The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-01

The matter was dropped without
any action being taken, and the re-
corder's need of desk and of mors
room, and the city of a new system
of bookkeeping were forgotten in the
discussion that followed.
Aid. Pass brought up the mater
of the width of the driveway on By
ron street between Second and Front.
and said that the street committee,
at the request of property owners,
had agreed to make it thirty five feet.
1t was against his judgment, as he
favored thirty feet. The matter was
still hanging fire.
Aid. Eichstaedt said that it had
been hanging fire for week, and that
when the committee decided thing
it ought to be final, and work pro
coed. He would meet with no more
committees.
City Engineer Wilson addressed the
council on the poor policy of not fol-
lowing general plan in improving the
streets. He said that if the city was
to be made what it should be the
council should lay out plan and live
up to it, and thus have uniformity
on the streets. He had staked out
the work on Byron street and should
have been asked to be present with
the committee, but he did not know
anything about the matter until after
wards. A thirty foot driveway would
be ample, and twenty-fou foot one
would be wide enough for the traffic.
This would make the cost of sprink
ling and of taking care of the street
less, and give a more sanitary street,
with a wide grass plot to catch much
of the dust and germs. 1t was ridicu-
lous the way work was stopped by
property owners in Mankato. He cited
an instance of where SD job had
been stopped four times by property
owners and then was carried out as
originally planned, but at cost fifty
per cent greater than it would have
been if it had not been stopped He
did not see why the property owners
want to interfere with the city Off
Gals, and act like lot of czars.
supplementary Language.
Aid. Lloyd: "In this particular case
the widening of the driveway was a
necessity q"
AID Pass: Not by d-ed
sight
Mayor Meyer: LET there be no
swearing in the councl.'
Aid. Lloyd, addressing Aid. Pass.
81 don't want to hear any more Ian
guage like that from you or from any
one else. If you persist in it | will
take steps to know the reason why
Mayor Meyer: Proceed, Aid. Lloyd"
Aid. Lloyd concluded his remarks,
without further interruption, and then
Aid. Pass spoke of the kink in the
boulevard at c. E. Wise's corner and
said that he chad worked hard to
get the ugly looking thing out"
Mayor Meyer: 81 live on thirty
foot street and it is plenty wide
enough for me, and lots of farmers
come to town that way, too The
city engineer is right Property own
ers butt in too much. When the
council acts, it should be usually
final"
Aid. Eichstaedt: 'It does not look
well to turn down the property own
ers where all unite in wanting a
thing, as in this case"
Mayor Meyer: "The city engineer
should be with the street committee,
and then the committee should settle
the matters coming up, outside of the
President Thompson: 'Let me say
a word. [ tried to get the engineer
when the matter came up and he was
out of his office. As soon as he came
in l spoke to him about it."
Aid. Mahowald: Il don't believe in
spelling street because the property
owners want it, but in this case if
there is another jog besides the one
the street is spoiled any
way
AS the meeting was called only to
make the tax levy, no other business
was transacted.