St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-10
SALTWATER SILHOUETTES
Mayor Durant Sworn In and Delivers an
Address.
FURNITURE HOUSE BURNED.
Death Of Distinguished Doctor at West
Superior---The City in
General.

lion. Il. w. Durant, on being sworn
in as mayor of the city last evening,
made the following inaugural address:
"Gentlemen of the City Council: Hav-
ing been called by our citizens to the
Office of chief executive of this city, and
having taken upon myself the Obliga-
ton that signifies my acceptance of the
position to which l have been chosen,
1 am ready to and do assume the duties
of mayor of this city. And while fully
approaching the confidence reposed IN
me by our fellow citizens. am deeply
sensible of the responsibility attaching
to the office, the duties of which
l have Solemnly sworn to perform.
1t will be my earnest endeavOr to ad-
vance the interests of our city and its
citizens by advising such legislation
and such measures as may best seem
calculated to promote the pubic good.
The duties incumbent upon the mayor
and the city council, although general
in character, yet place an individual
responsibility OIL each officer of the
clty'S government; we are to manage
properly and economically the affairs of
city of eighteen thousand population;
to meet the financial requirements by
providing means for the various depart
ments will demand financial ability of a
high order; to keep pace with our sis
ter cities in progress and improvements,
great care needs to be taken that all our
undertakings in such direction be
marked by careful consideration of
our real wants; that any outlay of
money we may make or order shall be
justified by results. shall be ready at
all times to advise with and con-
suit with you in matters rela-
tive to our municipal affairs,
realizing that concert of action is an alb
sOlute duty devolving alike upon each
of US. The general and financial report
submitted to me by your clerk and the
chairman of your finance committee,
contains statements of estimates for
improvements that seem to demand our
attention during the present year. 1t
is my purpose soon to meet with you
and consider in detail the subject of the
report l have received at your hands.
Doubtless there are many matters that
will claim the mayors attention with
which L am not at present converSant,
and, therefore, do not feel Competent
to discuss them at the present time.
Many of you have had long experience
in the management of our municipal
ment and advice, shall feel that a
measure of safety in all our undertake
ings is assured. Herewith submit to
you list of appointments, which, if you
deem consistent with the public inter-
est, L ask your confirmation. trust that
our united efforts may meet the fullest
approval of our w-citizens.'
APPOINTED BY MAYOR DURANT.
Mayor Durant reappointed all the
present police force, and in place of the
police officers suspended under the Sey-
aApni ct,-of Sr,,8 Tod T4E
Haggerty, Octave Willett and Peter
Martinson, representing the Irish,
French and Scandinavian population.
The mayor announced that as member
of the legislature he had secured a law
amending the Saltwater charter SO that
the mayor shall have the sole power to
appoint and remove the police. The
council elected Hopkins clerk; Searles,
city attorney; Clarke, engineer; John
GlennOn, street commissioner; Luke
Castle, assessor. For commissioner,
Butler had one majority on the informal
and GlennOn on the first formal ballot.
The ether leading candidates for as
SCISSOR were Chambers and Armstrong;
Castle getting two majority1en the ninth
ballot. Low was elected president and
Yates vice president of the council.
QUITE A BLAZE.
TIE structure built five years ago by
George M. Seymour and Deputy Warden
Abe Hall for roller skating rink and
1atterly occupied by Thomas Fenster-
macher as furniture house was de-
stroyed with its contents by fire about 5
O'Clock yesterday morning. The fur
niture stock was new and estimated at
$4,000, on which there was an insur-
ance of $4,000. F. III. Lomon 81 Co. had
an interest in the furniture stock which
interest was insured for $1,000. They
also owned the building which cost
$4,000, and at the time of the fire, Mr..
Seymour says, was covered by only
81 1000 insurance. The building was 156x62
feet and consumed 170,O 600 feet of lum-
Der in its construction. The floor alone,
and white maple, cost $1,000. The rink
occupied ground secured by a lease
from John McKuSick, which lease is
about to expire. The fire, supposed to
be of incendiary origin, started in
part of the building extremely remote
from any spot where fire had been used
for many weeks. Mr.. Fenstermacher
and son Oscar, and Mr.. and Mrs. N.
Nelson, who slept in the building. mar
rOwly escaped with their lives, and lost
all their personal effects.
DEATH OF DIR. HENING.
j. G. Hening, who was called to West
Superior Sunday evening by the illness
of his father, DR.. T. G. Hening, tele-
graphs that the latter died Monday
afternoon. Mr.. Hening will to-day ac-
company the remains to Springfield,
Ill.,, where they will be entombed. DR..
Hening, through his frequent visits
here, had made many acquaintance,
who will learn of his death with sincere
sorrow. The deceased was seventy
three years of age, and native of Vir-
tri,,io hI1f tho Qarly op1
sional years of his life were spent at
Springfield, ILL.,, where, through per-
sonal acquaintance with President
Lincoln and Secretary Stanton, he was
appointed pension surgeon for the state
of Illinois, holding the Office until the
Cleveland administration. During the
last four years he had lived at West
Superior, where his daug liter, Mrs.
William B. Banks, died last February.
The widow, daughter and the son, j.
G. Hening, survive him.
SETTINGS.
Sidney Grundy's sparkling three-act
English comedy, SNOWFALL" will be
presented at the opera house, April 81, by
local company of amateurs of the
city's best known young people, COM
prising Harry V. Quackinbush, T. E.
Fellows, G. l.. Easton, Mrs. G. l..
Easton, Miss Belle Rankin and Miss
Jessie Gorrie.
L. W. Eldred went last evening to
West Superior, where he goes to super
intend the erection of a fine business
block and several dwellings for veal
thy West Superior concern. During
his absence Mrs. Eldred will be the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. Albert
Pennington, at Pine City.
The opera house was packed with the
intelligence and culture of the city Mon
day evening to hear the Raglan lecture