Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-26
WATER COMMISSIONERS.

Proce eTings of q Regular Meeting Held
Last Evening-2ne Needs of tte Board.
A regular meeting of the board of water
commissioners was held last evening, with
Mayor Ames IN the chair. There were
present Mayor Ames, Commissioners
Footo. Davis and Brown, Superintendent
Fenion and Engineer Waters.
The superintendent reported that
the $50 lengths of pipe
ordered from Cincinnati had been shipped
and would arrive in day or two. The
matter of laying the same was placed in
charge of the committee on extension.
The money for the same is to be advanced
by property owners benefited. The mat
ter of special rates to the owners of large
mills was referred to the committee which
has charge Of such matters.
The contract of John Burns for excaVat-
ing and cleaning away the debris IN front
of the pumps was approved.
4 warrant for $3.50 was ordered drawn
in favor of Lockwood & Co. for laying
pipes.
The engineer reported that 400 feet Of
pipe had been laid.
for proposals for a fume drsught tube,
gate and excavation for the same for the
new 10000 00-gsllon pump, to be COM
pleted before the upright pumps are re-
moved to the East side station.
An eight-inch main was ordered laid on
Fourth avenue northeast.
A warrant for $4,000 was ordered
drawn in favor of the Milwaukee Railway
company for money advanced the board.
Mayor Ames spoke at length upon the
important object which the board had in
view. He could not understand why the
city council should dole out in driolets the
money which belongs to the board, and
which the board should have all at once.
The whole plans of the board were sub
mitted to meeting Of the council and
general taxpaye rs, and it was approved by
them unanimously IS great public
necessity, and upon this ground the pres
ent law was passed by the legislature. 1t
says that certain proportion of the
money realized from the sale of these
bonds shall be turned over to the water
works fund as fast as realized. Why the
city council should have retained the bulk
or any portion of these moneys realized
for water works purposeS in
the permanent improvement fund
to be dealt out to the water works fund, as
their whim might dictate. the mayor could
not understand. He continued that it is
one of his duties as mayor TO see that The
laws Of the state as we'll as of the city are
duly enforced, and he proposed that unless
this money was placed in the fund desig-
mated by the law, to ask the court for a
nsndamus in order to test the ques-
ton. He said. "We are not
suppliants at the feet of the council in
this matter, as it has already been passed
upon by the people and the Legislature
which is higher power" he spoke of
the necessities of the East side district
which has to rely upon single submerg-
ed main and in case it should burst the
residents, of the East side would be
left to the mercy Of any confagration, and
that upon the report of the chief engineer
of the board, at the next meeting, that the
new 10000, 000g gallon pump would do all
which is claimed for it, he should move for
the immediate construction of another of
the same capacity, to be completed as rap
idly as possible in order that the old
pumps might be placed in operation at the
East side Dumninp station