St. Paul daily globe., 1892-08-26
LAST HOPE IS GONE.
Again the Board of Aldermen
VetOeS the Illumination
Plan.
Not Even the Allupement of
Rice Park Could Bring
the Vote.
Reardon Says the Mayors
Police Appointments Are
Not Good.
The Mis- cellaneous Business
Transacted at the Assem-
bly, Meeting.

The board of aldermen held a ten
minute session last night. but it was
long enough to put wet blanket on
the hopes of those who expected to
have the streets Illuminated during fair
week. The ordinance fixing the
amount to be expended by the school
board was passed, and an adjournment
taken. The assembly met in reg ular
session Immediately afterward. and
did considerable business. A step
toward impeachment proceedings to
put DR.. HOyt out of his Office as health
inspector was taken by the reference of
alleged charges to special committee
to investigate. One of the alleged
charges is that an employe of the board
who died on the 9th of May, 1891. was
kept on the pay roll until the end of the
month, and a representative of his eS-
tate paid the $50. The other charges
grow out of the Azotine muddle which
has been threShed over and over again.
Bids for the collection and disposal of
garbage were opened and referred to
the special committee on garbage.
The board of aldermen was called to
order at O'Clock. All members present
except Aid. Copeland and Warren.
The ordinance fixing the sum appro-
priated for the use of the school board
during the ensuing school year was
read, the rules suspended and the ordi-
nance passed. The figures mentioned
in the ordinance are AS follows:
Total amount appropriated for the MAIN
tenance of schools, Si32, ,07o; not to exceed
$341.4l for salaries Of teachers; not to ex-
ceed 4,6oO for salaries of all other employees
of the board and not to exceed 4i,OO0 for
fuel supplies and all other purposes.
1 fI,o
to whether the ordinance passed was
legal. AS he understood the rules no
ordinance could be passed at other than
regular meeting without unanimous
consent. The chairman said unless OBJ
lection was made it would be understood
consent to Introduce and pass the ordi-
nance had been unanimous and the
clerk would so record 1t in the minutes.
a resolution by Aid. Conley providing
for the expenditure of $1,000 under the
direction OF a committee IN illuminating
At the request of Aid. Conley
permission was given DR.. Williams
to address the meeting on the
matter of the proposed illumination.
DIR. Williams said il was thought better
to have tile illumination transferred
from Third street to Rice park. The
display, he said. could be much more
enjoyed at the park than on Third
street. The illumination at the park
would not. cost as much as on Third
street, and the fixtures would not be
afterwards removed. The artistic dis
play could be made to prove great at
traction during fair week, and by leav-
ing it at the park it would prove new
and unique attraction. Aid. Hickman
said the matter should BE- considered
seriously. One of the duties of the
council was to study economy. The
economical idea should, however, be
carried out with Judgment. Some busi-
hess men thought money could be saved
by not advertising. People had been in
the habit of visiting st. Paul during fair
week. They have found the streets
Illuminated. and have gone home with
the idea that the city was a wide awake
and enterprising place. If they come
this time and find no illumination they
would go home thinking the city was on
the verge of bankruptcy. His idea was
that it would be worth five times the
cost to the city to illuminate.
The vote on the passage of the reso-
luton showed AID Conley, Cullen,
Franklin, Hickman, Jensen, thinner
man and Ingersol in favor, and Aid.
Dorniden and Montgomery opposed.
AS it required a four-fifths vote to eX-
pend money for this purpose. the chair
man announced the resolution lost.