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SO Ceiits
VOI,. XIII, NO. 284.
BY BENJ. BLUM.
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CRUSHED AND BURNED.
TO IMPROVE BROADWAY.
COOK’S.
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TO KILL ACTOR CURTIS.
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Paul Jones’s
ANOTHER RAILROAD WRECK,
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Eggert’s
Park
“SAM’L OF POSEN” CHARGED WITH
NOT PAYING THE MEN
TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS APPRO-
PRIATED FOR THE PURPOSE.
THAT IS THE TALK REPORTED FROM
WASHINGTON TODAY.
MOST APPALING RAILROAD WRECK
GF THE DISASTROUS YEAR.
2 ha News in Chicago.
Chicago, Oct. 20.—-When news ol the
wreck was received here it created con-
sternation among the officers of the
Grand Trunk road The general manager
and superintendent of the Grand Taunk
left for the scene.
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35th Street
and ave. 0.
THE IDEAL
PleasureResort'
FREE MUSIC,
DANCING.
JSvery Saturday and Sunday Nights.
A Dancing Pavilion 70x70 feet Has
Just Been Erected.
Pest of Order Always Maintained.
This Garden May Be Secured for Pri-
vate Parties and Picnics.
HOT COFEEE,
TEA, CHOCOLATE
la what we are serving now in
connection with our Ice Cream
Parlor. Open evenings after the
opera.
KAHN’S CONFECTIONERY
iL ........—rnw-wri ■—■i-wi.it
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1893.
FOUR ROSES.
BAKER’S RYE.
JOCKEY CLUB.
MONONGAHELA.
SILVER WEDDING,
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FINEST WHISKIES IN AMERICA.
Fays for Evening Tribune for
• ONE MONTH
PHIL J. MITCHEL
(Late with J. Levy & Bro.,)
Successor to JOHN A. McCORMICK,
Embalmer and Funeral Director.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
2313 POSTOFFICE RT.
Wholesale Agents for Texas.
south of the jetty, and the destruction
caused by the ill judged placing of the
jetty end at Fort Point as at first, caus-
ing the seas to bodily wash in large
quantities of valuable beach sand into
the bay, may be compensated by another
afterthought, which may necessarily be
found imperative, because the improve-
ment of the bar channel required it, and
for the further reason that the error
made by the engineers can thus be
amended and the damage replaced at an
early date without increasing estimates
or altering plane, which are tentative.
I submit that the matter should be re-
ferred to a mixed board of army and civil
engineers for decision. In the mean-
time, if the city cares to assume the cost,
I would suggest the expenditure of $150,-
000 in carrying out the plans here given,
modifying the length of the work and
using but two dredges. Respectfully,
William M. Douglas.
The communication was referred to the
special committee to be appointed by the
mayor, in accordance with Aiderman
Jackson’s resolution.
Mayor Fly said he did not think that
an election to vote bonds tor the beach
erosion would carry, as the proposition
had been defeated less than a year ago,
and suggested that some aid might be
had from the government.
Aiderman Schmidt d!d not agree with
him, and after some talk on the subject
the council adjourned.
WILL IT BE COMPROMISE?
ijtning Wibiitw.
ZDr. □?. ZbZEoO-orte
Surgeon and Physician.
Special Attention Given to
Private Diseases and Dis-
eases of Women.
Office and Drugstore, cor. 27th and Market Sts.
NEW SUPPLY OF
Clear Havana Goods,
SUCH AS
THE LORENA,
LA INSTRUOTORA,
LA FLOR DE TAMPA.
MUSICAL CLUB,
The BEST CIGARS ON EARTH, and
ma" be had of All Dealers, r or sale,
Wholesale or Retail, at the
ANCHOR CIGAR STORE
ABE LIEBERMAN, PROP.
Successor to WM. ROST.
the southeast seas will continue their
damaging action upon the beach between
the points named above-and even west-
ward of Twenty-third street.
Eisterly storms, and all the combina-
tions of currents projected thereby,
together with all the high heaping of
water upon the beach, are also responsi-
ble for the erosion, especial'y upon the
conditions of the abnormal features of
the angle existing south of the jetty.
