The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-19
CHANGED and PASSED
ORDINANCE GRANTING AMERICAN
TELEPHONE COMPANY FRAN
CHISE GOES THROUGH
AMENDED IN SOME DETAILS
Will Have to Go Back to Board of
Aldermen for Concurrence-As-
sembIyman Thompson Wants the
Building Inspector to Furnish
Some Detailed Information about
the Billboards.

The assembly held a regular session
after the caucus and by working up to
midnight succeeded in passing the ordi-
nance granting a twenty-five years fran
chise to the American Telephone and
Telegraph company The ordinance, as
passed by the aldermen, was slightly
amended, and will have to go back to the
board for concurrence. The assembly re-
coded from the amendments previously
made to the ordinance, regarding the
question of rate and competition, to
which the company objected, and modi-
fled other sections. The ordinance was
passed under a suspension of the rules
by a vote of to e. Messrs. Albrecht and
Thompson voting against it.
Assemblyman Thompson is after the
scalp of Building Inspector Haas, on the
billboard nuisance, and introduced and
had passed the following resolutions:
Resolved, that the building inspector be,
and is hereby directed to forthwith report
to the common council by detailed writ
ten report the number of bill boards or
other structures for posting or exhibiting
advertisements of any kind located in the
city during the past six months showing
the location of each names of persons
erecting and maintaining the same
therefor, and in what form and whether
or not bonds were given before said per-
mits were issued, or at all, and the num-
Der of said bonds the amount of each
and by whom given.
In November last Corporation Attorney
Markham gave an opinion, copy of
which was sent to the office of the build
ing inspector, in which he held that bill
boards should be erected only on permits
+Ia hull hot
before such permits were issued the con-
sent of the owners of the property on
which the boards were to be erected
should be obtained, and that a bond of
$1,000 should be filed for each board
erected. Assemblyman Thompson claims
that the building inspector has not
followed the line laid down in the opin-
ion of the corporation attorney, and asks
for a report, such as outlined in his res
olution for the purpose of investigating
the matter.
The ordinance allowing the street rail-
way company the use of Cedar street
was laid over, President Kirke stating
that the officials of the company desired
to be heard before the ordinance was
passed.
The report of the joint committee on
a market house site was read and then
laid over to be taken up at an adjourned
meeting TO be held Wednesday night
The resolution of Aid. Bantz providing
that in all city contracts as far as prac-z
ticable st. Paul materials and labor
should be purchased and employed was
passed.
Final orders were passed for the
paving with brick of Summit avenue,
from st. Peter to Sixth streets.
The final order for the paving of Mel
son avenue, from Summit to Western
avenues, was at the suggestion of Presi-
dent Kirke sent to the committee on
streets.
The resolution directing the street rail-
way company to pave that portion of it's
tracks on East Seventh at the same time
| the other part of the street was paved
was adopted. - 49, -
Assemblyman Nelson secured the
passage of an ordinance prohibiting the
erection of street signs. Under the ordi-
nance no sign is to project further from
a building than two feet and 1t must be
ten feet above the sidWalk. Permits
are to be secured before any sign is
erected and a bond is to be given in each
case to protect the city. The ordinance
is duplicate of the one passed two
months ago by the assembly and which
mysteriously disappeared after reaching
the board of aldermen.
The assembly concurred in the resolu-
ton passed by the board directing the
health commissioner to employ two men
as inspectors at the dumping grounds.
| The inspectors are to be paid $40 per
month from the general fund