Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-22

dimensions and material:
q inch brick ....................41 AS lin. it.
a inch brick .....................2,S 500 "
20 inch brick. .......... ,296
10 inch Whitfield pipe. ............. 65l
10 men cement. .:.-......'....... loL
IL inch yitfltied pipe. sos
II men cement pipe. .'l,3oS
8 inch yitrified pipe. ............ ITO 1"
Sandrock brick lined large invert. 1 1896 -"
Saudrock brick fined small invert 2 ,476 "
Schedule 3 shows in detail the entire
work of the year.
During the year 1873 the city first COM
menced to build sewers according to sys-
TEN and proper plan. Since that time
there have been constructed 126 miles of
sewers, all of which are in good condition
and under proper supervision. Schedule
@ shows the total length, size and mater
ial of these sewers, also the amount con-
structed each year.
In addition to these sewers there are
about two miles of old sandrock sewers
or cessposl Us built previously to 1873, but
as the preliminary estimates are already
before YOU for the reconstruction of the
greater portion, l will not go into the de-
tails of their filthy and dangerous condi-
ton, and will only express the hope that
in another year they may be numbered
among the evils that were.
HOUSE CONNECTION.
There have been issued during the year
l23 permits to tap sewers for house con-
nection.
Plans showing location and proper ven
tilation have in all cases been filed with
the sewer department. The necessity of
having the sewerage of buildings perfect
in every detail cannot be over estimated.
Defective sewerage is more dangerous
and fatal than unsafe walls or imperfect
fire escapes, and in framing our building
ordinances would suggest that rigid
inspection of the drainage be required.
WORK ORDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
Besides the work on streets and sewers
above mentioned, all Of which has been
paid by assessment made by the Board of
Public W orks on the property benefited,
there has been a large amount of work
ordered by the Common Council for
which no assessment was made. The
total amo unit expended for this work was
$26, 1857. ca. OF this sum $40, AS. was
for fire cisterns, 81, 7S3. rs for drainage of
the market house, and S2,O7S5O
for repairs on bridges
Schedule D shows this work in detail.
ST Rect AND SEWER FORCE.
Since March, 1881, the Street and Sewer
force have been under the general direc-
ton of the City Engineer.
All work done has been under the d.
rect supervision of Street Inspectors G. G.
Casey for the Lower district, NJ. Lux of
the Upper district and Sewer Inspector F
Mcguire, all of whom l have found
prompt and efficient in the discharge of
their duties. During the early part of
the season an effort was made to improve
the condit ton of our streets, but after the
long continued rainy season was fully in
augurated, but little could be done except
on the paved streets, and nothing was at
tempted further than to keep them from
becoming impossible or dangerous
Many of our outlying streets with steep
grades, such as Valley, Broadway, Ohio.
Willius, St. Paul, and the Hastings, Pigs
Eye, German and Dodd roads, required
constant repairs after every heavy rain.
Schedule E, shows by wards the cost of
the labor and material for work done by
this force
The total amount is $2S, 101 A, of which
$3,771.75 was for lumber used in the con-
structlon and repairs of crosswalks (ef
which there have been 181 new ones put
down and twice that number repaired)
repairs of sidewalks and planking on
DTIuSCS' l. LIS ditlOunb dlSO lnCIuOoS
building the foundation for the new
fountain, laying the water and drain pipe
and constructing the walks in Irvine
park; ais 10 setting curbs, gutter and flag
stones about the Market House and large
amount of similar work usually done by
contract.
Recapitulation of the work done during
the year, ending December 81, 1881:
Street contracts. Sol, 746 90
Sewer contracts. . az, 443 As
Sidewalk contracts. $500 . 81, 051 rs
Work ordered by Common Council. 26,337 81
Work done by street. and sewer force. %, 101 A
Total. .S179, $50 81
CORNICEs
The limestone cornices on the walls of
many buildings were examined last spring
pronounced unsafe and ordered removed.
The majority Of the owners of these
buildings have complied with the orders.
and in ev cry case, from my own observa-
ton and the testimony of others, the