Furthermore the fixtures erected along
the shore line, in the nature of groins,
have been disadvantageous, for they
have disturbed the natural direction of
the current along the shore, hindered
the movement necessary for the new
configuration of the coast in the vicinity
of the jetty and determined currents of
more or less force and direction under
the action of the easterly seas. And, in
addition, it should De understood that
the storm water drains leading into the
gulf have also tended Io their share in
the dismemberment of the beach, be-
cause of the induced scour obtained in
their vicinity by reason of the outfall of
drainage and the inflow of the tide,
forming rivulets and small bayous along
the beach line and conferring a purpose sitiou and condition of the south jetty,
upon the intermittent flow of the tides The evil tan be remedied by tightening
Papal Condolence.
Rome, Oct. 20.—Pope Leo has ordered
his nuncio at Paris to tender the condol-
ence of the Vatican to the widow of Mar-
shal McMahon. Cardinal Rampollo seat
a second message containing the official
condolence of the Vatican addressed to
the French government.
BEACH HOTEL LAWN.
Salvation Campaign opens Saturday
night at 7:30.
N. SALZMANN,
Swiss ’Watchmaker
AND
MANUFACTURING JEWELER,
Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, 8ilvai
ware, Clocks, etc.
Repairing of all kinds skillfully done at mod-
erate rates. Old Gold and Silver bought.
»I7 POSTOFJFIGS: 8T
B. M. Cook,
2525 and 2527 Market Street.
Uncanvassed
Hams and
Breakfast
Bacon
Mincemeat
Cane Syrup
Peaches
Nectarines
Pears
Apricots
French and
California
Prunes
PUBLIC MEN DISAGREE
on many great questions, but there is
only one opinion of Old Dominion Cigar-
X3ZEX>.
CARTER—At 2:30 a. m.. October 20,1893, Mis.
S. W. Carter, nee Minnie Fries, only daughter
of E. Fries, aged 24 years.
Fune’al takes place from her late residence
avenue MJ£ between Twentieth and Twenty,
first streets, at 10 a. m., Saturday, October 21.
(Pierce City and St, Louis, Mo., papers please
copy)
Were They Cremated or Did They Es-
csps-A Whitecap Outrage.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 20.—News has
been received here of an outrage perpe-
trated by white capa in Campbell
county, Misa.
Sarah Brooks and her two daughters'
hid received several warnings lately to
the effect that they were not wanted in
the neighborhood.
They paid no attention to their warn-
ings, and Monday night a band of men
surrounded their house and burned it to
the ground.
Although the women were objection-
able char ters, the beat people are
greatly incensed and the white capa will
be prosecuted.
-UGAR17POUNDS’$100-
5 1-2 Pounr s GROUND COFFEE, $1.OO.
3 Cans MILK, 2&c. TEA, 25c P.mnd.
8 Ears SO«P, 25c. HENO TEA, 65c lb.
HAMS, 11c p&r Found.
DRY GOODS, NoTluNo and SHOaS Cheap at
CROSS
CORNER SIXTEENTH AND STRAND.
West End Mg Store
8. E. Cor. 32d and Broadway.
Patent Medicines, Farcy and Toilet
Articles. Imported and Domestic Cigara
and Tobaccos. I
Prescriptions carefullv c mpounde c at all
ours. K, H. COO MBS Proprs.
Two Passenger Trains Como Together
Going Thirty Miles an Hour—Th®
Splintered Wreck Takes Fire and
Fifty or More Are Burned to Death.
Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 20. —A terri-
ble head-end collision occurred one and a
half miles from this city on the Grand
Trunk road about 4 o’clock this morning,
The collision was between the Ray-
mond & Whitcomb special train, with
passengerg^rom New York and Boston
returning from Chicago, and the regular
west-bound passenger.
The accident was due to the engineer
of the special disobeying orders by not
stopping at Nichols to let No. 9 pass and
they collided while .running over thirty
miles an hour.
Both engineers and firemen, when
they saw that a collision was inevitable,
shut off steam, reversed the engines,
put on air brakesand all jumped and
escaped without serious injury.
As soon as the trains collided the
coaches took the, and before the people
Sfcar by recovered their senses three pas-
senger coaches were completely burned
up.
Twenty-four dead bodies have already
been taken from the wreck, and it is sup-
posed there are fully that many more un -
der the debris.
Most of those dead were burned to
death.
In addition to the dead there are fully
forty-five severely, if not fatally, in-
jured.
