The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-08
ACCEPTED A SURETY BOND
COUNCIL DOESN'T ASK HORST
FOR PERSONAL BONDsMEN :

mississippi Valley Telephone Com
pany Will Put It's Conduit Down
on Eighth Street Instead Of Sixth
Street-Aldermen Concur In the
Removal or John Mccarthy
+ Market Gardeners Ordinance.
An adjourned meeting Of the board Of
alderuen was held last evening prev
ious to the regular meeting Of the as
sembly. The committee on police SUBJ
mitted a report recommending a con-
cunrence with the action of the mayor
in the discharge Of Patrolman ]. c. Nc
Carthy, who has been doing duty as a
ba1lifr In the police court. Aid. Kenny
objected to the action of the mayor
being concurred in, saying:
1T is just a question of two Demo-
Gratis. One is acquainted with the bust
ness Of the office and the other is not.
Thlll, who has been named to succeed
Mccarthy, is the president OF a Demo-
cratic club, and l am in favor of hold
Ing up the removal and appointment
until some competent Republican can
be selected and appointed"
On the roll call the removal Of Nc
Carthy was cOncurred in by a vote of
eight to two, Messrs. Kenny and Muir
ply voting against it. President Don
ahoWer was absent.
The bond of City Treasurer Horst,
in the sum of 100000, the bond being a
surety one given by the American
Bonding & Trust Co., of Baltimore.
and the Fidelity & Trust Co., of Mary
land, was approved.
acquisitions to the number of 100
recommended for passage by the COM
mittee, were approved after the state
ment had been made that the one au-
thorizing the payment Of $3.50 to carry
the Mortenson case to the supreme
court had been left out.
The protest from the Union Protec-
tive league against the payment Of
city FUNDS to take the Mortenson case
to higher court, was filed without
reading.
The resolution allowing the Missis-
slppi Valley Telephone company the
use of certain streets in which to lay
conduits and erect poles for its system
was passed by unanimous vote. The
streets were mentioned in The G / O b e
at the time the resolution passed the
assembly, and the only material change
made was to change the line of conduit
from Sixth street to Eighth street This
was done at the request of property
owners along Sixth street, who object
ed to the tearing up of the pavement.
The corporation attorney advised the
council that under the ordinance grant
ed to the company all that was re-
quired was that the work Of construc-
ton be commenced within sixty days
after the acceptance Of the ordinance
He had been informed that poles had
been purchased and were now waiting
to be erected by the company as soon
as the resolution deSignia ting the
streets was passed by the council AS
to the forfeiture of the franchise this
could not be brought about without the
passage by the council of resolution
so declaring.
The use Of the second floor of the
market house was given to the La
dies Auxiliary of the Manufacturers
Union for the first two weeks in sOc-
tober for the purpose Of an exhibition.
The city engineer was directed to
construct cycle path on Sixth street
from the bridge to Arcade street.
An ordinance amending the bicycle
ordinance was passed prohibiting the
riding OF, bikes on the sidewalks both
sides of Concord street between Brown
avenue and State street.
The assembly at it's meeting unani-
mously concurred in the action Of
the mayor in the removal of Bailiffs
Mcmahon and Mccarthy and the APP
pointment Of Edward N. Parish and
John Thill as successors to the deposed
officers.
The request of the park board to
have the street car tracks removed
from Lexington avenue and placed on
Hamline avenue was sent to the COM
mittee on streets.
An ordinance was passed under a
supervision of the rules directing that
in the future no checks be drawn by
the city treasurer, but that the city
warrants, which are couaIersigned by
the comptroller be used, and the treas
urer simply stamp the name Of the
bank from which the money is to be
drawn. This plan, it is claimed, will
simplify the work of the Office, and
will also prove more acceptable to the
surety companies which have bonded
the treasurer.
A new preliminary order was passed
avenue between Rice and St. Peter
streets, the contract to be let not later
than March l, 1899.
The ordinance fixing the hours during
which garden truck, fruit and poultry
can be disposed of on the markets and
public streets, as between a. m. and
noon, was, after considerable discus
sion, sent back TO the committee on
markets. The question was brought
up as to whether the grocers of the
city were in favor of the ordinance,
and, in order to allow them to express
preference as to whether o'clock
was not too late for the sale of vegeta-
bles, the measure was referred.
The final order frcm the board of
public works locating $50 gasoline
lamps was passed. A similar order
directing the locating of eight addi-
tional arc lights was referred to the
committee on gas, objection being made
to it's passage, on the ground that
there was no money to pay for them
in the lighting fund.
The assembly approved the surety
bond Of City Treasurer Horst.
The city engineer was directed to
report the number of excavations made
in the asphalt paved streets, the names
of the parties who had made them and
the nature of the improvement which
had caused the excavations.
The assembly concurred with the al
dermen in the resolution directing the
Northwestern Telephone company to
place it's wires on Wabasha street, be-
tween College avenue and Rice street,