St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-18
MINNEAPOLIS EVENTS
The Council Has a Regular
Old-Time Hair-Pulling
Match.
The ParkhupSt People Are
Beaten in the Curb and
Gutter Fight.
PeddlerS' License Raised Out
Of Sight--Other Alder
manic Doings.
An Old Mans Suicide--The
An Old Mans Suicide--The
District Courts Comedy
Of Errors.

The curb and gutter question came Up
at 9:35. There were two reports Oh this
matter indicating a fight. The fight
began III the committee meeting in the
afternoon. Seven bids were received
in answer to the second advertisement.
They were as follows, the price stated
for curb and gutter being the price per
| lineal foot:
j. Nj. Sullivan, granite catchbasin
covers, Sl4 each; granite curb, 1S-inch,
% cents; 20-inch, 81; 24-inch, S1.25; 80
inch, S1.5O.
Ring d Tobin, Kettle river sandstone
curbing only, & inches by 80 inches,
Sl-10; inches by 24 inches, 81 cents
catchbasin covers, $40 each; curb cor
nerS, IS each.
John King, artificial stone curb, 6x30
inches, II cents; 6X24, 57$4 cents; curb
and gutter combined. 12x12, 70 cents
10Xl0, 6S14 cents per lineal foot.
The Franklin Stone Sidewalk COM
| pany, artificial stone curb 6X30 inches,
75 cents; 6X24 inches, 62 cents: curb
and gutter combined, 12inches, 76 cents,
10 inches, &c cents.
Barrett IL Elliott, artificial stone curb,
| 6X3O inches, - cents: 6X24 inches. 50
cents; curb and gutter combined, II
( inches, 20 cents; 10 inches. 65 cents.
| NYVall u WeStlaDd, artificial stone
! curb, 6X30 inches. 6S cents: 6x24 inches,
| 81 cents; combined curb and gutter, 12-
inch, 6913 cents: 10-inch, % cents.
| Parkhurst Paving Company - Arti-
| lclal stone curb, 6X3O-inch. 50 cents
6X24, 40 cents; combined curb and gut
| ter, 12-lnch, Go cents; 1O-inch. 5S cents.
| Parker'S patent combined curb and gut
ter, l2-inch, 70 cents; 10-inch, 20 cents
| per lineal.
AS will be noticed, the Parkhurst Paw,
| ing company'S bids
Were the Lowest
all the way through on artificial stone
curb and curb and gutter. He under
stood that war was being made upon
him, and he determined TO cut under
everybody. But it is doubtful if the
committee Oh paving would award the
contract to ParkhurSt were he to Otfel
to do it for nothing. 1t was not Park
hurst committee. The old fight, pro
longed through so many weeks, had be-
gun again. The anti-Parkhurst mem.
bers of the committee couldn't con.
slstentlv recommend the award OF
contracts for artificial stone tC
Nyvall & Westlund, the next lowest
bidders. They might be accused OF
bad faith i'll advertising for proposal:
and then refusing to award the contract
to the lowest bidder 1t would look
queer. So they decided to throw out
all the bids on artificial stone. The
three anti-ParkhurSt men, Parry. Blut.
teldt and Kiichl, decided TO give all the
curDing to Ring IL Tobin, the bidders or
Kettle river sandstone, at 81 cents pei
lineal foot. Loye fought hard and Elan
ders backed him up. But they were
outnumbered. Loye tried to com
promise. He urged that the wishes OF
the property owners on the various
streets be aScertained and thai
the curbing contracts be split uI
as they might desire. That wouldn't
go. Then Loye urged that the mayor
would veto such a resolution as the ma
jority of the committee was about tC
recommend. The work of setting curl
would be delayed thereby. That work
should be begun Immediately. Nothing
came of that plea. Some of the commit
tee members were sure that the mayor
would not veto again. He had, in fact
they said. told them that he would sigI
any resolution that agreed with tn,
specifications and that would com,
within the special assessments. The,
knew, moreover, that the mayor favored
natural stone curb. They had no fea
of another veto. So the committee de
clded to recommend the award of th,
contract for all the city's curb setting t,
Ring IL TObin at 81 cents per lineal foot
Loye and Flanders Immediately Sc
about the preparation of the minort,
report.
The Majority Report
presented to the council was as out
lined above. The minority report
signed by Love. was different. 1t re
cited that the property on nearly all th
streets on which curb or curb and gut
ter has been ordered, desire artificia
stone. 1t is stated that the award O
} the contract as recommended by tn
majority report would cost the cit,
, S14,740 more than is necessary. The
, the minority report recommends tha
the contracts be awarded thus: to Rim;
a. TObin, for ~, 800 feet of Kettle rive
sandstone at elghty-one cents per linea
foot: to the ParkhurSt Paving COmpan'
for 44.900 feet of artificial stone curb
, or all the remainder, at torty-nine cent
, per lineaI foot, by far the lowest bid.
Loye made speech. He reclted fact
obtained from petitions in support Q
the statements made in his minorit
report. lie upheld the right of petition
the only manner i'll which the wishes @
the public can be put before the counci
S Kiichli replied. He prefaced his re
marks by stating that natural stone ca
be crushed only under pressure of 10
600 pounds, while a 440-pound pIessur
will crush artificial stone, as demon
, strated by the building inspectors tes
> | Kirchli became personal in referring
5 Loye's attitude on the question. H
quoted IIoye as saying he was WOrkin
in the interest of the taxpayers. 10y
' replied that he was for the taxpayer:
,, because, by the adoption of his minorit
? report, the taxpayers would be save
S14, 740. Rand waived his voice agail
He was not in favor of giving the Parl
v hurst people anything. He wante
j natural stone on all business street!
i That was his plant. No one disagree
i with him.
: Grimes moved that the whole que.
ton be re-committed. The bids Wer
!, opened only that afternoon. All wer
very low. He thought more time shoul
: he given to the subject. Potter recon
k mended his motion. and told why. Th
e charter provides that no special asses.
ment shall be ordered except by two
. thirds vote of the council. Some assess
. mentS for curb and gutter were leyie
. for artificial stone. He believed, an
e would so rule. were he in the chair. tha
) those artificial stone assessments coul
u not be overruled. except by two third
vote. Haynes spoke for recOmmitta
! becarSe he did not believe that propert
= owners on all the streets in the cit
n wanted natural stone. The desires c
/ the property owners should be consiC
o cred. He struck the keynote of thi
s protracted fight when he said:
I'VE know that this is all a matter c
/ business. We know that it is a figh
: between the natural stone contractor
: and the artificial stone manufacturer
/. and their adherents. The public shoul
S have word to say in the matter.''
/ Lowell upheld the motion to recon
nit. MCGOWAN made another sneecl