The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-04
WILL ENDEAYOR TO
STOP PATRICK KELLY
Second Warders Viii Urge Al
dermen to Revoke His Per-
nit to Quarry.

The principal feature of the meeting
held last night by the Second Ward
Improvement association was a rather
heated discussion of Patrick Kelly Jr's
right to quarry Hudson avenue, be-
tween Hoffman avenue and CONNER
cial street. It was the general sense
of the meeting that that right did not
exist, and on the motion of Robert See
ger the members of the association
pledged themselves to go before the
board of aldermen tonight and do all in
their power to prevail on that body to
get it to revoke the permit, as did the
assembly.
Mr.. Seeger introduced the matter
and in unmistakable terms urged the
necessity of stopping the further quar-
rying of stone on the street.
Il have been assured by good legal
talent" said he, that Kelly's permit
would not hold in any court, and it is
nothing more than a bold assumption
stone there. The entire proceeding,
from beginning to end, is wrong"
Mr.. Kelly urged that if he owned the
property on both sides of the street he
had a perfect right to change the grade
of the street if he wanted to. He fur
ther said that he did not propose to pay
taxes on his property for thirty years
and then, when he wanted to use it, be
stopped from doing SO.
j. J. Lawrence said that he had in
spected the site in question and, in his
opinion, it was a Disgrace dumping
ground for refuse-and that if Mr..
Kelly had any pride he would i'm
prove it.
Mr. Kelly's answer to this was that
he had as good a yard as Mr.. Law
renee, and as good house. too, and he
wanted Mr.. Lawrence to understand it.
The president deprecated personali-
ties making their way into the discus
sion and Mr.. Hartman arose to say
that if Mr.. Kelly would only leave the
street as he found it and not spoil the
outlook from that point he did not care
how much stone he took away, al
though for his part he did not think
that Mr.. Kelly had any more right to
the stone than he himself had.
How Mr.. Kelly got the permit
he has matters not, if he grades the
street as he has permit to do 1T Will
be an impossible grade" added Mr..
Hartman.
After the proposition had been dis
cussed at considerable length Mr.. See
gers motion was put and unanimously
carried.
John A. Seeger said that it had come
to his attention that Dr. H. Longstreet
Taylor was planning to erect a sana-
forum for consumptiyes on the bluff,
and, as property holder, he wished to
enter a vigorous protest against the
scheme.
DR.. Fullerton urged DR.. Taylor's side
of the question and claimed that it was
only proposed to treat patients in the
first stage of consumption, from whom
there was little or no danger, but the
sense Of the meeting was that the bluff
property would be deprecated, and a
copmittee was appointed, consisting of
John A. Seeger. Gustav Willius and Nj.
Hartman, to block the project.
The plan proposed by the Northern
Pacific Railway company to build
viaduct east of Kittson street was APP
proved by the association in all re-
spects, but that of the compensation
for the streets condemned. On this
head the association indorsed Assem-
blyrnan Van Sykes stand in holding
out for $4,000 instead of 800, which
Assennblyman Arnold's motion called
for.
The next meeting of the association
will be held next Monday evening at 8
o'clock.