St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-20
QUIET AS A CRAVE.
Last Night s Council Meeting
Passed Of Without a
Ripple.
Ring s. Tobin Were Finally
Awarded the Curb and
Gutter Contract.
Salmon Bridgman Instantly
Killed by the Gazing Of
q Sewer.
Two LaboperS Blown Up--An-
nual Lurlina Boat Club
Regatta.

The meeting of the council last even
ing was dull and uneYentful. partly be
cause of the extreme heat and partly
because there was little business of i'm
portance to come up. The members
peeled off their coats, disposed of them
selves about the room in all sorts of
lazy attitudes, and performed their
business in most perfunctory manner,
none of them, not even Aid.
Rand, appearing to have energy enough
to make a speech of any length.
The only discussion Of the evening was
upon the report of the committee on
paving, recommending that the curb
and gutter contract be awarded to Ring
IL IObin. the lowest of four bidders.
Aid. SWartZ moved to postpone action
for one week, stating as his reason that
he thought one OF the bids received last
spring for this sort of work was lower
than that of Ring & Tobin, and that he
did not fully understand the plan by
which the contract was let, any way.
His motion was lost and the report OF
the committee WAS adopted. Later in
the evening Aid. LOye moved to
reconsider the vote by which the
report was adopted, stating that
he did so because he wanted TO add a
clause indemnifying the city against
loss by any suit which the Parkhurst
company might bring for infringement
Of their patent on combined curb and
gutter This OccaSiOned considerable
discussion as to whether the city could
be sued III such a case or not, but the
vote was finally Teconsidered and the
clause inserted.
The health and hospitals committee
submitted 4 somewhat yOluminOus re-
port of the result of its investigations
upon the crematOry question, stating
that in neither Milwaukee, nor Chicago
had it found any regular system OF
garbage destruction in operation; the
MeTZ plant in both cities having been
abandoned on account of the disagree
able Odors attendant upon its workings.
The report then went on to state that in
DeS MOineS the committee had seen the
improved Engie furnace. and. after
a most careful inquiry had
failed to hear anything but the
most favorable reports of the method.
Then followed brief general descrip--
ton of the Engle system Of incinera-
ton, and III conclusion the committee
recommended that it be adopted and
the plant be located on the workhOuse
grounds. The report was accepted, and
the city engineer was instructed TO pre-
pare plans and estimates of a crematOry
of this character.
The committee on police submitted a
report asking for an appropriation of
S273, co. for the maintenance OF the de-
partment for the coming year, to be
allotted as follows:
Salaries, pay roll observation-disclosures sos. G57
Two patrol wagons. Observation-Disclosures. 2.00J
Signal service Improvement. 15.U0J
Miscellaneous, rent, fuel, etc.......... 15.O0)
Furnishing one station. LOCO
one new statlOn-...--...-.- .-.....-... 1J,OUO
The report was referred to the com
mittee on ways andsmeans. When the
report of the railroad committee upon
the Monroe street electric line, in which
the course of the line had been altered
so as to substitute Summer street for
Broadway, was read, Aid. BradiSh Of
fered an amendment. the effect OF which
was to make the ordinance read just as
it did originally. He stated that al
though the residents of Broadway OBJ
jected to the street railway. that thor
oughfare was much better fitted for the
purpose than Summer street, first for
the reason that Broadway was a seven
ty-foOt street, while Summer was only
sixty feet in width, and then again, be-
cause there were two public school
buildings on Summer street. and the
danger to the children attending them
would be so great as to constitute a
very strong objection. His amendment
was unanimously adopted.
The report of the committee on WAYS
and means recommending that the Sl2,-
600 needed to build an engine house in
the First ward be taken out of the per-
manent improvement fund, instead of
raised by a sale of bonds, was accepted,
and a resolution authorizing the erection
of the engine house and the payment Of
the expenses out of the permanent i'm
prOvement fund was passed. The re-
port of the committee on ways and
means recommending that the SLIGO
asked by the armOry board for the
maintenance of the armory during the
present year be taken from the con-
tingent fund, and that s., 500 be includ-
ed in the tax levy OF next year for
armOry purposes. was received, and
resolutions covering these points were
adopted.
During the progress of the meeting a
boy entered with a telegram which
proved to be from J. J. Hill. Mr. Hill
stated that he had expected to submit
at this meeting plans and estimates for
lowering the Great Northern tracks
from NicOllet island to Central avenue.
but that after consultation with City
Engineer Rinker he had decided to
figure upon a deeper cut than he had at
first contemplated, and for that reason
would not be able to submit the plans
until the next meeting. The telegram
was accepted and placed on file, and a
resolution by Aid. MCGOWAN, instruct
idg the city engineer to prepare esti-
mates of this WORK, was adopted.
The committees on paving. water
works and sewers recommended I'M
provements, as already detailed IN the
GLOBE, and the reports were adopted.
However. these reports will be sub
jected to the pruning knife of the
special committee before they are
ordered.
An invitation from the board Of di-
rectOrS Of the exposition requesting the
members of the council to be present
and participate in the opening eXer-
cises of the exposition. to take place
Wednesday next, was accepted.
a petition of eighteen or twenty of
the residents of Bluff street and vicinity
protesting against the location of the
Barrett tar paper factory at the corner
of Bluff street and Ninth avenue north,
on the ground that it would be NUS
ance and would render that vicinity IN
inhabitable, was referred to the alder
men of the Sixth ward.
a resolution was passed appropTiating
$500 for the Sons of Veterans to help de-
fray the expenses of the coming encamp-
ment.
Aid. Kiichli and Blichfeldt invited the
other members to be their guests on a
fishing excursion to Lake Minnetonka
tomorrow, and the invitation was ac-
cepted with great enthusiasm.