Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-07
CITY GOVERNMENT.

Large Amount of Street Work Ordered
Last Night-Trying to IGet a Fire Com
mission-Two Names Rejected-EX-Ald.
Fisher Sends in Personal Explanation
Bonds to be Issued.
The following is a brief statement of
the business transacted by the council last
night.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The board was directed to have the fol-
lowing work done: To grade Ravoux street
from !Iglehart street to Carroll street;
to widen Grove street from Broadway to
Pearl street to fifty feet; to grade Aurora
avenue from Grant street to Broad
way ; to grade Fourteenth street from
jackson street to Canada street.
The same board was directed to investi-
gate and report in regard to opening and
extending Temperance street between Con-
STAINS addition and Norris street; as to
grading Oak street from College avenue
to West Third street, and grading Sixth
street from College avenue to Fort street;
as to grading Magnolia street; as to con-
structing a sewer on Western avenue from
Dayton avenue to Goodrich avenue; as to
opening, widening and extending Front
street from Western avenue to Rice street;
as to a sewer on Walnut street from Pleas
ant avenue to Summit avenue, on Summit
avenue between Chestnut street and Far
rington avenue, and on Nina avenue
from Laurel to Summit avenue;
as to constructing sewers on Saltwater
street from Grove street to Olmsted street;
on st. Paul street, from Grove street to
ca Row sfroAt from
Grove street to Nash street; on Somerset
street from Saltwater street to Mississippi
street, and on Olmsted street from Still
water street to st. Paul street; as to grad
ing Pine and Olive street and the partial
grading of Fourth street; as to grading
Seventh street, Hoffman avenue, Maria av-
enue, Hope street, Margaret, Beech, Sim
men, Eichenwald and Bradley streets; as
to extending King street; as to sewer on
Fort street from Goodrich to Jefferson av-
enue; as to grading Hudson avenue from
Hoffman to Earl street; as to a sewer on
Wilkin street from Elm street to McBoal
street; as to constructing sewer on ST.
Clair street from Fort to Pleasant avenue;
as to the construction of a sewer on Will
kin street from Elm street to the edge of
the bluff.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The mayor sent in the names of Charles
N. Parker and George W. Freeman as
members of the board of fire commission
ers. The first was confirmed, but the lat
ter, Mr.. Freeman, was laid on the shelf by
being sent to the committee on fire de-
partment.
The request of b. G. Mccartney and
others to have Minnehaha and Edgerton
streets graded, was referred to the COM
mittee on streets.
George Rotwel asked leave to remove a
small one-story building, and the same
was referred to the alderman from the
First ward.
The request of Walker, Judd & Yeasie
to place kind of platform or derrick at the
foot of Eagle street, to facilitate the
handling of lumber, was referred to Aid.
Smith.
The complaint of j. w. Janson in re-
gard to danger to his house in the Sixth
ward in case of a rise in the Mississippi
river, was referred to the committee on
streets.
The board of public works reported ad-
versely to grading Magnolia street; the
same in regard to grading Whithall street,
and the council accepted the report.
The awarding of the contract for con-
structing a sewer on Seventh street, to G.
T. Miller and the awarding to Michael
O'Brien the contract for constructing a
culvert over Phalen creek, was adopted.
The name of John Rooney was directed
to be placed on the police pay roll at the
rate of $7S per month for services in con-
veying prisoners to the workhouse.
The city clerk is to give the necessary
notice for change of grade on Cedar
street from Twelfth to Bluff street.
The city engineer was ordered to report
a grade for Martin, Arundel, Lafayette
and Winter streets.
An order Is to be drawn on the treasury
In favor of John Clonan for S25.
It was directed that all the cleanings
taken from the public streets and alleys in
the First, Second and Third wards during
the coming season, be deposited upon the
slopes of the embankment of Seventh
street, between Kittson street and the
ST. Paul & Manitoba railroad bridge.
Permission was given to j. G. Mccarthy
to place telephone wires on the fire alarm
poles of the city across the bridge to his
place of business in the Sixth ward.
The owner of the Pomeroy building, that
was partially destroyed by fire few weeks
ago, on Fifth street, between Jackson and
Sibley streets, was directed to have the
building removed, or SO repaired that it
shall be safe, and if he don't attend to it
then the chief of police is to have the same
declared nuisance and removed.
The resolution to confirm Frank Brewer
as member of the board of ire commits
sioners was lost by the following vote:
Yeas-Robert, Fischer, Smith, Van
Slyke, Allen-5.
Nays-Dowlan, O,Connor, Otis, Cornish,
johnson, Starkey, Mccarthy.
Several years ago w. Fisher was a
member of the council when charges were
preferred against him by Mayor Maxfeld.
On trial of the issues before the council
the charges were sustained and Mr. Fisher
was expelled from that body. Last even
ing Mr.. Fisher sent into the
council long statement giving
the history of his trial and expulsion. He
also accompanied the statement wi tn an
affidavit from Luke Padden and an other
from F. Wigaud, the two principal wit
nesses against shim, in which these two
persons said that what they testified to or
his trial was not true. He accompanied
the papers with a resolution asking to have