The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-19
TO COLLECT THE DOG TAX
MONEY ALLOWED FOR THE
PRELIMINARY WORK
Plan of Taking q Census Is Being
FollOwed-Assemb Handles a
Raft of Little Stuff-Great West
ern VIII Have to Do Some Paving
Before 1t Secures Any Concessions
Other Business.

The assembly at the meeting last
night confirmed the appointments to
the police force made by the mayor by
unanimous vote and without discus
sion, except that which occurred at the
caucus preceding the session.
The ordinance, Of Aid. Bantz, which
passed the board, fixing the pay of the
sWeepers on the asphalt paved streets
at $l.25 per day, was killed by the
adoption OF an adverse report from the
committee on streets. Adverse reports
from the same committee on the paving
OF Arundel and Mackubin streets were
also adopted.
The city clerk was directed to adver-
Use Tor bids for furnishing the police
department with $50 tons of egg coal.
A resolution directing the removal
or the bill board at Ramsey street and
Pleasant avenue was sent to the COM
mittee on streets.
The resolution giving the mayor 5000
ana the chief of police $3.50 to secure
the enforcement of the dog ordinance
was passed. Assembfyman Albrecht
informed the members that the execu-
tive department had adopted the same
plan IN the capture Of dogs as was In
force In Minneapolis. In that city
$8,0OO had been received this year from
dog licenses, and the work of captur-
by two men and a team. A dog census
was first obtained by the police de-
partment in Minneapolis, and that was
being done here. The ordinance when
! passed provided for the expenditure
of $500, and the resolution now offered
allowed an additional 5000 for the may
or and $3.50 for the chief of police to
build a new pound
The city clerk was directed to adver-
tise for bids for a new bridge across
the Omaha & Duluth tracks on Forest
street. The structure will cost about
$4,000. and the amount will come from
the bridge repair fund.
Preliminary orders for the paving Of
Broadway from Seventh to Grove
streets, and East Seventh street from
the railroad bridget Hope street pass
ed by the aldermen were sent to the
committee on streets on motion Of AS
semblyman Thompson.
The preliminary order for the paving
OF Wacouta street from the union de-
pot to Fifth street with granite and
from Fifth to Seventh streets with as
phalt was passed
The amendment. to the bicycle ordi-
nance, allowing wheelmen to use the
west walk on the Smith avenue bridge,
was adopted under a suspension of the
| rules.
The resolution directing that the
feet railway cempar y pave the streets
| over which the1 union depot loop will
| run, was adopted. Third street, from
| Robert to Wacouta, will be paved with
brick and sandstone: Sihley street,
| from Third to Fifth STREET, with granite,
| and from Fifth to Seventh with as
| phalt, and Wacouta street. from Third
| to Fifth, with granite. Under the
terms of the resolution the company
| will not be required to repave either
| Third or Wacouta streets for five years
The city engineer was directed to
| construct cycle path on Earl street
| from Tasting avenue tc Indian Mound
| park.
The ordinance, granting the Chicago
| q Great Western road the right to con-
struct passenger waiting station on
| the levee, between the Diamond 10
| freight house and it's railway bridge,
was referred to- the committee on
| streets at the request of Assemblyman
! Dix. The Sixth ward member said thera
| appeared to be unseemly haste In the
! pushing through Of the ordinance The
| company for the past two years had
refused to repave the bridge over it's
tracks on South Robert street; it would
| be we'll to go slow and not grant any
concessions Until the paving question
was settled. -7.ss7a e8v
The board of public works sent in
preliminary orders for matchmaking,
1 Iii wing edIio pOutcV dIhluS Line TOllOW-
| Ing streets: St. Adams. street, from
Paramount to Carroll; Grotto, from st.
| Clair tc Carroll: Victoria, from st.
Clair to Carroll; Lexington, from st.
| Clair to Langford; Portland, from Dale
to Victoria: Leslie, from Victoria to
Lexington: Holly, from Dale to Vic
toria; Ashland, from Dale to Licking
ton; Laurel, from Dale to Lexington;
Hague, from Dale to Lexington; Dale,
| from Fairmount to Como: Summit.
| from Dale to the river.
The committee on streets will con-
| slider the proposed improvements,