The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-12-09
Property Owners Given Chance
to Pay in InstalIments.
Is Up to Them to Decide Within
Two Weeks About This.
Difficulty Had in Purchasing a
New Fire Team.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
The full council was present at the
regular meeting last night, and Mayor
Taylor presided.
The resignation of Miss Annie. c
Throdahl as deputy city treasurer was
received and was accepted. She intends
to reside on her claim in North Da-
kota.
A. R. Pau Jr. appeared before the
council on behalf of the property own
ers on Rhine street. and asked that the
city stand more than one-fourth of the
expense of matchmaking the street. He
said that the city had paid the whole
of the cost of improving the st. Peter
Glenwood avenue. The property owners
had filed the protest merely to postpone
action until after this meeting.
Several of the aldermen spoke in favor
of the city assisting in paying for the
work, but how much was not stated.
The cost would be burdensome on the
property unless the city paid a part,
they thought.
City Attorney Daley did not favor ex-
tending the assessment on property fur
Their back, but thought that the city
should pay large share.
The matter was referred to the street
committee and board of public works
to investigate and report at the next
meeting, on motion of Aid. KIeinschmidt.
Paving Matter Started.
Aid. Kleinschmidt brought up the mat
ter of paving Front street, and said that
he would like to see something done.
At the suggestion of Mayor Taylor a
recess was taken to talk the matter over
informally.
After the recess, Aid. Kleinschmidt
stated that it was the sense of the coun-
ell to take up the paving of Front,
Jackson, Broad and Lincoln streets, the
same as formerly proposed. He moved
that the council take up the paving and
that the property owners be given a
chance to come under the 1895 general
law, which allows payments to be made
over a period of ten years when petit
toned for by threeforths of the proper
ey owners.
Aid. Jorgensen was opposed to taking up
the paving matter now, and made some
insinuations about the other aldermen
having met with C. NJ. Carpenter on the
later's recent visit. He did not want to
take the matter up for few weeks.
AID Kleinschmidt said he did not see
Carpenter on his recent visit, and the
present move had nothing to do with
Carpenter.
AID Coy said that he had not seen
Carpenter since early in the fall. He
would vote to award the contract to the
lowest bidder, no matter who he was
The motion was carried, only Aid. Jor-
gensen voting no.
Aid. Jorgensen said that he did not
think that the council need 60 out of
finest fire team seen in the city. He fav-
ored advertising for fire team, and
not spending any more money sending
committees around the country looking
for team, and perhaps not finding one
One trip has been made, at an expense
of So
Shall 1t Be Sold?
AID Mckinley said that he had been
offered $l25 for the pest house, and
thought that $3.50 could be secured. He
wanted to know what the council
thought about selling it instead of NOV.
ing it. He thought that perhaps money
could be saved.
Aid. Jorgensen favored selling the
building for $3.50.
Aid. Kleinschmidt said that the repairs
on the building had cost $500, and the
building can be moved for SIS to the
city lot on the St. Peter road near the
city limits. A new building would cost
$1,000 anyway. He did not favor sell
ing.
Aid. Roemer said that he had heard
complaints of certain crowd hanging
about the building, breaking in, playing
cards and sleeping in the beds.
Aid. Mckinley said that the police
have been asked to look after this mat
ter. Beyond this, he did not know what
could be done to protect the property
Buying Fire Team.
Mayor Taylor stated that travelling