Are Now Getting Bids

FERGUSON FOR PUBLIC WORKS

Mayor Copeland Makes City Appointments

APFEL ALSO APPONTED

All Were Confirmed Except Ferguson Whose Nomination was Hung Up by the Republicans

The mayor sent in his deferred appointments to the city council Monday evening. There were:

City attorney-A.J. Sawyer.

Treasurer-George A. Vandawarker.

Member Board of Public Works- A.P. Ferguson.

Member Board of Fire Commissioners - George Apfel.

Member Board of Health-Henry Dodsley.

All these appointments were confirmed by a unanimous vote except Mr. Ferguson for the board of public works. On this nomination Ald. Clancy moved that Mr. Ferguson be confirmed. Ald. Hamilton moved that the name of John Feiner be substituted . President Haarer declared this out of order. Ald. Hamilton moved that the nomination be deferred to the next regular meeting. This carried.

Later in the evening Ald. Grose moved that the action deferring a vote on Mr. Ferguson's nomination be reconsidered. Ald. Jenney raised the point of order that Ald. Grose could not move to reconsider the resolution as he had voted against it. 

Ald. Hamilton moved to adjourn. Lost by a vote of 6 to 8.

Ald. Schumacher moved to reconsider action on the Ferguson nomination. This was lost on a tie vote of 7 to 7.

The mayor also notified the council that he had appointed as chief of police Frank H. Warren; as patrolmen, David Collins, Harris Ball, John O'Mara and George Isbell; special police for campus without expense to the city, Hamilton Reeves, Reuben Armbruster, Milton J. Perkins. 

PAVING ESTIMATES.

The estimate of the cost of paving Ann street with brick on gravel from Main Street to Fourth avenue was $1,728.43, the cost to the city being $512.05. The board of public works were instructed to advertise for bids including all kinds of curbing.

The council confirmed the acceptance of the bids of Kornke & Buckle to build the bridge over the Huron River for $771.

After some discussion and several motions the Ann Arbor railroad was asked to build a sufficient sluiceway to carry off the stagnant water in the old mill race along their tracks and the Michigan Central was asked to do the same for the water on Broadway near their track.

The bids for the city printing were referred to the finance committee and were as follows: Argus, 30 cents per 100 words and 20 cents a pamphlet page. Times, 37 1/2 cents per 100 words and 18 3/4 cents a pamphlet page. The Argus guaranteed double the circulation. 

An ordinance requiring all meat stores to be closed on Sunday was given its first and second reading, and comes up for passage at the next meeting. Ald. Koch wanted to know if the butchers could not run their own business, what the council had to do with it, and wanted the ordinance laid on the table indefinitely. 

Charles W. Wagner and Walter C. Mack asked the council for a new telephone franchise, and an ordinance giving it to them was given its first and second readings.

The sewer committee recommended the construction of a storm sewer on the east side of N. Division street from Kingsley to Detroit streets as soon as there was money to do it, and the council concurred.

On motion of Ald. Schumacher the street commissioner was asked to take the water away from near Harris hall.

After some debate a four-foot walk was permitted on Elm street and Mack road, and Florian Muelig was permitted to lay a 6-foot stone walk until the council directed him to make it 13 feet.

The city attorney reported against paying a bill of $30.10 to the Water company, and in favor of making certain changes in the contract with A. Birk for a watering trough on S. Main Street.

ARE NOW GETTING BIDS

Architects Mason & Kahn, of Detroit, have completed plans for the engineering building for University of Michigan and are now taking figures for its erection. This building will occupy three sides of a half square, having a frontage of 265 feet, the wings being 175 feet in length. It will be three stories high, besides basement and high finished attic story. The walls to the top of the first story will be of Bedford cut limestone; above this line they will be of vitrified paving brick with trimmings of stone and slate roof. The heating will be by steam and lighting by electricity. In the basement there will be a tank for the testing of naval models. It will be constructed of iron plates and will be 300 feet long, 25 feet wide and 8 feet in depth. The appropriation for this building is $135,000. The same architects have also completed plans and are ready to take figures for the erection of a Psycopathic ward hospital, also for the university. This building will be 50x150 feet in size; the style of architecture and construction to be similar to that of the engineering building. It will be three stories and basement. The heating will be by steam and ventilation by he fan system. The sum of $40,000 was appropriated for construction. The building is intended for the treatment of insanity in its early stages.

MRS. NEWMAN'S JEWELRY GONE

Monday afternoon, while Mrs. Nattie Newman, proprietress of the Newman house, was in the dining room of the hotel, someone entered her apartments and carried away a gold watch, $15 in money and two valuable gold rings.

The drawer from which the property was taken was opened with a key, evidently procured by the thief for the purpose, as Mrs. Newman had her own key to the drawer with her when she left the room. The door of the lather was unlocked, so that the thief easily effected his entrance.

The police department were notified of the robbery, but no clue was obtainable to the perpetrators, although it is thought by Mrs. Newman that the thief was a person who was well acquainted with the place where she kept her valuables and had made plans in advance for committing the crime.

MRS. CHAPIN'S PRETTY RECEPTION

The charming home of Mrs. C. Chapin and the Misses Chapin, on Kingsley street, was opened Tuesday afternoon for the reception of their friends. Mrs. Chapin and her daughters received their friends in the library. The house was simply but most tastefully decorated with lilacs, tulips, roses, etc. In the dining room, Mrs. Charles Millen, presided at the coffee urn and Miss Georgia Goodrich the ice cream. The Misses Sarah Hardy, Bessie Pond, Louis Hennequin, Margaret and Louise Tatlock and Marie Avery assisted in serving refreshments to the guests, who sat in the dining room or out on the porch or balcony back of the dining room, which commands the beautiful view of the Huron valley and the hills beyond.

The house is most attractively furnished throughout in the quaint and beautiful old mahogany furniture of the Old Chapin and Judge Kingsley families Mrs. Chapin being the daughter of Judge Kingsley. The handsome old sideboard in the dining room was especially admired and some of the china more than a hundred years old. On the second floor the rooms are completely furnished in the quaint old mahogany and in Mrs. Chapin's room stands the old piano which was brought to Ann Arbor in 1827 by Mrs. Chapin's mother, then Miss Lucy Clark. It was the first piano brought into this county and the second in the state.

STOLEN JEWELS WERE MEMENTOES

Mrs. Mattie Newman, proprietress of the Newman, whose jewelry was stolen from her room last Monday afternoon, is suffering keenly from the loss of her property.

It is not on account of the intrinsic value of the jewels that she is so greatly worried, she says but because several of the pieces were given her by her late husband and father. The watch which was taken was her husbands gift, while the gold locket which the thief carried away contained some hair which had been taken from her father's head before he died.

The watch which case $50 and which was a present to her by her husband before they were married is engraved on the inside of the case with the initials "M.G."

Mrs. Newman thinks she know who took the property, but does not wish to swear a warrant for his arrest until she has secured further evidence.

WILL ORGANIZE A TINNERS' UNION

With the exception of Frank Feiner all the members of the Tinners' Union were present at the council meetings Tuesday evening.

A committee consisting of Mess..Feiner, Imus, Ryan and Eiting were chosen to draw up the resolutions of the union and to select a hall in which to hold its regular meetings.

The action of Muelig and Schmid regard to the signing of the contract for a 9-hour day was discussed. It was agreeably decided to give that fi until the first of June to sign the 9-hour contract, at which time it has promised to do so.

The committee chosen Tuesday evening will hold a special meeting at night at the city clerks office, which further action will be taken.

A meeting of the tinners will be held next Tuesday evening.

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