Daily globe., 1883-06-06


special session yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of closing up the business before
them and turning over the reigns of gov
ernment to their successors:
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The board of public works was directed
20 do the following work: To construct
sewer on Eleventh street from Robert to
Minnesota street; to pave Fifth street from
jackson street to Sibley street with cedar
blocks; to construct sewer on Cedar
street from Ninth to Tenth.
The same board is to investigate and
report as to grading Goodhue street: as to
grading Exchange street from Chestnut
street; as to constructing a sewer on
Franklin street from the easterly line of
Irvine park to Eagle street; as to grading
Rice street from Blanca street to the city
limits.
THANKS TO ALDERMAN MACARTHY.
Aid. Starkey offered the following which
was adopted:
ReSoIUed, That the thanks of the COM
mon council of the city of st. Paul be ten
dered Hon. j. c. Mccarthy, alderman from
the Sixth ward for several years past, for
his faithfulness and never ceasing hard
and the city at large.
Upon the adoption of the resolution be-
ing announced Aid. Mccarthy addressed
the council in very feeling manner.
thanking the members for
their kindness and cour
tesy toward him during all the years he
had been in the council. Aid. Mccarthy
has served for a long time, and while he
has been In that body he has succeeded in
carrying through many measures which
other men would have failed in. He has
much vigor and force of cherac er and
will. He Is power wherever he is and
IN whatever he is engaged.
WAITING ON THE NJ YoR.
The chair appointed Aid rm ,n Dowlan
and Smith to wait upon he mayor aud
ask him if he had any fuI the communi-
cations to make. These Two gentlemen
attended to the duty and soon reported
that the mayor had nothing further
THANKS TO COL. ALLEN.
Aid. Otis offered the following, which
was adopted:
ReSolred, That the thanks of the COM
mon council are hereby rendered to its
honored president for his able and eff
clent services in presiding over the meet
ings of the common council for the past
year.
Upon the adoption of this resolution
Col. Allen took occasion to express to the
council his thanks for the kindness of the
members to him during his term of Office
aud for the assistance they had rendered
him in disposing of the public business.
The business of the old council having
been closed he, as president of the council,
declared it ended
THE NEW COUNCIL.
The old council having been declared
adjourned without date, the clerk, Mr..
Prendergast, called up the Lew member, I
ST. Peter, and those aldermen that do not
hold ever as follows: w. D. Cornish. Ed.
Q. Starkey, Charles E. Otis, John Dowlan,
R. T. OConnor, EJoseph Robert. Each of
these gentlemen took the usual oath of of
fce and were thus made aldermen In Or
der to organize the new council, Mr..
Prendergast nominated Aid. Smith as
chairman, and that gentleman TOOK
the chair, which made the organiza-
ton of the nev council complete.
SENDING FOR THE MAYOR.
On motion of Col. Allen, Messrs. Allen.
Starkey and Otis were appointed a COM
nittee to wait upon the mayor elect and
inform him that the council was organized
and ready 10 listen to any communication
that he might desire to make. In a short
time the committee returned with the
newly elected mayor, G. D. O'Brien. and
also the retiring mayor, Hon. Edmund
Rice. Both were waited upon to the presi-
dents desk where the retiring mayor was
seated, while the new mayor proceeded to
deliver the following addraSC.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Com
mon Council:
In assuming the duties of the Office to
which L have had the honor of being elect
ed, 1t is a source of great qualification to
me that do so at period in the history
of our city when her condition in financial
matters is most marked and satisfactory.
and when our advance in material and
solid prosperity is almost unparalleled in
Its rapidity and thoroughly assured as to the
future; for, at almost every point within
the city limits-comprising as they do an
area of more than twenty square miles.
and thirteen thousand acres are to he
found the actual and existing evidences of
growth and improvement which is as
substantial as it is satisfactory.
AS the information relating to particu-
lar subjects during the past year of the
administration of city affairs will be laid
before you by our estimable and able re-
tlring executive, it will not be expected of
me to touch upon them at any length.
beyond the assurance which I can give to
you that in addition to the other matters
spoken of, st. Paul enjoys land Justly so1
the reputation of being one of the best
governed cities in the United States. and
that her officers, and all of them. have
brought to the execution and performance
of the duties and the trusts imposed upon
them, an ability and integrity which should
always serve as an example to their sue
cessors in whatever department they may
be called upon to act. Nor would it be
proper for me at this time, were inclined
to do so, to make to you any suggestions
in material matters for the future; for, in
additiou TO the fact that our affairs seem
to me TO have been so conducted in the
several departments that no such sugges-
tions are necessary, there is the additional
fact that am not at present so sufficient
ly advised or informed concerning partic-
ular matters of detail that I could be of
service to you in the making of such sug-
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