St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-13
AS TO STREET PAVING.
The Chamber of Commerce Recon
siders Its Former Action.

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siders Its Former Action.
That which claimed and occupied the
principal attention of the chamber of COM
merce, yesterday morning, was the consid-
Grafton of the matter of paving streets, and
the proposition of widening Eighth and
Minnesota streets. On the 9th of Febru-
airy last, the committee to whom was re-
ferred the matter of street paving for the
year 1856, made report in which it stated
that there is an urgent necessity for the inn
prOvement of all the streets within the
business district not already paved, and
recommended specifically that a pavement
be laid upon all the streets. except
those that are already paved be-
tween Seventh and Third: Broadway
and the Seven Corners, including RoSabel,
WacOuta, Minnesota, Cedar, Wabasha,
Market, Washington. Franklin and EX-
change streets, Jackson street from Third
street to the levee, Robert street from Sew
enth to University avenue, Sixth street
from Wabasha street to College avenue.
Third street from Pleasant avenue to Sum-
nit, Dayton avenue from Third street TO
Dale and Summit avenue from Rice street
to Mackubin street.
This report was adopted on the 29th of
March after considerable discussion. and
afterwards was reconsidered and referred
back to the same committee, which yester-
day reported again. renewing its former
recommendation with a few notifications,
viz: That as the construction of the GLOBE
building on the corner of Cedar and Fourth
streets has been commenced, and as the
court house is being constructed on the
opposite corner, the paving of Cedar street
be omitted; that on account of the steep
grade between Oak street and College
avenue the paving should stop at Oak
street; that Seventh street, from the end of
the bridge over the st. Paul, Minneapolis
u Manitoba road to Earl street, by paved.
On motion of Mr.. Murray it was deter
mined to consider the matter, street by
street. and on his motion the paving of
Jackson street, from Third to the levee,
was stricken out from the list. DR.. Day
moved to strike out Dayton avenue and ar
gued in favor of his motion that all the
streets and avenues on the hill should be
paved at the same time. After some de-
bate this was lost.
DR.. Day wanted to see if members meant
business and therefore moved to pave all
streets between Nelson and Summit ave-
nues and Dale street. This motion was put
without discussion and lost by a vote that
left no room for doubt as to the sentiment
of the board. On motion of Mr.. Bacon it
was decided to pave Summit, from Waba-
sha to Dale. and then it was decided with
out discussion to strike out Cedar, between
Third and Fifth streets. The committey
on streets, roads and parks, reinforced be
Capt. Blakely, Capt. Berkey p. Ii. Kelly,
William Lindeke, Ansel Oppenheim, w.
+. Phelps, Claiming Seabury, Mr.. Somers,
II. Z. Stevens and E. 7. Winter was re-
quested to do all it could to induce the coun-
Gil and board of public works to hurry all
their work through as fast as possible
With the exceptions and notifications
above enumerated the report of the COM
mittee on streets, roads and parks was
adopted.
WIDENING MINNESOTA AND EIGHTH.
Some time ago Mr.. Fairchild offered a
a resolution to widen Eighth and Minnesota
street to eighty feet. After some discus
sion the matter was referred to the COM
mittee on streets, roads and parks, which
yesterday reported adversely, and the re-
port was adopted.
A committee of three members of the
chamber are to be appointed by the presi-
dent to attend general meeting of the
ranchmen of Montana to be held next Mon
day at Miles City, and consult with the
ranchmen as to the feasibility of establish
ing a live stock market in st. Paul.
Mr.. McClung was appointed to 60 to
Mankato to attend the waterways conYen-
ton to be held there.