St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-22
Robert Seeger Gets the Three
Year Gasoline Lighting
Contract.
Stanford NeWel's Little Re-
distrieting Plan Passed
Very Smoothly.
The Old Health Inspector
TPouble--Mueh Miseella-
neouS Matter.

committee, and is employed by the gas
| company
The resolution referred to was one in
troduced by Mr.. Weber, calling for a
| reduction i'll the price of gas and asking
the committee on streets to investigate
the advisability of lighting the city by
electricity; also whether competition
was necessary to bring about such re-
duction. The matter went to the COM
mttee on streets, only Aid. Gehan
voting nay.
Aid. Cullen reused up the members
by the presentation of resolution APP
proving the contract of the city with Z.
j. Kirkwood and A. Il. Starkey for the
construction of the substructure of the
Broadway bridge. At once two or three
jumped in the effort to get the floor.
Aid. Yoerg wanted to know of the city
attorney if the contractors were not
warned not to go on with the work of
building the substructure.
The city attorney said that was the
situation. He stated further that the
mayor and he had interpoated in the
contract provision that if an injunc-
ton were taken out by the railroad COM
panies, who claimed ground there
about, no damage should accrue
IVY oiiN bHS oNtutti CApCHSC Ui0t btG COH-
tractors had been to. He said that UNI
der the old Kittson plat the Manitoba
road had claims to land at the foot of
Broadway. If the Cakes plat of 1854 was
correct, the city was the owner of the
property in dispute. Should the SUI
prenie court reverse the decision of
Judges Brill and Wilkin, the city would
be the owner.
Aid. Melady said the Broadway bridge
was going to be built as the people
wanted it, and the railways had no
rights. When the Broadway sewer was
built the companies objected to it.
Aid. Cullen declared that all were in
favor of the bridge.
Aid. YOerg asked if the city engineer
could not contract for work in the mid
die of the stream as we'll as on disputed
ground, and wanted to know if his idea
was not that piers could be placed and
remain standing for three or four years
without the bridge being erected.
A motion to refer to the street com
mittee was lost, and Aid. Cullen moved
that special committee, consisting of
Aids. Mlnea, Yoerg and Conley, be ap-
pointed to confer with the railway com
panies. This carried.
The discussion was about to be re-
sumed, when President Hamm cut It
short by declaring with a rap of the
gavel that the matter had gone to the
special committee.
Tha Milwaukee road gave notice that
its communication Directing to the
Broadway bridge was not intended in
| any way to hamper the construction of
the bridge, but to protect pending
| suit in reference to the fee of certain
property along the river bank al that
| point.
THE OLD INSPECTOR TROUBLE.
A bill for 500 presented by Health
Inspector HendricksOn caused another
exchange of words. 1t was accompanied
by all affidavit of Health Commissioners
/ Hoyt and Inspector Hendrickson, that
the claim was just. The city attorney
gave it as his opinion that the
bill could be collected by law
if the services had been duly per-
| formed. Aid. Yoerg got after Mr..
| Hendrickson with a sharp stick and
| questioned him closely as TO his method
of collecting fees, when drawing a sal
| airy under another Office. Mr.. Hen
| erickson replied with some warmth,
saying he had performed the work and
was entitled to "a little rake-Off on the
SIDE" This stirred up Aid. Pratt, who
said no city official had any right to
make anything on the side" The city
| attorney. neutrality-suspicious. admitted
that in hearing the testimony for Mr..
HendricksOn's affidavit, only one side
of the case had been heard. On vote
the bill was disallowed. Aid. eGehan
moved to reconsider and send the mat
ter to the committee on claims. and this
| prevailed.
Aid. Pratt and Sullivan engaged in a
long discussion over the report of the
committee on streets, which recon-
mended that the construction of sewers
i'll the Tenth and Eleventh wards should
not exceed S6S.000. Aid. Sullivan
thought the Eleventh ward had not been
| fairly treated in the distribution, and
Aid. Pratt thought it had: but the re-
| port was adopted.
| The city engineer reported the tunnel
| between Seven corners and Ramsey
| street in a dangerous condition, and the
committee on streets will investigate.
TO repair it will cost $500. An adj
verses report was made upon the report
| of the park commission asking for pre-
| liminary orders in favor of the MiSSis-
Sippl river boulevard extension from
| Smelling avenue to Toronto street. The
! fire commissioners were directed to
| purchase steamer for the chemical en-
| CINE house on Randolph street.
| SEEGER GETS 1T.
The committee on gas recommended
| lLldU hOUeII uG- given IIlG UilreS-
| year contract for gasoline street light
| ing at S14.40 per lamp per year, which
passed unanimously, and the gasoline
question, up for SO long. was finally dis
| posed of. Contractor Ramer was unan-
| imouSly awarded S7,400 as balance due
| for improvements at the city and county
| hospital. Citizens of Warrendale and
Como asked for fire protection, which
the fire department committee will
decide If the request is to be granted.
| A large number of petitions declared
there was deception and swiudling up-
| der the method in vogue at the hay
market. They asked for an ordinance
restricting the dealers. By resolution,
| the contract for $4,000 iron bridge at
| the Mendoza road crossing passed. City
| Attorney Holman Su m tied draft for
| the construction of a bridge over the
| Milwaukee tracks at Grand avenue.
which was approved, the cost being
| 100000. Market Master Sinks turned
in $500 for rentof Market hall.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The city engineer complained that no
| attention had been paid to his notices to
property owners to remove starwayS
| and other street distractions. The COM
| plant went to the committee on streets.
| The superintendent of police alarm was
ordered to place twenty-five new patrol
boxes in different sections of the city.
The building inspector reported that
1851 had been turned over to the city by
him, being fees for November The
| city clerk reported that for the year
1889 licenses had melted the city S413,-
1885. and the market house Sc, 502. 10.
| The water board asked that 100000 of
bonds be issued for the extension of
water mains. After little desultory
| discussion the request went to the COM
| mittee Oh streets. The proposition to
| open and widen ten feet of Rondo
street from Western to St. Anthony,
and ST. Anthony from that point to
Smelling avenue, to cost $4,000, was
passed. as were the following: Repair
| ing sewer on Pleasant avenue from
| third to Walnut, to cost $3.50; re-
pairing sewer on Baafil at a