The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-25

A long discussion followed. DR..
Jacoby spoke of the necessity of giving
the brewery sewerage connection at as
early date as possible.
The motion was lost, receiving only
two votes.
FRONT STREET IMPROVEMENT.
Pres. Beatty stated that at his re-
quest the advertising for bids for
he curbing and guttering of Front
street had been delayed. He did not
like the way the records of the mat
ter appear, it being very indefinite as
to the amount of surfacing to be done.
The gutter should last fifteen years.
A brick or granite paving should eX-
tend from curb to curb and not con-
meet with soft stone gutter. The
city is not ready to macadamize the
street now, or even to surface up the
street. The new material, two inches
thick in places, will not make JOB
put on the old material. He wanted
to know how the council stood as to
the kind of paving on Front street.
There is no use in making the start
proposed. which would be expensive
and only patchwork. A roller is nee
essary before the work is undertaken.
1t was too important a matter to pass
over without more definite informa-
ton.
The city engineer stated that many
of the sidewalks are not on grade.
Aid. Widell favored making the
cutters not more than four feet wide,
instead of seven feet, as before.
The city engineer stated that the
best way to pave is from curb to curb.
The cutters would only be made four
feet wide.
Pres. Beatty called attention to the
guttering along block fourteen, which
was guttered three years ago, and
asked whether the council wants to do
that kind of work and make the pro-
perty owners pay for it. He stated
that he favored macadamizing Front
street. but that it has never been pro-
perly done in the past. Macadamiz-
ing has never yet had fair show in
this city, and the way it has been
done is enough to condemn it. Unless
it is done right it should not be done
at all.
Aid. Widell agreed with this. IN
less the patchwork is stopped, and the
street torn up and the work done pro-
perly, macadamizing will become
very unpopular.
The council reconsidered its action
to have the street curbed and gutter
ed, and only the blocksbetween Mul
berry and Plum streets WISE authorized
to be so improved.
Cross walks at the corner of Sixth
and Mulberry and Fifth and FRANKLIN
streets were ordered laid.
The matter of building culyert at
an alley across Guenthur creek, be-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets, was
to the street committee.
The city engineer states that this
would be establishing a precedent,
whether the city or property owners
were to pay for such work. DR..
Jacoby brought up the brewery sewer
again, and Aid. Bashaw urged that it
be not dropped.
Aid. Peterson moved that the board
Of public works ascertain the cost OF a
sewer on Broad street from Washing
ton to Rock and to the brewery. There
was no second to this.
Aid. BashaW moved that the mat
ter of sewer on Fourth street from
to Rock and to the
brewery be referred to the board of
public works. No action was taken
on this.
Aid, Fowler moved that the vote
by which Aid. Bashaw's original mo-
tion was lost be reconsidered. This
was carried. The matter was laid
aside.
Aid Bashaw moved that Lafayette
street, from Front street to Third
avenue, be opened and graded, the
the matter being referred to the
board of public works. He feared
that w. B. Craig was about to put a
fence across the street. This was car
ried.
The bills were read and allowed, in
an estimate of S400 to John
Mccall on his Byron street sewer
contract, and S227.51 to Mayer Bros
for repairing the city pump, and S42
for special police. The bills footed
up over 81, 900.
The committee on ways and means
was authorized to borrow $4,000 for
sixty days, to tide the city over until
the June settlement.
The council adjourned.