WORKS BOARD SESSION
Proposals for a Pesthouse Site-Ques-
tions for Mr. Parry.

The Board of Works received two sealed proposals yesterday from men who have land they want to sell to the city to be used for the pesthouse site. These proposals will not be opened until Monday when there will no doubt be a number of them as the board has advertised for land to be used for that purpose.

A delegation of citizens living in the neighborhood of the City Hospital called on the board to protest against the pesthouse being located at the City Hospital. One of the delegation also asked the removal of the smallpox patient and that no other patients suffering from that disease be taken there. Chairman Fanning said there had been no site selected. City Attorney Kern requested the board to ask D. M. Parry to answer a few questions before he is granted the privilege to string electric wires in the northern part of the city. Mr. Parry petitioned the board for that right, claiming he owned the franchise of the Jenney Electric Motor Company and wanted to supply residents of the North Side with electric lights. Mr. Kern asks that Mr. Parry tell whether any act was ever performed by the Jenney Company, whether the company is a corporation, and, if so, under what statute it was incorporated; when Mr. Parry became the owner and what proceedings were had to transfer the ownership. He further asks where the company maintains an office and what business it is or was engaged in.

“Works Board Session,” The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), 27 January 1900, p. 3, col. 3-4; digital image, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 6 December 2014).