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Show uu MBS. WM. STEVENS TD SUPERVISE IN OiE OF TRE PARKS This morning the city board of commissioners com-missioners directed the city recorder to advertiso for bids on a safe to bo bold by the city. Chief of Police Thomas E. Browning Brown-ing was given leave of absence to attend tho convention of the International Interna-tional Association of Chiefs of Police in Newark, N. J., Juno 6 to 9, inclusive. inclu-sive. The city will pay the expenses of tho trip. k airs. William Stevens was appointed appoint-ed supervisor of playgrounds In Liberty Lib-erty park, at a salary of $50 a month. A resolution giving notice of inton-tlon inton-tlon to pavo Van Buren avenue, between be-tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth Twenty-sixth streets, was ordered published. Last evening tho board voted to pay W. G. Wilson $500 for release of a per petual right to a water tap connected con-nected with the city water main at the Hermitage and relinquishment of a fire hydrant at the Wilson sawmill site. On the recommendation of Commissioner Commis-sioner Miles L. Jones, potitlons were granted for water main extensions on Thirtieth street, east from Jackson avenue: on Harrison avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-fourth streets; on Twenty-sixth street between be-tween Harrison and Tyler avenues, and on Thirtieth street between Washington and Grant avenues. It was voted, on Mr. Jones' recommendation, recom-mendation, that campers In Ogden canyon be permitted to connect with the city water main, the water rental to be $3.50 a season for each tap. Campers will be required to comply with sprinkling. regulations, if water is need for that purpose. The campers camp-ers will be required to pay all expense of making connections. The petition of property owners for curb and gutter Improvement on Twenty-third street, between Madison and Monroo avenues, was referred to the superintendent of streots, as was also the petition for graveling and grading East Fourth street |