The Saint Paul globe., 1899-08-03

itnIists.
The action taken by the Womens Civic
league in placing at several Of the street
corners in the business district boxes in
which waste paper is to be deposited
has had the effect of bringing the matter
before the council in a business way.
At meeting of the board of aldermen.
July IS, communication was received
from the Western Clean Streets company,
Of Omaha, asking for the exclusive
privilege for ten years to place on the
street corners in the business district
200 or more boxes for the collection and
depositing of waste paper. The company
agreed to remove the deposits from the
boxes every twenty-four hours and give
bond for the faithful performance of
the contract. In addition the company
offered to pay the city annually 10 per
cent of the income derived from the
placing of advertising signs on the boxes.
The communication from the Omaha
company arrived a day or so previous
to the meeting of the aldermen at which
it was presented and this was long
enough to give some of the local states
men who are always keeping an eye
open for business a chance to see that
there was business in the scheme.
Immediately following the reading of
the communication at the meeting of the
board of aldermen an ordinance follow
ing the lines of the proposition made by
the Omaha company was presented by
Aid. Reeves. The ordinance granted the
exclusive privilege of placing waste paper
boxes on the street corners to Joseph E.
st. Clair, his successors or assigns, for
period Of ten years, and also gave Mr..
st. Clair the right to place advertisements
on the boxes. A bond IN the sum of
$1,000 was to be given by st. Clair as
an evidence of good faith and the con-
tents of the boxes were to be removed
every twenty-four hours, but nothing was
said about any part of the Income re-
ceived from the advertising on the boxes
being paid to the city for the privilege
granted. Both the communication from
the Omaha company and the ordinance
granting the privilege to Mr.. st. Clair
were referred to the committee on streets
At the meeting of the committee last
week a representative of the Omaha
company explained the pTODOS1tlOn TO the
members, but no action was taken. No
mention was made at the meeting in re-
gard to the ordinance granting to st.
Clair the rights asked for in the Or
dinance presented by Aid. Reeves.
At the meeting of the aldermen Tues
day night two ordinances were presented
relating to the waste paper box scheme.
One handed in by Aid. Reeves granted
to Frederick C. Schiffmann and z. D.
Scannell, organized for business as the
st. Paul Clean Streets company, the ex-
elusive privilege for ten years of putting
up and maintaining waste paper boxes on
the street corners on which advertise
nents were to be placed py the com
rany. bond in the sum OF $4,000 was
to be given by the company and the de-
posits III the boxes A.~-: To be removed
each twenty-four hours
Aid. Blomquist also ha1 an ordinance
along the same line. Ii Grs.:-;ed to Joseph
st. Clair the right to put il and main
tain waste paper boxes for a period o:
three years and proposed TO give the cit.
semi annually Is per cent of the gross
income received from advertisements
which We're to be placed on the boxes.
Aid Reeves made talk for jhe passage
Of the ordinance granting to Frederick
c. Schiffmann and z. D. Scannell the
right to put up the boxes. Tho men. he
said, were well known in st. Paul AID