St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-19
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Council Committees Consider This
Question at Length:


Five council committees met yester-
day, their principal business being the
consideration of petitions for public I'M
provements, and although the council
has already ordered more work than
there are funds to pay for consldera-
bic amount of paving. water and sewer
work will be recommended at the meet
ing this evening.
In the morning the committee on
water works held session and agreed
to recommend the following mains:
Twenty-second avenue, from Lake TO
Thirty second street.
Sixteenth avenue southeast, from seventh
TO Eighth streets.
FOrty-frst avenue north, from NdsHlHeVOH
to Crystal Lake road.
Douglas avenue, from Hennepin to Hum
boldt.
Twentv-sixth avenue south, from Frank
lin to Twenty sixth street.
Grand avenue from Thlrty-nrst W AhlI'y
third streets.
Fifteenth avenue south, from Lake street
to Thirty second street.
Thirteenth avenue south, from twenty
sixth to TWeuty-eightb streets.
TAYLOR street, from Eighteenth 10 1Wenty-
eighth avenues northeast 80 -
BlaisdelI avenue, from Twenty-elghth 10
Lake street
Lake of the Isles boulevard, from Irving to
Euclid avenues.
SIKH avenue southeast, from University to
Main street. ~
Pleasant street southeast, from University
TO Beacon. -
Eighteenth avenue northeast, from Cen
trail to Taylor.
Twenty-fifth avenue northeast from Cen-
trail to Johnson.
jackson street. from Eighteen-and-a-Halt
to TWentv-seYenth avenues northeast
e. IFaVN fral
Third street. from Twenty sixth avenue
north TO Twenty ninth.
The increasing waste of water in the
use of garden hose and sprinklers was
discussed, and it is likely an ordinance
to check the extravaganza Will be IN
troduced at an early meeting.
The committee on ways and means
also held 4 short morning session to
consider the report of the armOry board
and the resolution providing for a sale
| of bonds to build an engine house III the
! First ward.
The committee objected to appropri'
ating 81, 200 for the expense of conduct
ing the armOry. The members falleo 10
see why the city should pay rent on a
building it already owned. The report
was laid over to await an opinion from
the city attorney on this point.
1t was decided not to sell bonds for
an engine house, but to take the amount
from the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fund.
The committee on sewers met In the
afternoon and decided to recommend
number of short sewers in different
| parts of the city, none OF which Will he
| very expensive.
The committee on paving met at 3 p
m. and opened bids for the contract FOL
! artificial curb and combined curb anC
gutter for the year 1891. made under
| resolution of the council, which pro
vides that the city's proportion and one
fifth OF the property owners pr0pOrtloI
of the cost shall be paid in July, 1892,
and the balance in four equal annua
installments. The bids were four IL
number, as follows:
Nvval & Westland. curb and gutter, 10x10
! &C cents; 12xl2. y cents; straight curD OX%4
81 cents; 6x30 - cents.
| A G. Parkhurst curb and gutter, l0Xl0 z;
| cents: 12xl2, 50 cents; straight curb, ox2O, u
cents; 6x24, % cents. .o,o ..
Ring d Tobiu, curb and gutter, 1Ox y, ..
! cents; 12x12 Is cents; straight curb, 6x20 n
| cents; 6X24, 50 cents.
Asbestine Stone company, curb and gutter
| 10xl0, 70 cents; 12xl2, 74l2 cents; stralgn
curb, 6x20 74l2 cents; 6X24, ~ cents
The committee decided to recommend
that the contract be awarded to hing q
Tobin, the lowest bidders.
This committee also considered petl
tions for paving and curb and gutter
work.
1t was decided to recommend thai
paving be ordered as follows: On Har-
rison street. from Division street to Cen
trail avenue; OH Cedar avenue, from
Second street to Franklin; on Secont
avenue north. from First street to Fourtl
street: on Holden street, from the rail
road bridge to Highland avenue; or
Fourth street, from Second to Third
avenue and Irving to Penn avenue: oil
Laurel avenue. from Hennepin to Nine
teenth; on Thirteenth avenue north
east, from River to Main, and on Uni
yersity avenue, from Fifth to Broad
way. ~
CURLING was recommended on Third
avenue north, from Fourth to Fifth.