Complaint About the Removal of Lamps at Hollis

New York, 1895

THE PUBLIC BUSINESS.

Real Estate Speculators and the Fire Commissioners Seem to be at Odds — Stone for the Macadamized Roads — The Improvement of Hillside Avenue.

The town board held a meeting at the Town Hall on Friday. Supervisor Everitt presided. Justice Lester was absent. The committee on safe for maps in the town clerk's office, reported progress.

The matter of having water mains laid on Centre street and Johnson avenue, Union Course, was referred to the water committee, to report at the next meeting of the board.

A communication was received from the Hollis real estate company, stating that the fire commissioners had removed four of the naptha lamps from their property in the lighting district. The clerk was directed to notify the commissioners to be present at the next meeting of the board, with a map of the lighting district.

Supervisor Everitt reported that he had received $569 from the sale of the buildings on the property condemned for Town Hall purposes.

The following bills were ordered paid: Hugh J. Swift, constable, $20.70; Frederick W. Wolff, highway commissioner, $87; William C. Baker, highway commissioner, $129; William H. Kassner, carpenter work in supervisor's room, Town Hall, $57.90; Union Course hook and ladder company, rent of house for election purposes, $10; C. W. Baylis, constable, $61.55.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 24, 1895, p. 8.