St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-22
ORDINANCE NIGHT.


last evening. and Clerk PrendergaSt read
and re-read ordinances until his voice was
husky Estimate No. S on the Robert street
bridge, amounting to S. was allowed
and warrant ordered drawn in favor of the
Morse Bridge company for that amount.
The following improvements were ordered:
Opening and extending Mississippi street,
from Broadway TO Nash; sewer ON jackson
street, between Tenth aud Eleventh streets.
The directors of ST. Luke's hospital were
granted permission to erect d hospital build
ing at the corner of Prairie and Douglass
streets The board of health recommended
the opening of an alley in block %, Archs
subdivision of Lyman Dayton's addition and
the construction of a sewer on Eighth street,
between Robert aud Jackson streets The
necessary orders were sent to the board OF
public works for the same.
An ordinance authorizing the Minnesota
& Northwestern Railway company to erect
wooden bridge over its tracks on State
street, wooden bridge so feet i'll width,
with IS feet roadway and feet sidewalks
on each side, was passed under SuSpen-
sion of the rules. The bridge, in five
wears. is to be replaced with a bridge such
as the council shall direct. and the ordi-
nance is to be accepted within sixty days
after its passage. The ordinance granting
the St Paul Heat and Power company the
right TO erect buildings for storing natural
gas and TO lay pipes, etc., was passed.
The ordinance gives the company the eX-
elusive right Tor fifteen years, at the end OF
which time the city shall have the right to
purchase the plant. the amount to be agreed
upon by commissioners. The privileges
granted in the ordinance are not to be op-
eratiye in any manner until the company
shall satisfy the council that natural gas
has been discovered i'll such rea-
sonable quantities as will furnish
supply. which shall be made
and demonstrated before Jan. 1, 1888.
The ordinance granting the st. Paul City
Railway company the right to maintain and
operate a cable line was read and approved.
There was deal of discussion over certain
sections of the ordinance, especially to
section which provided that i'll case any of
the streets over which the line was to run
should not be graded or bridged prior to
July l, 1887, the company was to have four
months exclusive of the winter months)
after the grading and bridging to complete
the line Aid. Starkey said this was
wrong. The scheme was
REAL ESTATE SPECULATION
from beginning to end, and the council had
no right to call upon the property owners
to pay for the grading of streets which were
to be opened, not for the benefit of the pub
lie, but simply that the road could be built.
The proper way to do was to wait until
the property owners asked for the grading.
Aid. Kerr said the property was owned by
four or five persons, and they were inter
ested more than the city was. The line
would help build up the city, and he
had been informed the company
would not accept the ordinance if
the section was stricken out. He had la
bored long and earnestly in preparing the
ordinance. had finally secured the three
cent fare from 6 to o'clock In the morning
and evening. and hoped the ordinance
would pass as read. Aid. Smith said he
could not vote for the ordinance unless the
section regarding the substitution at some
future time of an electric motor for cable
cars. was stricken out. The people in his
section wanted cable line, but no electric
motor. The two sections debated were
ordered stricken out and the ordinance then
passed.
1t gives the company the right to con-
struct. operate and maintain a motor or rail-
way line, to be operated by steam, cable, cleo
tricity, pneumatic or any pow besides animal
power The cable line to be constructed
within the following limits, viz: On West
Seventh street. from Seven corners west
erly 10 Ramsey street; thence on Ramsey
street to Oakland street; thence on Oakland
street to Grand avenue; thence on Grand
avenue to Victoria street. The motor line
shall be constructed from Victoria street on
Grand avenue to Manchester avenue; thence
northerly on Manchester avenue, when ex-
tended to Leslie avenue, when extended; and
thence westerly along Leslie avenue when
extended, to Cleveland avenue; thence across
o.
tended, 1920 feet more or less, to the west
line of the east half OF the northeast quarter
of section ). township q, of range %; and
thence north or northwesterly to the foot of
the first line of hills east OF the bank of the
Mississippi river aud nearly parallel thereto;
thence along the foot OF said line of hills to
the west limits of said city; provided, that the
said line shall not be located at any point
nearer than 600 feet TO the top of the bank of
the Mississippi river.
The company is to have the cable line in
operation on or before Nov. l, 1889, and
the motor line shall be in operation by Nov.
l. 1887. After five years from the COM
pIeti0n of the motor the company shall dis
continue the use of steam in operating the
motors. whenever the council order it. and
thereafter shall use cable or other power.
An ordinance granting the street railway
company the right to lay double track on
HOD6lb Street, lIOlu C6fciln SlT6Sb W Tic
bridge, was passed. A resolution author
izing the appropriation of Sis. 900. to be
expended by the carnival directors
AT THE ICE PALACE,
brought Col Allen before the council as a
committee from the directors. Col. Allen
said there was no doubt that the ice
palace last year was of vast benefit to the
city and business men. The directors this
year had about $4,000 on hand. and as it
was intended to make the thing free, the
directors would ask the city for about
SIS, 900. He asked that spe-
cial committee from the coun-
ell be appointed to meet with
the carnival directors. The matter was re-
ferred to the committee on ways and means.
The special committee to whom was re-
ferred the purchasing of hay and wood
markets submitted a report in favor of es-
tabliShing four markets at the following
points: one in the Third or Fourth ward, in
the vicinity of Rice street; one in the First
district of the Fourth ward. in the vicinity
of West Seventh street; one in the First or
Fifth wards, in the vicinity of Mississippi
street, and one in the Sixth ward. The
committee selected lots Z. 8. 9, 10. II and
u. block 4. Robertson q Vanetten's addi-
ton as a site for market in the northern
part of the city, but has not made selec-
tons for any of the other proposed mar
kets, and ask further time for that purpose.
The resolution vacating Greenbrier avenue,
between Margaret and Minnehaha streets,
caused a deal of discussion. John d.
O'Brien, J. J. Lemon, +. P. Wright and
w. E. Ladd appearing and protesting
against the vacation on behalf of the prop
erty owners and the DaytOn's Bluff union.
The talk. however. had seemingly no effect,
for the resolution was passed by vote of
- to /, Aid. Starkey voting in the mega
tive. Thomas Brennan was awarded the
contract for furnishing the city with lumber
for the ensuing year. The figures in the
bid were. all pine lumber Is feet and under,
c1150 per 1000 feet; pine, 20 and % feet
$3.50; oak. 30 feet and under, $22; COM
mon stock, and AKA feet long, S25; all
lumber surfaced one side. 81 per Thousand
extra The communication from the fire
commissioners, relative to the sale of the