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Show TtlAY.LOSE ' j City Authorities Are Excr-: Excr-: clscd Orcr Water Bonds i Situation. , j Trouble Is brewing in the City Council Coun-cil over the $1,000,000 sewer and water f bond Issue. A " special meeting " was called, last evening, by . Mayor Morrla i to dip tss the situation, caused by the i Mutiiaf Life Insurance '' company ' of ' New York City, declining to take the i ' " bonds as bid for. As a quorum" was not . present the meeting adjourned untU , . this evening. J "v5 ; -.. " r I It was suggested at the meeting that Mayor Morris and City Attorney Dey , go to New York and confer with the , insurance company. Attorney Dey t ' declares that he -would rather be ex-cused ex-cused and that Mayor Morris and At-' At-' . torney F. S. Richards should be sent. -The options on water secured by the ( ! city expires July L ' Should work on the I new water system be delayed beyond that date the options will be lost. . "If you let these options pass you will encounter.a great deal of trouble. The whole proposition is gone unless something some-thing Is done. It looks to me as If something, some-thing, ought to be done at once." Such was the warning f Mr. Richards who secured many. of the options for the city, - He urged that Immediate steps be taken to Insure the water system. The matter will again be taken hp by i the. Council members tonight. Those present at the -meeting last night were: 1 Mayor " Morris. F. 8. Richards. City - Attorney Dey, Assistant City Attorney ; Bramel and Councilmen Wells, Hart-ensteln. Hart-ensteln. . Tuddenham. ' Preece, Martin and Barnes.. . , , , ; '. ' ; . . SHBSMBBBBaBHSBBSlBBBSlBMSBSBMaBSlBBBBBBBBSBBMaaBaS |