The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-05

At meeting Of the board Of alder
men last night an ordinance was intro
duced by Aid. Shepard granting to the
American Telegraph and Telephone COM
pany, Of Minnesota, it's SUCCESSORS and
assigns, the authority to construct OPP
crate and maintain a telegraph and tel
ephone system In the city of St. Paul for
the period Of twenty-five years, the au-
thority to be granted subject to the pro-
visions of Ordinance No 1854, regulating
and restricting the placing of poles, con-
Quits and, subways, and subjecting the
work of erection and construction Of
poles, conduits and subways to,4the su-
pervision of the city engineer. In return
fer the granting of the; franchise the
American Telegraph and Telephone COM
pany is to pay into the city treasury.
ON the 18th of December Of each year, 3
per cent of the gross earnings of the
! local telephone system as sworn to by
the president of the company. The or
dinance was referred to the committee
on streets.
Assemblyman Nelson's ordinance pro-
hibiting the construction Of wooden side
walks in the city of St. Paul again made
Its appearance before the board; 1t was
greeted with derisive laughter and sar-
castle remarks, coming back from the
committee on streets as 1t did with two
reports attached to 1t; motion to
adopt the minority report, signed by Aid
Reeves and Murphy, that the ordinance
do not pass. was lost by a vote of to d;
motion to ADOPT the majority report,
favOring it's passage, met with the same
fate and by the same vote, and as last
resort to get it out of the way it was re-
re-re-referred to the committee on
streets On motion Of Aid Bell his or
dinance covering much the same ground
as the Nelson ordinance was recalled
from the committee on streets, the rules
were suspended and 1t was put upon its
final passage.
The report of the city engineer, recon-
mending the sale of old scrap iron for
$1,006, to the highest bidder, August Lam
dorf, was accepted.
A resolution was adopted granting per-
mission to the city comptroller to dispose
of $4,000 worth of certificates of indebt-
edness, to bear not to exceed 4 per cent
interest, for the purpose of advancing the
city's interest.
The paving of Washington street with
asphalt, from Third street to Seventh
street, was awarded to Hennessy & Cox.
lie CITY engineer pldHS IOT the TeCOU-
struction of the Wabasha bridge were ap-
proved and the clerk Instructed to adver-
tise for bids for the construction of q
temporary bridge and the construction Of
the substructure.
An APPLICATION of p E. Reed for liquor
license, at 1913 Jackson street., was
granted. and, 1t appearing that there were
several protests against 1t, the vote was
reconsidered and a motion to refuse the
license was carried.
Bids for paving repairs during the year
1899 were opened. Nicholas Feyen offered
to do the work for 80 cents per foot, and
Fielding & Shepley for 81 cents. The
contract was awarded to Fielding & Shep-
ley.
The committee on license reported adj
versely on the resolution to grant an auc-
tioneer's license to A. G. Johnson.
Aid Sanborn stated that at the time
the application was made certain Chi
cago firm had shipped stock of goods to
town, and, in opposition to the expressed
wishes of many business men, and that
Mr. johnson had gone on and sold the
whole lot, and now that he had no more
use for the license he had asked that the
license be refused and he be permitted to
get a return Of the 5000 he had deposited
for the license. However, the report of
the committee was adopted by a vote OF
to 4.
A resolution by Aid Murphy, requesting
the board of fire commissioners to con-
struct a fire alarm box at the northwest
corner of Tilton and Wabasha streets, was
passed.