Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-19
CITY GOVERNMENT.

Recommendation Of the Mayor and Pro-
posed Ordinance Against Carrying Con-
ceaIed Weapons-Report of the Board of
Water Commissioners-Change Of Grade
Street Extensions, etc.
A regular meeting of the council was held
at 7:S0 last evening, ten members answering
the roll call.
CONCEALED WEAPONS.
A communication was received from the
mayor, calling attention to the evil results
from the practice of carrying concealed wea-
pons, accompanied by the draft of an ordinance
prohibiting such practice, and providing penal
ties for violation OF the ordinance. The ordi-
nance designates pistols, knives, slung shots,
etc., as the prohibited weapons. 1t gives the
mayor the right to grant and make licenses
Tor carrying such weapons.
The ordinance was read and referred to the
committee on ordinance.
M'MAHoN's COW.
A communication was received from the
mayor reciting the proceedings which had
been had in reference to Officer Mcmahon and
his COW, for which Mcmahon had been sus-
pended from the 9th day of September to the
9th day of December.
Referred to the committee on police.
communication was read from the mayor
enclosing telegram from w. D. Daniels,
grand secretary of the railway conductors
association, announcing that st. Paul had
been selected for the next annual meeting.
A recommendation of the mayor that Rice
park be filled to the grade of the sidewalk
| from the street cleanings, without extra cost,
so as to be ready for sodding early in the
spring, was referred to the committee on
parks with power to act.
The mayor reported that he had revoked
| the liquor license of Andrew Burnside, at st.
Paul Junction, Westminster street. Action
| endorsed.
The mayor called attention to the miserable
condition of the sidewalks about the city
| building and recommended their prompt re-
building.
WATER COMMISSIONERS.
| Gen. Fl. H. Sbley, on behalf of the water
and submitted a report. Gen. sibley said the
work had been greatly retarded by the unfa-
vorable weather. The report is as follows:
| "rhe board of water commissioners deem
| it proper to state to the honorable
| the common council. the present
sstatus of their operations. Notwith-
| standing the very unfavorable weather
| which has necessarily retarded the work, the
| lake region tributary to the present system has
| been thoroughly explored, the levels of the
| watershed taken as far as Forest Lake, and
| the practicability of turning certain small
streams in this direction approximately as
| certained. full report will be prepared and
| submitted to your honorable body as soon as
possible, which will contain all the facts that
can be collected, and the conclusions at which
| the board will arrive.
The board respectfully suggests to your
honorable body that application be made to
| the legislature SO to change the authority to
| issue bonds, if sanctioned by the popular vote.
as to increase the amount to million and a
half, the bonds to be issued made applicable
| to any system that may, in the judgment of
| the city authorities, be the most feasible and
economical in securing an ample supply OF
| water to all parts of the city.
| The work is not yet sufficiently advanced to
| Justify the board in coming to conclusion as
| to the best -plan to be recommended to your
honorable body, but enough has been learned
| to convince the board that the sum now au-
| water to the inhabitants of the city, no matter
| what system may be adopted.
| The board deems this subject to be of so
| much immediate Importance, that 1t respect
| fully urges upon your honorable body such
speedy action as will insure the proper legisla-
| ton during the present session of the iegisla-
| ture."
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| was referred to the city attorney and Aldermen
| Griggs, Cornish, Starkey, Trott and Allen, as
a committee to secure the proposed legislation.
| REPORTS.
The report of the committee upon the petit
ton of the Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis 81
Omaha railway, for the passage of the ordi-
nance comforting certain rights upon the COM
pany upon certain streets, the committee rec
| 1os6 f,1
the next meeting.
| The report of the committee on ways and
means, adverse to voting $1,000 aid to the
| Michigan sufferers, was cOncurred in.
| The report of the committee recommending
contract with Robert Seiger to succeed to the
H. s. Saroni contract for lighting the city with
| gasoline oil, was converted in, and the city at
torney was instructed to prepare contract
| The city attorney was instructed to make a
contract with Frank Welzbacher for the
leasing OF Como Park at $3.50 per year.
The board OF public works was instructed
| to open and extend Fauquire street sixty feet
wide from Mendoza street to Forest street.
| The award of the contract to Simar & Nor
ton for grading Lafayette avenue, was con-
| firmed.
An order in favor of the almshouse for $3.50
was directed to be drawn.
| The market master reported receipts OF
S370. so during September.
| An ordinance changing the name of Green
street to Garfield street was passed.
| 1t was resolved that the competitive trial of
steam fire engines to be furnished the city, be
| postponed TO November 16.
OPENING AND EXTENDING STREETS.
The board OF public works were instructed
to investigate and report upon the opening
and extending Minnehaha street from Dale
street west to the city limits; Chatsworth
street from University avenue northward. to
the right of way of the st. Paul 81 Manitoba
railroad, of Thomas street from
Dale street west to the city limits; of
Victoria street from University avenue north
ward to the right of way of the st. Paul and
Manitoba railroad.
CHANGES OF GRADE.
The city clerk was directed to give notice of
the time and place when the council will con-
slider proposed changes of grade on the fol-
lowing streets Rosabel street, from
Third street to the Union depot; Wacouta
street, from Third street to the Union
depot; ON Valley street from Jackson street to
Fairvlew street; on Broadway street from
Third street to the Union depot; on Pennsyl.
vania avenue from Columbia to Mississippi
stseets.
Adjourned.
Big Failure.