St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
The FRENzIED FIFTH
Marches En- Masse to See
Counsel on the Nuisance
Question.
Attorney Holman Modestly
Tells How Much He Loves
the City.
A First Ward Mans Head
Crushed by a Street Car
Wheel.
Probability of Action in the
minneapolis Census Case
To-Day.

The citizens of the Fifth ward, whose
olfactory organs have so long Deen OF
Tended by the varied and Sickenlng
odors arising from the upper river flats,
congregated in numbers at the corner
of West Seventh and Ramsey streets
last evening for the purpose OF holding
an indignation meeting. The meeting
was impromptu and without organiZa-
ton. But as a gathering for the pur-
pose of relieving surcharges of indigna-
ton it was huge success. Ii here is
citizen in the Fifth ward who cannot
smell, the vociferouS kicks of his neigh
bors who can were sufficient to excite
his imagination, and swing him into
line as an opponent of the O'Leary
packing house, the Azotine plant, and
any other establishment OF thing which
gave forth the suspicion of an odor.
Red-hot speeches were made, and the
urbane Dr. Hoyt, of the health depart
ment came in for such share OF re-
proach as must have made his ear burn
that ear which the old superstition
saws always burns when somebody is
speaking i'll of one. The proposition
was made to visit Mayor Smith and de-
mand the removal of the health com
missioner. Some one suggested that
COUNSEL meeting was in progress, and
the leading spirits dispersed to visit the
city dads in a body. Into the council
they filed in ominous silence, but
murmurings presagiug a cloudburst
commenced when the resolutions passed
on Monday night in the committee on
streets came up for disposition. The
ominouS cloud dispersed, however, by
the time Aid. Gehan explained the
action of the committee, its position.
and its recommendations that steps be
taken at the end of twenty days to abate
the nuisances created by the AZotlne
and Mcmillan plant nuisanceS. With
out delay the council sustained the
recommendation OF the committee, and
the indignant citizens retired without
exploding any of the ammunition with
which they had come prepared.
General Business.
The owners of property in Butterfeld
addition petitioned for the grading Of
st. Adams and Grotto streets from
Front street to the Great Northern
tracks, and the matter was referred to
the board of public works. James M.
Jordan represented that he had been
seriously poisoned by the use Of chem
icalS while engaged in work in the blue
print room of the city engineering de-
partment. and asked for relief from the
council. The petition was referred to
the committee on claims. Owners of
property assessed to build the Selby
avenue bridge represented that their
holdings were comparatively unoccu-
pied and unimproved; that when
built the bridge would answer no prac-
teal purpose as public thorOughfare;
that a grade crossing would have been
made which would have been of more
benefit, and far less dangerous; that
the custom of the city has been to itself
pay for bridges where the direct bene-
fit to property has been small. Where
fore. the petitioners asked for relief.
The petition went to the committee on
streets.
The bond of George Refs, as city
treasurer, in the sum of S500,000, and
hearing the approval of the city attor-
nev. was referred to the committee on
ways and means. The sureties are
William Dawson Jr., William r. Mer-
Ram, Frank A. Seymour, G. H. Lienau,
Joseph Jockey, William Lindeke, AL
bert Scheffer, Bernhard Kuhl, Delos A.
Monfort, Peter KerSt, p. L. Kavanagh
and Archibald S. Cowley.
The committee to which was referred
the ordinance foI further inspection of
meat reported adversely on the ordl-
nance, and the council adopted the re-
port. The same committee ordinances
reported without recommendation the
ordinance for the further inspection of
milk. On motion Of Aid. Gehan the Or
dinance was referred back to the COM
nittee. 1t is generally understood that
majority of the council is opposed to
both these little schemes to create places
for favoriteS, and some time ago deter
mined to kill them off. The chairman
of the committee on public buildings re-
ported adversely upon the proposition
of James II. Burns to rent for another
year that portion of the market hall oc-
cupied by the A. 0. II. as a hail.
The city engineer was directed to
sprinkle streets and avenues in the
vicinity of the fair grounds during the
Jockey club meeting. Aid. Cullen'S
resolution for the appropriation of
$1,000, remainder of the $1,000 prom
ised for the benefit of the National Edu
cational association, was passed. Aid.
Gehan introduced the following, which
passed unanimously:
Close on Derby Day.
Resolved. That on July %. 1890, which
will be Derby day. at the state fair grounds,
all the public offices of the city of st. Paul be
closed from and after II O'Clock noon
Residents along the electric line asked
for an increase in the number of trains,
and also for reduction of time from
twenty-six minutes to eighteen minutes
between Victoria street and Smith park.
The paper was largely signed, and went
to the committee on streets.
Aid FIandrau asked to be relieved
from duty on the committee on gas for
the reason that he was acting as attor-
new for the gas company. The chair
appointed Aid Dobner to his place On
the gas committee.
The special committee to which was
referred the question of the hotel-run-
ner nuisance at the union depot report
ed an ordinance fixing stringent rules
for the fraternity. 1t met with opposi-
ton, and was finally referred back TO
the committee. An ordinance was in
troduced prohibiting the city railway
company from burning bituminous coal
i'll any of its power houses unless the
smoke stacks were $50 feet high. The
ordinance was referred to the commit
tee ON streets.