan

Philadelphia Common Council approves a large transfer bill and authorizes a Penn Railroad bridge across Market and widening of Fifteenth Street from Market to Broad. Debates focus on damages, costs, and city participation with extensive discussion by Meehan and Leeds.

Common Council Pennsylvania Railroad Company Market Street Fifteenth Street South Penn Square Oratory Broad Leeds Meehan Penn‘exivania Traction Company Costello Harr Fifth Ward Philadelphia Messrs. Hults, Hawkes W. L. Miller Messrs. Meehan Roberts Mr. Costello Department of Public Works Hults Department of Public Safety Bureau of Bullaing Inspection Yeas and Nays Messrs. Anderson Borden Fish Remig Swain McCurdy Caven

Council Approves School House Erection Contract And Summer Recess Powers

The bill for a public school house on Girard avenue and Leopard street totals $650 and a separate item covers a house on municipal hospital grounds for $2,088. The measures passed without opposition, along with a resolution authorizing the finance committee chair to approve contracts and sureties during the summer recess.

Municipal Hospital Samuel Gourley, Jr Girard Avenue Leopard Street Finance Committee

Measures Offered In Common Council

The Common Council introduced ordinances and resolutions and referred them to committees. Water Committee proposals include laying pipes on Sixty-frat Street from Market to Arch, Vogdes Street from Westminster Ave to Wyalusing Ave, Arch Street from Sixty-frat Street to Sixty-second Street, and Market Street to Arch Street. A petition to Fairmount Park Commissioners requests Centennial Lake in West Park with an island to a depth of 2½ feet.

Fifth Marshall Street Worth Street Frankford Street Margaret Street Sixth Seventh Street Arch Street Market Arch Westminster Wyalusing Street Krall Street Queen Lane Crawford Street Harold Street Market Street Sixty-first Street Sixty-second Street Dewey Street Shamokin Street Eighteenth Street Nineteenth Street Cumberland Street Lehigh Avenue Sergeant Street Sepviva Street Memphis Street Hezzard Street Moyer Street Strawbridge & Clothier Filbert Street Eighth Ninth Cemetery Road Hershell Southampton Road Newhall Street Apsley Street Wyoming Avenue Common Council Fairmount Park Centennial Lake West Park Island Select Council Stone League of American

Legislation Proposed in Select Council Details Projects

Proposals introduced in Select Council seek funds for a police station at Eleventh and Winter, a $25,000 property purchase at Twenty fifth and Noble, a bath house in the Fifteenth ward, $7,000 for Asa Packer and Thomas Potter Schools in the Thirty-third ward, bicycle paths along Fifty-second street, $10,000 to improve the Fifty-second street entrance to Fairmount Park and beautify George's Hill, and placing a boulevard 275 feet wide from Pearl to Carlton and Broad to Twenty-second Street on the city plan.

Leeds William R. Dougherty Howard and Tioga Equitable Trust Company Harry B Colonial Trust Company John H. Jordan Seventh Street Norris Thomas Parker Spring Garden Richard Walsh Castor Road Tackawanna Creek Richard P. Bennis Township Line Road William J. Smith Belmont School Brown Street Forty-first Preston Streets Union Surety and Guaranty Company Robert 8. Johnston Ok Ae Jordan Horace Binney Equitable Trust Conmenh Fortieth Ward Greenway Avenue Seventieth Seventy-second Streets Kingsessing Avenue Ann Seventy: Second Street Allman Street Campbell and Hoy Streets Allman Streets Edgemont Street Somerset Street Seltzer Street Twenty-fifth Ward Sharpnack Philellena Gorgas Mower Street Germantown Avenue Cresheim Road Chestnut Hill Spring House Turnpike Summit Street Eleventh Winter Streets Noble Streets Fifteenth Ward Asa Packer Thomas Potter Fifty-second Street Lancaster Avenue Park Avenue Fairmount Park George's Hill Pearl Carlton Broad Twenty-second Street Lamond Twenty-seventh Fortieth Archool House Wim Twentyfourth Connell Elmwood Avenue Sixty-third Street Finance Committee Fifty-second and Pine Streets Brown Twenty-seventh Ward Dett Board of Education and Councils

City committees approve multiple ordinances on city improvements and finances

Finance committee backs an ordinance for 6000 dollars to improve the Morgue facilities and considers tax discount changes. Other measures include school site purchases and new school house, plus a 5000 dollar Fourth of July celebration plan and a 5000 dollar monument design fund. Also to regulate explosives and open a Front street water main.

Clerks of Common Council Department of Public Safety Bureau of City Property Hazelhurst & Huckel Seventh and Carpenter Streets Cornells Philadelphia English Finance Committee Roney Walton Franklin National Bank Tax Commission McMichael Front Street Wenta Lehigh Avenue

Mason's Tablets Cure Dyspepsia and Coughs

Mason's Brown Tablets treat dyspepsia and constipation while Mason's Yellow Tablets address constipation and Mason's Hed Tablets cure coughs. White Tablets claim to heal sore throat. Sold by T Mason Chemical Company at 615 Arch Philadelphia for price by mail order.

Mason T. Mason Chemical Company Arch

Princess Aribert of Anhalt Declines White House Reception

Special Telegram to Tain Times reports Princess Aribert of Anhalt refuses Lord Pauncefote's invitation to a White House reception. She wishes to travel in America in a purely unofficial manner.

Lord Pauncefote White House Tain Times Washington Aribert of Anhalt Bes America

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City Hall News Bridge Market Street Chestnut Street Strawbridge Liz Eighth Street Island Railroad Hadelphia Hear Lawrence Street Orkney Street Knight Chamber Standard Ice Manufacturing Company Twenty-seventh Street South Street Seventh Ward Highway Committee Messrs. Batt Cayen Fish, Horr Linton Department of City Commissioners Board of Public Education Fire Police and Health Susquehanna Avenue Nineteenth Ward Callowhill Streets Meale Free Library Widener Logan Square Select and Common Councils McCoach Clay Clitizens’ Convention Committee Tenth Ward McNichol Belt Railroad Ordinances Ashbridge Delaware Avenue Dock Board of Trade and Commercial Exchange River Front Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad Dock and Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Clearfield D Streets Thirty-third Ward Olney Twenty-second Ward Committee On Finance Coulter Street Philadelphia, Germantown and Union Faction Company Bureau of Surveys Lit Brothers Pe Street Nth Ward Croft, Alen & Co Ludlow Street Thirty Third Streets Common Select Broad Street Byram Charles J. Hey Pennsylvania Avenue Twenty-sixth Street Thirtieth Street F. Seyfert, Sons & Co Thompson Street Twentieth Ward Director of Public Works Hunter O. H. Ulrich 16Th Street Park Commissioners City Property Finance Hammond Independence Square Albert B. Kelly Schuylkill Jewell Committee On Gilpin Wheelmen Connells’ Committee On Police and Prisons Philade Con Mason’s Philadelphia Times WincKinsley THE Sunday Times McKinley Princess
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