The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-15
PHALEN PARK HEARING
1T IS SET FOR TOMORROW
AFTERNOON AT 2
O'CLOCK
PAVING OF RICE STREET

Action I'm the Matter Is Deferred
Until Property Owners Can He
Heard FrOm-Sixth Street Bridge
to Be Opened for Travel This
Week-Matters Before the Board
of Public Works.
The board of public works will listen
to the owners of property to be taken for
Phalen park at a meeting to be held to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock. 1t has
been claimed by President Wheelock, of
the park board, that the land to be taken
for the park can be secured at q much
lower figure than when the proceedings
looking to it's condemnation O year
so ago were started. The best evidence
as to the correctness of this claim will
be the value placed on the land by the
owners at the meeting tomorrow. The
order from the park beard contemplates
the condemnation of i20 acres, about
seven acres less than was ordered con-
demned in previous proceedings. The
park board has 900 in the park fund
applicable. to the purchase of the land
needed. The balance will have to be
raised by assessing the property bene-
flied.
The preliminary order for the paving
of Rice street, from College avenue to
Front street, was taken up by the board
yesterday The estimate of the city en-
raised as to the paving with asphalt
sandstone AMI brick is as fellows:
Asphalt-To be assessed against the
property, s64,326; to be paid by the ST. street
sandstone-To be assessed against the
property, s61, 1895; to be paid by the street
railway company, $31, 9S9; total, s9S,sS4.
erty, s515o5 to be paid by, the street rail-
way company. SEE, $50; total, ST., 455.
Commissioner Mabon was ready to vote
for sending a final order to the council,
with the understanding that the contract
was to be let next spring. President Fott-
gieser thought there was plenty of time
before spring to take such action, and
wanted to hear from the property owners
before any action was taken. This was
agreed to.
President Pottgieser raised the point
that the board was passing final estimates
on contracts where the work had not
been completed in the time specified in the
contract and without deducting the pen
atty provided City Engineer Claussen
cases where such action had been taken
was the contractor responsible for the de-
lay. He had investigated each case, and
where it was considered that the penalty
for non-completion should be enforced 1t
would be recommended.
The engineer gave notice to the board
that when the final estimate for the con-
struction of the Sixth street bridge came
UP he would demand that the contractors,
the Chicago Bridge & Iron company, ex-
plain the delay on the contract. 1t was
hardly possible, the engineer said, that
the city could enforce penalty on this
contract, for a clause in the contract pro-
vided that if there was any delay, owing
to the congestion of the labor or iron
market, then the time for completing the
structure should be extended. II the
company could show that the delay was
owing to inability to get the steel WORK,
then no penalty could be exacted; but, II
not. the damage the city had sustained by
reason of the structure not being COM
pleted should be deducted from the con-
tract price of the work.
The bridge will be opened for travel
some day this week.