St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-01
OFFICIAL.
Proceedings Of the Common Council.
Adjourned Meeting.

7:30 o'clock p. IN.
The Council met pursuant to adjourn
Inent.
President Smith in the chair.
Present-Ald. Cummings, Dowlan, OCon-
nor, Petsch, Cullen, Kerr, Sanborn, john
Son, Van Slyke. Kahn. Starkey, Bryant,
Long, Mr.. President-14.
COMMUNICATIONS.
To the Honorable, the President and Com
mon Council of the City Of st. Paul:
l herewith return without my approval.
Ordinance No. :. permitting NJ. E. Rob
tnson to move back and raise small frame
building" and Ordinance No. =, giving
authority and permission to w. P. COckey
TO remove a frame building" for the reason
shat the preliminary publication of notice
required by Section 6 of Article 26, en-
itled Fire Limits" had not been COM
piled with, my views on this subject hav-
ing been submitted at length to your Hon
srable Body in my message of March 81,
snd which was read at the meeting of the
Common Council on the 9th inst.
EDMUND RICE, Mayor.
April 26, 1886.
Accepted and acted upon as follows:
Vote by which ordinance permitting Mary
Z. Robinson to move and raise building,
stc., was passed. escinded-Yeas IA.
The said ordinance being put on its pas
sage, the veto of the Mayor to the contrary
Notwithstanding, was lost. Yeas l, nays Is.
Vote by which ordinance permitting w.
P Cockey to move frame building was
passed reconsidered. Yeas IA.
The said ordinance being put on its pas
age, the veto of the Mayor to the contrary
Notwithstanding, was lost. Yeas 0, nays IA.
Veto
cannot approve in its present form the
ordinance No. =, entitled IAN ordinance
D prohibit the opening of barber shops on
he Lords day, commonly called Sunday"
After reciting thai a majority of the bar
Aers of the city of ST. Paul have petitioned
ne Common Council for the passage Of
UGH an ordinance, section 1 pro vides that
/ shall be unlawful to keep open barber
Aop or place of business on that day, or to
10 or perform, or to permit to be done there
n, any barber business of any kind"
dther by the owner, journeyman barber
,r any other person. whether an emplOye or
otherwise, within the limits of the city. on
Sunday, and in section 2 the penalty pre-
scribed for a violation of such ordinance is
3ot exceeding S25, nor less than $40. This
would prevent a barber from shaving him
yelf on Sunday, either in his own shop or
elsewhere; a traveller or sick person
could not have the services of a barber
however urgent the necessity, nor serve
himself even in barber shop. The pro-
Tision is more stringent than the law of
5ne state, which is as follows: ''Section
s25 Code Servile Labor: All labor
IN Sunday is prohibited, excepting works
Df necessity OF charity. In works of
necessity or charity is included whatever is
needful during the day for the good order,
health or comfort OF the community"
think the ordinance in question should
make an exception in favor of travellers
and sick persons, and be i'll effect as broad
as the law quoted. / understand that the
BARRIERS claim that they are overworked,
md need the rest. recreation and oppor-
}unity to participate in divine worship
which that day affords. My sympathy is
with them, and if they are of one mind
they can arrange with their employers to
so adjust their business by laying Off por
lion of their employees each Sunday, as
TO give this privilege in turn to
them all. The employers ought to
consent to this without any ordinance
on the subject. Public sentiment would
sustain them. Their sympathy should be
with all their men who perform their duty.
The barborS are an important and worthy
class Of men and their skilled services are
very necessary to the cleanliness, comfort,
and health of large portion of the male
public, majority of whom. doubt not,
are in sympathy with them also, and will
as far as is reasonably practicable, conform
to their wishes. 1t is a very difficult thing
to draw a line where necessity begins or
= ends on the subject in question, but
there cannot be much question about the
necessity of travellers being accommodated,
nor where the needs of invalids commence.
1t said that the BARRIERS employed will not
complain nor prosecute when only travellers
or invalidS are served, but to make it safe
for those who do serve them against prose-
rution, that stipulation should be in the Or
finance itself, because it will be readily
seen that the BARRIERS Union" nor any
person, can prevent any citizen who chooses
10 do so, from making a complaint and
prosecuting for violation of the law. 1t
would be better, | think, for the employer
and employees to agree upon terms satisfac-
tory to themselves and the patrons of the
former, if possible, rather than rely upon
law of compulsion, the constitution and
application of which must be left largely to
circumstances.
EDMUND RICE. Mayor.
Accepted and the vote by which said Or
dinance was passed reconsidered. Yeas
IA.
The said ordinance being put on its pass
lge, the veto Of the mayor to the contrary
Notwithstanding, was lost. Yeas-none,
hays, IA.
The matter was thereupon referred to
Aid. Kahn.
From John Belisle-
For permission to repair frame building.
Committee on Fire Department.
From 1. E. Atherton and Others
Relative to the construction of an iron
bridge on Reaney street.
Referred TO City Engineer and Corpora
lion Attorney to report at the next regular
meeting.
i'rom ". L. Perkins and Others
Giving their consent to the erection of
frame dwelling as asked for by W. 2. jew
EFT.
Accepted.
From W. P. Jewett-
For permission to erect frame dwelling
house on the corner of Ninth and Temper
ance streets.
Granted. (See ordinance No. 654.)
From Edward Langevin-
For permission to remove frame build
ing.
Granted. (See ordinance No. 653.)
From A. B. Stickney, President Mime
sofa 81 Northwestern Railroad
Plans and specifications of the proposed
bridge over the tracks of the said company
on DucaS street.
Committee on Streets
REPORT OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Grove Street Grading
To the Common Council of the City of ST..
Paul:
The Board of Public Works have had I'M
der consideration the resolution or order of
the Common Council, approved March 4,
1885, relative to the grading of Pearl street
(nOw Grove street,, from Canada street to
west line of Metcalf q Smiths addition,
and Grove street. from west line of
Metcalf & Smiths addition to
west line of Broadway, and having investi-
gated the proposed improvement, re-
spectfully report that said improvement is
necessary and proper; grading Grove street,
from Mississippi street to Canada street