The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-21


Have Little Preference as to the
observation-disclosures Benz Urges
His West Third Street Idea.
The joint special committee on mar
ket site, composed of Messrs. Benson,
Thompson, Knauft and Bantz. held Il
meeting at the council chambers last
night to consider bids on sites FOR q
market. There were eight bids veceiv
ed and were as follows:
NJ. Newport & Son offer the block
known as the Hewitt property, being 300 feet
by $50 feet, for $37, 800
Barnes, Larkin and others offer the prop
erty which fronts 800 feet on Eighth street,
PSI feet Robert street, 3S71a feet on Ninth
street and 2121a feet On Minnesota street for
$147 900.
F. NJ. Stewart, agent, offers the property
bounded en- the east by Jackson street. ON the
north by Terth. on the west by Robert and
in the south by Ninth street. for $3.50, 900. or
the ncrth one-half of the block for $50, 600.
Smith Taylor, agents, offer 2o0 feet on
College avenue. with an average Depth OIL
270 feet. and containing 100000 square feet,
900 cash.
j. Godfrey Walker and others offer block
bounded on the east by Sfbley. on the north
by Ninth, on the west by Temperanesees ana ana
from north to south and $50 feet from east
$1,000
son, Temperance, Tenth and Eleventh streets
for $4,000 Terms. one-fourth cash and the
balance In three equal yearly instailments, or
will lease for a period of five years at $4.ooo
per year with the privilege Of buying at any
time at the above price.
H. S. Fairchild offers the block except lots
and and the north two-thirds of lot l.,
between Eagle. Franklin, Chestnut and Elk
change streets. for $49.625
]. s. Prince. offers lets 1, 2, 8. and 4,
md M
Is, in Kittsons addition, containing $3.50
square feet the assessed valuation Of which
is $41 900, for $31 800.
After the bids had been opened and
read, Chairman Benson announced that
the meeting was held for the purpose
Of giving those principally interested in
a market site a chance to advise the
committee Of their desires as to loca-
ton, and called for expression Of opin-
ion from the commercial bodies rep
resented.
Mr.. John Caul1eld. representing the
Commercial club, was the first speak
er He said that the Commercial club
had passed upon the matter and was
agreed that a new site was a neceS-
sity, but had no site to offer and wolld
take no stand on location, the only
thing the club objected to was the idea
of the city issuing any bonds to raise
money to purchase a site.
j. H. Tenvoorde, of the Retail Gro
GERS association said that the grocers
had paid much attention to the loca-
ton Of market, and as far as they
were concerned had decided on the site
between Minnesota, Ninth Tenth and
Robert streets, and for a second choice,
the site offered between Chestnut,
Franklin. Eagle and Exchange streets,
although they knew the latter was I'M
desirable on account of the tenants of
adjoining buildings. If the council was
hampered by want of funds, they
would be satisfied if the lowest bid
was accepted. but the size must have
some weight in the selection. The re-
I tail grocers preferred that the new site
should be as near the commission men
as possible, as the commission men
would not move toward a market and
it was particularly desirable that they
should be close together.
r. E. Cobb, representing the board
of trade and commission men, said the
commission men preferred the Eagle
street property, as it contained more
space than any other site offered. An
objection, however, was that Eagle
street was too steep.
George Benz said he had always TAX
en- an interest in the question Of
market site and he had made a study
of the subject. He had not made a
bid, but had plan he wished to sub
nit to the committee. 1t was a strip
Of land 625 feet long, from Washing
ton to Eagle street. along West Third
street, which he thought could be
bought for about $4,000. and staging,
platform and covering, which would
shelter 268 teams and at the same time
be permanent and ornamental, could
be erected for 100000 to $4,000 He
had no scheme for the sale of the
property, but had the interest Of the
| town at heart.
John Rose. a market gardner, said
the market gardeners wanted a site
| near the Central high school building
and wanted at least two blocks, one
block was not large enough, and es-
pecially in June, July and August, some
| days there were fully 900 teams in the
market They did not want it near
! Eagle street, but above all things they
wanted a market, that nearly half the
| gardeners now go to Minneapolis, and
| where they sold they bought, and it
was a great loss to st. Paul.
John Jensen. gardener, was OPP
posed to the Eagle street site.
George Benz again took up his plan.
and Mr.. Thompson raised the point that
| they were discussiong bids only. Mr.
Benz said Thompson was no gentle
| man, the chair held with Mr.. Thomp-
son, which ended that incident.
Mayor Kiefer was called on and said
he came to listen. not to talk, as he
was satisfied that the committee
would give the matter the best atten-
ton.
w. w. Reynolds said there were three
things to be remembered. first, they
wanted site. second, they wanted it
| right away, and third, in a convenient
location.
Mayor Espey favored the Hewitt To-
cation. as it was convenient to all street
cars.
The bidders were then given chance
to expatiate on the merits of their re-
spective offers, and several took ad-
| vantage of the opportunity.
The committee then adjourned until