The Public Business

New York, 1895

THE TOWN BOARD ORDERS THE WATER MAIN EXTENDED.

The Village Trustees Vote Down a Number of Petitions for Improvements — New Houses for Fire Companies Necessary — Counselor Monfort Rejects a Proffered Fee.

The town board held a meeting on Friday at the Town Hall. Supervisor Everitt presided. Justice Lester was absent. Town Clerk McCook reported that he had engaged T. F. Archer's Sons to sell by auction the buildings on the Everitt, Herzog and Denton properties, recently acquired by the town for Town Hall purposes. A petition was received from residents of Richmond Hill for an extension of the water main on Maple, Central and Elm streets, and on Central avenue and the erection of four fire hydrants. The petition was granted.

The following bills were ordered paid: Jamaica electric light company, light for Town Hall for month of March, $41.66; township water company, hydrant rental, $1,438.39; Samuel M. Searing, repairing and putting up election booths, $77; Charles W. Baylis, services as constable, $223.35; L. E. Decker, services as highway commissioner, months of January, February and March, $97.

The books of the highway commissioners, which have not yet been audited, occupied the greater portion of the time of the board.


Supervisor of Teachers, Institutes

Superintendent of Public Instruction Skinner announced on Friday that he had appointed Prof. A. S. Downing of Palmyra, now an institute conductor, as supervisor of teachers' institute and training classes.


Street Improvement Must Stop

Actions were commenced in the Supreme Court by J. Rufus Terry and Roswell P. Flower to restrain the officers of Long Island City and the improvement commissioners from proceeding with the improvement of Borden avenue, paying the contractor, John O'Brien, for his work, or issuing city bonds to secure his payment. The action was commenced on the ground that the commissioners' action was illegal. Saturday Justice Gaynor gave judgment for the plaintiff in both cases.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 12, 1895, p. 1.