St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-11


| having Investigated the proposed improve
ment, respectfully report that said i'm
provement is necessary and proper. from
Selby Avenue 10 Dale street with asphalt
! pavement and granite curbing; that
the estimated expense thereof is S91, 621,
one-half of which need not be paid into the
! City Treasury before the contract is let;
| that real estate to be assessed therefor can
be found benefited to the extent of the
costs and expenses necessary to
be incurred thereby; that said Improvement
is asked for by petition of a majority
OF the owners of property to be assessed
therefor, and we herewith send plan or
! profile of said improvement, and an order
for your adoption, ii you desire us to make
| the Improvement. Yeas 5, nays /. (Mr.
Hoyt.)
In the matter of the foregoing report Oh
the paving of Summit Avenue from Selby
Avenue To Dale street, with asphalt pave
ment and granite curbng. Mr. Barrett
asked leave and was granted permission to
| send the following report to the Council. as
| explanatory to his vote in said matter,
! to-wit:
| desire to state in writing the reason for
my vote upon the preliminary order of the
| Common Council for THE paving of Summit
! Avenue from Selby Avenue to Mackubin
street. with asphalt or other suitable
pavement, with granite curbing," approved
! April I, 1856, and L respectfully ask that
this statement may be spread upon the
records of the Board, and transmitted with
said order to the Common Council
together. with sSaid order the board now
| have before it for its consideration and
action, petition purporting to be signed
| by the owners of a ma ority of the frontage
| abuttlng on Summit Avenue, from Selby
| Avenue to Dale street. respectfully asking
to have said Summit Avenue between the
points last above named, paved with
asphalt, with granite curbing.
l think it may be proper and necessary to
improve Summit Avenue from Selby
Avenue to Dale street, with some suitable
pavement, with granite curbing, and | think
it ought to be done the present season and
without unnecessary delay; but / am not
AT the present time, upon the information |
now have, prepared to say. without Qualifi-
cation and without condition, that it is
either proper or necessary to pave any por-
| ton OF Summit Avenue with asphalt (Sheet
asphaitum.)
From my own observation and eXamina-
ton Of asphalt pavement laid in other cit
les, | am as yet far from the opinion that
| aSphelt pavementS have thus fars i'll any
city where it has been laid. proved to be
| success. That it is possible to lay a good
pavement with asphalt l admit, but l
claim that the goodness. durability and de-
STABILITY of all asphalt pavement very
! largely depend upon conditions which re-
quire the very best experience of experts i'll
the proper preparation and mixture of the
aSphaltum with the other ingredients of the
asphalt cushion or SuperStructure, and that
as yet the experience of the very best eX-
pavements in such way that they will
neither crack nor crumble. Until this can
be done the public must be more or less
frequently annoyed and Inconvenience by
the unsightly appearance and nosome odors
of burning asphalt kettles moving from
place to place upon the streets to make the
repairs necessitated by the cracking and
diSntegratiOn of the asphalt pavement
| cannot but think that asphalt pave
mentS are, as yet simply experiments, and
l do not think it wise or eXpedient, at the
present time, to experiment with any kind
of a pavement that will cost the property
owners from 50 to SO per front foot.
These opinions may be erroneous. If
this shall be fairly demonstrated by the
laying of a satisfactory, durable and perma-
nent asphalt pavement upon Summit Ave
nue., no one will experience greater pleas
ure or more cheerfully acknowledge the
error of his opinion than myself, and there
fore reluctantly consent, so far as my own
vote and action are concerned, that the
preliminary order above referred to may be
returned to the Council with a favorable
report but upon the express understand
ing that this action does not receive my APP
probation, in fact that it is against my best
Judgment
| | consent to this action solely for the
reason that the owners of Il MA orlty of the
frontage of the property abutting on Sum-
nit Avenue, between oelby Avenue and
Dale street. have petitiOned the Board of
Public Works, over their own signatures, to
have said Summit Avenue, between points
named. paved with asphalt pavement and
granite curbs. This action of the petition
ers is based upon the report of committee
appointed by the petitioners to examine
into and report upon the deSirability OF the
asphalt and other pavementS. After some
weeks OF discussion among the parties in
tereSted in the improvements ono one has aD-
peared before the Board, personally Or in
writing, to protest against the pavement of
Summit Avenue with asphalt. | therefore
f assume that it may be fairly inferred that ii
is the desire of very large majority of the
, property owners on Summit Avenue to have
that street paved with asphalt
+ As they tthe property ownerS) are more
, deeply interested, pecuniarily and other
wise than any one else i'll the kind of pave
/ ment to be laid on that street. and as they
| will have to pay for the pavement, [ think
, under the circumstances and for the reasons
t herein stated. it is proper if not best that
g their expressed wishes should be considered
f and that they should be permitted to have
| the asphalt pavement.
2 WILLIAM B ARRETT.
The Engineer having submitted plan of
e land to be taken for the opening, widening
: and extension Of Phalen Avenue, from
f Maria Avenue, from Mclean street to
e Lizzie street, the same were referred to the
A Assessment Committee.
, The Engineer having submitted plan OF
D land to be taken for the opening and extern
sion of Prairie street. from Douglas street
! to West Seventh street, the same was re,
t ferred to whole Board to view, and the
Clerk was directed to notify the property
owners on said Prairie street, between
Douglas street and Goodrich Avenue, to bC
present on the 14th inst, at $50 p. NJ
when said matter will come up for con-
| sideration.
a In the matter of the proposed grading
+ and guttering of Thirteenth street, from
1 hODerb SlTeeI 10 JdckSOn STREET.-THE
: Second Ward member having reported
the following was ordered sent to thu
f Council. tO-wit:
4 To the Common Council of the City of St
: Paul:
t The Board of Public Works have hat
e under consideration the resolution or orde
S of the Common Council, approved Januar,
Il %, 1886. relative to the grading and gutter
| ing of Thirteenth Q3th) street, from Rober
s street to Jackson street. and having in
e veStigated the proposed improvement. re
: specially report that said improve
II ment is necessary and proper; that the est
mated expense thereof is 81, $40. one-hal
of which need not be paid into the Cit,
Treasury before the contract is let
S that real estate to be assessed therefor
can be found benefited to the exten
+. of the costs and expenses necessary t.
be incurred Thereby; that said improve