St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-17
BY FAILING TO WRANGLE,
OR GET UP SOME SENSATION
CLAIMS FOR HEAVY DAM
AGES
FOR THE WEST SIDE ACCIDENT.
Bricklayers Protest Against But
, Ier-Ryan Company Getting IL
School Building Contract.

tnat OF the board OF aldermen last
night. Nothing sensational trans
pired, and no acrimonious discus
sions disturbed an exceptionally
harmonious meeting. About the only
matter actually new to come before
| the board appeared at the very be-
ginning. 1t consisted of two COM
| munications, both to the same effect,
from Edward Puffe and Gustav
Kruger, the respective fathers of
the two little girls buried alive
by the falling of the embaukment on
South Robert street. Mr.. Puffe and
Mr.. Kruger each claim $4,000 dam
ages from the city for negligently
permitting a large embankment of
sand-rock on South Robert, near
Concord street, to cave off and crush
and cause the death of Alice M.
Puffe and Annie Kruger on June
/ %, 1885,
| Both claims were promptly re-
/ ferred to the committee on claims.
Such debate as there was arose
! over the resolution to award the
/ contract for erecting the new school
building at the corner of Avon and
! Lafond streets to the Butler-Ryan
company, of this city. Prior to the
! consideration of this matter, a pro-
! test was received from the bricklay-
/ ers' union of st. Paul, urging the
| council not to award the contract
for the Avon school to the Butler
Ryan company, for the reason, al
legged, that this company would not
/ employ ST. Paul men to do the work
| When the resolution came up, it
was first amended so as to allow the
contractors five months in which
to complete the building, instead of
requiring it to be finished by Sept. 1.
The motion to adopt the resolu-
ton was opposed by Aid. Lindahl,
who insisted that the contract should
be so amended as to require the
contractors to
EMPLOY ONLY ST.PAUL LABOR.
Aid. Ulmer maintained that the
council had no right to dictate in
such a matter to the contractors at
! this stage of the proceedings, and
moved to award the contract to the
| Butler-Ryan company.
| Aid. Markham agreed with Aid IL
mer, and Informed the board that it
was too late to modify the contract in
the manner proposed. The proper time
| to have imposed such a condition-a
| condition which Aid. Markham said
he heartily approved of-was to have
inserted in the specifications before the
| bids were advertised for. The only
thing left to do now was either to
! award the contract or reject it. But
Notwithstanding, Aid. Murphys mo-
ton to refer the contract to the COM
m1ttee on streets prevailed by a vote
of five to four. Aid. Milham and Aid.
Hare were among those who spoke in
| favor of amending the contract by in
sorting a clause requiring the contrac-
tors to comply only st. Paul labor.
| The matter will be reported back by
the committe on streets at an adjourn
ed meeting of the board of aldermen
to be held at p. m. next Friday.
Aid. Murphy introduced a resolution
| instructing the park board to aScer-
| tain whether the street railway COM
pany is employing other than st. Paul
people at Como park. Aid. Murphy
said that he had been reliably informed
that the street railway company would
| liOI cIlpiOy ~ etul ptoplc eilu lIeiI
none of the musicians playing at Como
were residents of st. Paul, but on the
contrary they all belonged in Mime
apolis. Aid. Murphy believed that st.
Paul musicians were just as compe-
tent and should be employed at Como
park in preference to outsiders. The
resolution was adopted.
Aid. Murphy also introduced a reSo-
luton requesting the city comptroller
to furnish the council statement of
the funds in the city treasury appli-
cable to the payment Of the unpaid sal
aries of the policemen and firemen.
The resolution was adopted.
THE OBJECT IN ASCERTAINING
the amount in the treasury applicable
for this purpose is to instruct the
comptroller to apportion it among the
members of the fire and police depart
ments to whom it is due, and then the
council can pass resolutions authoriz-
ing the comptroller to issue city certi-
ficates for the balance remaining due.
Health Commissioner Stone sent in
a communication calling the atten-
| ton of the council to the decision of
the supreme court in the LaWton case.
Accompanying the communication was
the opinion of the corporation attor-
ney on the decision, to the effect that
the commissioner of health is COM
PEELED to issue permits to remove
night soil, to any person who is in
such commissioner opinion properly
equipped to perform the work in a
sanitary manner. DR.. Stone also re-
ferred to the proposition of the North
western Sanitation company, which
was that the company should furnish
a flow of water equal to 1900 gallons
per minute, and that it would extend
the waste pipe to the center of the
river channel. The reports of A
Munster, city bridge engineer, of A
o. Powell, another civil engineer
, which were attached, showed that the
flow was much less than that specified
in the proposition, Mr.. Munster find
ing it to be 437 gallons a minute, and
Mr. Powell finding it on one occasion
to be 6S1 gallons and upon another 1876
gallons per minute. Mr.. Powell also
reported that the waste pipe extended
. only to the waters edge, and that the
channel of the river was 125 feet from
the banks. In conclusion, DIR. Stone
asked the council to pass some meas
ure to relieve his department of the
various duties which are imposed upon
it by the supreme court decision. The
communication was received and
placed on file.
A communication was received from
Bricklayers' Union No. L protesting
against the award of the contract for
erecting the new Avon school building
to the Butler-Regan Construction
company on the ground, so the pro-
test alleges, that the company does
not employ men who live in ST. Paul
and pay taxes.
THE PROTEST WAS REFERRED
to the committee on public buildings
Aid. Milham's ordinance providing
for the appointment of an inspector