St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-30
COMMITTEE DAY.
A Vast Amount of Business Pre-
pared for the Council.

A Vast Amount of Business Pre-.
pared for the Council.
The committee rooms in the city hall pre-
scented very lively aspect yesterday. II
was committee day, and vast amount OF
business was proposed for the regular
meeting of the council tomorrow evening.
The first to get down to business was the
committee on roads and bridges. Shakes
peare's much Ado About Nothing" may
be applicable, for the delegation from the
Third ward was legion. 1t appeared to
lobby for or against the proposed extension
OF Plymouth avenue to the city limits. S.
G. Gale and long list headed the delega-
ton asking the extension, and r. F. Pratt
was most lOquaciOus in his opposition. The
committee seemed undecided and took no
positive position in the premises.
The committee on water works decided
to allow George A. Waters claim of $40
for damages received by running into an
excavation in street where no lights had
been posted. 1t was also decided to rec
Ommend laying water mains in Fifteenth
street from Sixth to Seventh avenues south;
in Eleventh street from Nicollet to First
avenue south; in Fifteenth street from Vine
to Spruce place.
The committee on fire department aud
tied lot of bills and opened the following
bids for building hose house on Cedar
lake road, the structure to be of brick, 3Sx
IS feet and two stories in height, on good
rock foundation:
ID. j. Bauman. ................. ATS 90
For extra Stonework, per perch. 49,. 2 rs
John l.. Owens. Observation-Disclosures. 6,7O0 90
Tanning s. Kilgore. S,735 10
Extra masonry, per perch. ...... 2 on
Extra grading, per yard. 80
u. y. blADy. $500 w
Extra masonry, per perch. .......... 2 90
The committee on public grounds and
buildings audited number of bills fol-
work done on the city hall, but did not de-
eide upon the appointment Of an engineer.
The matter of the protest entered by the
Edison and other electric light companies,
against the use of the Brush-Swan mean
descent light on the ground that it is an
infringement, was brought up, and the
Brush company consented to have inserted
in the contract clause protecting the city
from all costs of litigation, upon which it
was decided to award the contract.
The committee on streets, grades and adj
ditiOns decided to recommend the adoption
of plats of additions to the city as follows:
Gates Bros Encouragement of block Z in
Washington Gales addition; Sides addi-
ton; Provo's addition; subdivision of lots
5, 6, and in block Is, Cobb's addition;
James Stinson's boulevard addition. They
will recommend also the vacation of an
alley in block 25 in Highland park.
In the plat of Wizards addition, Richard
sons Second addition and j. S. TOdd's addi.
ton it was alleged that an error of seven
teen feet had been made in the survey,
making a seventeen-foot jog in the street.
Consequently the engineer was instructed
to resurvey the same and correct the error.
The committee on markets had before
it the ordinance creating a North side
city market and decided to discard it and
enact an ordinance precisely like the Central
market ordinance, except as to designation
of boundary lines, etc.