Daily globe., 1883-05-29
Board of fPubIic Works

| The board of public works held their
regular meeting yesterday afternoon
Messrs. Koch and Terry being absent, and
the following business was transacted:
| The matter of the assessment for grad
| ing Elm street from Rice to Dale street
was taken up and corrected; matter of the
assessment for grading Oak street from
| College avenue to Third street was ad-
| journed to June 4, and that of grading
| Fifteenth street from jackson street to
Broadway was adjourned to June II.
The following assessments were con-
| frmed and the clerk ordered to give notice
| Grading Fourteenth street from Jackson
to Canada; grading Niagara street from
| Magnolia to Maryland; grading Eighth
street from Cedar to Wabashaw;
| for right of way across lots II, II, Is and
IA, block II, Woodland Park addition to
st. Paul, and lots s, Z, 6, II, Is, 10 and 20,
of Weed g. Willius' Encouragement of
Woodland Park addition, for constructing,
| altering and keeping in repair a sewer
thereon.
The specifications for the improvement
of Sixth street flom College avenue to Oak
street lwere approved and the clerk ordered
to advertise for bids.
The matter of grading Josette street
from Dayton avenue to Fuller street was
referred back to the council in favor.
The clerk was ordered to give first no
tice for change of grade on George street.
Correction was ordered on all one-half
lots assessed as full lots in the grading of
Ellen street.
The recommendation of J. A. Wheelock
for John 6. Hinkle to have the contract for
sprinkling st. Peter street between College
avenue and Iglehart street was placed on
file, and that of E. n. Saunders, on the
same matter; as also the rejuest of Theo-
dore Ayd to have his assessment of $52.20
refunded for failure to extend sewerage to
front of lot 3, block 57,lRice & Irvine's ad-
| dition. on Oak street.; as also the written
recommendation of E. F. Drake, from
Paris, France, that the streets be kept free
from dirt, dust and debris daily by the
USE of such horse power sweeper as used
in that city, and manufactured there. 1t
| sweeps 5000 superficial yards per hour, is
| run by one horse, and in rainy weather
keeps the streets clear of mud, and in dry
weather dispenses with the necessity of
street sprinkling. 1t sweeps both paved
and Macadamized roadbeds as clean as a
floor, costs $500 each, and the writer de-
sires that st. Paul have ten of them, as a
matter of cleanliness and economy. The
machine is not patented in the United
States and can be manufactured more
cheaply in this country, and it would cost
less to keep Third street clean in all wealth
ers with one of these machines than it
costs to clean it of mud in rainy weather.
The clerk was ordered to give first no.
tice of change of grade on Rice street, from
Binaca to Sycamore street.
The following were the bids for grading
Jessie street: G. F. Huebner, 81, 700; John
Boldther, $1,550; E. j. Bell, $1,795; Gus
Moline, $1,673; ]. P. Brossell, $1,689
John D. Moran, SLIPS; John Gehrke, 81,
| $50. Awarded to John Boldther.
Grading Chestnut street: F. Boyer, $3,.
1877; E. j. Bell, $3,S45.75; P. II. Tierney
1886. Awarded to P. H. Tierney.
Exchange street sewer: Daniel Mullen
Jr., $1,349.5O; John Doherty, $1,293
| Awarded to John Doherty.
The board, on adjournment, proceeded
in body to view Oak street, in view OF
projected Improvements thereon.