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Fort Worth, Texas May-6th-1904.
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council
Gentlemen;-
We your committee on Fire Department, to which the Annual Report chief of the Fire Department was refered, would respectfully recommend the building of two new stations, the purchase of a new steamer, and the present force increased by at least additional men, also an extension of the fire alarm system.
We your committee would be derelict in our duty if we did not call the Mayor and Council's attention to the vital necessity of the foregoing improvements, the population of Fort Worth is increasing every day,new buildings are going up daily, as it attested by the books of the City Engineer, and yet our Fire Department is at a standstill, It is true that with the splendid and efficient service given by our present Chief with the handfull of men he has and the scanty equipment furnished him, that we have a regard second to none in the state for our size and population with regards to fire looses,still we should look to the furure not knowing what may happen and give our city full and ample fire protection.
Therefore we ask the City Council to push forward these improvements, knowing the financial condition of the City we cannot ask for all these improvements at once, but recommend that we construct and equip a station in the ninth ward and give the Fire Chief two extra men who can fill the places of the men who have their day off, a driver for the Chief's Buggy, and one man for NO.6.Co. which has only three men at present, making a total of four men appointed at once,
Respectfully submitted, Hw R Parker W H Ward John F Lehane
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JOHN B. HAWLEY, CONSULTING ENGINEER, MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY CIVIL ENGINEERS. MEMBER ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH. CITY ENGINEER, FORT WORTH,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, April 15th 1904. 190
Hon. The Mayor and City Council, City.
Gentlemen;
We your committee on sewers, and City Engineer, to whom was referred the attached petition of Winfied Scott, asking for h relaying a sewer in rear of Metropolitan Hotel, beg leave to recommend that in our judgment the City is not wholly responsible for the bad condition of the existing sewer, although same was never in absolutely first class condition.
The greater part of the trouble has been caused by deep cellar drain in alley, but in petioner.
We therefore recommend that prayer of petioner be granted with following modifications:
That the work be done by Engineer Dept. and that the City stand cost of sewer pipe of propser size. That petioner stand cost of labor.
That the details of said work be referred to Mayor, City Engineer and Chairman of this Comittee, with power to act.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
J. F. Henderson
Committee
John B Hawley City Engineer.
FILED MAY 6 1904 Jno T. Montgomery City Sec'y
5-5-04
This work has been done.
Hawley City Engr
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To T. J. Powell, Mayor of the City of Fort Worth, or Jno.T. Montgomery, City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth:
You will take notice that, on to-wit, March 7th, 9th, 21st and 25th, 1904, the sewer or sewerpipe running through Blk. 114, in said City of Fort Worth, and extending along the rear of Lot 3 in said Blk. 114 and placed there by said City of Fort Worth, and belonging to said City, being too small, or from other defect unknown to the undersigned, caused the basement in the building and premises on said Lot 3 in said Blk. 114, to become overflowed with water, sewerage and sewer filth from said sewer or sewer pipe on each of said days, thereby rotting and decaying the walls in said building in said basement and the groute bottom or floor of said basement, and causing said walls and bottom to become soaked and impregnated with said water, sewerage, and sewer filth, thereby injuring and damaging said walls and bottom of building and premises in the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00); that it has cost the undersigned sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.) to drain said building, and that the overflow of said sewer at each of said time has kept said basement of said building so offensive and unhealthy it is almost impossible for occupants to occupy the building, to his damage in the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.) that he claims all said damages.
The said sewer pipe has caused the basement in said building to be overflowed with sewer water, from time to time, since January 1st, 1903, and will cause said basement to become overflowed and filled with water and sewerage as long as said sewer pipe remains in said condition; that the present condition of said pipe is a menace to said building and lot and to the health of the occupants in said building, and damages said building and premises, by reason of the premises, in the sum of, to-wit, Five Thousand Dollars ($5000.00), which damages the undersigned, J. A. Rogers, makes claim against said City of Fort Worth.
Respectfully submitted, this 28th day of March, A. D. 1904.
J. A. Rogers.
Copy.
I beg to call your attention to the fact that you the City authorties forced your abominable filth into my premise as follows and that notified the City authorities in each case on to wit January 1st Feby 20th March 11th April 6th 7th & 8th May 13th July 12th & 14th Sept 10th Sept 15th Oct 2, Oct 17 1903 Novr 24 & 24th 1903 March 7th 9th 21 21 & 25th 1904