St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-18


Warne 81 Stockton, contractors, ~, 665. AT {;
No. 2. and final, Cherry street grading,
Huebner d Zollman, contractors, $4,000;
No. 8 and final Cedar street grading, Farrell
q Mccarthy, contractors, $676.25; No.
and final, st. Paul q Duluth railroad viaduct,
M. O'Brien, contractor, SO, 596.40; No. 10,
supplementary to No. II and final, Phalen
creek culvert, M. O'Brien, contractor,
$4,000; No. Z and final, Wallace street
grading, John Boldther, contractor, $694.66;
No. 2 and final, Exchange street sewer,
Stockton 81 Lindquist, contractors, $87.75;
No. 2, supplementary to No. / and final,
John, Doherty, contractor, $4,000; Geo. H.
Sherwood & Co, $121. "a; j. H. Fielding,
$4,000; St. Paul City Railway Co., $3.50.
Committee on claims.
REPORT OF BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS.
Repairs to Engine Houses
To the Common Council, City of st. Paul.
GENTLEMEN: The Board Of Fire Commits
sioners have had under inspection and con-
sideration the condition of the four old en-
CINE houses to-wit: Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, and
find that it is absolutely necessary that gen
eral repairs should be made upon the same as
soon as possible and about as fellows:
Engine House No. l.
Take down old rotten sheds and rebuild
with brick walls and single roof; repair
main roof and tower, cutters and spouts;
painttwo coat work on all wood.
No. 2-Take down old rotten sheds, repair
roofs, towers and windows; repaint- all tin
andwood work two coats.
No. 3.-Repair woodwork of tower, three
windows and tin roof ON main house, make
new gutter and down spout, take down and
| rebuild coal and wagon sheds, build fire wall
at west end next TO the lumber yard, rebuild
yard fence and gates, and paint all wood and
| tin work two coats.
No. 4.-Repair stable with lap siding, tar
paper and new shingle roof on same. Re-
| pair all wood and tin work on main house.
make new gutter and down spouts, reset and
repair fence ard gates, repair and single
coal and wagon sheds, paint all wood and tin
| work two coats
Fence yard and build wagon she'd at Chem
! ical House No. 2, on Dayton's Bluff, in Fifth
ward.
| Fence yard and build wagon shed at En-
T CINE House No. 6, in Sixth ward.
| No outside repairing or work has been
! done on houses No. l, 2, 3 and for several
years, Che old sheds and shingle roofs are
| very rotten and the tin roofs are fast rusting
out. The joints of finished wood wolk are
! open from alternate wet aud dry weather,
causing the under work to rot and rapidly
getting into very bad condition.
| With the exception Of brick and tin work
| the labor on the proposed repairs and renew
ais will be done by the Fire Department
men and the greater portion Of the
! painting with mineral paint.
The estimated expense for all the work
| proposed to be done on all the houses and
putting the same in good condition is 80, 500.
| Authority by the resolution of the City
| Council for the Board 10 proceed with these
repairs. as set forth in this report, is respect-
| fully requested by the Board Of Fire Commits
sioners. BY order of the Board.
F. r. DELANo, President. z
Jnly Is, 1884
Committee on Fire Department.
Also,
| Telephone Service, etc Il
| To the Common Council of the City Of St..
| Paul.
| GENTLEMEN: The Board Of Fire Commits
| sioners have had under consideration the
resolution of the City Council passed July
| lst, 1884, in relation TO the further purchase
of fire alarm boxes thereby deciding on
| ''That no new fire alarm boxes be pur-
| chased.'
| Your Board have carefully revised the pre-
sent location of the City alarm boxes and
unanimously decided that it is inexpedient
to make any change in the location of the
present boxes the same having all been
located with especial reference to the accom-
mediation of the public.
The Board again affirms the necessity for
at least fifteen additional boxes as asked
| for last year, and would recommend that
the twenty-five asked for in the resolution
of Alderman Starkey on March oath, be
granted, and which the rapid growth of the
city demands.
In this connection your Board desire to
call tie attention of the Council to the Tele-
phone and,Citv Dispatch Alarm service as
now operated, and bywhich many alarms are
sent to the Department. This service re-
! quires force of three (3) young men to at
4 tend the signal Office ut all hours, day and
Grated as an experiment and the men en-
ployed have had no pay, they hoping it
would be made permanent and that they
would be permanently employed.
Should this system Of signals and calls be
continued, it will be necessary to en-
ploy three men at the rate of
5000 per month each to operate this ser
vice and as the Police Department make use
to great extent of the Fire Department
Phones that portion of this expense should
be chargeable to the police service.
If the Council deem it advisable not to
continue this system and authorize your
Board of, Fire Commissioners to employ Tie
requisite number Of men as above set FORTH
then and in such case, this branch of the
service will be necessarily closed up and dis
pensed with. Respectfully submitted.
By order OF the Board,
T. Il. DELANo, President.
July Is, 1884.
Committee on Fire Department.
Also