The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
ISSUE FINAL ORDERS
PAVE MARSHALL AVENUE
WITH ASPHALT
NO OPPOSITION WAS MADE
Large Number of Marshall Avenue
Citizens Attend the Meeting
jackson Street still to
BE Acted On.

Final order for the paving of Marshall
avenue and the award of the contract to
the 3. F. Conway company, for $29,900,
received unanimous approval at the
hands of the board of aldermen last
evening. The motion to approve was
made by Aid Murphy, and in its con-
sideration not dissenting voice was
heard.
The council chamber was well filled
with Marshall avenue property owners,
who came to support a petition demand
ing the placing of the contract, but their
services were not necessary. In fact the
vote was taken so quickly that many
were not aware of what had been done.
Resembling orders in their relation to
Minnesota, Minnehaha and Decatur
streets, passed at a previous meeting,
practically made necessary the disposal
of the orders instructing the paving Of
the three streets, and this was done,
each in turn being killed by a decisive
vote.
Aid Hunt, however, was most positive
that the orders had never been rescinded,
intimating that the records might have
been tempered with, but when shown the
minutes, he had to admit, that he was
wrong On the motion, which was prac-
tically the killing of the awards in each,
Mr. Hunt was registered in the negative,
while the remainder of the opposition,
among them Aid. Bantz and Knauft,
divided their vote.
JACKSON LEFT OUT
The only street now remaining for
which bids had been received was Jack
son street from Ninth to Grove, and the
final order for this Aid Murphy asked
to have rescinded, supplementing his re-
quest for a motion to that effect The
material specified by the board of pub
lie works was asphalt, and the lowest
bidder was the Barber Asphalt company,
they having asked Sc, 1868 for the work,
against the engineers estimate of $S075.
This bid, said Mr.. Murphy, after max
ing his motion to rescind, was too high
when compared with the figure received
for Marshall avenue. 81 know a lower
rate can be secured, and this council
owes it to the property owners to secure
it for them. With all this talk and in
situation about asphalt trusts, the pres
ent low bids must be credited to those
of the board and assembly who stood out
for the resolutions that a number are
now so busiIy engaged in condemninG
These very resolutions are responsible
for the price of asphalt paving existing.
They caused this war, and the property
owner is getting the benefit. Had Mar
shall avenue been readvertised, 1 have
been assured that a lower rate would
have been made by the Barber people,
but the property owners were a unit in
wanting the contracts given the Conway
and their request was granted.
They have to pay the bill, and 1 would
willingly vote for this street were the
property owners as solid for it. Field
ing & Shepley, a trust that St. Paul has
had to contend with for years, were in
strumental in bringing the Conway peo-
pie to this city They did it in the hope
that they would down the Barber COM
pany, and I am glad of it. 1t simply
Sustains my position that if it had not
been for those indemnity resolutions we
would have had no competition in paw
ing"
AS against the proposition to rescind,
Aid. Bantz said it was against business
principles, and incidentally. made a few
remarks to show that if it was not for
the Conway company, the Barber peo-
pie would be enjoying monopoly. He
cited the fact that when bids were called
for paving the market site, the Barber
people were the only bidders, and asked
a rate that was extremely high.
These remarks, Alderman Murphy said
simply sustained his position, that if It
was not for the resolution, the Conway
company would not be in St. Paul. Field
ing & Shepley he said, had brought the
Conway company to st. Paul, in fact the
ests. 1t was a case of one trust fighting
the other, and the city was getting the
benefit.
Aid. Hunt remarked that legislation the
past few weeks had been decidedly in
favor of the Barber company, and In
timated that if they were so DESTROYS of
making a low bid, that they give the
city assurances of their sincerity by CIV
ing a bond.
"They will give a bond" returned Aid
Murphy. If Marshall avenue had been
readvertised, the Barber company We're
willing to assure this council that the
rate would be lower than the property
owners are now receiving. The property
owners were satisfied, however, and that
is sufficient.
The vote here followed, and Aid
Murphys motion carried. Aid Bantz
Hunt and Knauft only voting in the neg
ative.
The paving of Central Park place, a
contract to have been awarded to the
Conway company was killed No COM
ment was made.
Following the disposal of these orders,
which leaves Marshall avenue only saved
from the wreck, preliminary orders were
introduced for the paving of Marshall
avenue and Central Park place, asphalt
being specified in each,