St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-12
A COOL HALF MILLION
Is the Amount of Bonds Rec
commended for Issuance
This Year..
Reform Medicine Admins
tered in Homeopathic
Doses.
The Board of Trade Seems to
Have Lost It's Celery
Compound.
Pennsylvanians Get Ac-
quainted With Each
Other.

The council committee on ways and
means struck another valiant blow for
retrenchment and reform yesterday by
voting to recommend legislation author
izing the city to issue bonds to the
amount of half million dollars during
the coming two years. The action of
the committee was somewhat of a sur
prise to many, and one alderman limited
that they mad probably stirred up
hornets nest.
The first amount on the list is $780,
600 for the payment of the balance due
on contracts for the Franklin avenue
bridge, and the issue could not well be
lodged, as the work is done and there
is no other way of paying for it. The
reason that the cost of the bridge
so largely exceeded the original
appropriation is found in the fact that
the center span of the bridge was
heightened 100 feet to give Roadway for
navigation, after the appropriation was
for the fire department. A member of
the committee explained that the rea-
son Tor authorizing this issue is that,
although the department cannot
be allowed any more than cur
rent expenses this year, it may
need money for permanent improve
ments next year, and the bonds can
only be issued at the pleasure of the
council anyway. After these two small
bundles come a couple OF 5000, 0j0
patches, one for school board and one
permanent improvements in 1889 and
1890.
TINkERING THE ORDINANCES.
The council committee on ordinance
amused itself for some time tinkering
the new scavenger and employment
office ordinances. After some changes,
they recommended the passage of
the ordinance placing the scavenger
business under the charge Of the board
of health, making the license $50 per
wagon, compelling the owners to have
air-tlght-boX wagons, regularly num-
bered, and to report each day to the
health department. ScavengerS will
also be required 10 furnish bonds.
Employment agents will have to pay
a $50 license for conducting male en-
ployment bureaus, and $40 for female
agencies. Those paying the larger
license will also be required to furnish
$1,000 bond
An amendment to the building or
dinance, providing that certain portions
of the section relating to elevators shall
not apply to freight elevators con-
structed and in use before the passage
OF the original ordinance, was adopted.
CONTRACTS LET.
A. q. ParkhurSt. John King and Ring
& TObin put in their bids for furnish
ing laying curbstones for the coming
season. and the bids were opened at
yesterdays meeting of the committee
on paving. Ring II Tobin proposed to
furnish Kettle river sandstone at
$l.l0 per linear foot for 30-inch
and 81 for 24-inch stone. and
the others proposed to furnish
artificial stone at 80, S. and so cents per
foot. The committee, after discussing
the quality and desirablity of the stone
with Engineer Rinker, decided to rec
ommend the awarding the contract to
Ring ~ Tobin. The amount to be fur
nished cannot be known until the re-
cent retrenchment measure of the COM
mittee on ways and means has been
acted Oh by the council.
OTHER COMMITTEE WORK.
Manager Leonard, of the Brush Elec-
trio company, was present at yester-
days meetiag of the committee on gas
to discuss the advisability of having the
lamp balcony on the electric light mast
to the top of the staff. giving it an ele-
walton of go feet instead of $50 as it
now is. Mr.. Leonard was instructed to
report at the next meeting what the
cost of the change would be.
The committee OH underground wires
met yesterday to pursue the discussion
of the Edison, Thompson, Houston and
telephone companies ordinances, but
as some members wished to investigate
further before taking action or express
ing an opinion, the committee adjourned
for one week.
Alta joint meeting of the committees
on fire department and police it was de-
cided to recommend the removal of the
Fifth precinct mounted police station
from Lake Calhoun to the rear of the
lot occupied by the fire station at
Twenty-eighth street and Blaisdeil
avenue