The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-12
PURE WATER PLAN
Up TO VOTERS
COUNCIL DECIDES ON VOTE ON
FILTER PLANT BONDS.
Appropriation Of $4,000 as a Starter
Fight on Hotel Permit Successful
Charter Conference Committee Named
Money to Help Improvement
League Clean the City.

BY unanimous vote Of all the alder
men, the city council last evening voted
to submit to the people at the coming
election the question of issuing bonds
for a filter plant. The aldermen are
SO familiar with this subject that no
remarks were necessary, and the pro-
ceedings consisted only Of the presenta-
Alderman F. L. schoonmaker g reso--
. waterworks for beginning the work on
the filtration system was opposed by
several aldermen, who wanted it under
stood that none of this money was to
be expended unless the bond issue was
authorized. Several speakers argued
against this "string. y The appropria-
ton, they said, was. a guaranty to
Thomas Lowry, who had generously
offered to present the city with sixty
acres Of land as site for the plant,
that the city intended to accept his
offer. The money would; not be mis-
spent, for it was only question Of
time when the city would be driven to
| install complete modern filtration
plant. The amendment, which was in
| PRODUCED by Alderman G.. A. Westphal,
was lost by a vote of 8 to 10. /
4 The original motion was thereupon
| carried by % to 8, the negatives being
by Aldermen F. II. Castner, j. H. Dur
yea and G.. A. Westphal
Hotel Permit Fight.
| The fight made by Aldermen W. E.
| Satterlee and w. w. Ehle, in the com
| granting special permit for remodel
ing the second floor of the Window
| Loring block as hotel, was carried
into the council. Alderman Charles B.
Holmes assaulted the practice Of grant
| ing permission to violate the building
| ordinances, which he declared were not
| too stringent and should be enforced as
a matter Of sound public policy. The
| special committee, taking it's lesson
from the catastrophe at the West hotel
had studied the local situation very
| carefully, and had prepared an excel
lent ordinance. His attack was sc
strong that no one dared to defend the
majority report and the minority re
Alderman Wendell Hertig's ordi
nance regulating the construction Of
hospitals and infrmaries so as to raise
| the standard to the requirements fol
other buildings was passed without op
position. ,t. 50
| Charter Conference.
| Aldermen w. E. Satterlee, C. B
Holmes, Lars M Rand, Plat B
| Walker and F. H. Cashier were named
as committee to confer with the char
ter commission regarding revision o.
the charter and to arrange for submit
! ting it to the people at the coming cleo
ton Nh -; .
| Permission was given to the unior
Station company to erect a. temporar,
baggage room for use during the G.. A
r. encampment. It will be located a
some distance from the depot and is tt
be removed by Oct. l. II
The report of the committee on Ii
! censes recommending that employment
agencies be allowed on First and Sec
ond streets between Nicollet and FRS
avenues, but not within fifty feet O.
! Nicollet, was adopted. It is provided
that if the employment offices arous
any objections from the merchants o
others by attracting crowds Of men t.
Nicollet avenue, the licenses may be re
voked by the mayor. :
| The matter Of refusing permission t.
public service corporations to strin
electric lines on poles until special as
| sessments have been paid. which wa
introduced by Alderman Holmes, wa
referred to special committee consist
: ing Of Aldermen c. B. Holmes, Harr,
G. McLaskey and Dennis C.: Bow.
i Several contracts were let, anon
them one for $4,000 bushels of oats TO
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