St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-30
had len enemies where they had one be
fore the strike.
Watchdog Calderwood.

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Nothing especial was attempted or oc-
| Cured after that until early in May,
when suppressed growl and display
| of cleaning teeth gave notice that the
'watchdog of the treasury was still at
| his post. He objected to the way i'm
| which the park board was allowed to
F.! negotiate city bonds. 1t was contrary
to business principles and opposed to
the interests of the city, but the council
again showed its disregard of the city's
interests and of business principles, and
Calderwood was sat upon.
Along in April the matter of putting
electric wires under ground came up.
and franchise was given to the Dorset
Conduit company. There followed an
other big fight, which ran OIL into MAY.
The thompSon-HOuStOn and the Edison
people wanted to put in conduits of
their own. The DorSett wanted an ex-
elusive franchise; the others objected.
There was no end of wire pulling, and
of Quarreling and cOnsequencelesS
talk. and the whole matter ended in the
three companies getting franchises.
The ordinance provided that none OF
the companies should go to work
putting i'll the subways until
all of them were ready, so
that the streets would not be torn up all
| the time, as they had been for nearly a
| month; but ordinances are of little con-
sequence to retrenchment and reform
| administration, SO, in direct opposition
| to the ordinance, the Edison company
was allowed to go to work in the latter
part of May, all by itself. Then arose
another squabbie over the appOrion-
I ment of space in the subway trench,
| and the wires which were to have been
underground ten months ago, accord
ing to the first plan, are still obStruct-
| ing the streets, with the exception of
the city and the Edison wires.
The street car strike gave rise to the
thought that the city police force was
| too small. and tine proposition was
broached to Increase it to 200 men. Like
all other good plans of the administra-
| ton, it ended in smoke. There was not
money enough to do it. More than
that. it was discovered. when october
| came, that the policemen were growing
wealthy, so their salaries were cut S5
per month. A scheme to give the city
ample police protection ended in cut
! in the salaries of the previously small
force.
On May Is the council took up the
| social evil question. The city was to
be reformed forthwith. All loose
women we're to be confined to one local
| ity. "Roomers" were to be driven out.
| What has been done? Every month the
| keepers of houses of ill-fame are
paraded before the public in the muni-
cIpai court, and rO0mers and nymphS
du pave are to be found everywhere be-
tween the river and Lake street. An
other characteristic reform.
~, fbn inSf Hay of Moe NoJ
and the council had it again. Old Dog
Tray only grOwIed the first time, but
| this time he barked and ratified his
chain. CalderwOOd rejected the pay
| rolls OF the ward commissioners because
| they were not made out and signe as
| provided by the charter. and the cUun-
| Gil undertook to ignore him in the mat
| ter. But the pay rolls had to be cuun-
| tersigned by John before the treasurer
would pay them, and the comptroller
won. DiSSension began to creep into
| the righteous family. Probably the
Biggest Fight OF the Year
in the council was caused by the Ander-
son & Douglas application for a cable
franchise. Many of the aldermen fav-
ored the scheme; the public feeling was
! unanimously for it; but Thomas Lowry
was agin' it. That gentleman seemed
| to have convincing argument for his
side of the case. He jumped in and Of
fered to build all sorts of cable roads in
all sorts of places. Anderson & Douglas
framed cable railway ordinance and
sent it to the council. 1t was referred
to the proper committee, who reported
back Lowry ordinance and passed. t.
Anderson -& Douglas were knocked
LII III II
howl. Mass meetings were held, and
the aldermen could have been pitched
into the river, but, as the sports say.
the public, "had no kick coming" 1t
had elected the retrenchment and re-
form administration, and was reaping
the results.
More rows in the police commission,