St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-22
That Was the Principal 0ccu-
patton Of the Park Board
Yesterday.
The Comptroller Fires in An
other Of His Pee uliar Lit
tie Vetoes.
Being Crossed in Love. Gott-
lieb Reyer Systematically
Breaks His Neck.
A Female Fence. Madame FIRE.
linghausen, Convicted at
Last.

A meeting of the park commission
was held yesterday afternoon, and con-
siderable business was transacted. The
attention of the board was called in a
communication TO the fact that the city
council had reported adversely to the
Mississippi boulevard plan as submit
ted. A communication was read from
the Arlington Hills Citizens union.
citing resolutions passed at a recent
meeting of that body, touching the
securing by the board of Twenty-Five
acre tract of land lying on the west
shore of Lake PhaIen for park pur-
poses, A communication was also re-
ceiyed from property owners at Lake
Phalen regarding the Como sbouldvard,
showing that all owners of frontings on
the lake have decided land for the con-
structiOn of 100-foot boulevard round
the lake, and asking that immediate
steps be taken for the location of park
on the west shore of the lake.
In regard to the Lincoln park matter
a communication was read from Gordon
E. Cole. stating that no notification had
been given him OF the fact that the
matter was to come up for hearing until
he saw ny the papers that it had been
argued and submitted. and advising an
appeal from adverse decisions that have
been rendered from time to time.
A lengthy communication was read
from Comptroller Roche, setting forth
as his reasons for refusing to sign the
warrant for Ridgewood Park. that Ie-
gally he was hound to sign the war
rants for the various parks in the order
i'm which they had been condemned Ivy
the hoard, and that he had not been To-
gallv advised of any actiOn of the board
abandoning the cd Indian Mound park.
Hiawatha park and the old West Side
park. Amended was request that the
board ask the board of pnhlic works to
defer action In the Ridgpwood mark
matter for the present. A resolution
was adonted that the action of the board
annulling the proceedings relative to all
the marks mentioned he cODied from the
minutes and submitted to the comptrOl-
Ter for his
SATISF CTION' AND CONVICTION.
A resolution was also adopted that
committee of three, consisting of the
president and two members OF the
hoard, be apDninted TO wait on Mr..
Roche and assist in carving conviction
to the mind of the uncOnvinced. Com
missioner Wedge wanted to go on rec
orr as opposed to pandering to the
whims and caprices of man AS in
tractahle and utterly unreasonable as
Mr.. Roche had shown himself to be.
Another commissioner ventured the re-
mark that there was hut one John Roche:
still another clinching the argument
with. Eyes. and we've got him" Some
one remarked that the unwilliHgnpss OF
Roche to sign the warrant was due TO
the fart that there was an election right
close at hand, and ii was his policy to
oppose anything involving an assess
mont on account OF the unnopnlarity-
that might result on the signing, in the
district assessed.
A resolution was passed asking the
city council to issue the remaining
$4,000 of the $4,000 appropriation for
the improvements at Como. Supt.
Fstabrook was instructed TO establish
lines on lot ;. section 81. and aScer tain
the acreage less the amount necessary
to the opening of Phalen and Como ave-
nues and renort at the next meeting as
to the suitability of the tract as the site
for public park. SnDt Estabrook was
also instructed To confer with the Sum-
NIT Avenue Boulevard association As to
the completion OF the four remaining
blocks of the boulevard and to report
the result of such conference.