St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-17
the oath of Office as alderman and assumed
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The board is ordered to do the followir

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BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The board is ordered to do the following
work:
To construct sewers on Exchange street,
Wabasha to St. Peter street; Iglehart street,
st. Peter to Wabasha street; Eleventh street,
from Trout brook to Broadway; Iglehart
street, Arundel street to 100 feet west; to
open, widen and extend st. Anthony avenue,
Rice street to Lexington avenue; Josette
street, Martin to Fuller street; Ducas street,
Plato to Eaton avenue; Holly avenue, Avon
to Victoria street; an alley through block 8,
Robert & Randall's addition; to grade Earl
street, Seventh to Beach street, and an alley
in block 10, Ewing & Chute's addition; lower,
repair and relay the sewer on Robert street,
from ITO feet north of Seventh street to the
Sixth street sewer.
The same board was ordered to investi-
gate and report as to the following improve
mentS:
Opening, widening and extending Thomas
street, western avenue to Como avenue;
changing grade on Magnolia street, DeSoto TO
Broadway; Bradley street, Magnolia to Jessa-
mine street; opening and extending Bradley
street; grading Agate street, CORTLAND to
Case street; Jessamine street, Forest to
Edgerton street; Payne avenue, Magnolia to
Maryland street; Greenbrier street, York
street to Maryland street; grading Prescott
street, Oakdale avenue to Campbell street;
Sycamore street, Sylvan to CORTLAND street;
Concord street, Cambridge street to east city
limits; Forest street, Case to Maryland street;
State street, Susan street to the south end OF
State street.
REFERRED.
A communication from the mayor, no.
tifying the council that Police Officer Will
liam Bell had resigned and that he had ap-
pointed Adolph G. Feise to fill the vacancy,
was referred to the committee on police;
the petition of Alfred S. Hall, asking for
an order for $926.0S, to committee on
claims; remonstrance of property owners
to change of grade on Burr street, to board
of public works; the request of John Ker-
win and others for an alley through block
S, Robert & Randalls addition, to commit
tee on fire department.; the proposition Of
l. r. Jenkins to maintain and operate the
police alarm system and furnish battery,
material, elc., to committee ON police; the
protest Of Frederick Siebold and others,
protesting against the conversion of pOr-
ton of Sixth street into park, to commit
tee on streets; the old claim of John E.
O'Brien for damages by water to a building
in the rear of the present GLOBE building,
to the committee on claims; the request for
two boys to be appointed to aid the pound
master, to committee ON police; the request
of A. W. Martinson and others to put Liv-
ingston avenue in passable condition, to
committee on streets;lthe petition of I.V.D.
Heard and others for a grade on Goodrich
street to committee on streets; the repair Of
Langford avenue, Dale street, Lake Como
and Lake Phalen avenues and Smelling ave-
nue., to committee on streets.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The following bids were received, opened
and read for paving the grounds north of
the market house, and then referred to the
committee on public buildings and the city
engineer: j. 81. Fielding, So, 40; William
Forrestal, $1,795; Forrestal Bros, $2,0S5;
j. J. Palmer, $2,7S7; S. P. Folsom, Jr.,
So, 949; A. Jacks, $1,97s.
The following bids were received, opened
and read for sweeping machines, and then
referred to the committee on streets and the
city engineer: Cooper & Walsh, four-horse
machines, $500; two-horse machines, $500;
L. P. Wright & Son, $4,000; w. G. CAST
Ter, $500.
Third street, between Robert and jack
son street, is to be sprinkled; John Wag-
ener's request to construct frame buildings
on the line of the Seventh street fill was re-
fused; George Presley was allowed to raise
his one-story kitchen; E. B. Birge was ap-
pointed superintendent of police patrol tele-
graph, subject to removal, etc.; John Helm
lein is allowed to single building; the
publishers of the Volkszeitung are to pub
lish all confirmation and election notices or
proposals for contract work not to exceed
three times, to be paid for at the same rates
as in the official paper; no relief is to be
granted to Marcella Deavitt for water rum
ming into her premises; Market and Wash
ingtOn streets, between Fourth and Fifth
streets, are not to be paved; an ordinance
was adopted forbidding the authorities to
issue more than six hundred licenses for
selling liquor in the city before 1887, and di-
recting that the present holders of licenses
have the preference;the grade of Louis street,
from Rondo to Fuller street, was adopted;
two electric lights are to be placed in Irvine
park; Mrs. Christina Siebert is authorized to
erect two-story brick veneered dwelling
house; the city engineer is to repair Lake
Como and Lake Phalen avenues west Of
Rice street; also, to repair Smelling avenue;
an order is to be drawn in favor Of Mayor
Rice for 81. 600 as a contingent fund.- the
committee on police is to report what action
is necessary to be taken to place Merr lam
and Union parks, the Minnesota Transfer
etlk 1dAlhlAO uuuOl pOllCO uldtlOIi, dill
order is to be drawn in favor of John Clark
chief of police, for 500, as contingent
fund; the condition in which the water
company left Mississippi street was re-
ferred to the engineer; the protest
against improving Dawson street was sus-
tanned; John Nelson is not to be
allowed to erect hay scales on an alley in
block 10, Bronson's addition; recommen-
dalton from the health officer that the pest
house be located on the poor farm was re-
ferred to the board Of health; the mayors
communication sending in resolution from
the Taxpayers union in regard to taxation
was received and referred to the committee
on taxes with instructions to notify Mr.. w.
F. Mason when the committee will hold a
meeting; the city engineer is to construct a
slope wall on Seventh street near Hoffman
avenue.
The Appointment Satisfactory.
The announcement yesterday afternoon
Of the appointment of William J. Whipple
as postmaster of Winona, vice Daniel Sin
clair, suspended, it may be presumed for
offensive partisanship" in that he edited a
Republican paper, revived political gossip
about the state, which has been for some
time lying dormant. Mr.. Whipple was the
candidate who received the indOrsemeDt Of