Council Proceedings: March 1, 1908

J. M. STEWART C. C. LITER J. M. STEWART TRANSFER CO. HOUSES, SAFES AND HEAVY MACHINERY MOVED 112 WEST FRONT STREET

NEW PHONE 125 OLD PHONE 357

FORT WORTH, TEXAS Mar.9,1908

William Estes Esqr. City Secy.

Dear Sir:-

You are holding $96.15 due us for drayage, claiming as a reason therefor that we owe the city $53.03 for taxes for the year which was assessed against our personal property.

Now if we owe the city this tax we are perfectly willing to pay it but the property being kept outside of the city,and the homes of the proprietors being outside of the city most certainly exempt this property from a city tax.However we are willing to pay the tax if we owe it,but we do feel that we should be asked to pay a tax that we do not owe and we feel that you are doing us an injustice by holding our money that is past due,awaiting a decision by the city attourney,when the delay is no fault of ours.We feel that you should give us a decision at oncde or surrender our warrants.

Yours truly, J.M.Stewart Transfer & Storage Co.

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Fort Worth, Texas, March 9, 1908.

To the Honorable Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Fort Worth, Texas.

Gentlemen:

By this present I come before your Honorable body once more to beg for a new and larger sewer in the alley between Main and Houston Streets, and between 14th and 15th Streets. Said sewer being an old one and too small to carry out the refuse and hereby conjesting now and then and discharge its nasty contents in the basement of my new building, corner of 14th and Houston Streets. I have frequently reported this matter to the City Engineer, also petitioned your Honorable body of the fact, but up to now nothing has been done in the premises.

Now the large new hotel of Winfield Scott's on Front Street will soon be finished and will be connected with same sewer, which will make matters worse. No later than last Tuesday the said sewer got stopped up as usual and discharged its contents in the basement of my building doing considerable damage to the walls, to say nothing of the nuisance it creates by the filthy water from said sewer.

Now then, as a citizen and taxpayer I again beg your Honorable body to look into this matter as early as possible, and oblige,

Yours very truly,

G. D. Lewis

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Fort Wayn Ind. March 7, 08.

J. J. Nunnally Esq. Fort Worth Texas

Dear Sir:-I am putting in my application for a position with the local electric light co. If the consideration of applicants does not come under you I wish you would hand this to the City Clerk.

I am twenty four, single absolute abstainer and am at present employed by the Fort Wayne Electric Works.

My experience began as an electrician in the Navy after which I took a special course in Electrical Engineering at the Bliss Electrical School in Washington, D. C. I then came here and took the electrical apprenticeship course through the