The passengers killed were all on the
east bound train, and as far as known
the victims were eastern people.
The conductor of the west bound train
was badly hurt.
The second coach of the west bound
train cut like a knife through the third
coach, and the roof passed over the
heads of the sleeping and ill-fated pass-
engers in the third coach, entombing
them in a fiery furnance.
It was one of the most horrible sacri-
1 fices of life that ever took place. Twenty-
five of the dead bodies are unidentified,
as all their clothing, hands, arms and
legs have been burned off.
One body was that of an infant with
the head consumed. On another body,
• the clothing of which was but partly
consumed, business cards bearing the
1 name of A. A, Allen & Co. of No. 51 Bay
■ street, Toronto, were found.
The bodies were all burned beyond I be
1 possibility of recognition. Their names
will never be knoivn.
Who Bribed His Jurymen—Well Guarded
on His Ranch—Appeals to the Sheriff
for Protection and Arms His Servants
With Shotguns.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 20.—Ever
since Actor M. B. Curtis, better known
as “Sam’l of Posen,” was acquitted of
the murder of Policemen Grant there
have been rumors that his release was
secured by bribery. Now these rumors
have crystallized into a direct public
accusation.
The charge now is that two sets of
juror bribers were engaged and that
$8000 was promised and only $2,800 paid.
Tue purchase was of four jurors, but only
one pair of the juror bribers was paid.
The other has gone so far, it is charged,
aa to threaten the actor’s life.
Frank McManus, called “King” Mc-
Manus, a saloon keeper and political
“boss,” and Win. R. Dunn are accused
of being the bribers who have turned
blackmailers. Two of the corrupted
jurors, it is said, are Thomas McFarlane,
ex-president of an undertaking company,
and C. jShaw Coy, a clerk in the Savings
Security bank.
Curtis admits that be spent $8000 in
his defense and was bled by many per-
sons, but he refuses to give names or de-
tails. He and his wife say that Mc-
Manus and Dunn are trying to blackmail
them.
During the third trial McManus and
Dann visited Curtis’ attorney, G. N. E.
Wilson, and said they could buy four
jurors for $8000. Wilson says he ordered
them out. After acquittal McManus and
Dunn forced their way into the room cf
Mrs. Curtis in the Palace hotel and de-
manded $8000 to pay the jurors they had
bribed. She refused to make terms in
spite of their threats, and then they pro-
posed to take in lieu of money deeds to
ten lots in Berkelv.
ASKED TO CALL AGAIN.
She asked them to call again, and had
Lawyer Wilson present at the second in-
terview. McManus exhibited a receipt
for $2800 signed by Juror McFarlane,
and Mrs. Curtis got possession of the
paper. The lawyer telephoned for a de-
tective and the self-confessed jury
bribers left hurriedly, after McManus
had wrested the receipt from the actor’s
wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis went away next
day to their Fresno county ranch, fear-
ing that McManus and Dunn would exe-
cute their threat, which included killing
Curtis. The actor learned that he could
not get away so easily, and that hi« al-
leged creditors and tools were on his
track. He appealed to Sheriff Scott of
Fresno county, who appointed a fighter
named Boyd as deputy and sent him to
live at the Curtis ranch. The actor
armed several of his hired men and used
them as sentinels.
first saw it, in February, 1880, and in <
later years. ]
It is to be regretted that the shore arm i
of the south jetty was not built a year or <
so sooner' than it was; for a very large I
amount of beach sand went through the i
gap that existed prior to its erection and J
a large quantity of this sand thus lost to j
the beach front has eince been utilized 1
in filling up the area around the new i
wharves at the east end. i
From all this it may be seen that the <
jetty as it now stands is not entirely re- <
sponsible for the deterioration of the
beach; on the other hand it is working 1
its way to a very satisfactory ending of <
the erosive action; only that it will be I
very gradual in its final good results. ;
In the meantime it might be best to (
take measures to aid the slow curative i
efforts of the jetty eo that the destruc- i
tive action upon the beach of the seas
and currents may be antagonized; and
also in further aid of this object make s
it possible to give assistance to the re- i
moval of the bar quickly and to gain a ,
deeper channel for navigation and com-
merce into the harbor. ;
To this end it would be advisable to 1
run out a spur or wing from the line of 1
the south jetty at a point, say, about ;
10,000 feet from the outer end. The di- ]
lection of the wing might be very prop-
erly perpendicular to the jetty and its 1
length about 8000 feet. The height of 1
the spur or wing’might be fixed at the/ .
level of mean high tide, or in a lower
plane, or it could be built of stone and in
the tame munner as the jetty proper.
