Wooden Awning On Huron St.

WOODEN AWNING ON HURON ST.

Permission to Build One at Cook House

BY COMMON COUNCIL

The Lighting Company Get a Mild Roast--And City Physician Wants Students to get Vaccinated

The council meeting Monday evening was a serene and peaceful as a harvest moon. The most important item on the program was the weighty question of allowing Nowlin Bros. to build a wooden awning in front of the Cook house on Huron street, and the only member who was even tempted to run counter to public opinion in this matter was Ald. Schlenker and he finally decided to vote with the rest/ Attorney Norris was present with a blueprint of the proposed awning and he explained that the structure is to be highly ornamental and a credit to the city. He also urged that the matter be decided at once so the council obediently took a five-minute recess to allow the sidewalk committee, to whom it had been referred, to vote upon their recommendation. The committee advised granting the asked for permission and the recommendation was adopted by the council by unanimous vote.

Ald. Douglas stated that some time during the summer the council directed the president to appoint a committee to make arrangements for the convention of the Municipal league which is to be held in the city in February; but that he has been unable to find any record of the committee's having been named. No one seemed exactly clear on the point, and President Walz said that if he was directed to appoint such a committee the matter entirely slipped his mind; but that he will attend to the matter at the coming meeting.

Ald. Hutzel moved that the Board of Public Works be directed to make an inventory of all property belogning to the city, and that such of it as is portable be stored together on city property. The motion was carried.

On motion of Ald. Grose the city attorney and ordinance committee were directed to draft an ordinance controlling the use of the city scales.

City Physician Herdman suggested that the council order the citizens and the students to be vaccinated. He said that there is considerable smallpox in this and other states and that if the students are not vaccinated they will be liable to bring the disease back with them after the holidays. He also advised extra precaution with the milk used in the city, as a preventive of typhoid fever.

The Washtenaw Light & Power co. came in for a mild discussion. The clerk was directed to notify the company to place lights where they have been ordered, and the general complain was registered because the company is careless about keeping the lights burning. The chief of police reported, however, that they put on a man that very night, whose sole duty it is to look after lamps that do not burn properly.

John McNally and Nellie McNally asked $600 damages because, as they allege, their property on Traver street has been injured to that extent by the lowering of the tracks of the Ann Arbor R. R.

Matters of minor importance were reported by the Board of Public Works and the street committee.