The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16


There was a lively jangle at the meeting
of the aldermanic committee on streets
Yesterday afternoon between Patrick D.
scannelI and Joseph st. Clair, who are
business rivals for franchise which VIII
allow the placing of waste, paper boxes
on the street corners throughout the
city. ST. Clair presented to the board
Of aldermen meeting held July IA all
! ordinance granting him the exclusive
| franchise to erect waste paper boxes en-
the street corners and agreed TO give
| the city Is per cent of the income from
the placing of advertisements on the
boxes for the privilege.
| At a subsequent meeting p. d. Scan
nell and Frederick C. Schiffmann. organ
lied for business as the st. Paul Clean
! Street company, also presented an OF
dinance asking for the privilege for
term of ten years and agreed to pay 10
| per cent of the INCOME from advertise
ments into the city treasury SeVerai
other parties also handed in ordinances
| and all were referred to. the committee
on streets. At the last meeting OF the
! board Attorney A. J. Stobbart presented
| a substitute ordinance on behalf OF 81.
| Clair, agreeing to give 80 1-3 per cent OF
| the gross income from advertising pro-
viding he was. granted the- right
| When the waste paper box business was
| reached at the committee meeting yes
| terday afternoon VIII. Mcdonald, rep
reserting ST Clair, made talk as to
the reasons for his client being granted
| the franchise - Mcdonald claimed that
st. Clair was the first one in the field
and that the firm of Scannen q Schlttc
mann had only introduced the ordinance
granting them the franchise after an
agreement had been made and broken
between ScanreIl, ST. Clair and f. W.
Dempsey in which the trio were to share
and share alike in the business. Thls
agreement, Mr. Mcdonald said, was
drawn up by L. ]. Dobner and then the
ordinance first introduced by st. CAR
presented to the board Of aldermen. After
the ordinance had been hung up by re-
ferrine it to the committee on streets
Mr.. Mcdonald stated that st. Clair was
Informed he could take 4 per cent for his
share and if he did not like this Scan
nell & Schiffmann would introduce an Or
dinance and shut him out altogether Inc
scheme originated, Mr.. Mcdonald said,
with F. W. Dempsey, wheFsaw the boxes
in Chicago and on his return took Scan
nell and St. Clair into his confidence
and the agreement between the trio was
made After the Introduction of the
Scannell-Schiffmanp ORDNANCE st. Clair
decided, that he would go it alone and
accordingly Presented the ordinance
which gave the city-33 1-S~per cent Of the
income from the advertising on the boxes.
If this was not considered enough, Mr.
Mcdonald said, provision would be made
for giving the CITY so per cent Of the in
come from the advertising If the, city
had any rights, Mr.. Mcdonald commended
then ST. Clair should be given the fran
chise and also for the reason that he
made the most advantageous offer.
p. D. ScandelIs who had listened to the
| talk made by Mr.. Mcdonald, demanded
that he be allowed to reply to the state
ments made At this point in the pro-
ceedings ME-. St. Clair rose excitedly
to his feet and said he had been charged
with, being a. gambler. but, this was not
so-that he was a gentleman and not
politician Scannel and st; Clair both
| talked loudly and charged each other
with various statements. St Clair said
he would meet Scanne1l outside and the
Second ward politician agreed that the
| outside would be the best place to have
the meeting. Order having been partly
restored by Aid. Shepard, who was
chairman Of the meeting, Aid Blom-
quist suggested that all the ordinances
! relating to the franchise be laid over
until the next nleettngsq- Add. Murphy
favored the matter being disposed Of at
/ once Aid. = Blomquist wanted the last
ordinance of Mr.. ST. Clair substituted
| for the first one, but Aid. Murphy said
| this could not be done without a vote
| by the committee. 1t was decided to lay
| the ordinances over and in the meantime
secure an opinion from the corporation
attorney as to the rights of the city
to- grant any franchise, such as was
sought for.
The contract awarded by the board Of
public works to Fielding & Shepley for
the paving of Eagle street, from Third
street to, the Milwaukee tracks, WAS Or
dered sent back to the board with in
structions to send in new final order
TO rthe paving of the street only be-
tween Third and Franklin streets. Capt.
Berkey and Matt Koch said that the
two blocks south of Franklin street did
not need paving; at this time and the
committee took the same view of the
matter. ---
| The proposed vacation of Grace street,
from Pleasant avenue to Victoria street,
was laid over. A petition Of the proper
ty owners asked that the present street
ON The north side of the tracks of the
Milwaukee road be vacated and a street
opened on the south side of the tracks.
The petition signed by the property own
ers interested called for a sixty-foot
street. but since the petition was circu-
lated arrangements had been made be- e.
tween the owners and the Milwaukee rail-
way officials by which the new street
Is to be but thirty-six feet wide and the
| company is to, pay for the grading of the
street Aid. Sanborn raised the point
that the change in the width of the
street from sixty TO thirty-six feet made
| the petition worthless and new ons
would have to be secured>in order to
make the vacation valid E. T. SJay-
| ton, who has for the past two years in
| terested himself in securing the vacation
| of the street and the opening of a new
one, doubted if 1t would be possible to
secure the names of the property owners
| to a new petition inside of a year The
| matter was laid over and an effort will
! be made to secure the opening of the
new street and then follow this by a va
| cation of the present one
The resolution directing the MAYOR to
prevent the erection of poles and wires
on any of the streets for telegraph or tel
ephone lines in the territory covered by
the conduit ordinances was recommended
! to pass.
| The report of the special joint commit
tee on a market site was laid over until
| the next regular meeting, of. the COM
mittee,