St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-18
A COVERT ROASTING
Contained in the Report to
the Council of the Hos
pital Status.
Funds Should Not Be Diverted
From the Purpose OBJ
tanned For.
The Structure Will Rest I'm
til Money Fills the City
Golfers.
The Encpoachment Of Frame
Buildings Too Common
in Fire Limits.

/ All work ON the much needed addition
to the city'hOspital was knocked in the.
head by the action OF the city council
last night,fn adopting the following re-
! port:
Your committee on ways and means
to whom was referred the resolution to
authorize the issue of $4,000 of the
bonds of the city for the purpose OF
! paying certain Indebtedness of the city
arising from the construction of the
city hospital, reports as follows;
That they have examined into the
] condition OF the account known as the
hospital fund, and they find that on
JAM 1, 1891, there was on the books of
the comptroller credited to said fund
the sum of over $50. 900, and since that
time there has been paid out of said
fund, for additional hospital buildings
under contract, the sum of about So
900. That there is now to the credit of
said fund over $4,000, but the money
which should have been in said fund
and subject to the payment of the eSti-
| mates upon the contract for said adj
ditional buildings seems to have been
diverted to other purposes and is not in
the hands of the treasurer. 1t also
appears that there was in the city treas
ury on March l, 1891. something over
| fc~,OOU' II 10 IliO OplliOH Vi YOUR COli-
mlttee that the money which has been
diverted from the hospital fund should
be Immediately restored to the same
from the money in the city treasury,
and be made available for the payment
OF estimates to contractors who have
been engaged upon such additional hos
pitaf buildings.
1t seems that Oh Feb. %, 1887, 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 IN the
city of st. Paul ana the appointing of
special committees in relation thereto"
and that by said act the following gen
tlemen were appointed commissioners
to carry out the purposes thereof: Hon.
G. ID. Kerr, X. 2. Cullen and A. b.
Ancker, and that they were authorized to
contract for and build additional hospital
buildings for the city. That under said
act contract has been let for a build
ing which, we are informed. will, when
said contract is executed, be mere
skeleton building without floors, plaS-
tering, plumbing, and many other essen
tial requisites to its habitation for hosp-
tai purposes. That said contract was
let to the Iaylor-Craig corporation, and
that an estimate has been made by
which it appears that there is S21. 200 or
S22, 900 due said contractors, they having
already received thereon in the neigh
bOrhOOd of $4,000. Your committee
finds upon investigation that to com
plete said building will costa very large
sum of money, probably amounting to
$50, 900 or $4,000 over and above the es-
Inmates now outstanding in favor of said
contractors. Without commenting upon
| the necessity of said building for the
| use of the city at the time it was
ordered enacted, your committee is
of the opinion that the present
estimates should be paid, although
they are informed that the contract
| under which the services were rendered
and the material furnished has never
been executed fully and legally by the
city, and that when the moneys diverted
from said hospital fund are restored
thereto, there will be sufficient money
to pay said estimates, and that they
should be paid from said funds. Your
committee is of the opinion that it
would be injudicious to issue any fur
Their bonds of the city at prese mt.
and that it would be better that the
progress of said building should be ar
rested where it now stands, than that
the city should incur an additional in
debtednesS to complete the same. Your
committee further takes the liberty of
suggesting to your honorable body that
the financial officers of the city be in
Structed in the future not to use un der
any circumstances, funds raised for one
purpose for any other object whatever
than that for which they were raised.
Aid. DOrniden introduced resolution
directing the building inspector not to
issue permit for the reconstruction
of the AZOtine plant on the old Site
A hn nj 49,
unanimously adopted.
An ordinance granting Abram Schu-
mann the right to construct wooden par
tltlOnS in three-StOry building within
the fire limits, on the West side, brought
several aldermen to their feet. Mr..
Flandrau voiced the sentiment of the
opponents to the ordinance when he
said:
"This thing of granting to particular
persons the right to violate our building
ordinances is getting altogether too fire.
persons the right to construct wooden
partitions within the fire limits, why not
abolish the fire limits altogether and
give all builders equal rightS?'
The roll was called upon the passage
of the ordinance and it received the
necessary majority to pass.
Aid. Dobner's resolution to authorize
Dale q Bumgardner to raise Jackson
street between Grove street and Penn
sYlvania avenue, and the approaches to
jackson street on Fourteenth street. to
the grade as changed by the council and
as soon as said change is confirmed by
the board of public works, was referred
to the committee on streets. All the
aldermen present voted in favor of the
ordinance giving the st. Paul White
Lead and Oil company the lease to fac
tory grounds on the West side levee.
The petition of large number of prop
erty owners for the grading of Topping
and Burgess streets was laid over. The
name of Hoyt avenue, in West St. Paul,
was changed to Kansas avenue, and
Kansas avenue to Hoyt avenue.