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Tuesday evening was regular meeting; all present but Mr. Fritsch. The time for putting a smoke con- sumer on the electric light folks’ stack was extended 30 days. The matter of a sidewalk from C. H. Baker’s to school house No. 6 went to the street committee. Judge Dooley efinle in With $300 in cash to pay what he thought right' on their cedar block pavement. The , twineyeaid M had no legal.» mine- ( y, but the council could do as it sees fit. It went to the special as- sessment committee. The sealer has collected $8.05 for August. Mr. Smoot made a report on the new speciai assessment law, showing that the council ' can no longer initiate and pass these special ordinances, all that is done now by the Board of Local Improvements, consisting of the mayor, city engin- eer and stiperintcndent of streets, Total pumpage. gallons Daily average... Totaloil ..... Dailym” ...... Nolan. The pumping engineer reported for August as follows: The marshal has had twu persons arrested and fined; 70 dogs and three pedlers licensed and two street sprinklers-the latter have not quarâ€" relled during the month. ‘r Alderman Cushman objected to all this stuff warning before the cotmcil. Laing Happ, balance on Vine ordered paid. The street railway was given until July, 1898, to com plete the road south of Lincoln street. They will build down to H. G. Dickinson’s corner this fall. The contract for fuel oil with Standard folks, $019 at per gallon was closed; last year it was 5.025. The city clerk was instructed to repair and improve his office. not to cost over $30. An hour was spent on the report of the committee on making four wards. Mr. Cushman had a long report concerning the late census and refusing to recommend the new ward. All the aldermen made one or more Speeches on the subject and even Judge Hibbard made one. But the council would not go back on its 3016 population report. A “Ilhole grist of commit, sidewalk ordinances were pasaod as foilowa: On the east of Bohl and Sampson lot. on the south of Smnpson's. whore Captain Robina-ion lives. in front of where Mr. Hudson lived beyond H. L. Regina's on Hazel. in front of the Presbyterian church. and a plank one on McGovern street in front of Thnyef’x Bids fhr paint . Evam-a. H. L. Bowen and John CITY COUNCIL. 0.965.934 321,481 8,492 ‘20“ When Mr. Cushman made his ex. haustive reporton the censusâ€"that's what it wasâ€"he made a long speech ‘ and then Mr. Phillips gathered up his Ciceronian logic and eloquence and made the speech of his life, thus far. His facts were well' grouped, his logic was fired with a fiery zeal and his rhetoric was finished and he filled. the crowd with enthusiasm. Cut down our 3,016 population? Not much: that tickled the popular heart; Phillips’ bIOWs were hard; straightening up to his full stature he said “Sir, there is one physi- cian in this towu who aids in bringing 100 babies into the world and he is i one of six physicians in this city . and We have not 3.016 inhabitants?" Preposterous, such a burst of elo~ quence was too much for the crowd; they applauded and the mayor : smiled as only a good man can over the prosperity of his own city. ing the water tower were opened Brand Bros. bid $85.00, Maurice Hgod as $75, Wm. J. McKinney $75 and Ed. Ingalls $69 The fire and water committee were given power to act. A railroad gate and watchman were ordered at Lincoln street cross- ing and Mr. Cuahman was made a committee of one to make the North- western do it. At midnight the couneil adjourned. THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. .1 I... NOTES. (A ‘ l The chief critcisim of the evening L was the excess of long speeches. ‘ The NEWS omphasizes this, as it is E a growing evil. In place of two ; gifted speakers in the last council ; we have at least four in this one, I two of whom can pour out rounded, flowing periods like Burke or Pitt. ! When Alderman Cushman arose to make his third or fourth speech on the same subject, his neighbor Jobb quietly suggested that even aldermen Were limited in the number of speeches they could make on the same subject. Some one wisely sug- gested that when the aldermen kept the people there till I] o’clock, ree freshments should be ordered at the aldermen’s expense. Mr. Phillips suggested that the senior alderman from the second ward had “made a bargain." or deal about certain mat~ ters. and the “senior" arose with the old Roman fire in his eye. and pro claimed “1 repudiate any bargain" and the people believed him. and took Mr. Phillips remark as a crook- ed pin in the scluml-master's chair. Mr. Phillips went astray, gave himself and his cause away when in his impassioned flow of forensic om tory he said the real gist or aim of Mr. Cushmun's anti-cenfius report was in knock the legal hasisuut from under the Library appropriation That statement may have been true, but it weakened Mr. Phillips’ case immensely. But no matter the Park has over 3000 inhabitants, don’t you lose sight of that fact. But did not the Scotch fire shine out wnen Col. Davidson straightened up to resist and resent the implied impeachment on his sterling 7â€" Scotch ~ Puritan integrity? Population of Highland Park 3,016, at last quotations. “Father Fessohden” as those who knew him so well familiarly styled him, died Sunday afternoon. He was born in Boston, July 4th. 1812. He married Susan E. Skinner, J an- uary 8th. 1835. His father was a boy of 17 years when, living in Charlestown, he heard the noise of the battle of Bunker Hill, and seizing his flint lock musket, powder horn and bullet pouch he ran across the fields and participated in that histor ic conflict. He was in many ' other battles of the Revolution and died in 1827. Hi3 son, Charles, of whom we write, spent his business life in Bosâ€" ton and New York. For years he was one of the largest ship owners in New England, his clippers sailing every sea, and several of his ships. in oil, hang on the walls of his son’s home here in this city, where he spent his last years amd where he died. He was dining one day with Dr. J ackson, the discoverer of anâ€" msthetics, when he was told how teeth could be pulled without pain. To satisfy himself he had the new med- icine tried on one of his grumbling molars, with marvelous success, as he regarded it. . r. I1 Hen was a gentleman of the old school as we say. and came of a race who believed in good blood, Harvard University, business success and all the virtues which made, for two cen- turies, the ()id New England civili zation the moat potent factor in our national life. His wife died in 1869. after which he spent several years in Europe. and then came here for his last years with his son B. A. Fessen- den. Rector Wolcott conducted the simple but beautiful service Monday evening at Happy-gO-luckie. and the interment was Tuesday in Lake For- est. 1 . If our friends out in West Deer? field who are opposing our high school building have any prepara- tions to make are they go hence, they had better be about, it at once. for we shall bring the nil) of our ad itorial pen to hear on thmn next week, very much as mother used to (in with her sliplwr. CHARLES B.‘ FESSENDEN. mwmwmmwwxmmmm -