St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-18
FOR THEIR REAL ESTATE.
Owners Of Property to Be AS
sessed for the Purchase 20
Protest. 4lGaw
-s4- fEt iSN
THEY CAN'T STAND IT NOW.
The Claims Committee Con-
siderS the Usual Batch f
r. Of Claims. IL ~

nose gentlemen who own that pOr-
ION OF State street which the supreme
court has said does not belong to the
city. by reason of errors in the condem-
nation proceedings, appeared before the
assembly committee on streets yesterday
afternoon. The principal speakers were
James Bell ard II. l.. Smith. They in
formed the committee that they intend
ed-to fence in their property. as they
uluh't propose to give the city the free
use OF 1t any longer. Mr.. Bryant, who
spoke III behalf of those owning adjo:n-
ing property which will be assessed to
pay for the opening OF the street. that
Is. the purchase of it from the owners,
asked that the assessment be delayed
while longer. as the property owners
were unable to meet it at present.
After lengthy discussion the commit
Tee voted to refer the matter to the
board OF public works, before which all
parties can appear and plead their
cases.
The smoke nuisance ordinance was
Indefinitely postponed. This was due
10 the statements of John Wann, the
weii-Known merchant, who asked that
acton ON the ordinance be deferred
until tests could be made of
New Smoke Consumer.
nasmuch as none of the devices yet ex-
perimented with had proven effective.
MI. Wann said that he had gone to the
expense of $1,000 to procure a newly in
vented consumer which he was confident
10 oo
promised to make the test at his own
eXpense. and at the end of few months
the city could ascertain how effective
the device is. Upon this assurance the
committee decided to indefinitely post
pone consideration of the ordinance,
which MIR. Wann declared would, if
passed, lnflict great injustice upon
manufacturers and merchants. o..
In this connection the attention of
the committee was called to the dis
obedience by the street railway sof
ordinance 1927, which forms part of
its franchise. A petition signed by
some seventy-five citizens of the Fourth
ward was presented, which sets forth
the fact that the street railway company
had disobeyed that portion of the ordi.
nance which prohibits 1t from burning
IL luminous coal at its power houses
within the city limits. The petitioners
allege that bituminOus coal Is used at
the power house located at Washington
anu Hill streets, and that it is the cause
OF the dense volumes of black smoke
Which ''Beich Forth,'
from the tall chimney, and, sometimes
descending to the ground, make the
streets so dark as to render a person
Invisible from one sidewalk to the
other. At the Selby avenue power
house Oil is the fuel. and there is no
smoke to annoy the neighb0rhood. The
committee recommended that resolu-
ton be adopted calling for the enforce
ment OF the ordinance.
The resolution to appoint a city coal
weigher whose duty it should be to
weigh all coal aud fuel delivered to the
city was not acted upon. Assemblyman
RedrdOn objected u the resolution, be-
cause he thought it impossible to secure
an honest man for the JOB. Experience
had shown, he said, that former city
WeIghers had been in cohOots with the
coal companies, and had gone so far as
10 furnish the companies with official
tickets signed in blank which the coal
companies filled out to suit themselves:
Action was deferred.
The ordinance giving Thomas Davis
permission to erect brick and stone
boiler factories on the West side Ievee
was recommended to pass.
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