Source:Thirty-seventh-ward
"Thirty-seventh ward: Formal induction of Brushton into the Greater Pittsburg." Pittsburg Press, Dec. 1, 1894, p. 5. Newspapers.com 141543648.
According to the ordinance adopted by councils the borough of Brushton should have ceased to exist to-day and all its books, obligations and property turned over to the city of Pittsburg. By an arrangement with the city attorney, however, this ceremony has been postponed until next Monday evening, when the Brushton councilmen will meet together officially for the last time.
Controller Gourley will receive the borough property in the city's name. The property consists of a lot on Tioga street valued at $1,800, having thereon a two-story brick council room, fire engine house and bell valued at $3,800; hose cart, hose, hook and ladder truck, babcock extinguisher, etc., $2,500; tools and tool shed, $650; furniture of council room, $250.
In addition there is to be turned over all the borough records, original ordinances, original borough plan and supplemental property and street plans, and the contracts the borough has with the Wilkinsburg Electric Light company and the Pennsylvania Water company. The water contract is for seven years. Under it the borough pays $50 for each fire plug in use. The electric light contract runs for two and one-half years, the borough paying 23 cents for street lamps each night, this being a trifle more than the city pays. The city assumes these contracts, and will probably increase the number of fire plugs and lamps as soon as the new ward is represented in the city councils.
City Engineer Browne is already at work preparing a plan of the sewerage system, and ordinances for the sewers are being prepared for presentation at the meeting of councils when the Thirty-seventh ward members will be sworn in. He has had surveys made, and during the winter will figure on the street grades required. Another matter receiving consideration is the renaming of a number of Brushton streets. Nearly half the present names must be changed, because they are duplicates of names of old streets in the present city. Wood street, for instance, is the principal street in the borough. It would cause a lot of trouble to the postoffice people to have two Wood streets in the city seven miles apart.
