St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-04
1T SMELLS TO HEAVEN.
A Council Committee Will Rec
ommend the Abatement OF the
Packing House Nuisance.


ommend the Abatement OF the
Packing House Nuisance.
The resolution by Aid. Book, provid-
ing that the building inspector be in-
structed not to issue permit to the st.
Paul Meat andProvision company for the
reconstruction of its packing houses in
the Fifth ward, provoked considerable
discussion at the meeting of the council
committee on streets last night. A large
delegation of citizens who reside on Gro
Gus hill appeared to protest against the
Reconstruction OF the plant. Many re-
spectacle citizens testified that the odOr
arising from this stink factory was so
strong that people living even on CrOcus
hill were awakened from their slum-
bers by it. that the timepieceS in their
houses were stopped, and that the
growth of their children had been
stunted from the deadening effects.
Matt Koch, real estate dealer of the
Fifth ward, told now he had been obliged
to go out and ascertain which
way the wind was blowing before he
could take buyers out to show his lots,
and that he had lost many sales on ac-
count of the sickening stencil arising
from the packing houses. Aid. SanbOrn
would sustain the action of the council in
refusing to grant the permit to recon-
struct the plant. Aid. Hamm offered a
motion to postpone the matter until the
company could be heard, which
was opposed by AID. Cullen and
did not receive second. After
some further discussion and the pres
entation of petitions pro and con. it was
finally decided to recommend the pas
sage of the resolution. The proposed
change in the plans of the new Broad
way street bridge, substituting draw
bridge for the high bridge previously
adopted, was postponed until the next
meeting of the committee. A commit
tee. consisting of Aid. Yoerg and
Gellan and City Engineer Rund-
lett, was appointed to revise
the ordinance previously presented
change company, granting it permits
sion to construct system of under
ground conduitS for its wires. City
Engineer Rundlett thought that there
should be separate conduits for high
and low tension wires, and was OF the
opinion that the DorSett system would
be inipracticabie unless laid in t wo sec
tions, on either side of the
street. one for electric light currents
and the other for telegraph and
telephone lines. Aid. Sanborn was in
favor of granting the telephone com
pany the privilege of laying conduit,
with the provision that it furnish con
duits for the wires of telegraph com
panies at reasonable compensation.
Representative Ives appeared before
the committee to urge the issuing of the
$4,000 of city bonds, as authorized by
an act of the legislature, to aid prop
,'erty-Owners i'll paving West Sew
enth street, between Ramsey
and TuscarOra streets. although
i knew that the council
was not obliged to issue such bonds,"
he said. II had no idea that the coun-
Gil would oppose the issue, the measure
having received the unanimous sup
port of the Ramsey county delegation"
The bonds were opposed. however, and
bitterly, by Aid. Yoerg and Gehan, and
after the matter had been indefinitely
postponedit was again taken up and
continued until the next meeting.