St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-17
A RIP-ROARING Time.
City Officials, in One Solid
Phalanx, Will Attend
the Derby.
Dollars Galore for Street
Decoration at the State
Fair.
BluffiteS Uproarious at the
Prospect Of More
Light.
Aid. Cullen Will Not Have the
City Charter Vio- @-->
lated.

There was large amOuntof routine
business disposed of at last nights
meeting of the city council, which was
of somewhat lengthy and tedious
character.
Aid. Conley introduced an ordinance
authorizing the payment of $500 to
William A. Van Slyke for services
rendered the city in the care and
management of public parks from
the year 1884 to 1889. Aid. Gull
len considered the proposed ordinance
directly in violation of the city charter,
Mr.. Van. Slyke having been an alder
man during that period; and on his
recommendation the matter was referred
to the committee on claims and the cor
pOration attorney.
The National Subway company re-
ported that they had fulfilled the terms
of their contract with the city by put
ting in double lines OF the Dorsey con-
duit within the stipulated time on
WabaSha streets, on Jackson street
between Third and Seventh streets.
and on Seventh streetn between
jackson and Wabasha streets, making
a total length OF II, 1908 lineal feet. The
communication stated that the company
is ready to extend the system, and
awaits the action of the council remov-
ing overhead wires from the street
The communication was accepted and
placed on file.
Aid. Leithauser introduced and Sc
cured the adoption of resolution au-
thoriZing the citizens on Dayton'S Bluff
to substitute electric lights for the
gas lamps now in use on Maria avenue
and certain other streets, provided that
the property owners bear any addl-
tional expense incurred. The recon-
mendation of the committee on gas to
substitute the seventy-SiX Oil lamps on
West Seventh street between Smith
avenue and Tuscarora street with gas
lamps was defeated. - s.r. .-'r-
The board of public works laid before
the council a large amount of business
pertaining to public improvements, con-
siSting principally of grading, pave
ment and sewer contracts heretofore
published. The recommendations of
the board were unanimor sly adopted,
except in the matter of the Minnehaha
street sewer, the Livingston avenue
and Isabel street sewers, and
the Jackson street grading contract
Action on the Minnehaha street
SGWCI COllUl was pOSIpOIlCu
the next council meeting, Aid.
Fischer and Kayanagh opposing the
awarding of the contract. The LeXing-
ton avenue and Isabel street sewer con-
tracts were referred to the aldermen of
the Sixth ward for investigation, sew
eral protests having been made since
the action of the board.
Col. William Crooks, president of the
Twin City improvement company,
which owns the Kerr patent pavement
rights in st. Paul and Minneapolis, pre-
scented communication protesting
against the action of the board in
awarding a contract for repay
ing Jackson street with cedar
blocks on concrete foundation,
claiming that such pavement
would be violations and Infringement
of their patent. The matter was re-
ferred to the committee on streets for
investigation. On report of City En-
gineer Rundlett contract was awarded
to Dale q Bumgardner for grading the
st. Paul and Mendoza road at S7,175.
On recommendation of the committee
on ways and means, ordinances were
passed authorizing the proper authori-
ties to negotiate city bonds amounting
to 100000, of which S250,000 is to in
crease the sewerage fund, the remain
ing $4,000 to be used for the erection
of additional city hospital buildings.
Other resolutions were introduced as
follows:
EBy Aid. Yoerg-That on July %
Derby day at the state fair grounds all
public Offices of the city be closed at
noon. ay .<-.~l-. .'-.e>.. = o
BY Aid. Gehan-That the committee
OH streets, with the city engineer, be
authorized to make the necessary ar
rangements for the illumination of the
city during fair week.
By Aid Pratt-That that the sum of
$500 be appropriated for Illuminating
the city during fair week. .-..---t 81.
The first two were adopted and the
third referred to the committee on
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