St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-22

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The following is the proposition OF Z. 3.
Birge:
To the Honorable President and Members
OF the Common Council:
GENTLEMEN: At the request OF the
Committee on Police, / herein submit to
your honorable body the following proposi.
ton to. take charge as superintendent OF
and run the Police Patrol telegraph system
of the city.
will take charge of the same,
furnish all the necessary jars, zinc,
coppers, blue vitriol, sulphate zinc
and everything pertaining to the same 1or
both main line and local batteries, furnish
all the register paper, rolls, bells for the IN
struments, keep III good order all lnstru-
ments, boxes and lines that are now
built and may. be built and put
in service hereafter, and change
any lines that may be ordered by
the Common Council, will set or reset
any stations, and furnish all labor Tor DONG
the same, will keep. one person on duty anu
in charge OF instruments both day ana
night
The city to furnish all material for new
lines, such as poles, wire, cross arms, IN
sulators, brackets and digging OF holes Tor
setting poles.
/ will execute all orders of the Common
Council pertaining to the telegraph and
electric line now in the city, or that may
hereafter be built, and to your entire salts
faction, for the sum of twenty-five hundred
dollars per annun, holding myself suDJect
to removal by order of the Common Council
at any time. E. B. BIRGE.
May. 15, 1885. II
The following is the report referred to:
Report of Committee
Work of Police Patrol from March Is,
1885, to May Is, 1885:
220 police box alarm calls.
80 fire alarm calls.
1874 special calls
Distance travelled by wagon 7145Ss miles.
Number of arrests by wagon, prisoners
brought in, 1885,.
Note-Specials are made mostly when
prisoners are arrested between stations,
calls for hospital service, also complaints
made directly to the Chief Of Police.
Report adopted and proposition OF =. 3.
Birge accepted, and the matter referred to
the Corporation Attorney to draw Ordi-
nance.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Claims Presented
Z j. E. Fitch, So; Ike Smith, So; E. B.
Birge, S9S.25; N. Gauthier. $12.5O; Jacob
G0ldstein, $685.; House of Good Shepherd,
S22. 81; Northwestern stamp works, $50;
c. G. Miles, $40. Is; Mccarthy q Donnelly,
$45. IS; st. Paul Carpet Co., $40; j. Lever
COS, $136. 40; Berlandi & Bott, $40; Wheat
& Co., $3.50; Richard Price, $3.50; st.
Paul Book & Stationery Co., $7.71; c. E.
Keller d Co., $3.50; H. E. Wedelstaedt,
$57. 81; Bristol & Macarthur, $12.50; Prem
dergast Bros, $3.50.
Committee on Claims.
Special Committee
The President appointed Aid. Van Slyke.
johnson and Cullen committee, in accord
ance with the resolution of Aid. Van Slyke
relative to widening Como avenue.
Orders were read authorizing orders to be
drawn in favor of the following named per-
sons, for erroneous sales on assessments,
etc., viz: N. w. Kittson, $17.92; T. F.
Lyons and w. P. Cachey, $3.50;
George Reis, City Treasurer, 29.45;
John Schumacher, $82.13; Julia. New,
$24. 80: P. De Rochebruner, $154.33.
Committee on Claims.
An order was read including the south
erly seyenty-five feet of block 81, Rice &
Irvine's addition to st. Paul, in the fire
limits.
2, SOUIIllItCt OiI ElIt DtpdI6IlIcllbs
An order instructing the Street Commits
sioner to receive and deposit the earth which
is being removed from the bed of the river
by the Government Contractor upon Fill
more avenue, etc. Lost. Yeas 1, nays 10.
Ordinances
An ordinance was read entitled an or
dinance to authorize Christian Seibert to
build a two-stOryi brick veneered dwell
ing house.
Committee on Fire Department.
An ordinance was read entitled an Ordi-
nance granting F. B. Doran permission to
move certain frame building.
Aid. ST. Peter moved that the rules be so
far suspended as to allow said ordinance to
pass to its second reading.
The motion prevailed; yeas IL:
The said ordinance was thereupon read
second time andspassed. (See Ordinance
No. 507.)
An ordinance was read entitled an
ordinance changing the name OF College
avenue in House for the Homeless addition
to st. Paul, to Margaret street.
Aid. Dowlan moved that the rules be so
far suspended as to allow said ordinance to
pass to it's second reading.
The motion prevailed; yeas II.
The said ordinance was thereupon read a
second time and passed. (See Ordinance
No. $685.
An ordinance was read entitled an or
dinance permitting George Presley to widen
kitchen.
AID. Dowlan moved that the rules be so
far suspended as to allow said ordinance to
pass to its second reading.
The motion prevailed; yeas II.
The said ordinance was thereupon read
second time. and passed. (See Ordinance
No. 5o9.)
An ordinance was read entitled an Or
dinance extending and incorporating other
and new territory within the fire limits, etc.
Aid. Dowlan moved that the rules be so
far suspended as to allow said ordinance to
pass to it's second reading.
The motion prevailed by the following
vote:
Yeas-Ald. Cummings, Dowlan, O'Connor,
Robert, Cullen, johnson, Van Slyke, Star
key, Lauderdale, st. Peter, Mr.. Presi-
dent-11.
The said ordinance was thereupon read
second time and passed. (See Ordinance
No. 512.)
An ordinance was read entitled an ordi-
nance changing the names Of certain streets
in the City of st. Paul.
Aid. Dowlan moved that the rules be SO
far suspended as to allow said ordinance to
pass to its second reading.
The motion prevailed; yeas II.
The said ordinance was thereupOn read a
second time and passed. (See Ordinance
No. 513. 49,
An ordinance was read entitled an or
dinance permitting Allie Hewitt to erect a
frame shed, etc.
Aid Cullen moved that the rules be so
far suspended as to allow said ordinance to
pass to it's second reading.
The motion prevailed; yeas II.
The said ordinance was thereupon read