St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-12
THE HOSPITAL SITE.
The Board of Corrections and
Charities Look Over Proposals.

The board of corrections and chart
ties met yesterday afternoon. One of
the important matters to be considered
was the site for new hospital. A num-
Der of proposals for furnishing the city
with sufficient land were opened and
read. No definite action was taken,
however. the matter being deferred IN
til the next regular meeting. Follow
ing were the proposals submitted:
A. c Butler, lots l. and three. block !.
CoTnells EDITION. corner of Eighth street
and Sixteenth avenue south, with all build
1ngs, ST., 900; without buildings, $1,000 Also
block 10 i'll Buffers Brookside addition. for
s., 900: also all of block g. Buffers addition.
with a 600 feet frontage on Minnehaha park
way. extending south OF Fifty-fourth street,
between Bryant and Dupont avenues, SIC. 600.
o. D. Bartle. block So RemIugton'S Sec
ond addition. on Thirty-fourth street south,
block 80, same addition. Thirty-fonrth street
south, between Lyndale and Aldrich avenues.
$4,000; also lot 150x166 feet corner Mime
h3ha avenue and TWenty-secOnd street, with
buildings. $1,000.
Henry c. Moon. los feet on Chicago avenue
and 265 feet on Twenty second street south,
Sit, 600.
A T Ankeny-Block 3. Ankeny's addition.
containing twenty eight lots, or three acres.
on Western avenue. S25. 00G: also front half of
said block g. or fourteen lois, SIC 0G0: IN case
the front half is accepted remaining half
will be conveyed to the city at any time
within one year from Oct !, 1892, for SiQ,-
0a0.
JIG Oswald-Lots4 and ), bl ock 8. Grove
land addition, 150X270 feet, corner Aldrich
and Laurel avenues, with buildings worth
$4,000. for S36.G11.
The report of the superintendent of
the poor department showed the total
hospital expenses to be S229.27 for the
month Of September and the number of
inmates to be siXty-four. The forty
people who are inmates of the poor
house had cost the city S345.72. There
had been 305 applications at the Office
of the superintendent of the poor for
aid.
The monthly report of Supt Matt
Gross, Of the WOrkhOuSe. contained
comparative statement of the cost of
conducting the WOrkhOuSe for the quar-
ter ending Sept. so, the present year,
and the same quarter last year. In
June of this year there were eighty
five male inmates and fourteen female
During the quarter 395 males and 46
females had been received at the work
house, and at the end of September
there were "a males and Il females re-
naming. The whole number fed dur
ing the quarter, including the officers
and employees, was 10,45S. The cost per
capita per diem was but 7.56 cents: per
capita per week, 80. 90 cents; per capita
per quarter. S695.52. In 1891. during
the same quarter. the cost per capita
per diem was 1929; per capita per
week, 65.03; per capita per quarter.
sS.54.6S. The superintendent in his re-
port informed the board that two pris-
Oners had escaped during September,
but explained to the satisfaction of the
board that it was through no fault of
his
The fuel bids formed an interesting
portion of the discussion. John Norton
requested the board to reject his bid for
hard coal, and this left but one bid. In
asmuch as the board was afraid there
was som pthing of the coal combine
about it. it was decided to reject both
bids and readvertise for hard coal. The
contract for supplying the poor depart
ment with millW God was let to the Min
nesota Wood and Supply company, and
the contract for furnishing soft coal for
the WorkhOuSe was given to Mr.Norton.