St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-22
Discussed by the City Fathers
at Their Session Last
Night.
Property Owners on Seventh
Street Protest Against
the Cable.
Extravaganza Charged Upon
the Inspectors by a Tax
payers Union.
Bids Solicited for Strengthen
ing Wabasha Street
Bridge.

In the absence of the president and
vice president. last night, at the coun-
Gil meeting. Aid. Cullen was called to
the chair. The appointment of Philip
Arnold as mounted policeman, with adj
ditional duties as poundmaster, was re-
turned by the mayor without his ap-
proval. Aid. Fischer objected to the
veto and moved that the council take
vote. Aid. Gehan considered it was all
right, and no vote was taken.
The matter of allowing the Germania
Life Insurance company to extend the
granite bases of the building owned by
the above company, on the corner of
Minnesota and Fourth streets, was re-
ferred to the committee on streets.
w. T, Mason submitted commune
cation from the Taxpayers union, with
the repetition of the estimates of the
new board of education, the average
attendance and other matters
already printed in the GLOBE. The
council was urged to reject the estimates
of the new school board: also ''to re-
quest them all to resign; three months
is enough of service like this, they re-
ceive 10 salaries and they need not de-
sire to remain against the peoples wish;
Mayor Smith can then appoint eleven
new men who, perhaps, will be willing
to try to get out of
THIS EXTRAVAGANT RUT.
1--WE recommend that the legislature be
asked to bring all St. Paul's independent
boards and departments under control
of the common council to this extent,
all estimates and all contracts of $1,000
and over must be confirmed by a two
thirds vote of the council" The matter
was referred to the committee on ways
and means.
The petition of Joseph Gunshot, pro-
testing against the fees of the Sanitation
company and granting the company the
exclusive right of doing business in the
city, was referred to the committee On
streets.
Several orders were received from the
board OF public works and referred to
their respective committees.
The ordinance granting the Enos
Electric Railway company the privilege
of building line from the river to the
west city limits was laid over to the
next meeting. The report of DIR. Hoyt
on the matter of the removal of manure
from each engine house once week
was approved by the representative of
the health department. The several
recommendations Of the committee on
streets as previously reported were ap-
proved. The petition of the Chicago,
st. Paul q Kansas City railroad, asking
for the passage of all ordinance grant
ing the company permission to erect an
addition to its "oil house," was referred
TO PRESIDENT BICKEL.
On motion of Aid. Conley the name of
the late Hans Hansen will be continued
on the pay roll of the police department
until Jan. l, 1889.
The board of public works was in
structed to investigate and report the
following improvements: Change of
grade Oh Frances street and Maple ave-
nue.; grading Minnehaha street from
Smelling to Prior: Deios street and Bel
lows street; lowering grade on Grotto
street from Fairmont avenue to Pleas
ant Place, and opening and extending
West Fifth street.
A motion was adopted to instruct the
board OF public works to inspect piece
of ground on West Seventh street. near
Banfil and Donovan streets, for the pur-
pose of widening and improving West
Seventh street.
Aid. Sullivan asked that John Peters
be appointed night jailor at Merriam
Park, and it was agreed to.
On motion. of Aid. Pratt it was re-
solved that no further expense be in
CURED in repairing, furnishing Or other
wise for the city hall building by the
heads Of any department
OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT,
Aid. Yoerg moved that the committee
Oh streets be authorized to purchase
two drinking fountains to be placed as
follows: Corner Of Fairfield and Ducas
and Indiana and Dakota streets.
The mayor was authorized to appoint
two patrolmen, mounted OF on foot, as
he preferred.
Ordinances were passed giving
Francis r. Armstrong $50 damages and
Mrs. Stella NJ. Cabanne $50 for dam
ages to furniture in their residence by
the bursting of water pipe.
A second ordinance to grant permits
SiSSion to build an elevated railway was
referred to the committee OH streets.
A resolution to instruct the city clerk
to advertise for separate bids for the
building of the subStructure and SUPER
structure of the WabaSha street bridge,
from the north side to the island, on
plans furnished by the city engineer,
was passed, Aldermen Fischer, Melady,
1oerg and Bickel voting in the negative
on the original motion to refer in to the
committee on streets.
A protest from a number of property
owners on East Seventh street, against
the building of the cable road, was
placed on file.
Bids for furnishing the city with
fuel were received and referred to the
committee on public buildings