St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-29
Two Important Memorials
Submitted to Them for
Consideration.
Street Car Facilities Are Dis
cuSSed and Better Service
Demanded.
The Location OF a Market and
Police Substation Will
Come Next.


to mark the formation OF this union as
the dawn of new era. The meeting
was called to order promptly by Mayor
Smith, the minutes of the last meeting
read and adopted, and the business Of
reading petitions and memorials
taken up.
4 Tanning Industry.
Mayor Smith presented petition
signed by Otto l.. Haese, Offering the
services of an experienced tanner, who
desires TO invest $4,000 of his own capt.
tai in sole leather tannery. a company
to be formed with capital stock of
100000 to carry on the industry. After
some discussion the matter was referred
to the committee on mercantile and
manufacturing. Inquiry being made as
TO who the committee was, the president
presented the full list of standing COM
mitteeS for the year, which is as fol-
lows:
Executive Committee-Messrs. robert A.
Smith, chairman; Henry Orme, John Ives,
A. Z. huby, Henry Lauer.
Statistics and Correspondence - Anton
JuTka, chairman; Peter ThauWald. a. Moore.
Finance-Henry ION der Weyer, chairman ;
c: Dorniden, Frank Jansen, William
Wildung, A. r. Kiefer.
Mercantile and Manufactories-Mat Czech,
chairman; John Lesh, Otto Rohland, A.
Jurka, Charles Lauer
Railroads and Transpcrtation-Char
Ringwald, chairman; William Banholzer,
Fred Richter and two to be added.
Mississippi River and Levee-James Cleary,
chairman: Andrew Doyle, Henry Lauer.
William Ulmer and Martin Delaney.
Streets, Roads and Parks-William II. u
mer, chairman, d. c. Murray, Henry Man
dehl. L. \. krch and Ben kartak.
Health and Sanitation-Charles Lauer,
chairman: Christ J. Dorniden, Peter Bielen,
Frank Mcclure aud Charles Ringwald.
Building and Fire Departmental. j. Ro-
mer, chairman.
Taxes County and City-William j. Grone-
valid, chairman; Henry Lauer, Peter Kopriva,
Joseph Haag, Fred Barta, Otto Rohland,
Frank Giles.
General Observation-Disclosures Doyle,
chairman; James Cleary, Pat Leo Gustav
Rohland, john lIoreisch.
LegislaIion-John Ives, chairman; William
BanholZer, Christ j. Dorniden, Noritz Helm
Walter Book.
Auditing Committee-Patrick Dougherty,
chairman; Charles Parker. Joseph Bour-
geault.
Soliciting Membershlp-HeDry Smith. chair
man; T. Leo. Frank Koch, Peter Elswirth.
Charles Ringwald moved to enlarge
the committee on railroads to five, Ow-
ing TO its Importance, and permission
was granted, the names 10 be selected
later.
Locating New Machine Shops.
William Koch presented petition,
ACCOMPANIED by map of the district,
from the Milwaukee d st. Paul railroad,
asking the union to have the streets va
Gated from the bluff to the river, taking
in Sherman, Walnut, Elm, Washington
and Spring streets. This is loW-lying
property, and they offer to fill it in, lay
tracks, build machine shop, round
house. and otherwise improve the To-
cality. They guarantee they will spend
between $4,000 and Sl00,G0 in perma-
nentimprovementS, agreeing to make all
sewer connections and other changes
that may be required. This question
was before the council before, and for
good and sufficient reasons at the time
it was vetoed by the mayor. The COM
pany now claims that it has been COM
PEELED to transfer considerable its bust
ness to Minneapolis, owing to being
unable to secure facilities here, and that
if it is granted the privileges now it will
so thoroughly improve the locality by
the erection of machine and repair
shops as to fully compensate the city
for all the benefits it may receive from
the vacation. These shops will give
give employment to over 100 men, and
would materially aid the ward. The
matter was referred to the committee
on streets, roads and parks, in connec-
ton with the committee on railroads.
| =. NJ. KerSt moved a short recess to
allow new members to sign the roll,
and there were many new names added.
street Railway in the Air.
Attention was next turned to the
electric railways, which provoked a
| lengthy discussion. Aid. DOrniden
| stated ne had seen Supt. Scott with re-
gard to the Fort Smelling extension
| and he has made two propositions. The
first was to run a car every hour from
the fort around the loop. The second
! to run a car every half hour from
! Tuscarora street and provide a waiting
room at each end. The latter propo-
SitiOn seemed to meet with the most
favor, and on motion of Charles Lauer
the committee on railroads was in
structed to report.
In regard to the Randolph extension
the alderman stated that Supt. Scott
| claimed that under contract the COM
| pany had with the people who had paid
the bonus they were allowed to shut
down from Dec. l till spring.
James Cleary wanted to know if the
street car company or Thomas Cochran
bad right under the charter granted
: them to close down line whenever
they pleased, and was Informed by the
chairman that they would forfeit their
charter if they did not run cars.
Henry Jansen wanted to know if any
| one present knew the amount of bO-
muses. that had been paid, and 2. L.
KopriVa gave full explanation of the
matter. He stated that the original
ocf-ad fn, 10
all the year, but when the collections
were made only S65, 900 could be secured,
! and the company accepted this amount
! with the understanding that they could
! close down during the winter months of
| 1891 and 1892, meaning the present
month of December, January and Feb
ruary of 1892. Each one who paid a
bonus had copy of this agreement,
signed by himself. and that they were
| not willing to make kick if they sup
| posed it would interfere with the ordi-
nance, which they thought it would
most likely 40.
Mr.. Jansen then stated that he was
sorry for the people who had paid the
bonus, as any one could see that it had
| certainly not cost over $4,000 to build
the road. and that the interest on the
remaining SIS, 600 ought to enable the
company to keep few cars running.
President Smith stated that there was
! no question that they would forfeit their
charter If they did not run cars. and
that the greatest hardship was on those
! people who had to pay for the change
( of grade and not the bonus payers, as a
great many of those lived back from the
line.
The whole question was finally re.
ferred to the committee on railroads.
Mr.. Jansen made an earnest appeal
TO the committee on solicitation of mem
bership and the union at large to use
! their efforts i'll increasing the member
ship. as there were still large number
of property owners who had not become
| members.
Mr.. Leo introduced a resolution to
secure a market for the Fifth ward,
which was referred to the committee on
general improvements.
The next meeting will take place
| Agopdax- aUaptnO whom II {o ax,1ootnd