The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-27
BAD HSI|RIE:.ET Ends.
City Council Takes Step Looking to.
tho Improving Of Their
Condition.
New Building Ordinance Receives
Check, :! Some y Roadways te
Be Cut Down.

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The aldermen are willing to give q VT
tie time to q consideration OF the general
question Of improving those streets which
connect with the main county roads.
& These are much travelled thorofares which
on account Of the peculiar system Of rails
Ing and expanding ward funds. have re-
ceived scant attention. The state olaf
nesota Good Roads association asked the
city council for a conference on this ques-
ton In response President d. p. Jones.
I OF the council last evening named the
following aldermen to consider the SUBJ
ject: Aldermen Gerber Chatfeld, Mumm,
Sam E. Adams, Holmes. McLaskey, Rand,
b Powers. Larson, Westphal. Dwyer, "A. S.
Adams and Van Nest.
Building Ordinance Delayed.
There were not enough aldermen pres
ent last evening to permit Alderman
Duryea to force the reconsideration Of the
new building ordinance. but Alderman
Westphal tfed2it up for a time by giving
notice of an amendment. The proposed
amendment refers only to the sections re-
lating to house moving and requires tele-
phone and other companies using wires
to cut wires for the benefit of the house
movers, free of charge. s
! On account of the absence Of members
|, OF the committee on ways and means the
matter. of the sale Of municipal bonds was
not taken up The question will be con-
+ sidered at some length at a special meet
ing to he held next Friday afternoon at
$3.50 p m. E
". \. Roadways ito Be Narrowed.
The new movement for the narrowing
| Of roadways1received a strong impetus
! last evening when several streets were or
+ dered cut down. several ordinances pre-
viding forsreduced widths being presented
The streets Included are Church street
7 Sc; Tenth avenue 8 from Franklin tt
TWenty-fourth street; Thomas avenue
Lake Calhoun to city limits; Thirty ninth
| street, Nicollet to city limits; Bryant ave.
nue. N. Twenty sixth avenue to city lin.
It's; Colfax avenue n, Twenty sixth avenue
| to city limits. .' =
/ The attention Of the mayor and the
| city attorney was called to the passage
Of an ordinance in 1899 requiring all con.
Germs using electric wires to bury those
wires In the central portions OF the city
the, district embracing about nine square
miles. The officials are directed to as
certain as to what extent this ordinance
had been complied with
| The petition Of c. A. Nimocks, asking
! for the annulment Of sewer taxes, illeg
I ally Increased by the city engineer, wa!
! re-referred to the sewer committee, tn,
I committee ways and means and tn,
city attorney added.
| A communication was received from tn
4 Minneapolis. Cycle club. In which atten
ton was called to the clubs resolution
providing that motors be not ridden o,
the cycle paths Immediately after rains
and that riders exercise proper care il
passing other wheelmen. This was re
ferred to the bicycle committee, whic]
| still has under consideration a propose,
ordinance prohibiting motors from usinl
the cycle paths. l15f~
/ 4. New Paths Ordered. a
The council, upon recommendation Q
II the bicycle committee, ordered a ne1
path built on Tallnadge; avenue fro1
4 sixth sto :EleYenth cstreeti7en Minnehah
avenue, from Lake street to the Mi4wau
kee shops. IA petition was received "a
new pathGoIt Thirty second avenue n
from Frenor1tcto Penn. sJ.s 50
An invitations from Colonel G. Nice
Reeve to attend the annual encampnnen
OF the First infantry at Lake city som
! day between July 6 and IS was accepted.