St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-18

a street was not settled, nor liable to be.
for many years. Chairman German. of.
the board of public works. stated that:
there was urgent necessity for the.
opening of the avenue. from the
fact that land directly on the line,
of the street had been sold and leased.
to parties with whom the city would
have to settle for the value of the land
when the road was ultimately opened.
The land in question is owned by ID. j..
HenesSy, upon whose behalf D.. W..
LAWYER appeared. stating that as the
council had reScinded the proceedings
for the opening of the parallel streets,
Conway, Grazier and Third, to the city
limits, the issue was practically whether
there was any special reason for the
opening of Suburban more than the
others. Chairman Yoerg, of the COM,
mittee, stated that in company with:
Ald.Cullen he had inspected the route of
the proposed road, and that together.
they had formed the opinion that the:
opening of q road through the barren.
tract was not necessary. Mr.. Lawler.
referred to the district as q bowling,
wilderness, and announced that he had
got lost while exploring it in the inter-
est of Mr.. HenneSSy. At thesreqneSt of
Mr.. LAWYER a postponement was granted
until the next meeting of the commit
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sides of the question will be adduced.
In the matter of placing the telephone
wires underground, c. d. O'Brien APP
peared for the telephone company,
showing the injustice done that corpora,
ton by the Issuance of an order for plac-
ing its wires underground, at the same
time making no provision for the use of
the streets for laying conduits. The
impracticabiity of using the conduts
of another company was shown. The
matter will come up for final discussion
on Thursday next.
In the matter of the Mississippi boule-
ward, Supt. Esterbrook, of the park
commission, exhibited plans showing
the line Of the boulevard as revised by
a recent order of the commission.
Archbishop Ireland, who is one of the
largest owners of property along the
line of the boulevard. stated that in his
opinion the boulevard matter was pre-
mature. He owns nearly a mile of the
boulevard and he was not in favor of
the construction of boulevard at this
time. The general idea of the
proposal to condemn by the
to the construction of the boulevard
seems to be that such condemnation
means practically confiscation. f. G.
Stevens, on behalf OF the property Own-
erS along the line of the proposed
boulevard, said that the latter were
taxed to death already, and could stand
no assessment for boulevard. He
characterized the proposition of the
park commission as sample of the
audacity of the commission and an out
rage. Stanford Newell, of the park
commission, at this Juncture address
ing the meeting, called attention to the
fact fh1t ff,n nlnO0hQrS nf no
mission drew no salaries for the work
they performed. He had done a good
deal OF work on the commission but now
proposed to resign. He hoped the board
OF public works would report adversely
in the boulevard matter, as he was tired
of the whole affair, and would have no
more to do with it. The same sort of
arguments had been urged against
everything undertaken by the commits
sion by the taxpayers in the district
affected. Whenever an attempt had
been made to secure park for the city
there always came storm of protest
from owners of property in the vicinity
OF the condemned tract. He had come
to the conclusion that the park commits
sion was an eXcreSence which should be
done away with. 1t was evident tnat,
the people of this city didn't want
parks. and be intended to send in his
resignation. On motion of Aid
Gehan further discussion of the bouIe-
ward matter was indefinitely postponed.
Delegations from the Tenth and Elev-
enth wards were present to register a
kick on the assessment of S1.75 per foot
for main sewer from the Mississippi
to University avenue and Fairview
After a good deal of discussion of the
subject, Engineer RundIett was in
Structed to figure on the cost of q main
sewer between the points named at the
figure quoted above, and to report on
Tuesday evening. The meeting then.
dioUrDed