The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-08-07
CITY COUNCIL.
The Sidwalk Ordinance Passed-S1. 600
to be Expended on GlenwoOd Ave
nue. The Cassidy Ordinance
Sustained.
More Public Improvements Ordered.

Hubbard occupying the chair. All OF
the aldermen were present.
On motion of Aid. Fowler, special
committee on resolutions on the death
Of the late Gen. Tourtellotte was ap-
pointed as follows: Aids. Brett and
Fowler. The committee withdrew
for few moments, and then appear
ed and reported appropriate resolu-
tions, which were adopted.
Hon. Jno. F. Meagher appeared be-
fore the council and asked permission
to construct an open board shed back
of certain property of his, in place of
an old one. Granted.
A petition was received asking that
ordinance No. So be revoked, on the
ground that the packing house would
be public nuisance and endanger the
health of the public. This is the
ordinance which permits O. Cassidy
to construct packing house on block
l36.
Aid. Saulpaugh moved that it be
laid upon the table.
Attorney Shissler appeared before
the council on behalf of those who
signed the petition. He urged that
the location is too near the public
streets, and that it be moved further
away.
Aid. Saulpaugh made strong argu-
ment against the petition and in fav-
or of manufactures. He begged the
people to wait and see whether there
would be a smell If there was, it
would be time enough to protest. He
intimated that some of the butchers
had started the petition.
Henry Hillesheim appeared before
the council on behalf Of the petition.
His language was more expressive
than elegant.
Aid. Schlingerman stated that the
factory would not create half the
stencil that the COWS do in his ward,
while the people about block 1876 had
petitioned to allow their cows to rove
in his ward. The hogs which are kept
by many of the people there create a
much greater smell than the factory
would.
Aid. Peterson said that he had been
censured by his constituents for al
lowing the ordinance to be passed at
the last meeting He said that he
had favored the factory, and that he
believed that the more industries that
are secured the better. That part of
the city seemed to be dead, and it
contained a great many grumblers and
kickers who do not seem to know
what they do want. He proposed to
stand by his action, and favored the
location and the factory.
A question arose in regard to the
previous ordinance, which prohibits
any slaughter house withinE0 rods of
Front street. 1t was shown that
ordinance S. repeats this.
The motion to lay the petition on
the table was unanimously carried.
A petition was received asking that
the water mains be extended from n.
Front street on Elm to Willow street.
Referred to the committee on water
works.
A petition was received asking that
a sewer be placed along Front street
from Poplar to Liberty and to Rec
ord, up Liberty to Second, up Second
to Byron and Van Brunt, up Byron to
State, up State to Record, down Rec
ord to Front. The whole distance is
bout $500 feet.
The city engineer stated that the
syphon under Warren creek would
cost $500 or s40O more than the cost
on level streets. 1t would be a slow
and difficult job, owing to the water
and mud.
The petition was referred to the
Board of Public Works.
In regard to the petition asking
that road be opened from Mound
Avenue to "E' street, the Board of
Public Works reported in favor of the
improvement, and stated that the
cost would be 800, the property bene-
flied paying the cost. The work was
ordered done.
The Board reported in favor of the
proposed Glenwood avenue improve
ment. The grading can be done with
the grader for 800, while the cost of
graveling foot deep and twenty feet
in the center will be 60. so or 40 cents
per lineal foot, or So, 300, 81, $50 or ST.
200, depending upon where the gravel
comes from. The latter does not in
clude the cost of the gravel. The
cost of the sidewalk will be 80 cents
per lineal foot, or 81 $50. The walk
would be five feet wide.
Aid. Fowler moved that $1,000 be
expended before May /, 1892, to COM
mence the work, which is to be start
ed at the cemetery gate and brought
westward until the money is exhaust
ed. Carried.
Aid. Brett urged that the towns of
the county purchase and use road