At the same time a dreding plant
should be obtained, to consist of two
hopper dredges for working in the bar or
jetty channel, and a stationary dredge .
for work of transferring sand into the
angle south of the jetty.
The purpose of the wing to the jetty
would be that of intercepting the out- ;
ward wash cf sand when southeast seas
beat upon the beach and translate the
material torn therefrom to the north- 1
ward, and as a barrier to the racing 1
waves from easterly seas along the jetty
for the inner length so covered. Also, it
will act as a catch or pocket for all sand
brought into the area by any currents.
By this action the sluicing and carry-
ing action of the current projected alon'g
the coast line and south side of the jetty
out to its outward line would cease, and
the sand taken from the beach would
find shelter in the area conserved for it ;
and again, any currents driven bv storm
tides in upon the area would be broken
and dispersed without evil effect.
The dredging plant would work in the
channel, upon a line trending to the
southward from the outward end of
Bolivar channel at its 20 foot contour.
This for the hopper dredges. The sta-
tionary dredge might be fixed in position
at a point upon the north side of the
jetty in a sufficient depth of water (five
feet) for floatage, and be fitted with a
properly connected discharge pipe, hav-
ing its outer end fixed beyond the south
side of the south jetty and west of the
wing for delivery of sand taken from the
shoal north of the jetty into the area
south of the jetty in the angle. The sup-
ply of sand for this purpose might be
had by depositing material taken from
the bar channel within the reach of the
suction of the stationary dredge.
In this way the sand taken from the
channel would be safely utilized in mak-
ing good solid ground in the area formed
by the inner length of south jetty and
the length of wing jetty projecting south
therefrom, and thereby a tightening of
the south jetty for over one-half of its
length would be quickly had, giving a
better velocity for the outward flow in
the dredged channel so that it might
i widen, deepen and maintain by its flow
alone a channel of at least twenty feet at
mean low tide.
i The fine results attained in making
i channels by dredging, using centrifugal
■ pumps, is well known, and no auxiliary
, can be so userul and economical as a
' plant such as described, viz.: hopper
dredges with propelling apparatus and a
stationary dredge, all equipped with cen-
trifugal pumps and excavating appar-
atus of approved and improved make.
The cost of the spur or wing might be
$130,000, the dredges $180,000, contin-
gencies and working dredges twelve
months $75,000; total, $385,000. Thus
manner, raised high above storm tides, at a total cost of $385,000 the beach ero
sion can be slopped, the east end made
entirely permanent and the entrance
deepened to twenty feet at least and all
within a year’s time.
I will add: Although there was a
’washing away of the beach anterior to
the building of the gabionoade, mattress
work and the rock jet’y the rate of
erosion was -very slow and only became
noticable through surveys at long in-
tervals of lime, because the inflow and
outflow of sand was somewhat compen-
sa'ory.
In defending the extreme point and
extending the jetty seaward the engineers
erred in treating the Fort Point plateau
as stable ground. The plan authorized
by congress did not include the line of
work built inward from Fort Point
quarantine eta*ion to Ninth street and
avenue A, as this was an afterthought,
necessarily forced upon the engineers be-
cause of the strang run of the seas over
the plateau and the probability of the
jetty being cut off and surrounded by the
gulf water, thus obliterating the work as
: a useful factor in the bar improvement.
The destruction of the beach and prop-
; erty thereon is now hasfened by the po-
A Long Discaeeion on tbe Beach Ero-
sion-Opinion of Engineer Douglas.
He Proposes a Plan to Oast ®385,OJG.
Can Be Done in One Tear.
THE
EMPEROR
OF
THE
MINSTREL
WORLD
Supported by a coterie of Colored Star Artists,
including the GREAT GAUZE and the Famous
CR SCENT CITY QUARTE1TE
EXTRA—Ths Cake Walk will take place im-
mediately after the regular performance.
