The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20
MINNEAPOLIS GETTING READY TO
FIX UP SEVERAL OF ITS
STREETS.
WHAT LOOKED LIKE COMBINE
GIVEN AUTHORITY TO PAVE
SEVENTH.
CHEAPER FOR THE OWNERS.
Estimates for Paving Washington
Avenue-The Hotel Lafayette
Not to Be Torn Down.

The property owners on all the paved
streets of Minneapolis which are now
paved with brick or asphalt are re-
quired to pay for the repairs for the
next ten years, but on Seventh street
it Is different. There the property own
er is required to pay the first cost of
the paving and the city will take care
of the repairs. That was the principal ac~
ton taken by the city council last night
and the strangest thing about the
whole matter is this, that every al
derman, twenty-one in all, voted for
the resolution. OF course, the Seventh
street people will not object, and the
remainder of the property owners and
taxpayers will forget all about it when
the time comes for the making of re-
pairs.
1t came about in this way: Seventh
street, from Seventh avenue south up
to Hennepin avenue, is to be paved
with vitrified brick paving Bids were
called for and the contractors had ap-
parently gotten into a combine, for
their prices were all about 81, $2.02 and
$204 per square yard. All the bids were
rejected and new bids were called for
and Carney Brothers put in a bid at
$1.90, which the committee recommend
ed, but the council rejected, notwith-
standing the recommendation of the
city engineer that the bid was cheap
and below a price at which he would
accept it. For a third time bids were
called for and two bids were receiv-
ed, John w. Fleetham 81, and the Des
Moines Brick Manufa curing company
$1.99. The bids were reported to the
council, referred to the committee on
paving and reported back, with the rec
ommendatiOn that all bids be rejected
and that the city engineer be directed
to go into the open market and buy the
material and have the work done by
the daY.
Aid. Crosby reported to the council,
in the only speech which was made
upon the subject, that the property
owners along Seventh street wanted
the work done by the city engineer
And he might have added that the
property owners on Seventh street
knew a good thing when they saw it.
1t will cost the city engineer, according
to his own estimates, $1.65 per square
yard to lay this pavement, and the
lowest bid is $199, but this bid includ-
ed the repairs for ten years, which, I'M
der the plan adopted, the city will have
to pay for.
Bids for vttrified brick paving of Mic
ollet avenue, from Tenth to Thirteenth
streets, were also received and referred
to the paving committee They are:
Des Moines Brick Manufacturing COM
pany $1.9S per square yard, and Can
ney Bros. $1.99. A petition signed by
Of no
ollet avenue, representing 1923 feet
frontage, was also presented, asking
that the street be paved with brick
rather than with asphalt.
The contract for wrought iron railing
around the top of the new reservoir
was let to the Star Iron works for
50 450.
Aid. Lloyd gave notice that he would
Introduce at the next meeting of the
council, an ordinance, the purpose of
which is to provide every purchaser of
water from the city water works, with
a water meter. 1t will be an amend
ment to the newly adopted water ordi-
nance. Mr.. Lloyd estimates that it
will require $4,000 meters and cost the
city $150,000 to carry out his project.
but it will be absolutely equitable and
fair
A large number of water mains.
sewers, sidewalks and street Sprinkling
were ordered for the coming year, as
required by the city charter, much Of
which is certain to be annulled later
on.
City Engineer Chappelen presented
an estimate of the cost of paving
Washington avenue north from Thirty
second avenue to the Single creek
bridge, about Forty-second street, all
on six-inch concrete foundation, as fol-
lows: Vitrified brick, $19O per square
yard; total cost, $51, 1865; Kettle river
sandstone, $2.10 per square yard; total
cost, s57, 435; granite, 1925 per square
square yard; total cost, $21, $50, of the
total the citys portion is a little less
than 10 per cent. The curling will
cost $500 for property owners portion,
and $500 for the city's portion.
The council authorized the Fall Fes-
tivities association to erect reviewing
stands and a platform for fireworks
display at Bridge square, for the coin
ing carnival season.
Petitions were presented for gas
mains on Dupont avenue, TWenty-first
avenue north, and Hillside avenue as
far as Logan avenue.
Alexander Nicholson filed a claim of
$1,000 against the city on account of
injuries to his eyes, by the breaking
of chisel, while he was in the city's
employ.
The city engineer reported an esti-
mate OF the sewers which should be
bullt by the city to complete the pres
ent plan of sewerage connection, show
ing length of 62,8O9 feet, or about
twelve miles, and costing $3.50. 297 80 of
which the city's portion would be $780,
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