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.
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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1900
Page
5
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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