St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-30
JUST LIKE CHILDREN.
Another Session Over the
Garbage Question and No
Settlement.
Aldermen Seem Afraid to
Commit Themselves for
Any One Bidder.
Dinner Bells as Weapons Of
0ffense in a Bridge
Square Hotel.
General News Of the Day
Gathered by Reporters
of the Globe.

The council committee on health and
hospitals met last night to decide a
question that has doomed up before the
people of Minneapolis for the past three
or tour years like a candidates bon
homme before election. The committee
was in session several long and weary
hours. 1t met at Z o'clock. Alive to the
Importance of the task before it, it
met in the legal department of the
city hau. The committee went to
work without any formality. Aid.
Gray, BraZie and Schwartz sat down
around the table, and each pulled out a
pencil; then they began to figure, and
Health Commissioner Kelley sat back
from the table, and looked anxious and
nervous. l.. Heberie, one of the bid
ders. meditatively pulled his foretop in
one corner, and James MacMullen, the
other bidder, tilted back his chair on the
other side of the room, and industrI-
ously pulled smoke into the face
of his attorney, Frank NJ. Nye.
Several reporters wandered in and sat
down. The silence oppressed them.
and some of them walked out again.
While the reporters were in the room
the three aldermen Slyly passed little
bits of paper from one to another like
boy and girl lovers in country school.
They were figuring Oh those bids, and
did not want the reporters to know any
thing about their processes of REASON
ing. The clock struck s, and 9, and 10.
Still those three mathematician went
on silently figuring and passing notes
to one another.
And the garbage question was not
| settled after all.
After sitting there figuring all the
evening, the aldermen began TO talk a
little after 10 o'clock. They were eX-
tremeiy chary about expressing them
selves on the bids. Why it was no one
can tell. Is il possible that there is an
Ethiopian in the wood pile, and that
the aldermen are afraid of having re-
latiOnship with him thrust upon them?
They could not have acted more that
way if they tried. Well, they began
to feel around. From the start it was
evident that the Heberle bid was not in
it. The aldermen and the health COM
missioner, all except Schwartz. were in
favor of the MacMullen bid. but were
| afraid to say so. They talked and
talked. Along toward midnight Gray,
anu hGlleN cdlllG Oul lOI dGctDl-
ing the MacMullen bid. Schwartz hung
! back.
The difference between the Heberle
| and the MacMulIen bids was explained
in the GLOBE day before yesterday.
Heberle wants the city to maintain the
dumps, and MacMullen will take care
of the dumps himself. MacMullen
wants an average price of S1SS. $50 a
year. on five years contract, Tor haul
ing the garbage of all kinds outside the
city. He will build the dumps and
charge the producer of waste material a
fee Tor using them. The aldermen fig
ured the ground over and deduced
these conclusions: MacMullen, on his
bid, will receive yearly s37, $50. Not all
of this will come out the city treasury,
but goodly portion of it will. 1t is
figured that He6erle's proposition
means an annual expenditure of S39, 400.
MacMulleG's dump charges are as
follows: Thirty cents a load for
one-horSe load of stable manure.
or street sweepings; 80 cents load for
two-horse load of the same materials :;
seven cents barrel for kitchen garb-
age; four cents q cubic foot for night
soil; $50 month for removal of night
soil, this last Item to be charged against
the city.
There will probably be two reports to
the council. Schwartz thinks that the
dump charges are too high. On that
score he refuses to agree to the report