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John Bremond House built in 1886 Austin Texas

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Telephone Office Moved - Grand Masked Ball - A Deserving Case - Valuable Presents - Secured Considerable Plunder

29 DEC 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

CITY MATTERS IN BRIEF.

The general telephone office has been moved to the Hancock building, up stairs. It was formerly in the Brueggerhoff building.

The preparations are now complete for the grand masked ball of the Austin Athletic Association, and if the weather is favorable, the event will be one of the most successful, from a social standpoint, of anything held in this city for a long time past.

Mr. Andrew V. Gustafson, of 605 East Bois d’Arc street, has been very unfortunate, and deserves help at the hands of our citizens. He has been paralyzed in the lower part of his body from the hips down, and is rendered helpless to make a living, and is without any means of support. We are satisfied his case is a most deserving one.

Mr. P.W. Barton and Miss Mary A. Young, colored, of this city, were married Thursday night, December 27, at 8 o’clock p.m., at the residence of the bride, Elder Swan officiating. Many valuable presents were received by the newly married couple. Among these were several from Mr. John Bremond, in whose store Barton has been employed as porter for sixteen years. The gifts presented by Mr. Bremond were one fine clock, one lamp and one chamber set. These, with the others presented by many friends, are estimated to be worth between $125 and $150.

Robbery.

Last night, or in the early hours of this morning burglars entered the saloon of Mr. John B. Neff and secured considerable plunder. The manner in which the burglary was committed was as follows: There is a flight of stairs leading into an upper room just at the side of the saloon, and at the foot of these stairs is a door cut through the partition into the saloon. The thief secreted himself in the stairway while the saloon and outside door to the stairway were being closed, and then, cutting the tin which was used instead of glass in the windows of the door leading to the saloon, he reached through the opening thus made, and slipping back the bolt that fastened the door, he opened the latter and walked in. He first went to the cigar stand in front of the saloon and took out several boxes of cigars. There is a door behind the bar, shutting out the forward part of the space behind the bar from the main part in the rear. The thief closed this door, and then went to the rear of the bar, where the money drawer is, opened it and took the contents. Next he turned his attention to an iron box which was riveted to a plank near the money drawer and in which the receipts which are taken in at night after the safe in locked, are kept. This, by means of a hatchet, he succeeded in tearing from the plank and carried it off with him. The total amount of his plunder amounted to eighty-eight dollars and drink checks amounting to about twelve more. During the entire time taken in consummating the robbery the lights were brightly burning, the thief being secured from view by the closed door behind the bar. As the police have been repeatedly notified that whenever this door was closed something must be wrong. The question arises, where was the patrolman? This is the second time the Iron Front has been burglarized in the same manner in a year. The new detective agency should be welcomed with delight in view of the large number of burglaries which have been perpetrated and not been detected of late.

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Baths Opened - Track Laying - Opera House Improvement - Electric Light Subscriptions - Bremonds Wares - Hauling For Hire

2 APR 1882. Austin Daily Statesman.

LOCAL BREVITIES.

The streets presented a very lively appearance yesterday.

The bath houses opened yesterday for the summer campaign.

Complaints are heard nearly every day of promiscuous pistol shooting in the first ward.

Track laying on the Austin & Northwestern is progressing at the rate of one and a half miles per day.

Millet’s opera house, as now fixed up, is quite an improvement, for legislative purposes, on the old capitol.

Everybody tried to April fool everybody else yesterday.  The worst “fooled” fellows were the bill collectors.

The subscription lists for lighting the streets will be out today.  Let every man who loves light better than darkness subscribe.

Mr. John Bremond, in order to accommodate his large and constantly increasing business, is having erected a new ware room, 24 x 120 feet.  He has Andrew’s ware room also filled with goods.

 Levi Green and S. C. Moore, two colored troopers, desired to earn a penny or two by hauling for hire, and, forgetting to secure a city permit to do so, officer Oberwetter took them in, and tomorrow they will be interviewed by the mayor.

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A Number of Strangers - Few Shamrocks - Last Hop - Fined $5 - Bremond Not A Candidate - Difficulty Near Depot

18 MAR 1882. Austin Daily Statesman.

SIDEWALK NOTES.

Quite a number of strangers in the city yesterday.

Farmers complain that the black land is still too wet to plow.

St. Patrick’s day went by almost unnoticed yesterday.  Even the traditional shamrock found but very few wearers.

The last hop given by the C. W. Y. P. club was at the residence of Mr. R. T. Campbell, complimentary to MIss Della.

Mayor’s Court.

Present -- Hon. W. A. Saylor, mayor; Newt. S. Walton, attorney; T. L. Purnell, clerk.

