The Village Cleaned the Walks

New York, 1895

The village ordinance compels every property owner or occupant to have their sidewalks cleaned within twenty-four hours after a snow fall. Quite a number of persons failed to comply. In some localities the sidewalks were covered with ice and snow until Tuesday last, when Superintendent of the streets Wright, by direction of Trustee Van Allen, with a force of men cleaned the walks. The owners or occupants will have to pay the village $2 for not cleaning the walk and 25 cents for every hour it was neglected.


Union of R. A. Councils

Jamaica council, R. A., is preparing for a gala time on March 14, at which time a grand union of the various councils in Queens and Suffolk counties will be held. Chill W. Hazard, supreme regent and staff, together with Grand Regent Justin F. Price and other officers of the grand council are expected to be present.


Highway Commissioners Meet

The Jamaica Highway Commissioners met at the Town Hall on Tuesday. Commissioner Wolff presided. The following bills were paid: Richard Gray, 24 days' work opening Three Mile Mill road and removing snow, $36.50; John M. Zwieg, 118 days work opening roads and removing snow, $172.50.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 12.