St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-17
THE CITY COUNCIL.
A Large Batch of New Improve
meuts Recommended.

Eleven members of the council were
present at the regular meeting last evening:
The Gas Light company submitted a state
ment of the present inadequate system of
| lighting st. Paul and suggesting changes,
offering alterations in present contract to
conform to any changes that might be
made. A petition for a license for saloon
on Superior street brought out strenuous
objections from residents of that street who
were heard. claiming names were obtained
to the petition by fraud. When both sides
had been heard the matter went to the
license committee.
The plumbers petitioned for more certain
and definite ordinances relating, t9 Gal'csoc,nn -
ssiSting of Aid. Dowlan. Petsch, Cullen.
Sanbom. Van Slyke, Minea and Long.
An ordinance was passed granting the
North American Telegraph company the
privilege TO erect poles i'm the street
Joseph Cline. special policeman during
the carnival, asked for remuneration for
doctors bills and loss of time for being
knocked over by toboggan while on duty.
The building Inspectors report for 1885
showed that 5000. so had been received as
fees during that year.
An ordinance submitted by the corpora
tiou attorney provided for the change of the
names of a large number of streets i'm the
outlying portions of the city, in order TO
avoid two streets of the same name and
confusion of names on the same street.
The matter was referred to the committee
on streets.
The board of public works reported hay
ing secured the following assistants in their
office at the stated salary per month: A.
w. Mortensen, $50; w. +. Erwin. 500; w.
ii. Farnhan, 500; r. Erwin, $50. APP
proved.
IMPROVEMENTS ORDERED.
The following improvements were Or
dered in compliance with report of the
board of public works:
Grading Grotto street. from Goodrich TO
Marshall avenue; opening an alley eighteen
feet wide in block II, St. Paul proper:
constructing a sewer i'm Sixth street from
Wabasha TO st. Peter; extending the sewer
IN Westminster street southwark: construct
ing sewer i'm Bluff street, between Rice and
st. Peter; TO condemn easements for slopes in
warsaw street, between st. Clair and the
Chicago, Milwaukee a. St. Paul railway
track, and in st. Clair, between
Lexington avenue and Ann street:
to open, widen and extend Maryland street
sixty feet wide. from Lake Como 10 west line
OF sections 30 and 20; also Arundel street,
from Como avenue TO Minnehaha street. The
improvement previously ordered i'm the Open
ing, widening and extending OF st. Adams
street was countermanded. The city clerk
was authorized 10 buy fifteen copies of the
new county atlas for the use of the alder
men. The old building at 1874 West Third
street was ordered removed within five days
NEW WORK RECOMMENDED.
The following new improvements were re-
ferred 10 the board of public works to in
vestigate and report: Change OF grade on
Edgerton street. from Minnehaha to Wells:
grading Blair street, from Como avenue TO
Victoria street.; sewer on Cedar, from Third
TO Fourth; grading Arundel, from Marshall
avenue 10 Minnehaha street; widening Como
ana Pleasant avenues; change of grade on
Burr street. from Whitehall to York:
sewer on Carroll street from Rice to Western:
grading Minnehaha street from Western to
smelling avenues; grading Rondo street from
Kent to Dale; grading ST. Anthony avenue
from Rice to Oxford; opening and widening
Arthur avenue from Gates TO Concord: Rrad-
ing Fairfield avenue from Dakota to State;
sewers in Josette from Rondo to Fuller.
in Marion from Fuller to Thomas, i'm Martin
from Mackubin to Rice, in Fuller from
Kent TO Rice, IN Aurora from Kent to Rice.
in University from Kent TO Rice. i'm
Ellen from Kent 70 Rice, in Charles from
Dale to Rice, I'm Edmund from Kent 10 Rice.
in Thomas from Rice to Dale, in La Fond from
western to Dale. in Harrington from Fuller To |
Ellen, i'm Western from Thomas to Rondo. I'm
Arundel from G. aries to La Fond, Nash from |
Mississippi to L'Orient: cgrad ng Arson from
Dakota to Concord; grading Plato from
Dakota 10 Eaton; grading Plato from Dakota
TO Starkey.