The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
Second Street Property Owners to Get
Together for Consultation.
Property Owners on Jackson Street
Ask for Asphalt Paving.
Macadamizing Of Fifth and Thompson
Streets Is Proposed.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

against paving Cherry sueeI was IL
ceived. signed by a majority of the prop
ertv owners. and nothing further was
done about that street The paving OF
other streets was proposed, however, ana
probably remonstrances will come IN at
the next meeting from those streets.
The council finds itself in the same posi-
ton as previous councils, and whether
anv permanent street improvement is or
dered by it will depend largely upon what
kind of material the aldermen are COM
posed of.
Aid. Schroeder was the only alderman
absent. being detained at home by i'll
ness.
The remonstrance against the paving
of Cherry street from Broad TO Pike re-
cited that the improvement is not neces-
sarv and that the main streets should
have attention first. THE burden will
fall on a few people" said the remon-
STRANGE. I'm large amounts, while the
paving of the main streets affects large
number TO a less amount and is Il bene-
fit to the general public TO a greater eN-
tent. While Directing to paving, we are
willing. and do hereby ask your honor
able body. to curb and gutter said street
from Third to Front" This was sign
ed by L. G. NJ Fletcher, d. d. Smith,
S. H. Grannis, NJ. b. Wood, H. p. Jen-
sen, J. \. Lewis, Jos Manderfeld, w. G.
Hoerr and VIM. Davis. The remon=
STRANGE was placed on file.
AID. Kleinschmidt said that he felt
like doing nothing rather than making
any temporary improvement. 1t was an
important street and would be greatly
improved by paving.
Cost of Paving.
The board of public works reported in
regard to the proposed paving of Cherry
street from Broad to Front. The width
of the driveway from Front to the alley
is 81 feet, and from the alley to Second
street is % feet The cost of brick paw
ing is estimated at S2.10 yard; but it is
thought that it can be secured for $l.95.
The cost from Front to Second streets
would be S4,ll525 for paving and $257.02
for stone curbing on the north side. The
street intersections would cost 81 ,307 .0S,
with S37 90 for curling. From Second to
Broad streets the cost would be So, l50.S0
for paving, with stone curbing $534.52, OF
about $500 for cement curbing, a forty
foot driveway being contemplated. Brick
pavement of late years has been coming
up in price and costs a little more than
asphalt.
Favored Jackson Street.
L. p. Hunt said that he had noticed by
the papers that in St. Paul the cost of
asphalt paving this spring is Sl.SS
yard. His observation in the different
cities of the country was that there is
three to five times as much asphalt as
brick paving. The new contracts are
nearly all for asphalt The heavy stone
for the capitol at st. Paul has had to be
hauled over, the asphalt streets, as
the brick broke under the heavy weight
Asphalt gives the best satisfaction else
where. and he could not see why it
should not in Mankato. He hopes that
the worst cross street in the city, jack
son street, would not be neglected when
the council comes to paving streets. He
thought that there would be very little
opposition to paving the block from
Front to Second streets.
DIR. j. w. Andrews said that the pro-
perty owners on Cherry street who favor
paving are not opposed to asphalt, as
they want a permanent improvement.
He hoped that the council will speedily
order the paving of the street. Anybody
can get up a remonstrance. However,
this was an improvement that was need
ed. He advocated going as far as the
railroad tracks, and he thought that the
railroad company would agree to stand
its share of the expense. No street would
ever be improved if the council waited
for the majority of the property owners
to ask for it,
Aid. Kleinschmidt said that he was
surprised at the number of names on the
remonstrance, some of which he had
thought favorable to the improvement.
Mayor Taylor said that he under
stood that the Milwaukee company
would pay for an assessment for paving
jackson street.
City Attorney Daley said that the
company had never refused to pay an
assessment in the city, although one for
paving cannot be legally inforced
Harry Paddock asked that the i'm
provement should be extended to other
ctreets that need it worse than Cherry,
such as Second, jackson, Main and Null
berry.
Another Progressive Citizen.
Geo. E. Brett said that he was in favor
of an asphalt pavement on Jackson street
from Pike to Broad streets. He thought
that many of the large property own
ers would favor this. The street from
Second to Broad should be narrowed. A
macadam would also make a good street,