The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-04
FINAL PROTEST Is NADE
EDISON ELECTRIC COMPANY ASKS
MORE PRIVILEGES IN MAC
KUHN STREET
POWER OF COUNCIL DENIED
Calls Original Franchise Ordinance
a Contract Not to BE Abro-
gated-AIdermen Consider
Market Site.

The board of aldermen met last even
ing and disposed Of a large volume Of
business.
A communication was received from
the mayor relative to the Virginia fire
sufferers, recommending that official at
tention be directed to alternating the
needs of the people of that place. The
communication was referred to a COM
mittee.
An application by the Edison Electric
Light company for the use of Mackubin
street for the erection Of poles and the
stringing of wires between Summit ave-
nue. and Iglehart street was referred to
the committee on streets.
A resolution passed by the st. Paul
Chamber of Commerce ON the importance
of selecting a site for a public market
was read and also referred to the COM
| mittee on streets.
In n communication by the st. Paul
Gas Light company protest was made
| against the resolution adopted by the
| council and approved by Mayor Kiefer
| May %, terminating on the 1st of Janu-
| airy, 1907, all rights of the st. Paul Gas
| Light company, Economy Steam Heat
company, now st. Paul Light, Heat and
Power company, the st. Paul Electric
Manufacturing and Construction COM
| pany, and the East Side Electric COM
! pany. The letter was referred to the
| committee on streets.
From the board of public works the
petition for a sewer, from Fisk street to
a point 100 feet west of Milton street, at
an expense in construction of $17,452, was
referred to the alderman of that ward
for his approval or rejection.
Charles Stone, in communication,
asked the council for payment on his con-
tract with the city for the building or
the substructure of the Wabasha street
bridge. He also desired estimates to Sc
cure final completion of same. The com
munication was referred to a commits
tee.
The report of the commissioner OF
| health on inspection was read and ac-
cepted, and the application for license
by the fifty parties whose names ap-
| peared in the report, TO engage In the
| sale and distribution of milk, was, by
| vote, granted.
N. Blumenthal's application and Zee
ommendation by the committee for IL
| cence as an aucttoneer at 48O WapaShd
| street was approved.
The Joint assembly resolution for a
| committee of six members of the coun-
ell and the city engineer to select site
for a new market was adopted.
The following communication from the
Edison company, submitted to the coun-
ell in the way OLA protest, suggests thai
in the near future there may he an IN
teresting legal battle in the courts for
the purpose of determining the vested
rights Of such corporations:
1.-THE Edison Electric Light and Power
company hereby applies to the ccramon
council under and by virtue of the pro
visions of Ordinance No. ?C.. of the city
of st. Paul, asking for the passage Of the
| following resolution:
4" Resolved, That the construction by
| the Edison Electric Light and Power
Company of st. Paul of a line Of poles
| and wires on Mackubin street, between
| Summit avenue and Igleha:t street, In
| this city, for the purpose of tran arn1ltng
electric currents under and III accordance
! with the conditions and limitations OF
Ordinance No. 707, and Under the super
vision of the city engineer and commit
tee on streets, be and the same Is here oy
approved
''This company claims THAI Ordinanc4
No. 707, of the city OF st. Paul, being
an ordinance entitled AN ordinance 10
grant the Edison Electric Light and Pow
er company the right to use certain
streets. and that the ordinance and res
olutions amendatory thereto having peen
! accepted and acted on by this company
| and the terms thereof having been fully
| COMPLIED with, constitute contract pe-
tween the city and the company.