City department heads seek larger budgets for streets and services
Mayor prepares annual message as Public Works and Public Safety reports request a combined $3,121,306 for three departments, with total nearing $5 million after debt service and other costs. Bigelow seeks major increases for street work, bridges, and parks, while Brown targets mainly fire apparatus and a water tower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gourley
C Bigelow
Brown
Public Works
Public Safety
Bicelow
Elliott
Public Safety Budget Facts and Fire Bureau Increases
Chief Brown presents the 1891 departmental estimate with changes to the Fire Bureau and Police, citing an $80 411 04 ordinance driven increase and a plan to postpone a fireboat. He notes no new police hires, adds funds for a Central station, and outlines next year’s general office and bureau budgets with station costs and street projects.
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Bigelow
Southside
Brown
Central
General Office
Bureau of Fire
Bureau of Police
Bureau of Electricity
Bureau of Health
Bureau of Building
Department of Public Safety
Department
Bureau
Legeth
Lam
J. C. Brown
No. S
Highland Avenue
Nob
Central Station
Satan
Oil tax push sparks assessor appeal in Coraopolis
Attorney Cornelius presses for including oil bearing rock in property assessments and warns of a mandamus if the borough fails to list the oil leases. He cites a $720,000 lease sale and argues oil field taxes should mirror taxed coal, while roads suffer from oil traffic.
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Cornelius
Coraopolis
Bald
Imperial Coal Company
Mercer
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PROM
Coset Brown
Salyose
Bureau of Sea
P! Buresos
Bureau of Buildings
Bureau of Plumbing and
Department of Public Works
Generel Penses
Bureau City
City Hall
Bureau of Highways and Sewers
Bureau of Water Supply and Distribution
Brilliant
Herron I
Bedford
Garfield
Strees
Highland Reservoir
Brilliant Station
Herron Hill
Squirrel Hill
Butler Street
Reservor Avenue
Bureau of Water Assessments
Bureau of Public Lighting
Second Avenue
Wool Street
Third Avenues
Smithfield
Grant
Fourth Savennes
Wood Street
Grant Street
Seventh
Liberty
Eighth Street
Virgin Alley
Chertree
Third
Fifth Avenue
Seventh Street
Duquesne Way
Wyne Avenue
Our Alley
Elm
Pride
Center Avenue
Fulton
South Highland Avenue
Penn
Elm Street
Present Avenue
Chancery Lane
Fourth Avenue
Cherry Alley
Forty-eighth Street
Allerheny Valley Railroad
West Carson
Point West
East Carson
Monongahela Ft
Son Street
Twenty-seventh
Lincoln Avenue
Frankstown Avenue
Wilkins
Penn Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Liberty Avenue
Forty-fifth Street
Bureau of Engineering
Bureau of Water
Citef Bigelow
See. Horne & Co
Penn Svenue
Palace of Music
H Krakaner
Steee
Enomenaty
Vuallest
Pe Mellor & Hoene
Ce of Music
Belitaire
Hagpy & Hayes, Jewelers
Smithfield Stree
Hamilton's
Sixth Street
7 Lane
Holiday Presents
I Feas
Carywont
Esteren
Opti
John ¢. Rice
Sian Theater
Richard Mansfield
Wat C. Goodwin
Chas, Er
Passe
Frank McNish
Maverick
Zane
DirrsboRe
Ba Oanahe Theater
Stuart Robson
Sinbad
Maid of Balgorn
RAND
Turner Hall
Port of Spain
Trinidad
New Indies
St. Benedict the Moor's
Pittsburg
Holy Ghost Collowé
Bluff
Demos
Aris
H. W. Williams
Tarry Williams’ Academy
the Water Club
Old City Hall
Mellor & Hipone
J.T. Little
Pectac Aeiee
Amcoers
TS AN
Rheumaticura Co
Penn Ave
Pittsburg, PA
Det
Casv
Sixth ST
Hotel Anderson Block
Eweler
Dept
A. F
Sawhill
Federal Street
Allegheny
W.A. Bunting
Pittsburgh
OPERA
Caruss & Mannion
Fleming
Dunville
Wise
Ramsey
Cork Distilleries Co
Watson & Co
Glenlivet
JOS. Fleming & Son
Market ST
Cor. Diamond
Mackintosh
Kauemanns
Fifth Avenue and
Smithfield Street
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