St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-11

meeting was called 10 order as soon rs
Chairman johnson, of tine assembly
! committee on stree ts,arrived. When
Mr.. johnson dotted his hat, his col
leagues perceived that he had just come
from the barber. 1t looked vers much
like a fighting cut, but Mr.. johnson
wore a smiling eOunlenance, aud every
body felt relieved. The members pres
ent were: Assemblyluen Arosin. John.
son, Parker, Reard0n, RObb, StrOuse,
Van SlyEe and Copeland, and Aldermen
Hare. Kartak, Murphy. Ulmer and
Wolf.
The first matter disposed of was the
contract for paving Sibley street from
Fourth to Seventh. Upon motion OF Mr..
Strouse the contract was, by unani-
nous vote, awarded to HenneSsry IL
Cox.
When the fight over the Seventh
street paving began Assemblyman RObb
Male the motion that precipitated the
trouble. 1t was that the committee
Of the whole report In favor
of cuutirming the award OF the contract
to lleunessey and Cox. Aid. Murphy
have been made to push matters
Though. ny asking for the information
with which lie understood Mr.. Mum
was to furnish the committee. Mr..
Rrardon also said that the committee
wanted THAT light" that had been
promised. The chairman then read the
bid of Hemessey Il Cox in full. where
upon Mr.. Mum took the floor.
He b.gan by explaining the imprac.
ticabilty of maintaining an asphalt
pavement between the tracks, between
the rails, and for two feet on the outside
of the two outer rails. 1t could not be
maintained, Mr.. Mum said, because 0f
the frequent necessity of tearing up the
pavementS to repair the wire system.
He cited the Information he had re-
ceived from other cities on this point,
and insisted that the only system which
permitted OF the maintenance of an as
phalt pavement across the tracks was
the grOOved rail system in which the
wire was fastened to the rail OIL the
under side. This system Mr.. Mum
! Seventh street without necessitating a,
change in the entire system. Tnen
Followed a Dispute
between Mr.. Mum and Assist.
ant City Attorney Chaplin over
the legal points involved. MIR. Mum
commended that the city could
award the contract for paving the street
outside the track without awarding the
other for paving inside, inasmuch as
there were two separate bids. Mr..
Chaplin maintained thai although the
bids were separate. yet they must be
let as one contract. The suggestion OF
Mr.. Mum that the city might pave only
tie outside of the street aroused. the
!, property owners, who, up to this time,
had been quiet spectators. q.
| Emil Geist said that it was agreed
with the property OWNERS that the street
was all to Ue paved with one kind of
, pavement.
President German, of the board of
public works, being appealed to, said
his understanding was that the contract
was 10 he let for the whole work under
all agreement with the street railway
company that it might go on and lay its.
pavement, and in that event the city
could deduct the bid for paving be.
| tween the tracks from the whole amount
| of the TWO bids submitted for the ell.
| tire work. Mr.. Chaplin gave 1t as his
| opinion that if the city simply awarded
| the contract for paving only that pOr.
| ton of the street outside of the rails
| it would i'll effect ahnul at the end of
twenty days the award as far as paving
| between the tracks was concerned.
! Mr.. Schumacher declared that the
property owners wanted the entire
| width of the street paved with asphalt.
! ASsemblyman Parker said that all the
| street should be paved or none at all.
| Mat Koch agreed with this. and added !:
''Ehe property owners want this street
paved with asphalt, and we ought to
have it. don't think it's right for the
i street railway company to Interfere
Mr.. Murray had been listener long
enough, so he rose and declared his SEN
timents. "fhere is only one issue in
i volved here. This committee is to de-
eide whether it wants a pavement or
not"
Mr.. Reardon agreed with Mr.. Murray
that the idea of paving only on the out.
| side of the tracks was not worth conSld-
ering. Ii was only dodge to throw
the matter over. But if the street rail-
way company could show that it was
! impossible to lay wires under asphalt,
he would vote against asphalt.
Mr.. Mum here made spirited de-
Tense of the good faith of the street
railway company. He repudiated the
| insinuatiOn that the company would
not pave its portion.
| 1t Stood Ready,
lie said,to pave between the tracks with
granite. co-ordinately with the laying of
| the asphalt pavement. AS matter of
| fact, MIR. Mum continued, the best
! pavement known was asphalt
with granite toothing along
side 0f the rails and between,
the tracks. The only system with
which the city could get along with
asphalt between the tracks was the
! ''groeve-raIled return" system. Mr..
Mum further insisted that granite
| pavement between the tracks would not
be an annoyance or disadvantage nor
make as great noise as horses hoofs
i OH asphalt.
who are the property owners" in
CURED MIR. Mum. raising his voice.