The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-11
BUDGET is COMP Etc.
COUNCIL ADDS $4,000 TO THE AP-
PREPARATIONS, AND APP
PROVES 1T
NO PROTEST WAS PRESENTED
Additions Include $4,000 for Ar
cade Street Bridge and $4,000
for jackson Street Market
Contagious Ward Stands.

With the concurrence Of the board of
aldermen next Tuesday evening and the
assembly the following Thursday, con-
sideration of the budget for 1902 will have
been numbered among things of the past
The common council in informal session
last evening, after making an addition of
SCI, 200, placed the stamp of approval on
the measure as returned by the con-
ference committee, and now all that re-
mains is the mere formality of giving it
passage in the separate bodies.
In adding a trffle over $61 900 to the total
of $2,6SS,062, as returned by the confer
ence committee, few voices were heard
in protest, as a rule the community Of
interest idea prevailing, to the extent
that all profited in respect to their in
dividual wards. Representatives from
the several commercial organizations
were present, but though invited to
speak none of them responded.
In the creation of the $4,000 addition,
$4,000 was set aside, as the nucleus of a
fund for the purpose of placing a $685. 900
steel bridge over the Omaha tracks on
Arcade street, $4,000 for the purchase
of additional ground for the Jackson
street market, $4,000 additional. making
in all $4,000, for West Seventh street in
tersections, in the event that thorough
fare is paved with either sandstone or
asphalt, $4,000 for intersections on Con-
cord street, should it be macadamized,
$1,000 for q main sewer on Jessamine
street, and 81 200 for a sewer on F'airview
avenue.
In support of the claim for an apprO-
priation for street intersections property
owners along West Seventh were present
in considerable numbers, the audience
also being augmented by a delegation
from Arcade street, which desired new
steel bridge, one from the Second ward,
which feared the elimination of an ap-
preparation for the extension Of the Third
street bridge, and many doctors, who
made a successful canvass among the
members for the retention of the item
calling for $4,000 for new contagious
ward to the city and county hospital.
Senator J. Fl. Ives spoke at length for
the West Seventh street property owners,
while Aid Holt and Assemblynan Nelson
used their oratorical powers in demon
strating that a new bridge was needed on
Arcade street.
The proposition to set aside $4,000 for
the purchase Of additional ground to the
Jackson street market brought on a
wordy debate, but the opposition was
partially satiated by a reduction of the
amount of $4,000, this to care for the
Davidson tract of land on the north
end Of the block. A proposition was also
made to reduce the $4,000 appropriation
for armory rent to $500, but the matter
was held over until an investigation as
to the agreement between the city and
armory managers could be made. The
armory managers secured an increase a
year ago, conditional on new armory
being built, but nothing in that direction
has materialized as yet.
Last nights consideration of the bud
get was entirely informal, yet it is not
thought that any further increase in the
amount will be made. The majority of
the members announced themselves as
satisfied and whine it reaches the separ-
ate bodies, approval it is thought, will
be given in full.