St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-31
COLLECTING MARKET RENTS
PRIVATE ENTERPRIsE 'sUs
TANNED ON THIRD STREET
WITH PROFIT.
THE ORDINANCE IS AMENDED
BY Committee on Public BUILDINGS
Market House Aiterations
in Prospect.

Last Saturday, the day the G ] @ b e
published a little story setting forth
how "a man named Fisher" collect
ed rental fees from the hucksters
who occupied the south side of Third
street from Wabasha street to Seven
Corners, one Of the gentlemen inter-
ested in the market at Third, Fourth
and ST. Peter streets explained the
matter thus:
you see," said he, this market is
private enterprise, and the man
named Fisher" is employed by US
to collect the fees. These fees don't
belong to the city, but to US
The gentleman interested" was re-
minded that a resolution of the
council of 1892 declared Third street
from Wabasha street to Seven Cor
ners to be "a public market
ooh, that's quite true" admitted
the gentleman, but that was done
in order to allow the hucksters to
station their wagons under the sheds
we built on Third street at an eX-
penSe OF some $1,000.
Market Master F. H. Wheelock
was the cause of the investigation
Of this matter. Mr.. Wheelock want
ed to know why he, as market mas
ter, should not collect these fees
and turn them over to the city, in
stead of "a man named Fisher" col
lecting them for private parties.
! Hence the trouble which is in store
for somebody.
Yesterday the aldermanic commit
tee on public buildings took up this
matter. The committee consists Of
Aldermen Ulmer, Markham and
Lindahl. After Market Master
| Wheelock had explained the situa-
| ton, one of the committee remarked:
"a private enterprise. Well, it's
a good private enterprise at that"
Yes, it's a good thing" observed
another.
Thereupon the committee, without
an instant's hesitation, recommend
! ed the passage of an ordinance
amending ordinance 1,751, of 1892,
which designates and declares the
south side of Third street, from
/ Wabasha street to Seven corners, to
be a public market, by adding the
following section:
thereafter the same fees shall be
charged at said (the Third streeD
market as are now charged at the
market house located on ST. Peter,
| Wabasha and Seventh streets, and
such fees shall be collected by the
| market master and disposed of by
| him as, the fees collected at the mar
ket house are now disposed of.', -
If the amendment is passed, there
is likely to be a conflict between
Market Master Wheelock and any
one who attempts the collection OF
rental fees from the hucksters who
assemble on Third street.
In case private parties should still
collect the fees, the aldermen say
they will repeal the resolution de.
claring the south side of Third stree;
a, public market"
The committee also spent an houl
considering the resolution to lower tn,
first floor of the market house to tn
level of the street. J. M. Carlson,
contractor, gave the committee a rougl
estimate of the cost of the proposed
| change. He thought the alteration
would cost about 81, COO, not includin.
heating, plumbing and painting. TIL
! plans which provide for a central hall
! way with sixteen stalls on each side
extending from WabaSha street throug
to st. Peter street, were outlined i
last Saturdays G o b e. Mr.. Carlso
said the whole work could be done i
sixty days.
Marketmaster WheeIock submitted
dozen applications for stalls from som
of the most prominent grocerS, butch
erS and produce dealers. Compute ito
showed that the rental of thirty-tW
stalls-siXteen on a side-and the fou
corners at $1,000 a corner, would yiel
the city $4,000 year, and in case tn
| hall on the second floor could be give
to the Minnesota National guard, til
city would in addition save the So,
a year rental now paid to the Armor
| association.
Corporation Attorney Darragh il
| formed the committee that Comptroile
McCardy had told him that he coul
;. not pay money out Of next years ger
eral fund for work done this yea
Comptroller McCardy was sent 70
When the proposition was submitte
to the comptroller, he told the con
mittee that the city could not ente
into contract for the performance
: any work this year that would in an
! manner affect the tax levy rate of neg
:, year. Each year must stand alon
The comptroller suggested that tt
committee should secure plans an
specifications and determine from the
: the cost of the work, and then proviC
l for the money necessary to pay for II
alteration in the tax estimate for me-
> year.
1t is possible, however, that Il
council may get around the conn
, troller by passing a resolution autho
i izing certain parties to lower the fiot
Il of the market house and build Il
I stalls, with the understanding that ii
S parties performing the work viii T
Y ceive their compensation from the pr
i ceeds of the rental money forthcomir
= from the tenants.
:. Comptroller McCardy said that Il
o city ought to sell the property, but
d the price is fixed by resolution at s30t
o 600, the prospects of such sale are n
= regarded as favorable.
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