COMING-JOHN T. KELLY io the eccen-
tricity, “ MCFEE O”’DUBLIN,” Monday and
Tuesday, Oct. 23 and 24.
C. F. CHEESMAM’S
Dancing Academy,
At Arion Hall, Opens Oct. 2
According to This Talk, a Compromise
Bill Will Be Introduced by Either
Senator Gray or Gorman Before the
Week Closes—Forecast.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Washington, Oct. 20.—There is little
doubt, says a morning paper, that by the
end of this week a compromise bill will
be formally introduced in the senate,
probably by either Gray or Gorman.
The question of a bond issue still
hampers negotiations, but it is under-
stood it will be left to the regular session
of congress to deal with the problem of
maintaining or increasing the gold re-
serve.
The date at which the silver purchas-
ing clause of the Sherman act shall ex-
pire, provided the people do not pro-
nounce otherwise, will be left for the
senate to fix.
Quay prefers 1896, and silver men,
that failing, will hold out for June 30,
1896, and if that fails will insist upon
January 1, 1895.
The proposition that has been sub-
mitted looking to the strengthening o£
the reserve contemplated an amendment
to the act of 187-5 which authorized $300,-
000,000 of 10-40 bonds at 4% per cent.
The present proposition is to restrict the
bonds not already issued under that law
to 5-30 at 3 per cent.
This was an ingenious device^by which
the secretary of the treasury was to be
authorized to issue $200,000,000 worth of
bonds at 3 per cent without enacting in'o
formal acts an express commandment to
issue bonds. ______
The Remedy.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Washington, Oct. 20.—(Senate.)—Set-
ator Voorhees gave notice of an amend-
ment to the rules when the senate con-
vened thia morning. It provides that
when a bill or resolution pending in
the senate as unfinished business
shall have been debated thirty
days any senator may move
to fix a time for taking a vote thereon,
and such motion shall not be amendable
or debatable, and,if passed, the pending
bill or resolution shall be voted upon at
the time fixed.
The senate then went into executive
sassion.
States government engineers to ascertain • contour it held in former years, and ae I
what can be done in regard to stopping « ---»--------- ■*onrk —J !~
the East end erosion.
The beach committee reported unfav-
orably on the proposition of F. R.
Shields & Co. to stop the beach erosion
for $35,000, and a communication from
that firm withdrawing their proposition
was read and adopted.
The committee on public properly re-
ported favorably on the request of Su-
perintendent Hendricks of the Sealy
hospital for more accommodations for
colored patients. The report was adopt-
ed and the work ordered done.
The following communication regard-
ing the beach encroachment was read.
It was from Wm. M. Douglas and will
be of general interest.
Galveston, Oct. 18.—To the Mayor and
Council, City of Galveston, Tex.-—Gen-
tlemen : The fol’owing article was writ-
ten some months back, but for various
reasons has been withheld.
The desire of the council to make an
attempt at a thorough improvement of
the east beach, evidenced by the-suge’es-
tion to appropriate $500,000 forthat pur-
pose, urges me to present to your hon-
orable body my views upon this momen-
tous question at this critical time; also
to strongly impress upon you the right
to ask the government for action, and
upon the merits of the case as I explain
it, or to solicit congress for the desired
relief. I shall stand ready at all times
to aid you in this mattsr in any way you
may deem proper. Very respectfully,
Wm. M. Douglas.
In connection with the subject of the
beach erosion and the harbor improve-
ment at Galveston, Tex , as mentioned
in the preamble and resolutions of the
city council of Manh 5, 1893, please
permit me to submit the following re-
marks in relation to the cause or causes
of the erosion and the remedy to be ap-
plied thereto in effecting a cure:
Treating the south jetty as the sole
cause of the washing away of the east
beach and property thereon is hardly
just, for the reason that long before the
beginning of any work in its location the
southeast seas eroded the beach and
washed the sand, in upon Galveston
channel and the bay. Since 1880 the
work has reformed the Fort point
extension and tilled up the channels
which ran across from the bay to the
gulf, and which existed rainy years
pi ior to 1880.
In time this eouth jetty work will be-
come impermeable, and then it will give
good service as a revetment as well as a
training walk
The direction of the jetty, almost per-
pend! ular to the trend of the coast, is
such as to give it an intercepting action
io the flow of sand as well as to give the
eastward run of the seas a pioj ction
along its south face and a drawing ten-
dency of the sands to the outward end
of the work.
