The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-11
The Proposition to Grade Fourth
Street Killed-The Ordinance
Relating to Killing of Dogs
Amended.
Alderman Fowler Given an Oppor=
tunity to Act as Vice President
Progress on the Front
Street Guttering.
The Council Considers Proposition
for the Purchase of an Electric
Fire Alarm System.

at the mGeUlnS OF Ullc COulCll OdUul
day night, and Mayor Weaver pre-
sided.
application for liquor license
was received from Louis Wolff, and
une ID was set as the day for hear
ing.
A petition for new cross walks on
South Front street at Byron, Carroll
and Record streets was received and
granted, the board of public works
being instructed to put them in.
A remonstrance against the curb
ing and guttering of North Front
street between Spring and Elm streets
was received.
A protest against heproposed Fifth
street sewer was received from Miss
Mary Ingerman.
A claim for damages was received
from Albert Frenzel, for damages for
his recent fall into an excavation on
Fifth street. He desires $3.50, if the
case is settled without lawsuit.
Inspector Halstead, upon being
questioned, said that there was no
light or barricade at the excavation
on the night of the accident He had
expected one of his men to place a
light there, but the man had claimed
that he was not told to put one there.
The claim was referred to the COM
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A communication was received
from Supt. II. Spencer saying that the
sewer along Fourth street would be
useless to the Omaha road without
water connections.
A. G.. Bierbauer'S proposition regard
ing the sewer to the brewery was read,
as published Saturday.
Capt. j. r. Beatty's bond as presi-
dent of the board of public works was
received and approved.
The committee on fire department
reported fayorably upon the recon-
mendation of the fire department'that
a fire alarm system be purchased
The street committee was not pre-
pared to report upon the petition for
the curbing and guttering of North
Front street and asked for two weeks
longer to consider the matter.
Aid. Pitcher moved that the mat
Ter Of curling, guttering and surfac-
ing Front street between Spring and
Liberty streets be referred to the
board of public works to secure bids.
Aid. Higgs stated that he did not
believe that the property owners want
to pay for matchmaking the street
now, and paving it a few years later,
after tearing up the macadam.
Engineer Haynes stated that paw
ing to the gutter would not be as
good as paving to the curb. He
thought that if the work was done
now, it would amount to postponing
the paving of the street for years.
Aid. Peterson's motion was carried,
only Aid. HiggS voting mo"
The ordinance committee presented
striking out all provisions for paying
from the city treasury for killing and
burying dogs.
The rules were suspended and the
ordinance was given it's first and Sec
ond readings and was finally passed.
Health Officer Jacoby reported
twelve deaths during April. The
general health of the city is fair. The
inspectors are now at work.
The health committee was unpre-
pared to report upon the crematory
proposition.
KNOCKED OUT.
The board of public works reported
the bid on the grading of Fourth
street, and the awarding of the con-
tract to the lowest bidder, John Nc
Call.
r. E. Brown asked the improvement
be laid on the table for the present,
for various reasons.
Engineer Haynes stated that the
railroad company would have to pay
for the retaining wall.
Capt. w. S. Burgess thought that as
the people had gotten along for thirty
years without grading the street, they
could stand it for one or two years
longer, and owing to the financial
stringency he wanted the work laid
over a year.
d. L. Clements favored the i'm
provement, and thought that it could
be done enough cheaper this year to
warrant its being done during hard
times. The council had given it out
last summer that the work would be
done this spring.
Aid. Higgs stated that the work
could never be done as cheaply as now,
and he moved that the contract be ap-
proved.
The motion was lost, Aids. Higgs
and Pitcher voting "aye," and Aids
Bashaw, Fowler, Peterson and Widell
voting "no."