Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-08

addition and Park avenue on Aurora avenue.
Recommended that the prayer OF the petition
efs be granted, and submit herewith a profile
and resolution to carry out said recommended
ton.
Adopted.
Your committee return herewith the pro-
test of H. Hale and seventeen others protest
ing against the grade of Mt. Airy street and
Broadway with communication from the
City Engineer, showing conclusively that the
petitiones were in error In assuming that there
had been change of grade on Mt Airy and
Broadway. Your committee recommend that
the communication OF the City Engineer be
published, and that the protest be laid upon
the table.
Adopted.
On the petition of Thomas Mitchell, to re-
move frame building from the corner
OF Ninth and Wabashaw street to corner of
Aurora and Western avenue. Recommend
that Mr.. Mitchell have permission, but that
he must not Interfere with or discommode the
81. Paul CT ty Rrailway company any more
than possible when moving the same on
streets upon which the tracks Of said compa.
ny are laid.
Adopted.
On the preliminary order to the Board of
Public Works in the matter of grading Michi-
gan street from Western avenue to Richmond
street.
Your committee recommend that it do not
pass for the reason that Michigan
street from Western avenue to Richmond
street is but half width, and as to that the
| grade has not been established.
Recommitted to committee with request that
parties interested be notified to appear before
Them and be heard in the matter.
Also,
| On the petition of Joseph Hoag and others
| for the grading of Douglas, Forbes, Beach and
other streets, and the report of the Board of
Public Works in regard to the same matter,
your committee recommend that the same be
postponed for the present.. for the reason that
proceedings are being had for change of
grade, and until that has been completed the
council has no authority to order said grading.
| Adopted.
| Also.
On the petition of John Butler, contractor
| for the construction of sewer on seventh
street, from Broadway to within fifty feet of
| Jackson street, asking that the Common
| Council take the necessary steps to remove out
of the contractors way certain gas pipe which
he finds in the line of the sewer.
| Your committee report adverse to the prayer
of Mr.. Buffers petition, as his contract pro-
| vides that "The contractor shall be required to
sustain by timbers and sufficient chains all
water or gas pipes which may in any way be
effected by the work, and do everything neces
sarY to support and sustain said water or gas
| pipes laid along or across said street. In case
| any of the said water or gas pipes shall be
damaged, they shall be repaired by the au-
| thorities having control of the same, and the
expense of said repair shall be deducted from
the amount due the contractor on his final es
| innate"
Adopted.
Also,
On the petition of Gus. Moline, asking re-
| lief in the matter of the construction of a
sewer on Pleasant avenue, from Third to Sixth
street.
| Your committee recommend no action, as
Mr.. Moline has never executed any contract
for the construction of sewer on Pleasant
street, and if he had, one of the conditions
would have been, that the contract must oe
completed without regard to rock formation
or any other such unforeseen obstacle as claim
ed by Moline.
Adopted.
On the petition of John Clonan for per-
mission 10 grade Cherry street for the rock.
Report adverse to granting Mr.. Conan's re-
quest
Heretofore permission has been given by
the Common Council in similar cases to the
one asked for by Mr.. Clonan. but never has
there been single case, as far as has come to
the knowledge of your Committee, where the
outcome has been satisfactory. The con-
tractor will clean the street of the rock, and
in the end it costs more to grade the street
than it would In the first place.
And as the City engineer, by the city legis-
lation of last winter, is specially charged with
the care and supervision of the streets, he
should take good care that the stone, in the
public streets, is not dug up and appropriated
to private use without authority from the
Common Council.
Adopted.
On the application of the proprietors of
Dewey, Drake and Pence's addition to st. Pau,
for its acceptance by the Common Council
Your committee report adverse, for the iea-
son that the propretors do not plat on said
map the old Territorial road, which runs
through part of the land plated, and is as
much of public street as any of the streets
of the city, and until such times as the city
shall indicate that the same be vacated, no
plat should be accepted which does not recog-
ize it.
Adopted.
On the petition of j. P. Gribben and R. P.
Lewis asking for TIE vacation of an alley,
lying between block 1, of Hills addition to
st. Paul, and right away of the st. Paul s.
Taylors Falls railroad.
Your committee report against the PROPOSE
ton to vacate, for the reason that the vacation
of said alley would close up the only public
highway between said addition and the track
| of the said railroad company.
Adopted.
On the communication of l.. W. Rnndlett,
City Engineer, in regard to the condition of
Rice street, and as to said street being now in
a satisfactory condition. Your committee re-
ported that in addition to what the City En-
| fLa Gu
perintendent of the st. Paul City Railway COM
pany that he is putting said street in good re-
pair. They are therefore of the opinion that
no further action for the present is necessary
| in the matter.
Adopted.
! On the petition of Gustave Leue and others,
| protesting against the construction of sewer
| on Wilkin street.
| The ,Committee report that since the presen-
tation of said petition to the Common Council
| the Board of Public Works, in response to a
request of the Council, have returned to the
| Council the order to the Board In reference to
said improvement, which was laid upon the
table.
Accepted, and City Clerk requested to send
| the papers in reference thereto to the Alder
| man of the ward.
| Also,
| On the protest of j.. 8. Burris and others
| against the construction of sewer on lglc-
| hart street. Your committee recommend
that said protest be referred to the Alderman
of the precinct in which said sewer is to be To-
| Gated.
| Adopted.
Also.
On the petition of F. Steinhard in regard TO
| the location of street in the Sixth ward.
| The committee recommend that it be refer
red TO the City Attorney.
Adopted.
| Also,
On the resolution of Aid. Allen in regard to
| the manner the streets are sprinkled, and the
| petition of Graves asking for the removal Of
certain distractions in Cayuga street in tue