St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-18
Contained In the Report to
the Council of the Hos
pital Status.
Funds Should Not Be Diverted
From the Purpose OBJ
tanned For.
The Structure Will Rest I'm
til Money Fills the City
Golfers.
The Enepoachment Of Frame
Buildings Too Common
in Fire Limits.

All work on the much needed addition
to the city hospital was knocked in the
head by the action OF the city council
last night in adopting the following re.
port:
| Your committee on ways and means
to whom was referred the resolution to
authorize the issue of $4,000 of the
bonds of the city for the purpose OF
paying certain Indebtedness of the city
arising from the construction of the
city hospital, reports as follows;
That they have examined into the
condition OF the account known as the
hospital fund, and they find that on
Jan. l, 1891, there was on the books of
the comptroller credited to said fund
the sum of over $50. 900, and since that
time there has been paid out of said
fund. for additional hospital buildings
under contract, the sum of about S10,-
600, That there is now to the credit of
SAID fund over S21 900, but the money
which should have been in said fund
and subject to the payment of the esti-
mates upon the contract for said ad-
dltlonal buildings seems to have been
diverted to other purposes and is not in
the hands of the treasurer. 1t also
appears that there was in the city treas
ury on March l, 1891, something over
| $4,000. 1t is the opinion of your COM
mittee that the money which has been
diverted from the hospital fund should
be Immediately restored to the same
from the money in the city treasury,
and be made available for the payment
OF estimates to contractors who have
been engaged upon such additional hos
pital buildings.
1t seems that on Feb %, 1887, an act
was passed by the legislature of this
state entitled AN act in relation to the
erection of public buildings for the use
of the city of st. Paul and the county of
Ramsey for hospital purposes IN the
city of st. Paul ana the appointing of
special committees in relation thereto"
and that by said act the following gen
tlemen were appointed commissioners
to carry out the purposes thereof: Hon.
Z. ID. Kerr, K. p Cullen and A. B.
| Ancker,a that they were authorized to
contract for and build additional hospital
buildings for the city. That under said
act contract has been let for a build
ing which, we are Informed. will, when
, said contract is executed, be a mere
| skeleton building without floors, plaS-
! tering, plumbing, land many other essen
| tial requisites to its habitatiOn for hospi-
tai purposes. That said contract was
let to the Taylor Craig corporation, and
| that an estimate has been made by
| which it appears that there is S2l 900 or
S22, 1000 due said contractors, they having
already received thereon in the neigh
| born00d of $4,000. Your committee
finds upon investigation that to com
| plete said building will costa very large
sum OF money, probably amounting to
| $1,000 or 600 over and above the es-
| Inmates now outstanding in favor of said
contractors. Without commenting upon
| the necessity of said building for the
use of the city at the time it was
3, ordered enacted, your committee is
] of the opinion that the present
estimates should be paid, although
they are Informed that the contract
under which the services were rendered
and the material furnished has never
been executed fully and legally by the
city, and that when the moneys diverted
from said hospital fund are restored
thereto, there will be sufficient money
! to pay said estimates, and that they
should be paid from said funds. Your
committee is of the opinion that it
| would be injudicious to issue any fur
Their bonds of the city at prese Mt.
and that it would be better that the
progress of said building should be ar
rested where it now stands, than that
the city should incur an additional in
debtedneSS to complete the same. Your
committee further takes the liberty of
suggesting to your honorable body that
the financial officers of the city be in
structed in the future not to use un der
any circumstances, funds raised for one
purpose for any other object whatever
than that for which they were raised.
Aid. Dorniden introduced resolution
directing the building inspector not to
issue permit for the reconstruction
of the AZotine plant on the old site
After some debate the resolution was
unanimously adopted.
An ordinance granting Abram Schu-
mann the right to construct wooden par
titions in three-story building within
! the fire limits, on the West side, brought
| several aldermen to their feet. Mr..
| Flandrau voiced the sentiment of the
| opponents to the ordinance when he
! said:
! This thing of granting to particular
| persons the right to violate our building
| ordinances is getting altogether too fire.
quent in the council. If we give a few
/ persons the right to construct wooden
partitions within the fire limits, why not
| abolish the fire limits altogether and
give all builders equal rights?''
| The roll was called upon the passage
of the ordinance and it received the
necessary majority to pass.
Aid. D0bneT'S resolution to authorize
Dale u Bumgarduer to raise jackson
street between Grove street and Penn
! sYlvania avenue, and the approaches to
Jackson street on Fourteenth street. to
the grade as changed by the council and
as soon as said change is confirmed by
the board of public works, was referred
to the committee OH streets. All the
aldermen present voted in favor of the
ordinance giving the st. Paul White
Lead and Oil company the lease to fac
tory grounds on the West side levee.
The petition of large number of prop
erty owners for the grading of Topping
and Burgess streets was laid over. The
name of Hoyt avenue, in West St. Paul.
was changed to Kansas avenue. and
Kansas avenue to HOvt avenue.