Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-11


good police service and a sense of security
to those of our citizens who live on the
outskirts and are terrorized by tramps.
During the year the police made 3,15S
arrests; 1871 males and BAT females-an
increase of All over the previous year.
The expense of the department including
salaries was $46,81834.
l recommend that the present police sta
ton house and the land on which it stands
be sold, and the proceeds used in ittlng up
central station under the city hall. The
present quarters are entirely too small;
and 1t is inhuman TO keep people there on
account of the crowded condition il is
nearly always in and the poor ventilation
and sewerage.
Also that police station with two or
three cells be erected on the rear of hose
house No. 3, corner of Washington and
Thirteenth avenues south.
Also, that police station of the same
character of the above be erected on some
Of the city's property in the East division;
or if that is found not TO be practicable,
that land be purchased for that purpose.
Also that lot be purchased at some
point in the vicinity of Washington and
Plymouth avenues on which to erect po-
lice station in the future.
Also that the police telegraph alarm and
telephone. system, the working of which
was shown to the city council and our citi-
zens generally last summer, be adopted
and put in at once. The extended limits
of the city and knowledge of the value
Of the electric alarm and telephone system
in other cities makes it necessity to eff
cient police protection. If the council
will put in the system and let the octago-
nal boxes at the street corners be used for
advertising purposes (the same as they
propose to do in Chicago) it can be paid
for in three years. Besides paying neces-
sary running expenses it would become a
source of revenue to the city.
l desire to call your attention to the fact
that the city last year realized S42,3O3.1O
FROM licenses and $21, 229.18 from fines
and costs in the municipal court; total
So, 532,26. The expenses of the police
force.was $4,S18.34; expenses of the munic-
ipal court S9,219.07; total $56,037.41.
THE PooR.
The report of the superintendent of the
poor shows that said officer has had his
time well occupied attending to the wants
of those who are unfortunate and in need
During the year he had 1905 applications
for aid; made 1876 visits; furnished
S3,994,0 worth of groceries and $955.55
worth of wood; sent 367 persons to the hos
pital at cost of $9,186.11; sent III per-
sons to the poor house at cost of $2,060,-
ID; buried 1877 persons at q cost of 81, 452;
and sent 1872 persons out of the city at
cost of $448.9O.
The expenses OF the supervisors of the
poor during the year foot up SIS, 1908.
PAVING.
Among the numerous other questions of
great importance to be brought before you
for solution, that which will afford you
equal entertainment with any other Will
be the question of pavements. Some of
your constituents will conjure ECU with
sliyers in their eyes not to put down the
noisy granite, while Others with stone
bruises on their heels will ask you to hold
your noses to the manure soaked and de-
caying wooden pavement and tell you it is
short lived and disease producing. If you
have never seen wooden pavement, go to
st. Paul and ride up Third street, or down
to Chicago, and dig up the rotton cedar
blocks at numerous points in its streets
But, beseech you, keep your temper and
maintain the dignity BETTING your Official
position; and don't call each other liars
and lunkheads-the newspapers will do
that for you if you differ with them after
they have been induced to whip you into
line. Shun all men who own cedar timber
lands CT granite quarries and you may sur
vive the ordeal.
During last fall the city putldown 1880.
feet of cedar block pavement and 1922 Of
granite; total 1912 feet. The former cost
$31, 116.26 and the latter S4G,578.65. There
was also S21,281.30 worth of curb and
gutter stone paving done.
WORK HOUSE.
l sincerely trust, gentleman, that the
project entered into last year for which
money was set aside but turned over sub
seqUentiy to the water commissioners to
help complete pump house extension, viii
be carried forward to reality during the
early summer months. Our city Is sadly
in need of such place where the needy
poor may be given honest employment
and persons convicted Of crime can be
made to work md thereby pay for their
keeping iGsiaaJ Of loUnging IN Jail and
plotting for the commitment of further
depredations as soon as they are released.
SEWERAGE.
The same spirit that actuated the city
council towards furnishing the city with
an abundant supply of water, stimulated
them last year to build sewers and largely
remove the growing pestilence which was
fast bringing our healthy city into general
repute as being an unhealthy locality.
There has been built during the year
19,348 feet of sewers at a cost of S144,-
OS9.97. OF this amount only $685. feet,
all cement pipe from twelve to fifteen feet
in diameter, and costing $23,73o.O4, was
built by contract.
At the commencement of the year the
city engineer advertised for bids to do the
work, but with the exception of the con-
tract above referred to ell the bids were
above his estimates. He thereupon repre-
scented to the city council the facts as stat
ed and recommended that the work be done
Shy days work. under his supervision,
which was acceded to. The wisdom of the
course pursued is demonstrated by the re-
suit. The cost of the work done is over
$4,000 less than the smallest bids for do
ing the same. By reference to City Engi-
neer Rinker's report it will be seen that he
has on hand about $4,000 worth of ma
chinery and tools with which he prosecuted