St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-20
TO HABITUALLY WASTE TIME
Or to Frequent Houses Of Ill
Fame or Questionable
Resorts.
AND NO WANDERING GOES
Aldermen Find a Way Out of
the Hospital Contract
Puzzle.

If the ordinance introduced lby
| Aid. Hare at the meeting of the board
| of aldermen last evening should be-
| come law of the city of st. Paul,
| an honest man or woman looking
| for. honest work would be subject
| to arrest at the hands Of a police"
man who chose to think that he or
she had not made an honest at
| tempt to procure employment" But
as the measure in it's present form
will in all probability never be re-
corded among the ordinances in eff
feet, there is not much occasion for
alarm.
The board had dispatched consid-
cradle routine business when the or
dlnance was read. In explanation
of it Aid. Hare said that he had in
troduced it at the request of Chief
OF Police Clark, in order to provide
the city with a law that would ena-
bic the authorities to reach and deal
with the immoral, dishonest and
suspicious characters who infest the
city, and whom the police are now
poWerleSS to control or apprehend.
The vital sections of the ordinance
are as follows:
Section l. Any person or persons who
shall habitually waste or misspend
MS or her time and frequent houses of
1ll-fame or any questionable resort or
resorts, shall be guilty of a INSIDE
neanor.
Sec. 2. Any person or persons who
shall wander about the streets or any
other, public place in a suspicious or
improper manner, or being idle. does
not make an honest attempt to pro-
cure employment, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Sec. 8. Any person or persons who
has no visible means of support or who
has no lawful means of support shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor al
Sec. H.. Any person or persons of
evil or idle fame or reputation who
shall have upon his or her person. any
sum Of money the lawful procurement
of. which he OR she cannot account for
SHALL BE GUILTY
of misdemeanor. -t5o
Then follows the section providing
punishment not exceeding a fine of
500, or Imprisonment for more than
ninety days. 81 I'd
AS soon as the clerk had read the
ordinance, Aid. Ehrmanntraut moved
that it be referred to the city attorney,
| and the motion prevailed. The second
section renders it unconstitutional in
the opinion of the city Attorney
The first matter to- come before the
board was a communication from the
mayor, stating that he had appointed
Assemblyman Parker, president of the
common council, as the official rep
| resentative of the city to attend the
! launching of the Atlantic steamship
st. Paul at Philadelphia next Mon
| day. The communication was re-
ceived and placed on file, and then Aid
! Markham offered a resolution provid-
| ing that the president of each body
| appoint q committee of four to repre-
sent the city upon this occasion The
| resolution was adopted, and later Aid
| Markham, Miiham, Kartak and Ehr-
manntraut were appointed as the COM
| mittee from the board, to which Presi-
| dent Brady was added by a unanimous
vote.
The board adopted a resolution ap-
propriating and setting apart from the
| general fund 81 50 to be used for the
| completion of the city hospital, 81, 045.50
| thereof to be applied to the contract OF
! the hospital commission with James J.
| Dunnigan for putting in gas fixtures in
the new ward buildings, and 1884 to be
! applied to the contract with the Pho
neer Fuel company for 100 tons of coal
| This action was in line with the comp
| troller's recommendation, and the
money will be forthcoming as soon as
| the assembly concurs in the action of
| the board 3
P. Borden, citizen of Inver Grove,
| sent in a vigorous protest against the
| dumping Of st. Paul garbage in that
| bailiwick. Mr.. Borden accused the
| garbage contractor, of dumping garb-
age and dead animals In the thickly
| settled portion of Inver Grove town
| ship, and requested the council to in
| vestigate the matter and abate the
nuisance, otherwise he would bring an
| action against the city for damages.
The protest was referred to the Joint
| committee on garbage.
| Shortly after this the resolution was
| adopted giving the garbage committee
supervision of the collection and dis
| position Of garbage, and the authority
10 employ a. man from month to
| month to inspect the work of the
| garbage contractor at a salary not r.
| exceed $50 q month.
Comptroller McCardy submitted ons
| of his
LEARNED BRIEFS III *
on the question of the city engineers
right to appoint a sewer inspector. Tho
comptroller quoted section 80 sc
Code of 1893, which allows the city
eengineer to appoint six men to sinner"
wise the construction and repairing LOT
sewers, and calls attention to the fact
the Office of Sewer inspector is not
designated in the charter, therefore the
| employment of such an officer sis not
IN accordance with the provisions Of
the charter" The matter was referred
10 the corporation attorney, who. will
remedy the technical defeat. and. Mr.
| Symonds can draw his pay witbn,Ifg
assuming the title $50 offensive tos.
! Messrs. McCardy and Reardon. 4
The bond of Hennessey Bros tsd
| Cox accompanying their contract fora
| the paving of Sixth street with Her
muda asphalt was, upon motion OF
| Aid. Hare, referred to the committee
| on streets. This action was taken he
cause the Warren-Scharf company. of
| New York, whose bid on Trinidad
asphalt for the same contract was
over $1,000 higher, maintain that the
Bermuda asphalt is of an inferior
quality, and it was thought only fair
to give both sides a hearing.
A proposition was received from one
| B. F. Gilkison to lease Market hall
for family theater CIR Eden Musee.
to be conducted on a moral basis and
to constitute a cheap theater for the
working people of the. city. Mr.. Gill
kison offers to pay rental Of $1,000 a
year for two or five years. The offer
was referred TO the committee on pub !.
lie buildings.