Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-17

provided for, the best way would be to
furnish the additional money. The matter,
the attorney thought, should take more
speedy course than the one proposed.
Aid. Dowlan thought something should be
done to allow the work to go ahead.
Mr.. Murray suggested that arrange
ments be made for the contractor to go
ahead and work out the $65, 900 and then
make arrangements for the balance. The
contract can be modified to this extent.
Aid. Otis asked if Mr.. O'Brien, the con-
tractor, would agree to this, and was an
swered affirmativly by Aid. Dowlan.
The city engineer, Mr.. Somers, said all
the prices for each item of the work were
separated, and there would be no difficulty
at all in doing part of the work at one
time and the rest separately.
Mr.. Murray prepared a resolution en-
bodying the proposition to do SO much OF
the work as would bring the sum within
the amount appropriated by the legislature,
and Mr.. O'Brien, who was in the council
chamber, was asked if he would agree to it
and he said he would. Mr.. Murray's reso-
luton was then put and carried unsni-
mously, and the communication from Mr..
Roche was referred to the board of public
works to have the contract modified as
above indicated.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
This board was directed to have the fol-
lowing work done: To grade Fuller street
from Rice street to Ravaux street; to grade
Sherman street from Pleasant avenue to
Fort street, now Seventh street; to con-
struct a sewer on St. Peter street from
Martin street to Summit avenue, together
with the necessary catch basins; to grade
st. Peter street from Martin street to
Summit avenue.
The same board was directed to investi-
gate and report az to grading Smelling
avenue from Stewart avenue to Seventh
street, as to paving and curbing with
granite Third street from Sibley street to
Seventh street or the Seven Corners, so
called.
EXTENDING TIE FIRE LIMITS.
The committee from the board of edu-
cation appeared before the council and
represented that planning mill was about
to be erected on Tenth street near the high
school building, and asked the council to
extend the fire limits so as to include the
property around that building. 1t was
suggested that the capitol building ought
to be protected in the same way. The
matter was referred to Mr.. Murray and
Alderman Otis, who retired and soon after
reported an ordinance extending the fire
| limits as follows and the same was
adopted:
Commencing at the intersection of
Ninth and Jackson streets, thence northerly
on the east side of jackson street to the
hortherly side of Eleventh street, to the
easterly side of Cedar street, northerly to
the noltherly side of College avenue
thence along the northerlY side of College
avenue to the easterly side of Wabashaw
street, thence along the westerly side of
W4bashaw street to the northerly side of
Ninth street, thence along The northerly
side of Ninth street Of place of beginning.
JUDGES OF ELECTION.
The following were selected as judges of
election:
First ward, first precinct-Edward Schur-
meier, Il Milham and o Nelson.
| First ward, second precinct-John DOwlan, D
Mccain, G Grant.
First ward, third precinct-W johnson, G
| W Turner, Mat O'Connor.
Second ward, first precinct-W Delaney, j
| Willoughby, r L O'Connor.
| Second ward, second precinct-J Z Hoyt, Geo
Lynch John Y Davidson.
| Third ward, first precinct-E L Larpenteur,
| Thomas Grace, l. Fischer, Jr.
| Third ward, second precinct-W X Castor, K
P Myhe, Stephen Deager.
| Fourth ward, first precincts Mcconnell,
John Clarken, NJ J Clum.
Fourth ward, second precinct-T r Brill, Ed
win Bell, c H Manship.
Fourth ward, third precinct c Quimby,
B W Lott, b Michael.
Fourth ward, fourth precinct-Patrick
Doherty, A Moore, Casper Poetz.
| Fifth ward, first precinct G Haupt, DR. J
| Dewey, ] W Fisher.
Fifth ward, second precinct-David Getchell,
| WIN Wakefield, James Dillon.
Fifth ward, third precinct-Capt Mccarthy,
Jno Horrigan, Jno Gibbons.
Sixth ward, first precinct-Charles Filter,
Octave Savard, JnO Rigney.
Sixth ward, second precinct-H Peters, Doc
Watson, Louis Gautier.
AWARD OF CONTRACTS APPROVED.
To MCCARTHY & Farrell for grading
Cedar street, $4,000; to Arthur Mullen for
a sewer on Cedar street; to Patrick Doher-
ty for sewer on Fifth street.
PAVING MORE STREETS.
The following communication from Mr..
Somers recommending the paving of va
rious streets was read AMI referred to the
committee on streets.
CRY ENGINEER's OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 16, 1883.
To the Common Council of the City of st.
Paul:
GENTLEMEN-The time for determining
the amount of paving to be done next
year is at hand, and to bring the matter
before you, I herewith submit a plan
showing the streets which I think should
be paved during that time. The plan is
intended to cover as large an area as pos
sibls for the purposes of economy in
cleaning the streets and tbs better protec-
ton of the paving. The great cost of
cleaning our paving now laid being the
carting off of the mud carried in from un-
| paved cross streets which makes it impos-
sible to keep the paving clean and largely
assists to decay the wooden blocks
of which the paving consists. The
| plan represents a system, having a
center of paved streets bounded by Broad
way Third and Seventh streets with the
cross streets extending one block beyond
the boundary streets named, the object
being to give special care to those extend
ing blocks, thus Systematically protecting
| the large area within.
The streets referred to are as follows:
EXCHANGE street from Third II Fifth