The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-08
CITY HALL CHAT.

| day to discuss the order issued Friday
night ordering the saloons closed prompt
| ly at midnight. In fact he would not dis
cuss the matter at all.
my chief Of police" he said, ISSUED
the order, and you had better see him
about it,
Chief Goss, when asked concerning the
order, said the present session OF the
grand jury had nothing to do with Its Is
suance.
II find" said Chief Goss, that the
patrolmen become lax about enforcing
orders issued to them, and about every
SO often 1t is necessary to bring matters
to their attention in order to keep them
from forgetting their duties. 1t was SIM
ply for this reason that the order issued
some time ago was called to the atten-
ton Of the patrolmen Friday night.
The order caused CONSERVATION among
the saloon men. Although there has
been little or nothing said about the CLOS
ing of saloons at midnight, few, II any,
of the resorts where liquor Is sold nave
been paying attention to the midnight
closing ordinance. Some Of the saloons
closed the front doors, but did a thriving
business behind drawn curtains. Some
always close at or about midnight. Others
made no bones about keeping open, and
in some the sound of piano playing and
singing annoyed the patrolmen on the
beat as late as o'clock in the morning.
Information as to persons who intend
bringing the violation Of this section OF
the law to the attention of the grand
jury now in session reached the ears or
the police, and this, 1t is claimed, Is what
brought about the midnight closing or
der.
The council having by ordinance set
apart the south side Of Summit avenue
boulevard, from FairVieW avenue to the
river, as a speedway, the next step is to
appropriate money to put the avenue be-
tween the points mentioned In condition.
1t is estimated that about $500 will be re-
quired to make the sand road on the
speedway available for the purpose Tor
which it was designated An effort Will
be made to include in the tax budget for
next year such a sum as will put the
speedway in shape.
County Auditor Johnson will not make
up the tax levy rate per cent for the
county until after the supreme court has
rendered a decision on the additional
school tax law. The auditor feels tr1f1e
sore over the action of the comptroller
In announcing what the county levy
would be, and is authority for the state
will be changed whether the supreme
court holds the school levy law consti-
tutional or not.
Some patriotic voter has forwarded to
the mayor table showing the number OF
patrolmen from each of the several
wards and the nationality of each. The
table is in typewriting, but those Who
have been given a glance at 1t say they
hnin
statistical handiwork Of Jailer Jake Stadt-
field.
Building Inspector Haas sent to the
comptroller the pay roll of his depart
ment for September last Monday: The
pay roll, however, was pigeonholed py
the comptroller the same as was that or
August The inspector says he is not
worrying about the pay rolls, as they
will ultimately have to be paid, and both
he and his assistants are saving money
by not getting any pay. What ne IS
fearful Of is that the comptroller in max
ing I'D the tax estimate for next year
viii skip any provision for the building
inspectors department, and recommend
that the duties devolving on the depart
ment be turned over to the engineering
department The council, however, mas
the election Of the building inspector,
and Incidentally the naming of the hVe
assistants in the Office, and the building
inspector has 1t figured out that even
should the comptroller skip his depart
nent4 in the tax budget the council,
which has the last guess at the budget,
would take care of him. and his assist
ants.
With this solution of the problem In
sight Haasiis making himself busy with
the. members of the board OF aldermen
and assembly.
The identity Of the individual who,
posing as Mayor Kiefer, offered Maj.
Bean, by wire, the position of chief of
police, has not been discovered. A friend
of Mai Bean, who was with him at the
time he opened the telegram, states that
there was no doubt as to the telegram
being all right. Manager Rudd, of the
Western Union company, thought SO well
of the offer as conveyed by the telegram
signed "a r. Kiefer,' that he added
TO the messages: Bully for you, old boy.
Take it," and signed his name.
COMPTROLLER: McCardy audited the pay
roll of the school teachers at the ad-
vanced raise in salaries without saying
q word. The roll for two weeks in Sep
TENDER was: s1S,195, and figuring at this
rate on the basis of twenty payments,
each of two weeks the amount to be
paid the teachers would foot up to $685.
400 during the school year. The council
by ordinance last August authorized the
school board to expend not more than
$227 $50 tor teachers salaries during the
school year The comptroller has al
ways held In auditing the pay roll Of
other departments that the amount Of
the pay rolls should not exceed the
monthly pro rata of the estimate fixed
by the council for the department In
the case of the school teachers, how
ever, he failed to follow the rule laid
down by himself in the past and ap-
proved the roll as sent in by the school
board, although 1t carried $4,000 more
than was allowed by the council for
teachers salaries.
Chief Clerk John F. Selb, IN the cor
poration attorneys office, is doing fairly
we'll in his new position AS yet, how
ever, he is still outside the breastworks
SO far as being a member Of the Lincoln
Grub is concerned. Friends of Selb in
sist that his name will be enrolled on
the club membership whether the friends
of Mayor Kiefer desire it or not
Last Tuesday night one Of Mayor Kie-
fer's recent appo1ntees on the detective
force went into a Wabasha street sa-
loon, and after announcing himself in a
loud voice pulled "a revolver from his
/ pocket and pointed the business end at
the porter. The frightened man broke
two chairs and table in getting out of
the place, and then waited across the
street by the city hall until the bad man
had gene. He was as white as sheet
and his teeth were chattering when ne
returned
'Begorra he had narrow escape" re-
marked the porter next day. "Av ut had
not been Mister Moorphy's house, Oh
wud how schattered his gore on the fure.