St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-16
SPIRIT OF OBJECTION.
AS USUAL or LATE. 1T SEEMS TO,
PERVADE The MUNICIPALITY. a
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Sixth Street Property Owners File
Protest Touching the Bridge
Assessment = Angry Citizens
Tear Down the Garbage Dump,
and the Mayor and Contract
ors Object. -,.fsr
81 move we adjourn until after the
circus" remarked Aid. Franklin at the
meeting of the board of aldermen last
night. When the motion was made it
was S:15 o'clock, and only Aid. Frank
lin. Cullen, DornideD, Zimmerman and
President Hickman were present. 7.
The motion prevailed, and the next
meeting of the body will be held at
some time to be agreed upon later. The
failure to hold meeting will prevent
the police department from drawing
July pay this week. The city hall and
court house employees and the laborers
and mechanics employed by the board
OF education are in the same boat. The
pay rolls for ali three of these depart
ments have passed the assembly, but
not the board of aldermen.
A protest signed by Frederick Lin
deke, Charles GreneI, L. A. Schulz and
John Kenney was handed to the clerk
in the Sixth street bridge assessment
matter. The protest calls attention to
the attempt made to saddle the property
owners with the cost of engineering and
inspection fees for the SubStructure of
the bridge, which was incurred long
prior to The making of the assessment
The attempt to charge the assessment
at this time with an amount pretended
to have been expended during the max
ing and progress of the assessment, the
protest states, is done for the purpose
and with the intention to
Absorb the Surplus
IN the fund and thus afford a pretext
not ID carry out the agreement made
between the legal department of the
city and the petitioners. The assess
ment roll in the Office of the board of
public works shows on its face the
amount for which the assessment was
made. The council at its last meeting.
in similar case, instructed the city
attorney to have Judgment entered up
the city being defeated, thus relieving
the property owners of the costs and
interest on a heavy assessment without
receiving the principal or original as
SeSSment, which the city may or may
not get after long litigation. The as
SeSSnent for the Sixth street bridge had
the same defects as in the East Third
street grading, and could have been set
| aside on the same ground when the
original assessment was paid in full.
The petitioners announced that if neces-
Sary the matter would he taken into the
court.
Garbage Revival.
The mayor sent in a communication
in which the statement was made that
on the night OF Aug. Is a watchman
at the new garbage dump on the "SoDt
road south of Como and Phalen avenue
and east of Rice street was overpowerad
and the platform torn down. The new
shipping point, the mayor said. was
1,000 feet from any house, and there
| could be no reasonable objection To the
location at this point. The company
was, the mayor said, collecting 200 tons
per weeKof garbage, and it was unfair
to compel it to remove from point to
point. He recommended that a commit
tee be appointed from the councilSto
view the shipping place used by the
| contractors ana report as TO whether it
was Objectionable or not. IL it was an
I Objectionable place then the mavor ad :
yiSed some other point be Seleetedlat
! which the garbage might be loaded
| without interference. 4GH
Thomas Manning, one of the garbage
| contractors, seen last evening, said the
company had been to considerable eX-
| pense in erecting platform at the point
mentioned i'll the mayors cOmmunica-
ton. A gang of twenty men had been
| at work all day Sunday erecting the
| platform, and it was not completed until
after dark. A watchman, as is usual.
was left there for the night. The watch
man was Patrick Call, father of Police
| Officer Call. About 10 O'clock Sunday
evening the watchman was surprised by
a crowd of twenty to thirty meII. who
| hustled him into box car, ami, after
securing the door on the outside. pro-
! ceeded to tear down the platform which
had been erected during the day. After
| this bad been done tine watchman was
released from his temporary prison aud
the crowd departed.
Mr.. Manning said he reported the
affair to the mayor on Monday, and the
action taken by that official was out
lined in the above com mmunicaton sent
to the aldermen. Mr.. Manning said he
knew of no reason why the platform
should have been raZed, as its location
was 1000 feet from the nearest house
! 1t was impossible, he said, to take any
action against the crowd, as the identity
of none or the parties could be aScer-
tanned.