St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-31
A NIGHT OF ORDINAN CES.
The City Council has an Unusually
Busy Session,
A Budget of Ordinances.---An Attempt to ex-
tend the Active Patrol Fails.
The Wholesale Liquor Dealers Exempted
from Taking Out IL Retail Dealers
License.

SPECIAL. POLICEMEN.
The following special policemen appointed by
the mayor to serve without pay from the city
were confirmed: John q. Galow and Edwin c.
Gunner. to serve on the grounds of the State
University; Henry fDE1 to serve at Boswell &
Co. IS factory; T.. P. Sullivan 10 serve IN N. b
ST. railway yards.
A large number OF important communications
and petitions received proper reference
The secretary OF the Board OF Park commits
sioners comm uricated the fact that the board
was ready TO pay for the grounds occupied by
the pest house as agreed, as soon as the building
was removed by the city. Referred to tie com
mittee on public grounds and buildings.
Luther d. Benton prostested against the ap-
prevails in the matter of laying out and wide ming
Twenty fourth street. Referred to com mttee
on roads and bridges.
L. F. Manage petition for the construction of
bridges and approaches at the crossing of Eighth
avenue north of Bassetts creek, and offered to
advance the funds provided the work be done at
once. Referred to the committee on roads and
bridges.
A plumbers license was granted to j. L.
Hogan.
John T. West was granted permission to pave
Fifth street with cedar blocks, from .Hennepin
avenue to First avenue north.
hEfOhIo Or SlI1 OrfACEho'
The city engineer reported the proposals for
building hose house in the Third ward Jam es
Carlise's bid at $3.50 was the lowest. Re
ferred to the committee on ire department.
j. j. Palmer being the lowest bidder for grad
ing Fifteenth street between Hennepn avenue
and Grant street, the contract was awarded him,
the amount of his bid being 15A cents per cubic
yard for an average haul of 600 feet, and 10
for additional average haul.
The committee ways and means. moved
that the city clerk be directed
to draw warrant in favor of the board
Of sinking fund commissioners for the sum OK
s35. 46, payable ont of the sinking fund, being
for the proportion of taxes paid over by the
county treasurer in the Jane settlement.
Carried
Warrants were also ordered drawn in favor of
special policemen in the sum of $685. the same
being for services during encampment week.
NEW ADDITIONS.
The plats of the following additions to the
city were adopted:
Morses second addition, Stoneman's rear
rangement of the east half of block three OF
Peters addition and Bornholt's addition.
a warrant was ordered issued in favor of d.
B. Rollins for $500 in payment for the second
ward engine house site.
The committee fire department was in
structed to purchase badges and buttons for the
members Of the department
THAT BIG SEWER.
The committee OH sewers reported back the
matter of building the long sewer from Bassett's
creek, and moved that the contract be awarded
River s. Hawkins at the price bid,
S16.93 per liEeal foot; for the tunnel
sand rock, S22 SO per lineal foot for the tunnel
through the earth, and SIS per vertical foot for
inlet well complete. Adopted
The city engineer was instructed to advertise
for proposals for laying sewer on Third street
south between Third and Fifth street. Adopted
A sewer was ordered laid in Park avenue from
Twenty to Twenty-tifth street; i'll Park
avenue from Ninteenth to Twenty
second street; III Park avenue
from Fifteenth TO Nineteenth streets; in Fifth
street southeast from Thirteenth to Fifth
nues; in Fifth street southeast from Tenth TO
Thirteenth avenues.
ROBERT LAUGHLIN.
The committee on police moved that the pay
roll of the recent policeman, Robert Laughln,
be continued until further action be taken, and
that all the expense of the funeral be paid by the
city. Aid. Lawrence moved to refer
30 the city attorney, and Aid.
Coe seconded the motion. Aid. Glenn
spoke in favor of the motion, and thought it
only right that the motion should prevail He
explained that the widow anxious to
straighten up certain matters and remove from
the city.
The motion to refer prevailed.
woRKHoUsE.
The committee on workhouse reported that
they had found an available piece of property
three and one-half miles from the city,
located Single creek, with building
on it which could be used by the superintendent
The tract included 90 acres and the price is
$50, 900. Aid. Hashow explained that good
brick clay beneath the soil, and in his opinion
the property was worth 100000. lie was OPP
posed to the principle of work house and convict
labor, but if the city is to have worlihouse,
he felt certain that the property in
question was by all odds the cheapest.
Aid. Flectham (his maiden speech)-"I can
buy land on the East side for SIS per acre, four
miles from the city, which would answer the
same purpose
Aid. Hashow stated that at Chicago the brick
making of the work-house was the most profta-
BILE OF all the industries prosecuted.
Aid. Lawrence opposed the purchase of the
land He did not want to buy good house
for the superintendent. lie thought the super
intendent should live in cheaper house.
Aid. Sly wanted to explain to Aid. Lawrence
that the committee did not go out for the pur-
pose of buying house for the superintendent,
nor to buy brick yard, but to build work
house. He stated that as it is the Migrants and
vagabonds are boarded at the expense of the city,
they sit and play cards and chew tobacco, whereas
they should be set to work and earn their own
living. They would not be so anxious to be i'm
prisoned then.
Aid. Echhorn favored more sights being
looked up, and moved that the matter be recon-
mended, but the motion failing to receive sec
ond, Aid. Lawrence moved to refer back. Car
ried,
THE PEST HOUSE.
The committee on health and hospitals moved
that the city engineer be instructed to advertise
for proposals for the construction of pest
house on the site recently purchased.
AID Glenn moved that the architects
of the city be invited to draw and
present plans and specifications for
q pest house. and AID. Law
renee moved in addition that the
whole matter be referred to the committee on
public grounds and buildings.
A warrant for the sum of S214.17 was ordered
drawn in favor of the sisterhood of Bethany, the
same being one-third of the amount of fines paid
by the houses OF i'll fame during the month of
June Carried.
Aid. Coe moved that all that part of
Eighth street southeast, lying between
he easterly line of Seventeenth. on southeast
of the right of way of the st. Paul, Minneapolis
& Manitoba Railway company be vacated.
Adopted.
Aid. Coe called from the table the ordinance
to amend the ordinance governing the operation
of the Minneapolis District Telegraph company
The motion prevailing the ordinance was placed
on its second reading for amendments. The
amendment simply transfers the rights of the
American TO the Minneapolis company. Laid on
the table and ordered published
THE ACTIVE PATROL
The ordinance amending the liquor ordinance,
that the active patrol district be so extended
as to include the north and
south side of Twentieth ave
nue. north from Fourth street to Lyndale avenue.
The ordinance was given its second reading.
Aid. johnson fought the passage of the ordi-