St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-04
The FIRST IN 1890.
The Council Has a Lively
Meeting as a Send
OF.
The Widening Of Hennepin
Avenue Stirs UP the An
imalS.
Haney Says, "What Are You
Going to Do About
It?"
Another Fire at the Univer-
Sity YeSterday--The Bap-
fist Convention.

johnson called the council to order yes
terday. Among the usual communica
tons was an invitation from the Sister
hooi of the Good Shepherd inviting
the council to visit their institution and
investigate the work they are doing in
reforming erring girls who are sent to
them. The invitation was accepted.
The appointment of A. Edgar Allen and
Oscar j. Smith as deputy clerks of the
municipal court was confirmed. A
communication from Supt. West, of the
workhouse, asking for an Increase of
salary, was referred to the committee
composed of the committees Oh salaries
and WOrkhOuSe.
SERIOUS CHARGES.
There was quiet little stab at the re-
trenchment and reform policy of the
aldermen Of the Twelfth ward in COM
municatiOn which was passed hurrIedly
over by Clerk Haney with the remark
that it contained charges against the
street commissioner or the Twelfth
ward. Aid. Woodward moved that the
matter be referred to a special commit
tee consisting of three aldermen for III
vestigation, with power to send for per-
SONS and papers. President johnson
appointed Aid. Bradish, Warren and
BarrOwS as the committee. The com
munication, which is signed by Joseph
Smith, of 1912 Fifteenth avenue south;
S. II. Baker, of 37l2 BLOOMINGTON ave
nue., and Joseph r. Sterrett, of 3443
Fifteenth avenue south, is very
voluminous and contains eleven
specific charges against Street Commits
siOner William Mari. The charges
made are that the commissioner caused
Tenth avenue south, between Thirty
eighth and ThirtY-ninth streets, to be
cut down about one and half feet be-
low the established grade for q distance
of about 200 feet and afterwards refilled
it to bring it back to the established
grade at an unnecessary expense to the
city; that he used the men and teams
employed by and paid for by the city to
do work for Aid. Woodward and other
citizens of the ward, and that he hauled
dirt that was needed OH the streets and
used it 10 improve private property.
Mr.. Marr'S friends claim that the
charges were brought to defeat his re-
election.
A LIVELY ROW.
There was lively row over the pro-
posed widening of Hennepin avenue at
Tenth street. Two petitions were before
the council from the property owners
| residing and doing business OH that
thnrOughfare. One crowd wanted the
street widened and the other didn't.
The aldermen from the Fourth ward, led
by Aid. Loyc, opposed the improve
ment as attaching an unnecessary eX-
pense to the city. The proposition
before the council was to con-
denim triangular piece of ground
tWenty-SiX feet wide ON Tenth street
and ninetytive feet long Oh the south
side of Hennepin avenue, which is
owned by Ellen l.. Barber. BY the city
taking this ground the public library
building will stand out prominently
and can be seen and pointed out to
visitors to the city FROM Washington
avenue. From the windows of the
library ali unrestricted view of Henne-
| pin avenue looking east can also be OBJ
tanned. Speeches in favor of widening
! the avenue were made by Aid. Johnson,
/ Parry, Downs and Vandewaker, while
Aid. Potter and Loye opposed it. Ii
| was finally voted to commence con-
demnatiOn proceedings. Then Aid. Pot
ter offered a resolution directing the
city clerk to take no action IN the mat
| ter until he had received further in
structiOnS from the council. After con-
| siderable tilihustering the resolution
was defeated by ali overwhelming vote.
AN EAST SIDE CEMETERY.
A lengthy communication was re-
| ceive0 from j. Z. Thwing and Nary c..
Ihwing, reviewing the fact that the
| health authorities had closed the Maple
Hill cemetery OH the East side. They
proposed. if the council gave them an
exclusive franchise, to run a burial
| ground on the East side, to utilize 100
acres of their property for that purpose
| They offered to organize q corporation
wit a permanent Improvement fund
| which would guarantee that the walks,
| drives and graves in the new cemetery
| would be kept in a respectable condi-
ton. They would also furnish lOthold-
ers in Maple Hill cemetery with lots
at reduced price. and would bury the
| clty's dead in respectable manner at
So per head, or if after Maple Hill was
abandoned, and it was found that the
| ground belonged to the city, they would
| accept the amount received from the
sale of the land in fieu of the So. The
| matter was, on motion of Aid. Potter.
| referred to the committee on health and
| hospitals, and the aldermen of the First,
| Second and Ninth wards for cOnSidera-
| ton.
| LIGHTING THE STREETS.
The committee on gas, to whom the
| matter OF selecting company to opCr-
! ate 1900 kerosene or gasoline street
lamps for the next three years, in their
| report recommended that the contract
be awarded to the Northwestern Globe
| Gasi light company at $40 for each
lamp. The committee also stated in the
| report that this would save the city
| about $4,000 per annum from the price
now paid. Aid. Adams called for the
| reading of communication from the
| SunN apor GaSlignt company, of Canton
Ohio, which had been referred to the
gas committee only few moments be-
| fore. That company stated the request
for proposals did not reach them until it
was too late for them to prepare an esti-
mate. They stated that they had oper-
ated $50 lamps in Minneapolis for the
past two yearS,,a they wanted a re-
advertisement so as to have q chance to
bid. They promised that their bid
| would be 81 per lamp lower that the
hgures OF the Northwestern company
which would save the city $4,000. Aid.
| Smith spoke in favor of awarding the
contract to the Northwestern company.
and stated that the light guaranteed by
that company would be equal to that
! given by four-foot gas burner, and
would never be less than sixteen candle
power. On the call of the yeas and nays
| the proper city authorities were di-
rected to execute the contract with the
| northwestern company, Aid. Phillips
alone voting in the negative.
THOSE UNDERGROUND WIRES.
Aid. Phillips introduced resolution
| inStructing the city engineer, the super
intendent of police, the chief of the
| fire department and the superintendent
| of fire alarm telegraph to make an ex-
animation of the conduit put down by
the National Subway company. and to
1 rnnnrf thH condition ond Of
the system to the council. 1t had been
said that the system was useless. owing
to it being filled with water and sewage
matter.
The ordinance introduced by Aid.
Bradish providing for penalty of from
S25 to 500 for each pole left standing
after the time required by the ordinance
for the wires to be underground came
up for its final passage. Aid. Vande-
walker moved to amend the ordinance
by making the penalty take effect on
Of l. A.