The city vs. J. Finny, fighting; fined $5.00 and costs.

The city vs. George Foxberger, assault on his school teacher; fined $5.00 and costs.

The city vs. John Robinson, gaming; fined $5.00 and costs.

The city vs. Alf Morris, gaming; fined $5.00 and costs.  

The city vs. Chas. Tisen, assault on his wife, fined $5.00 and costs.

Will Not be a Candidate.

We are requested to announce that John Bremond will not be a candidate for re-election as chief of the Austin fire department under any circumstances.

WHILE RESISTING ARREST.  Green Penn is Struck by an Officer and Gets Badly Hurt.

A difficulty occurred yesterday between two colored men, named, respectively, Green Penn and Uncle Josh, the latter being quite old.  A dispute arose between them, about some matter, which ended in blows, Penn knocking the old man down.  Deputy Sheriff Faris arrived upon the spot and attempted to arrest Penn, who resisted the officer to such a degree that Faris was compelled to draw his six shooter and strike him.  In doing so Penn received a severe blow, which cut a gash over his left eye about three inches long.  After this he gave up. Dr. M. A. Taylor was called and rendered the necessary medical assistance.  Penn will have a hearing today.  The difficulty occurred near the International railroad depot.

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Firemen Make Their Case

12 MAR 1882. Austin Daily Statesman.

THE FIREMEN WIN.  MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.  The Abolition Ordinance Reconsidered and then Killed -- A More Liberal Policy to be Pursued.

The city council met again in called session last night.  Mayor Saylor in the chair, and a quorum of the aldermen being present.

The mayor said that he had called the council together for the consideration of matters pertaining to the fire department, and such other matters as may come before the council.

There were present, upon the part of the fire department, Chief Bremond, Assistant Chief Ziller, Recorder Goldbeck, Foremen Monroe Miller, Wilhelm, Chenneville, Hoffheintz, George Brush, and several "actives."  In order to brin the subject properly before the meeting, Alderman Radkey moved a reconsideration of the ordinance.

Alderman Platt opposed the motion, speaking at some length to sustain his position. 

Alderman Brueggerhoff then addressed the council, as he said, to place himself right on the record and before the council, to which he was alone responsible.  He then gave a detailed statement of his actions previous to the passage of the ordinance above reconsidered.  From the statement made by the alderman, it would appear that a wide discrepancy exists between statements made at the firemen's meeting, Friday night, and that indulged in by the speaker.  He was succinct and positive in saying that he has consulted with some of the officers of the fire department, and that they had coincided to some extent, with the views he had expressed to them.  He gave strong reasons why the ordinance should again pass.  He would not question the correctness of the report of the firemen's meeting, nor criticize the action of any one present.

At the suggestion of Alderman Radkey, members of the fire department present were invited to discuss the question before the meeting.

Chief Bremond indulged in a few pertinent remarks.

He was followed by Alderman Brueggerhoff, who again argued strongly in favor of the passage of the abolition ordinance.

Foreman Miller made a brief statement with reference to Washington's hose cart.

Alderman Kinney spoke, briefly and to the point.  He was prepared to carry out in good faith the determination of the caucus meeting of the aldermen; give to fire department say $4000 per year -- one-half of last year's expenses.

Alderman Cook was prepared to coincide with Alderman Kinney, and would stand on that proposition.  He would vote to give the department half of what it got last year, and trust to them to say wherein that money shall be expended.

Alderman Kinney supplemented his remarks by saying that he had, in company with the mayor, made some estimates for this fiscal year, and upon that estimate he found that $4300 could be spared for the fire department.

Alderman Brueggerhoff styled this, "a scheme," and hoped it would not become an ordinance.  He could not -- would not -- vote for any such extravagance.

Mayor Saylor addressed the council, and his remarks were pertinent to the occasion.

A business sort of colloquy was indulged in by Chief Bremond, Foreman Miller, the mayor, Alderman Brueggerhoff, and Huppertz, Foreman Hoffheintz, and others, after which Alderman Cook moved that the ordinance be laid on the table. The motion not meeting a second, Alderman Raderman Radkey offered, as a substitute, an ordinance to limit appropriations for the expense of the fire department.  The ordinance provides for the appropriation of three hundred and seventy-five dollars per month from March to November, 1882, and is to include and pay for all expenses of the department, save only the water supply. 

The substitute was lost for want of a two-thirds vote, Alderman Brueggerhoff and Platt voting no.

A motion to adjourn was lost.

On motion of Alderman Kinney, the enacting clause of the Brueggerhoff ordinance was stricken out, whereupon Alderman Radkey offered his ordinance, above mentioned, as an original proposition.  This was referred to the ordinance committee for perfection.