St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-05
STILL SEEKING SITES.
Several Plans PrOposed--Can Conn
Gil Aid the ExpOsiIiOnI

The conference yesterday morning of the
council and exposition committees on site
resulted only in the proposals of three or
four sites and in the development of the
fact that several obstacles are in the way of
the purchase, by council, of the site. 1t
was developed also that of the six alder
men present no one knew just how far the
city could go in issuing bonds to reach the
8 per cent limit prescribed by law. At
the opening OF the conference the following
proposals for sites were submitted:
Z. II. Petit, j. NJ. Robinson. W. S.
Ankeny, the estate of w. p. Ankeny and
Others proposed to sell block ia for
$3.50, 900. The block is on the east side of
Washington avenue, between Ninth and
Tenth avenues south.
Block 2. in Hoag's addition, between
First and Second avenues north and Fifth
and Sixth streets, was offered by the Nc
Nair estate and Camp & Walker for $780,
900.
j. NJ. Robinson offered the block bounded
by Sixth and Seventh avenues and Seventh
and Eighth streets south for S165. 600.
Col. King submitted a proposition from
the East side people to take the ground oc-
cupied by the old Winslow house, the Cat
aract engine house site and part of Mar
ket square, making piece Of ground ASK
$50 feet.
THE EAST SIDE PEOPLE
propose to buy and donate the Winslow
house. DR.. Chute will take ground else
where in exchange for the Market property
and the city can donate the engine house
site.
Mr.. Gale said a proposition would come
in for the block in which the Centenary
Methodist church is located and he thought
it would be rated at $3.50, 900. The owners
of the adjoining block to the east, that
bounded by First and Second avenues ard
and Sixth and Seventh streets. had can
vassed among themselves and found the cost
would reach over $500. 600.
An extensive argument was made by Col.
King in favor of the East side proposition
as being the best and cheapest in sight.
| He did not believe council could do all that
had been expected and this proposition was
alone tenable. Aid. Sly supported it and
held that council could not at this time
issue bonds for sum necessary to purchase
a site and at the same time prosecute its
proposed public improvements. AS far as
he could figure, the last issue of bonds
brought the city up to the limit of per
cent. on the assessed valuation; next year
the assessment would be increased So, 600,
600, which would give an additional $780,
600.
Gen. Washburn was surprised at the tone
taken by Aid. Sly and Col King. which
showed certainly sudden change of senti-
ment. He went on to argue in favor of a
central location as indispensable to success.
The East Iside had nothing to present, no
hotels and nothing but the elevation and adj
vertisement of the location. He gave that
division general oyerhauling, and pro-
posed If the gates were opened to throw the
matter open to competition all over the city.
having no doubt complete site would be
donated and bonus paid beside.
Aid. Eichhorn said he was surprised to
learn from Col. King and Aid. Sly that the
city council would not aid in this enter
prise. He had opposed it himself until he
learned his constituency were in favor of it
and now believed the people at large favored
it. In his mind the city
WOULD LOSE NOTHING,
as the exposition will pay Az per cent
each year, as rental, until the bonds issued
by the city We're paid. Aid. Sly Ieaped to
his feet and said he wanted to set himself
right and state his position; he was willing
to vote an issue of bonds lust as soon as
any business man could show him how the
city could do so and yet carry on the con-
templsted public improvements. Col. King
supplemented this with the statement thar
| If any expectation existed Of the expose