458 Regular meeting of the City Council: Austin, Texas, April 21, 1910. The Council was called to order by the Mayor: Rell called: Present Mayor Wooldridge Councilman Barthelemew 2 Absent Councilmen Grasyn, Hart & Powell 3 On motion the Council recessed until 10 oclock A M April 22nd 1910. April 22nd 1910. The Council was called to order by the Mayor, with all members present. The minutes of the last regular and adjourned meetings were read and adopl The regular order of business was suspended, so as to hear a Committee from the East Austin Improvement Club. Messrs Ulit Urekust Simpson addressed the Council ,asking for certain street work on 15th & other streets. The Council recessed until this P M April 22nd 1910 4,45 P M passed The Council was called to order by the Mayor with all members present. The Mayor laid before the Council an ordinance granting to the Dumont Holmes Steel Concrete Company, a private Corporation organized and existing under the laws of Illinois, a franchise to erect and maintain a dam sixty five (65) feet high ,above low water mark ,across the Colorado River, at the location of the dam formerly erected across said river by the City of Austin, and the franchise or privilege to said corporation ,to overflow the lands by the backwater of the dam, and providing for the conveying and delivery to ,and the use by ,said corporation of the material and property owned and formerly used by said City in operating its water power plant, at the dam, and the use of poles, wires and present equipment of same from the dam to the City’s present steam plant ,and providing for the furnishing to the City by said corporation of a dam,its equipment of operating machin-ery ,a reservoir, filter, all accessories, and the operation and maintainance of same as hereinafter set forth for the purpose of operating the water, light and power plant of the City of Austin, and providing for semi- annual installments for the payment of same. The Ordinance was read the third time and passed by the following vote : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Barthelemew, Grasyn, Hart & Powell 5 Nays none. The Mayor laid before the Council An ordinance amending the Chicken ordinance, which was read the third time . The Council has recessed ,subject to call 1 of the Mayor. April 23rd 1910. unanimously carried. The minutes. The Council was called to order by the Mayor, with all members present By The Mayor an ordinance appropriating the sum of $ 500.00 for the purpose of paying for all of the property of the Austin City Cemetery Association in Oakwood Cemetery ,especially that tract of 30X789 feet or thereabouts lying along and constituting the north boundary of said cemetery, from the Jewish section East to the Es st boundary of said Oakwood cemetery. Section 1, [illegible] --- Page break --- 459 .The ordinance was read the first time and the rule suspended and it placed on its second reading by the following vote : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge,Councilmen Bartholomew Hart & Powell 4 Nays Councilman Gracy 1 The ordinance was read the second time and laid over. Mayor Wooldridge offered the following Resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,as follows: (1) That the sum of Five hundred dollars ( $500) is hereby loaned out of the appropria-tion for the current year for dfnees and repairs for Oakwood Cemetery ,to the General fund for the purpose of purchasing an the Austin,Cuy City Cemetery Association all of its property in Oakwod Cemetery,especially a strip of land along the north side of said cemetery about thirty by seven hundred and eighty nine ( 30 X 789 ) feet, and in addition certain ornamental strips now belonging to said Austin City Cemetery Association,lying along the main road east and west through said cemetery. (2) That the loan to the General fund as provided for in the first section of this resolution ,shall be reimbursed to the appropriation for fences and repairs ,out of and from the first proceeds realized from the sale of cemetery lots,belonging to the City of Austin,Texas. (3) That the resolution of the City Council of November 1st,1909,directing the payment of five hundred dollars ( $ 500) out of the Cemetery fund for the purchase of the property described in the first section of this resolution be and the same is hereby repealed . The resolution was adopted by the following vote : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge,Councilmen Bartholomew Hart & Powell 4 Nays Councilman Gracy 1 Councilman Powell offered the following resolution : On J A Maxwell Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin: That , F A Maxwell be authorized to put permitted to build his steps on 13th street to the extension of the 10 feet of sidein steps on Elizabeth -walk ,and he be allowed to put his sidewalk on the extended 10 feet on 13th street, under supervision of the Street Commissioner . The resolution was adopted by the following vote : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge,VCouncilmen Bartholomew,Gracy,Hart & Powell 5 Nays none. On motion the Council recessed subject to call of the Mayor. April 25th 1910. The Council was called to order by the Mayor,with all members present. Bid of J. Stumpf for Councilman Hart presented to the Council a bid from Joseph Stumpf for delivering City Carts to the City threeCarts for the Sanitary Dept ,in response to the advertisement calling for said bids Contract awarded to him. Councilman Hart moved that the bid of Joseph Stumpf be accepted and the contract awawarded to him ,which motion prevailed by the following vote : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge,Councilmen Bartholomew,Gracy,Hart & Powell 5 Nays none. On motion the Council recessed subject to call of the Mayor. --- Page break --- 460 a proposition Drs Bennett & Scott to care for city patients in Hospital! Ordinance Grant? Burkhead et al franchise R.R. [illegible] Austin Master Bakers Convention in this City April 26th 1910. The Council was called to order by the Mayor, with all members present. The Mayor laid before the Council a proposition by Drs Bennett and Scott to take City patients to Austin Sanitarium, and close the City Hospital, which was read and discussed,and [illegible],and xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Councilman Hart moved that balance' of fine assessed against Charley Lowe be remitted ,which motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge,Councilmen Gracy,Hart & Powell 4 Absent Councilman Bartholomew 1 Councilman Hart moved to remit fine of Steve Wilson,which motion was lost by the following vote: Yeas Councilmen Hart & Powell 2 Nays Mayor Wooldridge & Councilman Gracy 2 Absent Councilman Bartholomew 1 Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin: That the proposition of,Doctors T J Bennett and S T Scott ,to conduct the City Hospital for the year 1910, at three thousand dollars less than the budget appropriations for City Hospital,be declined,and notification of the fact be' communicated to Doctors Bennett and S Scott. The reasons for declining said proposition ,amongst others,are ,that in our judgement,an institution expressing public philanthropy,should be maintained at public cost,even should such maitenance involve some financial,loss to the City. Again,in our judgement ,the abandoning of the Hospital would entail a money deterioration to the property of at least one- half of the amount of saving proposed by Messrs Bennett and Scott in their proposition to the City. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge,Councilmen Bartholomew,Gracy,Hart & Powell 5 Nays none. The Mayor laid before the Council an ordinance granting to Claud V Burkhead and Associates a franchise for a street railroad ,which was continued until Friday April 29th at 2.30 P M. The Mayor laid before the Council the following resolution : Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas: That the Master Bakers,now assembled in convention in Houston,Texas,be cordially invited to hold their next annual convention for the year 1911 in this City. The resolution was adopted by the following vote : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge,Councilmen Bartholomew,Gracy,Hart & Powell 5 Nays none. On motion the Council adjourned. Jas. W. [illegible] City Clerk.