St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
COMMANDED BY REX,
City Fathers Recommend an
Appropriation for the Ice
Palace.
Merchants Must Be Prompt in
Taking Out Their
Licenses.
Viewing the Eclipse Of the
Sun From All Parts Of
the City.
INDULGENCE in Stimulants Cuts
Indulgence in Stimulants Cuts
Short a Burglars Career
of Crime.

The common council finally disposed
of two important questions at its meet
ing last evening. 1t first selected the
official newspaper for the year. and
then appropriated sum of money for
ice palace and carnival purposes. Not
withstanding the counter attractions OF
New Years day, aldermen were pune
tual in response to Presidents BickeFs
call to order, Aid. Leithauser and
Hamm being the only absentees. Aid.
o. o. Cullen is chairman of the commit
tee on printing. and his report i'll regard
to city printing recommended that the
contract should be let to the Dispatch,
that newspaper to be the official organ
OF the city. He also reported that a
communication had been received from
Lewis Baker, manager OF the GLOBE
Publishing company, to the erect that
their bid and specimens were lnadvert-
tently not sent to the common council.
apd that they desired to be understood
as having offered no bid. j. ID. Cum
ningham was employed by the commit
tee as an expert to determine the low
est BIDS rendered. His conclus ons
were: First. That the bid of the Pioneer
Press being IS cents per inch for cOun-
ell proceedings, and 81 cents and p
cents per inch, respectively, for all
other advertisements, and the bid OF the
Dispatch being 25 cents and 20 cents per
inch, respectively. for all work done,
upon the face of the bids the Dispatch
is the lowest. Second, That by COM
parison of the mode OF printing an adj
ditOnal 162& per cent would be ga ned
in favor of the Dispatch.
Aid. Sanborn moved that the ST. Paul
Dispatch be designated by the common
council of st. Paul as 1.-THE official paper
of said city for 1889, in which shall be
published all ordinances and other pro-
ceedings and matters required by the
laws of the state and CITY,"
The motion was seconded by several
members and adopted unanimously.
A communication was read from a
newly-formed society, the Rice Street
Villas union. The members requested
that the grading of Rice street from
Maryland street to the nGrth city limits
should have its full width. with an eight
feet sidewalk on each side, the grading
to be done in such manner as to re-
quire no bridge over the Northern Pa
cific railroad crossing. The matter was
referred TO the committee on streets.
Upon motion of Aid. Kayanagh. the
chief OF police was instructed to notify
persons whose business requires them
to take out license that unless said
license is taken out prior to Feb. /, they
will be prosecuted in the manner pro-
vided by law.
President Van Slyke. M. d. Mum,
w. NJ. Bushnell, Whitney Wall and
-ethers waited upon the council to surge
the appropriation of $4,000 for the ice
palace and carnival. When this subject
was ready for discussion, Aid. Cullen
mayed that the council go into eXecu-
tive session, and that the representa-
tiyes of the press and public retire. A
general exodus was being made when
Aid. Sanborn proposed that the re-
porters be allowed to stay. with the
understanding that they would not pub
fish the proceedings.
President Bickel said there was no
objection to this, and the council practi-
cally signified their assent, when Aid.
Cullen said he objected to the reporters
remaining. This ended the matter,
Aid. Sanborn withdrawing his PROPOSE
ton, and the doors of the council cham
Der were securely fastened against the
public and newspaper men. Thence
followed blank of one hour, when the
doors were re-opened and the reporters
furnished with document which read:
''By Aid. Yeorg: Resolved, that it is
the opinion of the members of the COM
mon council OF the city of st. Paul, that
$4,000 could be wisely expended by the
city in constructing an ice palace this
winter. and that as soon as the legisla-
ture of the state shall give them author
ity so to do. they will favor such APP
preparation to be expended under the
direction of Aid. Cullen, Sullivan and
Yeorg, as a special committee of the
common council"
The resolution was reported as having
been passed unanimously. 1t meets the
wishes of the carnival directors, who
stated that they would forthwith pro-
coed with the erection of the ice palace
and complete arrangements for the car
niyal.