The present permeable condition of
the jetty allows a passage for water
through it. This action assists the reg-
ular conditions under which the new
formation is subject and signally im-
pedes the natural action of the outflow-
ing cut rent after it leaves the end of the
jetty and falls into the circular eddying
motion of the current as it sweeps
against the shoreline, and curves with
large, circular diameter in the angle
formed by the jetty and the beach. With
a tight work the outflowing tide would
have a greater volume and velocity, and
its eddying stream falling in the right
angle would, by the large surface diam-
eter of its eddy, deposit the sand taken
up from the bar, etc., in that area, and
theieby aid in the filling up of that
angle and the new beach formation. Of
course, even then, the southeast eeas
would still project a current against the'
work, and tend to draw the sand outward
to the bar end; also the erosion of the
beach, as now, would continue, for in its
efforts to fill the exterior and extensive
angle made by the jetty and the beach,
nature must produce the necessary ma-
( terial, and nowhere can it obtain it more
i readily than from the projection of the
i beach as it appears between Twenty-
third and Fourth streets. In other words,
. the action of the seas is tending to a new
configuration of the coast line, and to
adapt itself to a natural flow in its cir-
cling way it is tearing away from the
boldest points in its flow and depositing
in all angles in its passage. Therefore,
until such time as a thorough and stable
formation can be given the coast line
near the jetty, in a properly curved
TREMONT
j OpStyl-flOVSE.
TORiCHTT
FAMOUS
CEilRG! A
PRINGLE’S OLUIsym
MINSTRELS
HEADED BY
BILLY
KERSANDS
DEGORRTIVE Fostoffice St.
BSSE SRT PflHItOR
STAMPING A SPECIALTY. AH Findsof Em-
broidery Material for sale at Teasonable prices.
MRS. W- J. HOULAHAIT.
WHAT BECAME OF THE WOMEN?
The council met in adjourned session
yesterday afternoon, and when Mayor
Fly called the aidermen to order every
one of them were in their seats. This is
the first time that every member of the
council has been present at a meeting for
several months.
The following opinion from the city
attorney regarding the resolution to set
aside $815,000 worth of bonds for fresh
water supply was read :
City Attorney’s Office, Galveston, Oct.
19.—To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council, Galveston—Gentlemen : I beg
to advise in reply to the report of the
joint committee ou water supply by
your honorable body referred to me at
your regular meeting on October 16,
1893, that under the provisions of the
city charter, the bonds authorized are
not themselves to be set aside for any
particular work. Paragraph 132e, spe-
cial laws of 1891, provides: “That said
bonds to be sold for cash at not less
than par and the proceeds thereof to be
used and expended as follows *
The only way by which the result de-
sired can be accomplished is by resolu-
tion of the council to issue the bonds
through signature by the mayor, coun-
tersigned by the cle k and subsequent
registration by the city cleik and by the-
comptroller, and their gale. When, this
shall have baen accomplished, from the
proceeds thereof, under the sixth para-
graph of the section of the charter al-
ready quoted, $900,(09 shall be em-
ployed and expended in the procure-
ment of an adequate water supply for
the city. The bonds, however, must be
sold as required by7 the charter and the
proceeds used for this purpose.
Thos. J. Ballinger,
. City Attorney.
On motion of Aiderman Harris the
city attorney’s opinion was adopted.
Aiderman Harris’ resolution calling
for an appropriation of $2000 to put
Broadway from the east end of the mud
bridge to Fifty-sixth street on the city
limits was brought up.
Aiderman Spillane wanted to make the
amount $10G0.
The city engineer submitted a report
giving in detail the work to be done and
estimated that not less than $2000 would
be sufficient to do the work properly.
Afcer considerable discussion by Aider-
men Harris, Boysen, Wegner, Spillane’
and Schmidt, Aiderman Spillane amend-
ed the resolution by making the amount
$750. He received no second, and the
motion, being put to a vote, was carried,
fifteen voting aye and Aiderman Spillane
vot’ng no.
