St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-28
FIXING SALARIES.
Matters Considered by the Council
Last Night.

President Clark sat in the chair at the adj
journed session of the city council last
night. An invitation was received from
Assistant Adjutant General Norton to the
council to attend and participate in the
memorial exercises of the Grand Army of
the Republic on Saturday, and it was ac-
cepted. Aid. Babb moved that the chair
man appoint a committee on transportation,
and the following were sh appointed: Aid.
Babb Clough and Eichhorn.
Communications from the water board
were referred to the committee on water
works. One was the petition of L. P.
Hubbard and others for water main in
Second avenue, from Franklin avenue to
Twenty-first street, and also for one in
Park avenue. from Twenty to Twenty
seventh streets.
IAN OLD CLAIM.
A petition from Lester B. Elwood adj
ministrator for the estate of George S.
Cleveland, deceased, for the payment of
the award of the condemnation of lot 6,
block 10, Snyder's First addition, was re-
ferred to the committee on claims
A petition to have Seven-and-a-Half
avenue south opened and extended was
referred to the aldermen of the Fifth ward.
THOSE RAILWAY BRIDGES AGAIN.
The matter of bridging the railway tracks
at the crossings of Washington avenue
north and on those on Third, Fourth and
Fifth streets, was brought before the coun-
Gil again after several months profound
slumber, through the petition Of large
number of property owners. 1t asked that
the city build the approaches and the rail-
way companies be required to lower their
tracks and to build the bridges. Referred
to the committee on railroads.
HE KILLED THE BEAR.
Officer Fauskow, who killed a pet bear
several months ago, and which involved
him in lawsuit. asked for full indemnifi-
cation from the costs of the suit, the sum
being S69.37. Tabled.
A protest against the ordinance prohibit
ing all slaughter houses and stock yards
from being located in the city limits was
presented by Charles Witt, who alleges
that he constructed his yards and houses in
1879 at cost of about SO, OO0- Referred to
the committee on health and hospitals.
A protest from property owners on Sec
ond avenue south, against the proposed
widening of that thoroughfare, was re-
ferred to the committee on paving.
A petition from Contractor John Burns,
asking that financial relief be afforded
Thomas Mulvahill, who was injured by an
explosion in a sewer on Saturday, was
filed. The petition stated that the wounded
man has family in INDECENT circumstances
THE BARRIERS.
The BARRIERS having petitioned the coun-
Gil for an ordinance prohibiting barber shops
from being operated on Sunday, a protest
largely signed was read. Col. John T.
West of the West headed the list. Re-
ferred to the committee on ordinances.
Chief Stetson recommended that section
81 of an ordinance regulating the fire de-
partment be so amended as to read 'scity
telegraph" instead of fire alarm telegraph, .
and also to insert the word police He
also recommended that the second assistant
engineer be furnished with horse and
buggy, and that 400 poles for the alarm sys-
tenn be purchased. Referred to the COM
mittee on fire department.
The salary of the line man of fire alarm
and police telegraph systems was fixed at
SIS per month, and the appointments of H.
T.. Morrison as superintendent of the fire
alarm and police telegraph and James w.
Shannon as lineman were confirmed.
AWARDING CONTRACTS.
A contract was ordered executed with
Thomas Wilson, for furnishing the city
with pine lumber for the ensuing year, his
being the lowest bid (from Is to II per cent
off list price.
Contracts for grading, etc., were awarded
as follows: To J. T. Tobin, for grading
Dupont street from Plymouth to Twenty
sixth avenues north. at Il 4 cents per yard;
Fremont street from Nineteenth to Twenty
first avenues north, at 1871 cents; to E.
Robertson, Fifth street from Eleventh to
Twelfth avenues north, at 1871 cents; to
Tobin & Co., for grading Portland avenue
from Twenty-eighth street to Lake and
from Thirty-fourth to Thirty eighth streets,
at 1877 cents.
AN UNDERGROUND CROSSING.
James w. Lawrence and others asked
that an underground crossing be constructed
under the tracks of the railway at Four
teenth and Fifteenth avenues southeast.
The city attorney recommended that a
warrant for $3.50 be drawn in favor of E. F.
Webster on account of erroneous assess
ment.
The matter of renting steam engine was