The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-05-11
Favorably Reported On.

| The board of public works reported
favorably upon the curbing and gutter.
| inc of Fifth street from Madison avenue
to Franklin street, and estimating the
cost at 81 ,40S, all of which can be as
sessed upon the property benefited. The
matter was referred back to the board
to get bids
The board reported favorably upoD
the curbing and guttering of Second
street from Cherry to Vine streets, es-
ttimating the cost at 1855, all OF which
can be assessed upon the property bene-
flied The board recommended that the
width of the driveway ON that portion OF
the street between Washington and Vine
streets be reduced to forty feet.
The matter was laid over for two
weeks. to allow the street committee to
ascertain the wishes of the property
owners as to the width of the drive
way.
The board reported favoraby upon the
curbing and guttering of jackson street
between Fourth and Fifth streets, and
estimating the cost at 1902. The mat
ter was referred back to the board to get
bids
City Attorney Daley reported that
| the deed to the half block on North
| Fourth street had been received from
the Omaha road and has been recorded
| The council voted that the property be
decided to the German Lutheran Hospi-
tai association upon the latter paying to
the city the balance due.
In Two Installments.
| City Attorney Daley read letter
which he had received from Jared Howe
of st. Paul, one of the attorneys for
the Barber Asphalt Paving Co., in which
he said that the company agrees to al
low the city to pay the balance OF the
Broad street Judgment in two equal an
nual installments, in one and two years,
at six per cent interest. The balance
due is about $4,000.
Mayor Taylor said that he had secur-
ed the 5000 voted by the county board
to assist the city in repairing roads.
| The council voted its thanks to the
board. on motion of Aid. Schroeder, and
the money was ordered placed in the
road fund, to be expended first on re-
pairing roads leading out of the city.
| 1t was stated that Alex Bashaw has
| some stone taken from the North Broad
street excavation which he will sell for
% cents load.
Chief Donahue reported thirty five ar
rests and sixty two dodgers during
April.
Public Necessity Requires 1t.
| Aid. Mahowald moved that public ne
cessity requires that Washington street
be curbed and guttered between Fifth
street and the alley between Broad and
Fourth streets, and sidewalks construct
ed, and that the matter be referred to
the board of public works under order
No. l. This was carried.
AID Hampl moved that the matter OF
extending Germana street be referred to
the board of public works, as the road
is getting impossible. This was car
ried
| Aid. Atchison moved that public neces-
sity requires that Byron street between
Front and Van Brunt streets be curb
ed and guttered and that the matter be
| referred to the board of public works
under order No. l. This was carried.
Request Not Granted.
| Benjamin Taylor appeared as attorney
for the Creamery Package Manufactur-
inc company and asked that the coun-
ell rescind it's recent action in ordering
a sidewalk constructed along the Van
Brunt street side of the company's prop
erty. He said that the company Will
within a year or two either move the
factory from that part of the city to
another part or out of the city entire
| ". 1t employs fifty men, and should
not be hampered. The main objection