St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-31
CAHNEYS ARE LET DOWN.
THE c0UTcIL REFUSES THEM THE
PAYING CONTRACT.
WILL nEADvERTlsE FOR BIDS.
The Body of Aldermen Wrangle
Over the Specifications and
Contracts a Company Asks
for Right OF Way for Narrow
Gauge Railway-HOw Contract
ors Shall Pay Their Men.

OrS Shall Pay Their Men.
The Eever-ending paving question
agitated the common council last night
TO no small extent. The discussion of it
ended in a defeat of the new paving
contract, which the committee recon-
meEded be awarded to Carney Bros.
Alderman-at-Large James E. Snyder
was, however, given a contract for re-
pairing and relaying, and Tobin u
Burke secured the contract for paving
new bridges. The question has been
aired to such an extent in the daily
press that a repetition of the subject
matter of the almost disgraceful
squabble would be an intiiction on the
reading public. Suffice it to say the
admirers and adherents of Contractor
Snyder had the felicity of seeing his
rivals, Carney Bros, knocked into a
cooked hat, as it were. The latter gen.
tlemen put i'll Uids TO do the new paw
lug for, it is said. remarkably small
profit. The committee on paving rec
ommended the contract being
awarded them, but majority
of the council decided that
the specifications were faulty and
that still lower bids could be secured.
In accordance With these sentiments.
motion submitted by Aid. Rand to re-
ject all BIDS for new paving, and read
vertise, was adopted. Aid. Lackev,
Haynes and Loye championed the cause
OF Carney Bros, on the grounds that
their bids were the lowest the city had
ever secured, and because it was Unfair
to allow other contractors to come in
after the bids had been made public.
City Engineer Cappelen was asked by
Aid. Woodward to explain his Wood
ward'S) connection with the Specitica-
tons. He did SO. and eXOneraIed the
aldermen of the charges of unfair
meddling" preferred by an evening
paper.
Aid. Woodward offered a resolution
whose portent Is to oblige all contractors
doing work for the city to pay not less
than $3.50 to the men employed by them.
The resolution was passed. The alder
luen agreed that there is serious ques-
ton as TO the legality of this obligation,
but it is intimated that if the contract
ors do not comply, when they come to
ask for another contract they Will not
have such smooth sailing. Aid. Wood
ward stated that his reason for offering
the resolution was that he understood
certain of the contractors were paying
out ten cents an hour for help.
Ii the committee Oh railroads acts
favOrably on communication submit
ted to the meeting. the chances are
good for a narrow gauge railroad being
established. The following gentlemen
signed a petition to the council for per-
mission to use the streets. avenues and
alleys for the purposes Of right OF way
for Il narrnw gauge railroad from this
city TO Anoka, under the caption of the
Minneapolis. AnOka IL Northern Rail-
way company: Andrew A. Kelly, w.
A. Sulick, h. w. Mowry, F. ID. Wood
bury, Z. ID. Green, A. ii. Yeaton and
d. Z. Durham. The petition asks per-
mission TO lay tracks and operate the
road along the following streets, etc.:
Along Second street north, from its in
tersecton with Fourth avenue north;
along Washington avenue north. from
its intersection with Thirty-eighth ave-
nue. north: along what is known as the
River road" from its Intersection with
Washington avenue north: along Forty
eighth avenue nO-tn. from Penn avenue
TO Thomas avenue.
The petition was referred 10 the COM
mttee OH railroads.
The specifications for gasoline plant
committee on gas. The estimate for
the removal Of bodies from Maple Hill
cemetery TO Hillside cemetery was re-
ferred to the committee on roads and
bridges. A lively little discussion fol-
lowed a resolution to appropriate $1,000
out of the contingent fund to reimburse
the board OF corrections and charities
for money expended in caring for the
poor. purchasing wood. etc. Aid. Roll
ling got in Il fling at Mayor EuStis, who
was present. and maintained stouJiy
that the wood furnished by the Pioneer
Fuel company was rotten ana unfit for
use. The resolution was lost.
The Journals famous "spittle" petit
ton "a bundle of printed and written
matter that weighed not less than three
pSunds-WaS hOisted onto the clerks
desk with string. President Kuchli
with dubious look at the bundle asked
what was TO be done with il and, on
suggestion of one of the aldermen, re-
ferred it to the committee OH health
and hospitals. The petition asks that
the council take some action to prevent
the lndiScrlmlnate eXpectOration in
street cars. lnasmueh as the majority
OF the aldermen chew tobacco and eX-
pectorate in the cars whenever they
wish, the fate Of the petition is un-