The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-05
SECOND Wards MAD.
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION TO De-
MAND ADJUSTMENT OF BOARD
OF PUBLIC WORKS
DISCUSSING PAVING DELAYS
Aid. Knauft and f. O. Zimmerman
Score the Board for Action
on East seventh Street
Contract.

''The board of public works does not
want East Seventh street paved with mac.
adam, and that is why we do not get it
paved They have mixed the thing up
between them SO that now it is impoS-
Sible to let the contract. If it were
asphalt. it would be down, but We don
want asphalt. and they don't want to
macadamize it. That contract has been
let for sixty days for macadam paving,
and at that we can't get it." said Aid
erman knauft at a meeting of the Sec
and Ward Improvement association held
last night.
The matter of the paving aroused
perfect storm of indignation among the.
members, and resolution was proposed
condemning the board most emphaticaily
for the manner in which it had handled
the contract. The whole trouble lies in
the fact that the contract for paving the
space between the car tracks was not
let at the same time, and the charter
says that it must be. The presumption is
that the street railway company does not
want to go to the expense of laying a
granite block pavement ii and between
the car tracks
IF they had let the contract do you
suppose that the railway company would
have let them put macadam between the
tracks," asked Alderman Knauft Not
bit of it. In two weeks. if that contract
had been let, it would have had a gang
of men up there laying granite blocks.
ID. O. Zimmerman has ideas of his own
in regard to the board of public works,
and he is for abolishing it entirely. Let
the executive committee of this associa-
ton go before the charter commission
and demand that the board be abolished
he said. SAT the time of the different
sessions of the charter commission there
was quite a question as to whether or
not the board should be abolished and
the only reason that it was not done
away with was because the commission
did not desire to leg1Slate anyone out of
office, but it should be abolished and this
association should set to work to accom-
plish that end
Mr.. Zimmerman's remarks met with
the hearty approval of the meeting, and
his suggestion was acted upon, and in
the near future the charter commission
will receive visit from very indignant
body of men, who will demand that the
board be abolished.
During the meeting the matter of, the
Third street bridge came in for but little
discussion. 1t was decided, however, to
ask for an appropriation of $4,000, the
amount of the estimate for repairing the
bridge and reducing the incline as the
residents desire. 1t is thought that there
Is q good chance to get the appropria-
ton this year.
The association also extended vote Of
thanks to the city engineer for the
prompt attention he had paid to it's
requests for improvements and the cour-
teouS manner in which he had received
the members of the association when they
visited him on matters of improvements
for the ward.
The association will also ask for bet
ter lighting in the matter of street lamps,
and Aid. Knauft stated that work along
this line was being pushed rapidly. The
street railway company reported that
there would be no new cars on the Maria
and Rondo line until next year, as 1t
did not have the cars to put on.
An executive committee and press COM
mittee were named last night. The press
committee will endeayor to- keep the
work of the association before the resi-
dents of the ward, and will also rely upon
The daily press to aid in promoting mat
tiers.