The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-20
TRIED 70 S|DEIRACK t
ASSEMBLY APPROVED school,, BID
GET LAST NIGHT AFTER MUCH.
DISCUSSION
ACTED AND RECONSTRUCTED
Rice Street Paving Question Taken
UD Without Definite Action
Starkey Confirmed as Street
superintendent.

The roll call at last nights meeting of
the assembly showed all the members
present, with President Dix in the chair.
The communication from the mayor
with reference to granting permission to
place an awning on the Germania bank
building, advised that such permission be
not granted on general principles. A
motion to refer the communication was
defeated, and motion to reconsider was
carried by a vote of to 2
The school budget matter was taken UP
and an effort made to refer it back to the
joint committee on streets. This motion
was carried by vote of to g. Mr..
Zimmerman, of the school board, then
addressed the assembly stating that it
would greatly delay all arrangements,
such as the building, repairs, ETC., and
urged that the assembly reconsider its
action, which it did, by q unanimous
vote.
A motion was next made by Mr. Craig
to again refer, 1T to the committee on
streets. This motion failed of passage,
and a motion to pass the budget was
successful, the vote being to 1. Then,
on motion, the rules were suspended and
the ordinance passed, this result being 8
in the affirmative and 1 in the negative.
The subject of the paving Of Rice street
next engaged the attention of the as
sembly, and Aid. Benson moved that
they take up the question of the paving
of Rice street, recalling from the COM
mittee on streets the two final orders.
Mr.. Benson spoke at some length and
gave a detailed history of the troubles
the residents Of that street had expeN-
enced in order to secure some needed i'm
provements, and which now seemed as
far away as ever.
A motion for the final order for paving
Rice street, from Como to Front was
lost, the vote recording & to 4. The mo-
ton to call from the committee met
with a like fate, as also the motion for
the passage of the final order. The final
disposition of this question was that the
final orders for the paving Of Rice street
from College to Front street, be referred
to the committee on streets.
All the different department funds were
passed as they came from the commit
tees, and all the resolutions previously
reported.
The recommendation by the city engi-
neer that the bids of Fielding & Shepley,
Of SIT 800, for the improvement Of Robert
street bridge, repainting, ETC.. be accept
ed, was approved.
The appointment of A. r. Starkey as
superintendent of work, at $125 month,
was approved
The communication from the corpora
ton attorney relative to the payment Of
Charles Stone, contractor on the Wa
basha street bridge, was referred to the
committee on streets.
The following was passed:
Resolved. That it is the sense of the
board of aldermen of the city Of st. Paul
that all sidewalks in front of engine
houses, school houses, ETC., be made OF
stone instead Of wood.
Resolutions were also passed directing
the city railway company to remove the
weeds along the tracks on Marshall,
Prior, Grand and Oakland avenues.
A resolution authorizing the city clerk
to advertise for bids for change of grade
on Rice street was also passed.