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

Warne & Stockton, contractors, S2,665.47 /;
No. 2. and final Cherry street grading,
Huebner 81 Zollman, contractors, $4,000;
No. and final Cedar street grading, Farrell
81 Mccarthy, contractors, $67625; No. 8
and final, st. Paul Il Duluth railroad viaduct,
M O'Brien, contractor, SO, 596.40; No. IL,
supplementary to No. II and final, Phalen
creek culvert, M. O'Brien, contractor,
$500. 90; No. z and final, Wallace street
grading, John Boldther, contractor, $694.66; ;
No. 2 and final, Exchange street sewer,
Stockton & Lindquist, contractors, $S7.75;
No. 2, supplementary to No. and final,
John Doherty, contractor, $47.00; Geo. H.
Sherwood g. Co, 1921. "a; j. H. Fielding,
$4,000; St. Paul City Railway Co., $751; So.
Committee "a 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 follows:
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
and wood 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 and gates, repair and single
coal and wagon sheds, paint all wood and tin
work two coats.
Fence yard and build wagon shed at Chem
zeal House No. 2, on Dayton's Bluff, in Fifth
ward.
Fence yard and build wagon shed at En-
CINE House No. &, in Sixth ward.
No outside repairing or work has been
done on houses No. l, 2, and for several
years, the old sheds and single roofs are
very rotten and the tin roofs are fast rusting
out. The joints of finished wood wolk are
open from alternate wet and 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 SO, 500.
Authority by the resolution of the City
Council for the Board to 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.
Jnly Is, 1884.
Committee on Fire Department.
Also,
Telephone Service, etc
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
| 1st, 1884, in relation to the further purchase
of fire alarm boxes thereby deciding on
''That no new fire alarm boxes be pur-
chased"
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 the attention of the Council to the TeIe-
phone and City Dispatch Alarm service as
now operated, and by which many alarms are
sent to the Department. This service re-
| quires force of three 81 young men to at
| tend the signal Office at all hours, day and
night. Since the 1st OF May ithas been OBJ
Grated as an experiment and the men en-
ployed have hads no pay, they hoping ii
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
$4,000 per month each to operate this SER
vice and as the Police Department make use
to great extent of the Fire Department
Phones that a portion of this expense should
6e 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 the
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
penscd with. Respectfully submitted
By order of the Board,
F. r. DELANo, President.
July Is, 1854.
Committee on Fire Department.
Also,
| Claims
To the Honorable City Council OF the City o.
st. Paul:
GENTLEMEN: The Board of Fire Commits
sioners herewith send to the Council the
communication OF John c.. Newell, dis
abed fireman, and the bill of DIR. D. w
Hand of 800 for medical and surgical ut
tendance to same. II being bad fracture
seven mouths attendance has been re