Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-03
st. Paul Feb. %, 1873.


From James King
For permission to move frame building
from corner of Fourth and Minnesota
streets. to Fourteenth street, between &C.
dar and Minnesota streets.
Granted, on condition that the removal
will not obstruct the street railway dur
ing the day.
From D. D. Merrill and others
For the grading of Bates avenue from
Fourth to Plum street.
Committee on Streets.
From Louis Alt
For transfer of liquor license No. l25
to Theodore Miller-same premises.
Committee on License.
From A. P. Monten and others
For permission to erect and maintain
an hospital in block 80 "Como."
Board of Health and City Attorney.
REPORTS OF CITY OFFICERS.
Of City Observation-Disclosures
The Engineer submits estimate No.
and final Fourth ward engine house,
Heathcote, Wisenone & Co. contractors,
81, 457.75.
Committee on Claims.
REPORT OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Estimates
The Board submit the following esti-
mates, viz:
Estimate No. and final, Exchange
street sewer, John Mullen, contractor,
Sos. go.
Estimate No. 4 and final, St. Peter
street sewer, John Mullen, contractor,
$7SO45.
Referred to Committee on Claims.
Also,
L'Orient Street Grade
To the Common Council of the City of st.
Paul:
The Board of Public Works have had under
consideration the resolution or order of the
Common Council, approved March 29th, 1881,
relative to change of grade on Torrent
street, from Glencoe to Minnehaha street,
and having investigated the proposed improve
ment, respectfully report that said improve,
ment is necessary and proper, that the esti-
mated expense thereof is $40 (ten dollars),
that real estate to be assessed therefor can be
found benefited to the extent of the damages,
costs and expenses necessary to be incurred
thereby, that said improvement is not asked
for by petition of majority of the owners
of property to be assessed therefor, but we here
with send plan or profile of said improve
ment, if you desire to make the improve
ment.
JOHN HARRINGTON, President.
r. L. GoRMAN. Clerk Board of Public Works.
October %, 1881.
Adopted, and City Clerk instructed to
give the necessary notice for such change
as is required by law. Yeas 10.
REPORT OF BOARD OF WATER COMMITS
BIISSIoNERs
Gen. H. HI. Sibley, on behalf of the
Board of Water Commissioners, submit
ted and read the following report:
To the Honorable the Common Council of the
City of st Paul:
GENTLEMEN:-The undersigned, appointed
Commissioners by the Honorable Judges of
the district court, in accordance with the act
OF the legislature of Minnesota, approved Feb.
10, 1881, entitled, can act to authorize the
city of st. Paul to purchase the franchises and
creating the Board of Water Commits
sioners,' respectfully report to your honor
able body, SIS follows, to-wit:
The duties of the undersigned, as prescribed
by Section of the said act were, after taking
the required oath, "to inquire into and re.
port as to the efficiency of the general plan
adopted by said water company to supply the
city with water, what plan they would rec
ommend SO as to furnish water to all parts of
the city, and the cost thereof, the oropriety
of the purchase of the st. Paul Water Com.
pany's property and franchises by the city of
St. Paul, and such other facts as the Common
Council may order and direct" In the dis.
y
the undersigned have devoted much time and
investigation to the subject. One of their
number, Joseph P. Frizell, hydraulic engi.
neer and expert, after an examination of the
region embraced in the present system by
himself and either members of the commission
was requested to make an accurate surveythere-
of, taking the levels requisite to determine the
area which could be depended upon for a sup
ply of water at all seasons, from the lakes and
their tributaries, and to estimate the cost of
extending the existing system, so as to include
all outside sources, which could, without ex-
cessive outlay, be connected Herewith He
was also instructed to investigate, and COM
municate to the commission any and all practi-
cable modes of furnishing.every ward of the
city now and prospectively with water. His
report, which is hereby made part of this
report, is appended for your consideration. It
contains an exhaustive presentation OF the
whole subject, with estimates of the cost of
each plan that he regards as feasible, and tab
ulated statements necessary to full under
standing of his premises.
The unde' signed have spared neither time
nor labor in the examination of the report of
Mr.. Frizell, and in obtaining information
from other reliable sources, to enable them to
present to your honorable body, in the form
of recommendation, the plan which, in
their judgment, is the most practicable, and
the least expensive. 1t is proper to mention,
requisite data, and in prosecuting the SURVEYS.
by reason of the unfavorable weather during
the season Of 1881, which greatly retarded OBJ
erations, and by the abnormal condition of the
lakes and streams caused by incessant rains.
which rendered it difficult to calculate the ay
erage volume of the water obtainable from tho
lake system from year to year. The
undersigned, in endeavoring to solve this
grave, and indeed vital problem, have assumed
what they believe to be the minimum of thu
supply that can be relied on In a dry season,
from such facts as could be collected from the
observation and experience of the past
A preliminary report was submitted by Mr..
Frizell, on 9th of October last, and printed
for the use of the commission, which en-
bodied the surveys and estimates made by him
previous to that date; but as it was necessarily
incomplete, it was considered best that the
whole ground should be re.examined, and the
surveys extended so as to embrace every stream
The body of water which could be made tribu-
tary to the lake system. The results have been
highly satisfactory, as will be seen by his
amended report. the favorable weather of the
present winter affordiDg ample opportunity
for accurate field operations.
The undersigned do not regard with favor
he plans suggested by Mr.. Frizell, for sup
plying water to the city from above, and Be.