St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-15
FIGHT over A MARKET
The South Minneapolis People
Fail to Agree, as
Usual.
A New Engine House Will Be
Built in the Thirteenth
Ward.
Hereafter the Poles for Flee
trical Railway Wires Will
Be in the Street..
Council Awards a Contract
for CURLING to the High
est Bidder.


session yesterday but little actual bus
ines was transacted, and most of the
time was spent in filibustering. The
Minneapolis Street Railway company
was granted the privilege of placing its
poles which are to carly the wires for
the electric roads in the center of the
streets. The contract for the curb and
gutter on Twentieth avenue north was
awarded TO the Parkhurst Artificial
Combined Curb and Gutter Manufacture
ing company. The ordinance to regu-
late the construction, alteration, repair
and removal of buildings in Minneap-
oils, was given its first reading and
went over under the rules. The South
side market ordinance came up for
the second reading, and after alengthy
discussion it was referred to the mar
ket committee with instructions to cut
out all that portion Of it which related
to any territory lying in the Sixth
ward, and the committee was also in
Structed to report back at the same
meeting the Benton ordinance, after
the territory named in the Owen Ordi-
nance had been stricken out. The
council decided to purchase lot of
ground at the corner of Thirty-fifth and
Chicago avenue for an engine house. and
two new chemical engines were ordered
to he purchased for the fire department.
The council adjourned at 6o'clock with
out transacting all of the business
which was on the clerks desk.
THAT MARKET FRANCHISE.
A petition signed by 1890 residents of
South Minneapolis, protesting against
the passage of the Owen ordinance for a
market house in South Minneapolis
was presented. The protest alleged
that the ordinance was not asked for in
good faith, anu that the Benton
ordinance had been opposed simply
from selfish motives. Chairman
Johnson referred the petition
to the committee on markets, but Aid.
Parry objected. He declared tnat the
alleged Indignation meeting at which
the protest was drawn up was nothing
more nor less than Sixth ward caucus.
Upon the call of the yeas and nays the
motion to lay on the table was lost by a
vote of yeas TO 27 nays, and the pro-
test was referred to the committee on
markets.
When the Owen ordinance was taken
up for its second reading the fun began.
Before the council had been called to
order a big lobby both for and against
its passage had been actively at work,
and both sides had brought whatever
influence they had to bear on the alder
men to work either for or against the
passage of the ordinance. Aid. Brazie
started the ball rolling by moving to
refer the ordinance back to the commit
tee on markets. President johnson
called Aid. BurSell to the chair, and
amended Aid. BraZie's motion by in
the committee to leave out of
the ordinance all that district included
in the Sixth ward, and to report at the
next meeting of the council. Also, to
report back the Benton ordinance with
the territory included in the Owen or
dinance stricken out.
Ain. Parry, of the Seventh ward,
took the floor and made one of his char
acteristie speeches. He declared that
the men who asked for the passage of
the Owen ordinance meant business.
They had their money all ready, and
they wanted to go ahead and build a
market house without delay. The OPP
position came entirely from the Sixth
ward, and the people in it wanted the
earth. He declared that the opposition
was only a real estate scheme, and that,
unless the Owen ordinance was passed,
South Minneapolis would not get a
market. He asked the members to
vote down the motion made to refer it
back to the committee and to give the
ordinance its second reading. If the
council wanted to make any amend
ments to it they could be made. He
made plea for fair treatment, and de-
clared that if the people of the Seventh
and Eleventh wards "didn't get justice
at the hands of the council nobody else
should"
Aid. Smith wanted the council to be
consistent and to refer the ordinance
to the committee. When the Benton
ordinance was under discussion he said
the same people who are now asking for
the passage of the Owen ordinance had
made the fight which resulted in the
Benton ordinance being referred back
to the committee. What was right for
one was right for all.
Aid. Meloy made his maiden. speech
in support of the passage of the Ordi-
nance. He declared that he could 90
down in South Minneapolis and get any
quantity of signatures such as appeared
upon the protest to petition for any,
thing. He said that the people who
wanted the ordinance passed were not
interested in any real estate specula-
ton, but were business men who
wanted to build and conduct mar
ket on business principles. What
he wanted was fair treatment.
If the council didn't want to
pass the ordinance let the aldermen
vote it down, bnt he wanted the matter
settled at once. The people who asked
for the franchise had prepared bond in
the sum of $4,000, which would guaran-
tee the faithful performance OF every
section of the ordinance.
Speeches were also made by Aids.
Phillips, Vandewaker, Flaten, John
son and Hunter, the latter declaring
that the people wanted the market in
the Sixth ward and not out on the
prairie, where no one would be bene-
fitted. The motion to refer to the com
mittee was finally carried by vote of
20 yeas to 10 nays, as follows:
Yeas-Barrows, Brazie. Bursell, Cole, Duru.
ham. Eustad. Gilman. Gray, Grimes, Hunter,
Ingenhutt, Loye, Lowell, Potter, Rhode,
Reeves Smith, Swanson, Sterling, Hansen,
Wood ward, johnson. Nays-Adams BradiSh,
Bliehfeldt, Fla.en, FultZ, Meloy, Parry, Phil.
lips, Vogt Vandewaker.
IN FAVOR OF THE POLES.
The special committee, consisting OF
one alderman from each. ward, and the
standing committee on railroads, pre-
scented a report recommending that the
Minneapolis Street Railway company be
allowed to use the center-pOle system,
for carrying their trolley wires, provided
that the company should give bond
sufficient to protect the city from all
damages arising from accidents occa-
stoned by the poles being in the center
of the street. Aid. BarrowS was OPP
posed to allowing the company to place
poles in the center of the business
streets, and submitted an amendment
which was adopted, providing that the
poles only be allowed on the streets on
which the cable lines were to be
built during 1890. Aid. Gray contended
that the center pole was the system
which would be found the less danger
Gus. He believed that it would inter
fere less with the fire departments
work in raising ladders than the pres
ent system by which it is necessary to