St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-13
THE HILL AND THE FLAT.
The Council Divides the Sixth Ward by
North and South Line and Redistricts
the Fifth Ward

The Council Divides the Sixth Ward by a
North and South Line and Redistricts
the Fifth Ward.
Last evening Gen. Ssnborn. Hon. John
NJ. Gilman, DR.. Day and Gen. Bishop of the
committee appointed by the board of direct
ors last Monday, to confer with the city
council as to rearranging the aldermanic
| districts of st. Paul, increasing the number
of the voting precincts and describing the
same, met the council and presented the mat
ter. Besides the committee, quite number
| of citizens were present to see what took
| place. Among them were Mr.. Fl. j. Brain
ard, Judge Wood, Mr.. Koch, D. D. Merrill
and others.
THE MEETING.
Aid. Smith, the president of the council,
and at present the acting mayor, occupied
the chair. The proceedings and consulta-
tons were very informal indeed. A map of
the city was brought in by Mr.. Murray, and
this the committee commenced to examine,
and not long after, most of the members of
the council gathered around the committee
and all made explanations and suggestions.
Finally, after the whole ground had been
gone over, Gen. Sanborn, speaking
on behalf of the committee, said
that it would recommend dividing
the Sixth ward by north and south line in
stead of an east and west one. The COM
mittee also recommended making as many
election precincts as should be necessary to
limit the NUM- Der of votes cast in each to 500.
Further than these recommendations, and
the changing Of the aldermanic districts Of
the Fifth ward in accordance with the ideas
suggested by Aid. Starkey and Van Slyke,
the committee had nothing to say.
DR.. Day expressed about the same views.
1t was very important that the vote of the
city should be got out. We never do get
half of it out. The school census and the
directory show what our population is, but
when We come to the vote we fail. The doctor
said that when he went to Washington to get
further postotfice facilities, he was always
confronted with this small vote, and it could
not be overcome by the directory and the
school census The districts should be
arranged so that all can vote. In his opin-
ion 500 or 600 votes to each precinct would
be sufficient.
Gen. Bishop on being called upon ex-
pressed the same opinions. At this point
the committee retired and left the council to
deal with the matter.
THE COUNCIL ALONE.
Aid. Dowlan made a motion to adopt the
recommendation of the chamber of COM
merce com mittee, but Withdrew it in order to
hear the committee representing meeting
held in the Sixth ward on Wednesday evening.
The question in this ward was whether it
should be decided by an east and west line,
which would cause one district to consist of
the fat and the other Of the hill part of the
ward, or by a north and south line, which
would place half the fat and half the hill in
each district. Judge Wood explained what
was done at the meeting referred to, and de-
clared that the people on the hill and on the
fiat were agreed upon an east and west line.
The interests of the two sections were
separate and always would be, in regard to
assessments. The hill people ought not to
be compelled to pay for certain improve
ments in the fats and vice versa.
Aid. st. Peter intimated that the meeting
referred to by Judge Wood was not public
meeting, and said that if public meeting
was called two-thirds of the people would pre-
fer north and south line to an east and
west one. He thought the Ducas street and
Lexington avenue line the best one.
Aid. Lauderd lie stated that he favored
north and south line, and that an east and
west line would cause local jealousies, which
would be wholly obYiated by a north and
south line.
Mr.. Hare, another member of the West side
committee, also favored the east and west
line.
NORTH AND SOUTH LINE ACCEPTED.
The roll of the council was called, and re-
suited as follows:
In favor of the north and south line: Aid.
Dowlan, Cullen. Otis, Cornish, Johnson,
Van Slyke, Lauderdale, st. Peter, Topping,
Mr.. President-10.
In favor of an east and west line: Aid.
Cummings, OConnor, Starkey-3.
THE ALDERMEN TO FIX THE PRECINCTS.
On motion of Aid. Johnson the matter of
fixing the voting precincts in each ward and
the voting places was referred to the alder
men of each ward, who are to report the dis
tricts to the city attorney, who is to prepare
an ordinance and have it ready to submit to
the council next Tuesday night.
THE SIXTH WARD DIVISION
The division in this ward is to be made by
a line commencing on the south sid lie of the
river on Hubert street, running along that
street to Lexington avenue and thence along
LudI dftuue W Tue southern limit OF the CITY.
THE FIFTH WARD.
The Fifth ward will be divided according
TO the suggestions of the aldermen aud the
recommendation Of the chamber of COM
merce committee into three aldermanic dis
tricts, as follows:
First District Commencing on the river
near the ST. Paul d Duluth road, running
north on that road to Edgerton street; north
on Edgerton street 10 Fauquier street; east
on Fauquier to Payne avenue; thence north
to city limits.
Second District-Commencing at north
city limits on Arcade street, running south
to Francis street; east on Francis street to
Cypress street; thence south on Cypress to
Conway; thence east on Conway to the east
city limits.
Third District-All north and east of the
last described district.
''THE MURDER in West Thirteenth Street,
by Julian Hawthorne, will De published in
the SUNDAY GLOBE March 10.
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