Ths following resolution by Aiderman
Harris, which was postponed at Mon-
day’s meeting, was then taken up:
Whereas, an emergency exists for the
better protection of the property of citi-
zens in the territory south of avenue O
and west of Thirty-fifth street from fire,
aud in consideration of the large num
her of valuable buildings that have re-
cently been erected in said territory;
therefore be it
Resolved, by the city council of the
city of Galveston, that the sum of $5000
or so much thereof as may be necessary
te and the same is hereby appropriated
out of the special reserve fund to be used
for laying 6 inch water mains, commenc-
ing at Thirty-fifth street ard avenue O,
running along Thirty-fifth street to ave-
nue P, thence along avenue P to Forty-
first street, thence along Forty-first
street to avenue Q, and the boaid of
commissioners of waterworks are hereby
instructed to at once proceed with the
workrof laying said mains.
After some discussion the resolution
was adopted, all the aidermen voting in
the affirmative except Aidermen Boysen
anff Spillane,
The following re solution was intro-
duced by Aiderman Wegner:
Whereas the city engineer has issued
notices to owners of property to fill the
alleys abutting on their said property to
grade as required by article 473 of the
revised ordinances, and
Whereas on account of the difficulty
in procuring filling and the exhorbitant
prices that have to be paid for same a
great hardship will be placed on the
owners of said property, which they can
not easily stand on account of the pres-
ent stringency of the money market;
therefore be it
Resolved by the city council of the
city of Galveston, that the enforcement
of the provisions of said article 473 cf the
revised ordinances be and the same is
hereby suspended for a period of twelve
months from the passage hereof. Pro-
vided that where an alley has become a
nuisance to adjacent prop?rty same shall
be at once abated.
The resolution was adopted after a
spirited discussion, during which Aider-
man Schmidt declared the ordinance
was not worth the paper it was written
on.
The following resolution was also from
Aiderman Wegner and was adopted :
Whereas, jt is absolutely necessary for
the comfort, health and convenience of
the people of the city that all sidewalks
of the city shall be placed in such a con-
dition that they be passable and dry in
wet weather; therefore, be it
Resolved by the citv council of the
city of tialveston, that the chief of po-
lice and health physician at once notify
all property owners, or agents of said
pr perty where the owner can not be
lound, whose sidewalks do not comply
with ar icle 506 of the revised ordi-
nances, to at once place their said side-
walks in the condition required by said
article within thirty days from the serv-
ice of said notice, and to prosecute in the
recorder’s cou t all such agents or own-
ers who fail to comply with said notice.
Alder man Jackson offered the follow-
ing resolution, which was unanimously
et es—the best in the market. Photo-, adopted :
graph in every package.
Gilt-Edge Western Hay can be had at zens, who, in con junction with the city
Hanna & Leonard’s, Phone 552. (
A Large Number lojured, Some of
Whom May Die.
Chicago, Oct. 20.—The New Orleans
limited over the Illinois Central road
with every coach full of World’s fair,
9
passengers, was was wrecked by collid-
ing with a coal'train three miles beyond
Kankakee last night at 11 o’clock.
Eight persons were seriously injured
and many more suffered bruises that did
not require the attention of a surgeon.
Following is a list of the in j ired :
J. D. Davis, Flippen, Ga., head cut,
le^s bruised and back injured.
L. A. Saffery, Fisher, I.L, back hurt
and internal injuries.
Mrs. R, B. Stayton, Wichita Falls,
Tex., head bruised and left hip badly
bruised.
Mrs. T, F. Brown, New’ton, Ill., left
hip biuised and ankle cut.
C. E. Little, Chicago, scalp wounds,
right hip bruised and right leg crushed.
J. W. Brown, baggageman, hip bruised
and left ankle badly sprained.
J, M. Mariey, Plano, HL, right hip and
eg bruised, foot cut.
G. E. Loiseau, Nashville, Tenn,, cut
on the head.
Most of the passengers were asleepj
and these were caught unprepared by the
slight warning, and the shock threw
many to the floor.
Si lintering cars and flying glass did
worst of the damage. Those in the for-
ward car and smoker suffered most.
A special train with physicians was
immediately sent from Kanakee, and
after the wounds and bruises were
dressed they were put aboard of a special
train and brought to this city, and the
(Continued on 4th page.)
Resolved, that his honor, the mayor,
appoint three aidermen and three citi-
engineer, will consult with the United very detrimental to the smooth and easy the work and developing the foreshore
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