Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-17
THE CITY coUNoIL

| 1HE VII OOONVAA
A Good Deal Of Work Cut out for the
Board OF Public Worlss-Twelve Police
mon to be Appointed.
The city council held regular meeting
last evening, and transacted the following
business
CONTRACTS CONFIRMED.
The following contracts made by the board
Of public works were confirmed
Awarding to A. j. Cooper the contract for
constructing sewer on st. Paul street; to
Simar & Morton the contract for grading
Westminster street, from Lafayette avenue to
Whitehall street; to John CIonan the contract
for grading University avenue from Dale
street to the west city limits.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The board was directed to do the following
work:
To grade Sherman street from Fort street to
Pleasant avenue; to grade Dale street from
Summit avenue to Pleasant avenue; to open
and extend Eighth street from Cedar to
Wabashaw street. condemning and taking all
that part of lots 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6, and II, OF
block ID, st. Paul proper, lying within the
lines of Eighth street, in Robert
& Randa!l's addition produced to
Wabashaw street; to construct q
sewer on Third street, from Pleasant avenue
to Summit avenue; to grade Maiden Lane
through block seventy-one, Dayton d lryine's
addition from Nina avenue to Selby avenue;
to change the grade of Seventh street from
Kittson to Wab4shaw streets, Hoffman avenue
from Sixth to Seventh street, Maria avenue
from Sixth to Eighth streets, Hope street
from Sixth to Seventh street, Margaret street
from Arcade to Greenbrier street, Beech
street from Arcade to Mendoza street, Brad
ley street from Woodward street
to the south line of blocks
tend Cayuga street, from the end OF Cayuga
street in E. Rice's second addition to Missis
sippi street; to grade, macadamize or open the
roadway under the Fourth street viaduct, the
cost not to exceed $500.
The board was directed to investigate and
report In regard to the stagnant water ON lot
Q, block 4, Hopkins addition, on Third street,
near Wacouta street; as to the grading of
Kent street, from Marshall avenue to Summit
avenue; IS to opening and extending Burr
street, from Nellie street to Magnolia street;
as to grading Sherman street, from Pleasant
avenue to the bluff, and Oak street, from Third
street to Ramsey street; as to grading Dale
street, from Summit avenue to Marshall
avenue; as to grading Dakota avenue, from
the bridge over.the Mississippi river to the
city limits, to width of sixty feet; as to a
change of grade on Robert street, from
Aurora avenue to Thirteenth street.
COMMITTEES ON STREETS.
The following matters were referred to the
committee on streets:
The application Of W. F. Davidson to move
two buildings.
The application of N. Anderson and Others
to have Agate street graded.
The request of the express men to be re-
turned to Wabashaw street.
The matter of sewer on.Rondo street from
Western avenue to the Rice street sewer.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The city treasurer, George Refs, gave bond
for 100000, with Chris. Stahlman, Thomas
Erd, Peter Kerst and Geo. Mitsch as securities,
which was referred to the committee on ways
and means.
j. P. Allen was authorized 10 erect build
ing OH Market square for the use of persons
desiring to make an exhibition of drugs, man.
ufactured chemicals, during the session Of the
American Medical association, to be removed
within forty eight hours after the adjourn
ment of the association.
The market sheds are to be removed from
Cedar street to the north side of Market
square, north of the Market house.
An order for $248 is to be drawn in favor of
Barney Allen, for digging a man named
Sprir ger out of the we'll on Dayton's bluff.
The police force Is to be increased twelve
men, aud the committee on police was given
further time to consider the matter of adj
ditional police stations in different parts of
che city.
An ordinance in regard to impounding cat
tie and other animals was adopted.
- The chief Of police Is to notify the owners
to remove the frame building on Second street,
near Jackson street.
The chief OF police is t0remove Instructions
from Goodrich avenue.
The mayor was authorized to appoint
twelve policemen.
R4nsom's, Constants, Tweedy & Smyth's
additions, and Payte & McElrath's rearrange-
ment of lots in block Is, OF Ashton q Sher-
burns addition, were accepted.
The board of public works reported favor
ably in regard to change of grade ON Kent
street and Portland avenue.
The communication of the American Ex-
press company, complaining Of the condition
ferred to the committee on streets.
Alderman Ringwald rose to personal ex-
PLANTATION and stated that the GLOBE had
made some severe structures upon him and
that he desired to have the council examine
into Them. He asked that a committee of
three be appointed to make the investigations,
but several of the members expressing the
idea that they could not see that there was
any occasion for such an investigation, the
alderman withdrew his motion and the coun-
Gil adjourned till p. m. Tuesday, June 6.