St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-01
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.

| from Josette to Louis street; as to grading
and bridging Western avenue, from Como
avenue to Merrill street; as to opening, widen
! ing and extending front street, from Rice to
| Victoria street; rs to opening, widening and
| extending Josette street, from Martin to
Fuller street; as to constructing sewer on
| Nina avenue, from Laurel to Selby avenue,
and on Selby avenue from Nina avenue to
| Summit avenue, and on Summit avenue
from Selby to Dayton avenue; as TO the con-
demnation of all that part Of block SO OF
Dayton IL Irvine.and Rice & Irvine's addi-
ton to st. Paul lying south OF West Seventh
street Tor public park; the construction of
| sewer on Duke street from Seventh to
Grace streets; as to a change of grade on
| Maple avenue from Seventh street to Hudson
avenue; as to opening and extending Maria
avenue from the present southeasteriy
terminus of said avenue to Etna street; as to
opening, widening and extension of Marshall
| avenve from Victoria street westward to the
city limits 100 feet wide; as TO constructing a
sewer on Oakland street, as now extended
from Floral street to Ramsey street; as to
| grading, paving, curling and constructing
| the necessary retaining wall on Oakland
street as now extended from Ramsey street
to Summit avenue; as to change OF grade on
| Burr street from Minnehaha street to Case
| street.
| APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.
The mayor notified the council that he had
promoted Sergeants Thomas Walsh and Isaac
| ID. Morgan TO lieutenants, and Roundsmen
Dennis Murphy, William Hanft A. NJ. Lowell
and Charles Rauleau to the rank of sergeauts
| of police; also that he had appointed Thomas
| II. Kelly, James Farnen, William S. Bell,
| William Haenck and john Newell patrolmen !;
| also, Mark Costello member of the board
of directors Of the st. Paul workhouse, all Of
which was approved.
TIE ELEVATED RAILROAD.
! The Elevated Railroad company sent in
petition setting forth that it is organized as
a corporation for the purpose of constructing
aud maintaining an elevated railroad from
| some central and convenient point in the
city of st. Paul to like point in Minneap-
| oils, and that it desires To procure from the
| council permission and authority to con-
| struct the road, with one or more tracks, on
Mackuben street, st. Anthony avenue, Rice
| street, Tenth street, Fort street and north
and east of Seventh street, on the streets
mentioned, and east Of jackson. The road
therefore asks that a resolution be adopted
giving the authority asked. The communi-
cation was referred to the committee on
streets and the city attorney.
REFERRED.
The request of John G. Hinkle for the
grading of streets in Union park was re-
| ferred to the committee on streets; Robert
| Coleman'S request for damages for injuries
received while walking on Sibley street, 10
committee on claims; the objections of the
| people on Canada street TO grading that
| street were referred to the board of public
works; the request Of Joseph B. Dow to erect
a frame building was referred to committee
on streets; the request to have the town road
| running north from the center of section 81
town 20, range %, on the half section line
north from University avenue, through the
north half of section 81, section 81, the south
| half Of %, the same being the road that runs
north and south on the west line Of Como
park, was referred TO the committee on
| streets.
NEW POLLING PLACES.
An ordinance was introduced and passed
under suspension of the rules establishing
polling places in the Fourth, Fifth. Sixth and
| Seventh wards. The ordinance in full will
! be found in another column.
MISCELLANEOUS.
returned by the board of public works, as a
different kind OF an order is required. The
board of public works sent back the order in
regard TO opening, widening and straighten-
ing Sixth street between Jackson and Sibley
streets. saying that in the opinion of the
| board the work Is not proper or necessary
aud the city attorney is to take such steps as
are necessary in regard 10 the jog In the
! street there; the ordinance TO allow the
| Memorial English Evangelical Lutheran
church to erect a frame chapel was lost: the
! board OF public works reported against grad
| ing Payne avenue from Magnolia street to
| Maryland street and the matter was referred
TO the alderman from the Fifth ward :
the mayor was authorized to appoint two
boys TO operate the police telegraph; the com
mittee to which the difficulty with the Tele
phone company was referred reported that
the demand of the company for pay for the
telephone boxes used by the city had been
withdrawn and that everything was harmon
ous, was adopted.
An ordinance was adopted that no license
is TO be granted for the sale Of liquor in a
| tact bounded south by the Railroad tracks of
the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis ~ Omaha
road, on the east by line 100 feet west of
Payne avenue, on the west by line 100 feet
east Of Mississippi street, and on the north
by Maryland street. The ordin-
auce in regard 10 plumbing buildings
was amended by authorizing the build
ing inspector to appoint two assistants
when ia his opinion they are needed. The
protest OF Charles Thompson and many 9TH
ers against the location Of the morgue on
Cedar street Has referred to the board OF
health. favorable report was made by the
committee on police alarm, in regard to the
work being done by E. B. Birge on the alarm
boxes. and the same was mpsnied by a
certificate signed by F. B. Jison, saying that
the boxes are ia working order aad that the
system is performing the service that it
claims 70 be able 70 perform, and the same
was accepted. The fire commissioners are
70 build A cistern on the corner OF Kent and
Lafoud streets: the mayor was authorized to
appoint ?. ". Kphoe special police to protect
the Wabasha street bridge from fast driving;
the fire com missiouers were author
lied to purchase 10. and locate
building thereon near Rice
street, in the vicinity of the Manitoba tracks,
and place thereon a 60-gallou chemical en-
gine with company fully equipped TIE
com mittee on streets and the CITY engineer
are to confer with the contractor and the gov
eminent engineer for the improvement Of
tie Mississippi river in regard - the material
taken from the river. The city engineer vas
instructed To report 4 grade for a number Of
avenues aud streets in the Seventh ward
also, on Acker street from Mississippi street
to CORTLAND street. The committee on parks
was authorized to spend $4,000 on Rice, Ir-
vine md summit parks and Summit and
Lafayette squares. Il was resolved that TIE
board 81 public works cause the leyee in
West s.; Paul to be graded, aud let the con
tract a. soon as possible. An ordinance vas
adopted regulating the sale OF fresh meat,
game or oouitry An aDuDiutmect was