St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-20
HARMONY HAS CONE.
For the 'Steenth Time the
Garbage Question Has
Been Settled"
MacMullen Given the Con-
tract Without a Bit Of
a Struggle.
How the Merry Game Of
Local Politics Goes in
Minneapolis.
Loves Young Dream Shat
tered by a Clerk Of Mu-
nicipal Court.

When the people awake this morning
and learn that the nightmare of the
municipality, the garbage question, has
been settled, a feeling of thankful sur
prise will pervade their diaphrams. 1t
will he hard to realize at first. Never
theless, the question has been settled,
and Mac Mullan gets it. The committee
on health and hospitals presented its
report to the council last night, recon-
mending that the contract be awarded to
MscMullan, and greatly to the relief of
everybody it was adopted unanimously.
The report was amended by Aid
Haynes so that Mcmillan will be forced
to render the council quarterly report
under oath of the amount of garbage
received at the dumps and the amount
of fees pocketed. A failure to render
this report will operate to abrOgate the
contract at the option of the city. The
contract extends over period of five
years. Mac Mullan is to maintain four
dumps at his own expense, furnish a
line of trackage, all cars and all
help. He is 10 remove everything
in the line of garbage matter and
refuse matter. Night soil and dead ami
mails must be removed to the dumps in
alright receptacies. For doing all this
Macmillan is to receive. aside from
fees, $4,000 during the first year. ST. 900
during each of the second aid third
years, $4,000 during each of the fourth
and fifth years. The total expense to
the city will he about sd, 900 a year.
When Macmillan had made sure he
was awarded the contract he passed
around q box of "HayanaS?" and
everybody smoked.
The awarding of this contract and the
establishment of thorough system for
the removal of the city'S garbage means
a great deal to the city and its inhabi-
tants. DIR. Kelly. the health commits
sioner. was in the happiest of moods
when he learned the contract had been
awarded to Mr.. Macmillan. He said it
meant the saving of AT least $50 chill
dren'S lives during the three months of
the summer. 1t would reduce the deaths
from cholera infantum and other chill
drens' diseases at least fifty a month dur
ing the months referred to. tt e annual
death rate under perfect system of
garbage would be reduced from 1917 per
cent to 8, and possibly lower. Sewer
connections would be made with more
frequency than under any and all
ordinances from the fact that sew
erS would be necessary to carry
off the night soil. Kitchen garbage
would be burned in the home of the
producer in the same proportion, and
after the system had been in vogue for
some time the farmers would fight for
every scrap of barn manure from the
fact that the majority of it would be
taken by Macmillan. and the farmer
could not get along without it. In fact,
DIR. Kelly is of the opinion that the sys-
q md hot
Minneapolis will be the healthieSt city
in the world.
At the last meeting Newton Crane,
secretary of the Municipal Fire and Po-
lice Telephone company. notified the
council he intended bringing suit
against the city for infringing on his
patents OH the visual indicators"
Last night Chief Runge, of the fire de-
partment. presented a letter from the
Ganewell company, whose system is in
use here, that no Intention need be paid
to Mr.. Crane.
I'VE shall protect and defend all our
customers" said the company. SIN the
use of all apparatus furnished by us,
and in this particular case neither your
city nor we have the slightest cause for
apprehension
Comptroller Armstrong; report of the
condition of the public improvement
and revolving fund showed balance of
$50, 5l6.l6. 1nasmuch as over $4,000
worth OF new Improvements have been
ordered by the council, it can readily be
seen that there will be hole where a
hole should not be.
The Penn avenue electric line matter
was compromised. The street railway
company agreed to extend the line to
Thirty-SecOnd avenue at once, and to
Thirty as called for bv the
original resolution as soon as the travel
will warrant it. The committee on rail-
roads accepted this proposition. as did
the council.