The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-18
Walnut Street Extension Will be
Pushed-Law for Correct Weights
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Re-
solutions Concerning the Omaha
Roads Improvement Adopted-The
Proposition for the Starting OF the
Packing House Receives Favorable
Tlention.

The communication from the
Manufacturers Association, Of
Brooklyn, favoring the establishment
of new cabinet Office to be known as
secretary of commerce and manufac-
turers came up on a report from the
committee on legislation. This COM
mittee reported the matter back
without recommendation, but indi-
yiduals of the committee were rather
favorable to the idea.
M, G.. Willard and John n. Hall
spoke in favor of the proposition, and
thought that it would help to put the
commercial and manufacturing in
tereSts where they ought to be. On
motion of the former, the matter was
laid over for future discussion.
Geo. r. Barr, chairman of the COM
mittee on the extension of Walnut
street to the Omaha depot, reported
that the majority of the committee
recommended laying the matter be-
fore the council and asking it to open
the street. Mr.. Barr read a letter
which J. A. Willard had received
from General Superintendent w. G..
Collins, of the Milwaukee road, say
ing that the road is willing that the
street, should be opened across its
right of way, provided thatthe grade
of the track shall not be changed,
that the work be done without ex-
pense to the company, that no assess
ments for any purpose pertaining to
the street be made against the road
and that ii fiagman or crossing gate
should be- required the expense
should be borne by the CITY,, Mr..
Barr said that the Omaha road is de-
sirous of having. the streetopened but
is not in a position to- insist'en it as
the Milwaukee road has extended it
many favors. -, 49,
On motion of Mr.. Hail., the board
voted to request the Commercial club
to appointa committee to act with
the boards committee in laying the
matter properly before the council.
Mr.9Barr, at his request, was .reliev-
ed from the committee, owing to his
coming absence, and Thomas Hughes
was appointed to succeed him as
chairman Hafr exc .Ta
M. B. Haynes, chairman of the COM
mittee on scales, weights, ETC., made
a report recommending the passage of
a state law to require all pers ons hav-
ing scales to keep them in perfect ad-
justment, and that penalty be pro-
vided for cases where incorrect
weights are kept.
On motion of MIR. Hall, the matter
was referred back to the committee to
prepare bill for presentation at the
coming session of the legislature.
A lengthy discussion occurred on
this subject, during which the state
ment was made that farmers are given
fifty pounds to the bushel of barley in
Mankato, while buyers in other towns
require hfty-tWO POUNDS.
f. M. Currier presented the follow
ing report from the committee on a
reception and banquet for the Omaha
railway officers:
MANKATO, Mimi, Dec. IA, 1896. J
WHEREAS, For more than quarter
of a century past the main line of the
c., ST. p, M & o. railway has run
through the entire length of our city
from north to south, blsecting it along
what otherwise would have been one
of the most beautiful residence streets
in the city, and
WHEREAS, During the last decade
from twenty to thirty trains daily
have passed over this line, imperiling
to some extent the lives of hundreds
of school children and others passing
back and forth over its various cross
ings, and incommoding the travelling
public, and
WHEREAS, The c., St. P. M. g. O.
railway has been compromised in it's
traffic through this city by the neceS-
sarily slow rate of speed and the
curves aud grades which said route
made necessary, therefore be it
ResoLned, BY the Mankato Board
of Trade in regular session assembled,
that we congratulate both the citi-
zens of Mankato and the c., St. p, M.
& o. railway in the change Of said
company's road to the river front.
We congratulate the citizens, first,
because the menace to life and him
derance to business caused by SO
many trains running daily through
the center of our city have been re-
moved; second, because the streets
aud other grounds for.I erly occupied
by the right of way Of said company
can now be improved and made as at
tractive as any part OF our residence
district; third. because magnificent
union depot, which is credit to our
city, has taken the place Of the will
low sand bar in the rear Of the Saul
paugh Hotel. We congratulate the
railway company because it facilitates
to a marked degree their very large
business through this city, shortening
their running time at least ten min
utes and giving them ample space for
side tracks and switches free from
crossings.