The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-02
LIGHT TOR NEXT YEAR
SPECIFICATIONS STILL REMAIN
IN THE HANDS OF THE
COMMITTEE
WILL NOT LET GO OF THEM

Because Aid. Shepard Explained
the Present Contractors Had "a
New Burner and They Have TO
Be Provided for mississippi
Valley Telephone Company Given
Permission to Use Certain Streets
Aid. Knauft attempted mt the meet
ing of the board of aldermen last night
to have the specifications for the light
ing of the city for next year with gas,
gasoline and electric lights recalled
from the committee on streets and sent
to the joint council committees on gas.
| The specifications were sent to the
board of aldermen by the board of pub
lie works a month ago, and were re-
| ferred to the committee on streets.
| Several meetings of this committee
have been held, but for some reason
| nothing has been said or done with the
! lighting specifications
| Aid. Shepard, chairman of the COM
mittee on streets, said the present
| contractors for gasoline lighting had
! new burner, and had asked that the
! specifications be held hack until a.
| change could be made in order to al
| low the new burner to be used This,
he said, was the reason for the delay.
i Aid. Kenny took issue with the al
| this explanation, and said this was the
| nrst he had heard Of any new burner.
AID. Knauft thought a month was
| long enough to have the committee
consider the specifications, and in the
meantime do nothing There were per-
| sons and firms who wanted to bid on
the electric lighting for next yehr, and
as the time was growing short he in
sisted that the specifications be recall
i ed from the committee on streets and
sent to the proper committee-that on
| gas.
Aid. Sanborn favored the committee
on streets being allowed to handle the
| specifications, and the motion to recall
| made by Aid. Krhuft was defeated by
| vote of to 4, Messrs Allard, Bell,
| Knauf and Reeves favoring such ac-
| ton, and Messrs. Blomqust, Kenny
| Sanborn, Shepard and Donahower yot-
! ing against it.
! Chief Goss, under date of Oct 25, adj
| V1sed the council Tint more money was
needed to pay for the capturing of I'M
! licensed dogs. Up to that date $3,S15
had been collected from dog licenses
and 525 worthless ours drowned. The
| disbursements had been $3.50 and the
| net profits So S65.
On this showing and a letter from
the mayor the aldermen passed resolu-
lions appropriating $500 more from the
general fund to pay the dog catchers.
sued the city for $4,000, was settled by
| recommendation of the corporation at
! tofney for $1,000. The woman fell on a
detective sidewalk on Dale street, near
Ashland avenue, Aug. 26, 1896, and Whs
seriously injured. The ordinance set
ting the claim passed under a suspen-
| sion of the rules.
| The Milwaukee Railway company ad-
Ylsed that the bridge over it's tracks on
summit avenue would be completed
NOV. 81, but that it would be impossi-
Die and fmpracticable to pave the road
way with asphalt this fall. resoIu-
ton was passed extending the time for
! paving the structure to May 1, 1899.
! Assistant Corporation ATTORNEY Tay-
Tor advised the board that the ordi-
| nance directing the street railway COM
pany to lay and operate a single horse
car track on Randolph street was all
flght, and If the council passed the
ordinance the company would have to
comply with the same
| Ala. Reeves asked to have the Or(1i-
nance laid over until the next meet
ing, and as the request was seconded
| by Aid. Bloomquist the measure was
referred to the committee on streets.
Attorney Howell, representing the
property owners, who had paid a bonus
for the line recently abandoned, stated
! that as Aid. Murphy and RantZ were
not present he had no objection to a
vote on the adoption of the horse car
ordinance being postponed.
The Northwestern Telephone COM
! pany having absorbed the Minnesota
| Central company, which was to furnish
the cltlzens with a competing long dis
lance line. number of the council
! men who are interested in the matter
nave turned their attention to another
company. This company will be asso-
clated with the Mississippi Valley com.
| hI7;1l
| system, and in order to facilitate mat
tiers a resolution was introduced and
passed last evening allowing the Mis-
| s1sslpp1 Valley company the right to
erect poles and string wires on the fol-
! lowing streets:
ST Anthony avenue from Cleveland
/ avenue west to the city limits: Raw
mond avenue from ST. Anthony tn
! franklin; Franklin from Raymond ia
city limits; Hope street from Sixth ia
Frances; on Frances to Earl; Earl
| from Frances to Birch; Birch from Earl
to the Hudson road.
Under suspension of the rules Aid.
Ben had an ordinance passed which
| prevents the building of any livery sta
| ole or ice house within seventy-five feet
| OF any street unless the majority of the
| owners Of property in the block shall
! sign petition favoring the same. The
| present ordinance gives the occupants
VI the buildings the right to sign the
petition and the new measure takes it
way from the occupants and places it
In the hands Of the owners.
RESOLUTIONS were passed allowing the
House of Good Shepherd, St James
African M. r. church, the Ladies' Sew,
ing Society of the Peoples church, and
| the Minnesota league the use Of Mar
ket hall on various dates on the nav
ment Of SIS per night.
The claim of Charles sandeen was
laid over until after election.
The resolution requesting the hoard
| OF public works to readvertise for bfds
for furnishing 1000 street signs was
adopted