St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-23
Regular Nee ting.

ST. PAUL, March II, 1891
President Cullen in the chair
Present-Ald. Banholzer Bielenberg Bott,
Costello, Dobner, Dorniden. Flandrau, Minea,
Sanborn, Van Slyke, Mr. Presidential.
Minutes Of preceding meetings approved
and dispensed with.
COMMUNE ATOMS
From Daniel r. NOyes and Others
Protesting against rebuilding of plant of
Azotine Manufacturing Company at its for
mer location.
From Fred Schroeder, Aug. Dahme and
Others
For permission to build livery stable on
Carroll street, Mackubin & Marshall's addi-
ton.
Committee on Streets.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
Of Committee on Ways and Means-Resolu-
ton for $4,000 Bonds. Hospital Purposes
To the Common Council of the City of ST.
Paul:
Your Committee of Ways and Means, to
whom was referred the resolution to author
ize the issue of $4,000 of the bonds OF the
city for the purpose of paying certain indebt-
edness of the city arising from the construc-
ton of the city hospital therein, report as
follows:
That they have examined into the conoi-
ton OF the account of said city known as the
Hospital Fund, and that they find that on
the LIST day of January 1891. there was on the
books OF the Comptroller credited to said
fund the sum of over $4,000, and since said
additional hospital buildings under contract
the sum of about $4,000 That there is now
to the credit of said fund over S21, 000 but
the money which should have been in said
1und and subject to the payment of the esti-
mates upon the contract for said additional
buildings seems to have been diverted to
other purposes, and is not in the hands of
| the Treasurer. 1t also appears that theirs
was IN the city treasury on March l. 1891.
son ething over So, 900. 1t is the opinion of
your committee that the money which has
been diverted from the Hospital Fund should
be Immediately restored to the same from the
money in the hands of the City Treasurer,
and be made available for the payment of
estimates to contractors who have been en-
gagged upon such additional hospital build
iDgs. 1t seems that on February % 1888 T.
an act was passed by the legislature of
this state entitled, IAN 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 III the City of ST. Paul
and the appointing of special committees in
relation thereto" and that by said act the
following gentlemen were appointed COM
mlssloners to carry out the purposes thereof,
to wit: The Honorable Charles D. Kerr
Kimble P. Cullen and Arthur B. Ancker, and
that they were authorized to contract for aud
build additional hospital buildings for the
city; that under said act contract has been
let for a building, which. we are info rmed,
will, when said contract is executed, be
mere skeleton building, without floors,
plastering, plumbing and many other es-
sentlal requisites to its hebitation for hos
p1tal purposes; that said contract was let to
the Taylor-C raig Corporation, and that an
estimate has been made by which it appears
that there is some twenty-one or twenty-five
thousand dollars due said contractors, they
having already received thereon in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. Your committee finds
upon investigation that to complete said
building will cost verv large sum of money,
probably amounting to fifty or sixty thousand
dollars over and above the estimates now
outstanding in favor of said contractors
Without commenting upon the necessity of
said building for the use of the city at the
time il was ordered erected, your committee
is OF the opinion that the present estimates
formed that the contract under which
the services were rendered and the
material furnished has never been
that when the moneys diverted from said
hospital fund are restored thereto there will
be sufficient money to pay said estimates.