New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-03-09
I. Vogelpohl and others relative to the

yarded whenever improved and graded
! according to the plans and specifications
on file at the clerks Office.
The committee on water works was
requested to procure estimates of cost
for sinking an additional we'll at the
pumping station together with the
pump and necessary buildings and
hand their result of the Investigations to
the council at an early date.
Thu President, Mr. Roos, appointed
councilmen Pfaender, Frank and Shub-
ert as committee 10 examine and re-
wise the books and accounts of the city
treasurer and clerk. He also reported
that he had purchased the old school
house in German Park for the city for
$35 and his action was approved by the
council,
The clerk was authorized to lease
that part of what is known as the City
Bathing Place, now under cultivation,
as to him might seem advisable.
By another motion which carried un-
animouslY the city surveyor was re-
quested forthwith to complete in pro-
per manner all the city work ordered
to be done, and in the future promptly
attend to all city work ordered either
in person or through some competent
person acting for him, or otherwise pre-.
sent his resignation for acceptance.
A very important and commendable
step was then taken by the council in
the passage Of the following resolutions
adopted by unanimous vote:
1. That all owners and occupants of
lots and premises fronting on State
Street, between Second South and
Seventh North Streets are hereby Or
dered to have sidewalk constructed,
sod laid and trees planted on both sides
of said State Street according to the
plan thereof on file in the City Clerk s
Office and Ordinance No. 20 OF this city
insofar as it is not modified by the
boulevard plan of said State Street; all
to be done on or before May 1st, 1892.
No cottonwood trees are allowed to be
planted, That in default thereof the
foregoing Improvements will be made
by the city Immediately after May 1st
and assessed to abutting property.
9 Further resolved that a competent
man be employed by the city council at
the expense eff the city, as soon as adj
visable, under whose supervision all
sod shall be laid and trees planted,
whose duty it shall be during the sea-
of 1892 to protect and care for said sod
trees, having the same at all times pro-
perly trimmed, sprinkled and watered
from the city water-works without ex-
pense to any abutting property owner.
All the foregoing and the man to be
employed shall be under the direct sup
eryision of the committee on Parks.
8. That the city clerk give proper no.
tice of the foregoing resolutions to all
parties interested by publication in the
official paper and otherwise as he sees
fit,
The matter of sprinkling Minnesota
aud other streets if any was referred to
the Board of Public Works for report
on or before the next adjourned
meeting of the council. The board will
decide as to the desirability of the i'm
provement. as to the streets that should
be sprinkled and as to the proportion
of the expense that should be
borne respectively by the city and
abutting property.
The committee on waterworks report
ed that they had insured the boilers in
pumping station for So, 500, the prem
1um amounting to $75 in three years.
The report was accepted, action ap-
proved and clerk ordered to draw a
warrant in the sum of $75 in payment
of stated premium,