The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-02-13

touched upon Another meeting of the
committee will be held next Wednesday
/ A good many of the members OF thu
North Star committee are members oil
the Democratic state central committee
and will be brought to the Twin Cities al
| that time to attend the meeting OF the
state committee, which will occur in St
| Paul next Tuesday At the meeting d
the North Star executive committee next
| Wed 1esday all arrangements will be
made for the annual meeting in March
for the election of new committeeman.
| The council committee on fire depart
msnt was doubtless glad that it did not
have any Investigations on hand when It
met Monday. It did have, however, the
important matter Of appointing a fire
warden, and most of the time was spent
in discussing this matter. A number Of
prominent fire insurance men We're pres
ent and gave the committee numerous
reasons why a warden should be ap-
pointed. The insurance men claimed
that number Of fires could have been
prevented if there had been some such
officer to compel property owners to OBJ
serve the proper precautions. The in
surance men are reported to be willing
| to pay the salaries of ono Or two fire war
| dens for year If the council will appoint
| them One plan that has been proposed
| is to have per cent Of the state tax on
fire insurance set aside for salvage
corps, inspector, etc. At present the
state receives tax OF per cent on all
fire risks written; per cent of this goes
| to the state ana the other / per cent to
the firemeu's relief fund. 1t is claimed
! that there is no more reason why the fire
| insurance men should help support the
state than the life insurance men. The
committee took no action but the senti-
ment seemed to be in favor of fire
marshal.
| The handsome new Minneapolis club
will not be opened next week. Fire got
into it last Thursday. Some Of the peo-
pie who live in the vicinity of Sixth
street and First avenue 80 they say, saw
light in the basement as early as 10
o'clock. The alarm was not sent in until
nearly H. Before it could be exiting ush-
cd the fire. had eaten a big hole in the
floor, charred the walls and burned a
large section of the stairway. The club
| would have been opened early next week.
Much of the furniture had been put in
and carpets were being laid The dam
age will not be far from $4,000. OF this
sum little more than 1000 is on the
building proper. The remainder will
fall on the furniture and decorations.
The fire started in the basement in a
| room remote from the boilers. It could
not we'll have been communicated from
them. IT might have originated in a
quantity OF paint stored in the basement.
and first Aoor. Architect Whitney ar
rived on the scene later, and says the fire
has originated in the endorsement
Here men were at work all day fixing
steam pipes, and we're using naked lights.
| The architscts estimate Of the damage is
5000 to $4,000, and he says it will be
six weeks before the building is ready to
be occupied.
! The finance committee Of the park
board held meeting Monday. They
have been looking into the financial pros
poets of the board for the present year
for some time and know where they
stand. They will have just s37 900 with
which to make improvements. Last
year they had $4,000, but the board was
then burdened with a floating debt Of
$75, 900, which has been paid, The COM
mlttee will report to the board on March
7th. The report will be submitted to
the improvement committee, SO that they
may outline the plans for disposing OF
the $37, 600. The Improvement commit
tee have already make known several Of
their plans. They propose to build a
pavilion at Minnehaha park at cost of
$1,000. A general picnic ground, on
property belonging to the Lakewood
cemetery association, is to be established
at the head OF Lake Harriet The cost
of clearing away the underbrush and
adding other improvements will be quite
large The grounds will be located near
the present pavilions. Powderhorn lake
is to be cleaned out; some dredging is to
be done at Lake of the Isles, and the
cleaning up at Glenwood is to be con-
tinued. The obligations under the Dean
contract at Lake of the Isles, the King
contract at Lake Harriet and the Fogg &
Butler contract on Minnehaha boulevard
will be met by funds from the $37, 600.
| An attempt of man named Keller to
remove his household goods from a room
on Seventh street north just off Henne-
pin avenue, caused little excitement
J. r.