St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-15
He Declares Emphatical1y 1t
Is All Right in Every
Way.
The Exposition Attractions
for the Ensuing Week.
Children's Chorus.
The Republican City Cow en-
ton To-Day--Some May
orally Guesses.
Echoes From Some Popular
Pulpits--Died in His
Chair.

City Engineer Rinker feels injured
because of the publication in yester-
days GLOBE concerning certain
Northeast Minneapolis sewer tunnel,
which was said to be headed for the
open air. The article was based upon
information received from what was
regarded as trustworthy sources, and
believed to be wholly correct. Mr..
Rinker says otherwise. He affirms that
the article in question was based upon
wrong premises, and does him an in
justice. To a GLOBE reporter he made
this statement yesterday:
''ln the first place, that sewer which
runs out Harrison street to Sandy lake
is not tunnel at all. 1t is simply a
sewer, inst like all other lateral sewers,
aud is only thirty-one inches in diane
ter. 1t has no connection whatever
with the Northeast Minneapolis tunnel.
The tunnel starts from Main street and
Third avenue southeast, opposite the
Pillsbury A mill, and runs north to
Fourteenth avenue northeast and
Marshall street, along the river
bank. That is all the tun-
mel that was ever contemplated,
and it stands to-day as good as any
oiiliiioI piCCO vi WOlh III GiiC GUILTY..
1t has no connection with the Harrison
street sewer. and is fully three-fourths
of mile from the latter.
Nov, that Harrison street sewer was
never intended to drain Sandy lake. 1t
was built for sewer, and sewer it is.
1t is all right in every respect, and as
sound as any sewer in the city. Maybe
the property owners around the lake
believed that it was intended to drain
the lake. If they did, no doubt they
are disappointed. But it wasn't in
tended to drain any more of he lake
than it has drained, and i can show you
the plans and profile of that section of
the city to prove it. That sewer runs
out Harrison street to Sandy lake at ali
average depth of fifteen feet below the
surface. There is a small piece of land
this side of the lake. a sort of swale,
the sewer, but that is low land, and will
have to be filled eventually.
1.-THE sewer was ordered two years
ago by the city council, because a cable
line was to be built out Harrison street,
and the sewer had to be put in first.
All of the levels were run out there, and
Sandy lake was found to be fourteen
feet below the land around it. Now, |
venture to say that there is not more
that d foot anil half Of water in the
lake now. 1t is four feet lower than
it was two years ago when the levels
were run out and all of that lowering is
due to the construction of that sewer,
l venture the assertion that at least rs
per cent of the bulk of the water in the
lake has gone out because of the sewer.
The lake has been lowered as much as
it was intended to be lowered by the
sewer and the property owners know it.
too. We talked that matter over with
the property owners when the sewer
was planned and it was decided
that it would be cheaper to fill
in the undrained portion of the
lake and the low land around
it than to put the sewer deeper at the
lower end through rock. Irepeat that
the sewer is deep enough, as deep as
sewer need be, and that it answers all
the purposes for which it was intended.
Why. the pitch is only one foot in fifty,
and there is no danger of any part of it
having to be pulled down.
''Now, | want to say further that
there never has been any cave-in ON any
sewer OF sewer tunnel in this city.
There was once a little trouble with
part of the North Minneapolis tunnel,
but it was investigated by the city coun-
Gil and | was exonerated But this
sewer is ali right, and has been built as
it was planned"