The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-13
CLUB MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS

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To Park Board as to Installation of
White Way. Favoriag Five Cluster
lights, Five to Block.
AT the regular meeting of the Vir-
ginia Commercial Club Friday even.
ing last the promised "White Way"
received attention, the considera-
ton of three or five cluster lights
and the distance apart the posts
were to be set resulting in the pass.
age of motion, made by William
Rooney and supported by R. c.
Pickering, that five cluster lights,
five to the block, be recommended
to the Park Board for their con-
sideration, the corner lights to be
placed at the property line while
the intervening lights are to be CO.
equal distances apart, the lights on
either side of the street to be oppo-
site.
Representative of the South Park
Foundry & Machine Co., St. Paul,
was in attendance and exhibited a
blueprint of the standard being in
stalled by his company on the Chis-
holm streets. These standards weigh
800 pounds each and can be furnish
ed at cost of $50 piece, while an
estimate on the cost of installation
placed the proba BILE outlay at slight
ly above 500 per standard, includ-
ing standard and installation. From
Railroad avenue to Lake Boulevard;
the proposed line of the White Way,
would require fifty standards, max
ing the total cost of installation be.
tween 5000 and 5000.
A report from the committee in
charge of the federal building prop
osition was that the apparent mis-
understanding in price of the site
was now we'll in hand and it was
anticipated an adjustment of the
difficulties which had confronted
the proposition would be made
shortly. Since the meeting a special
agent of the treasury department
has been in the city, and upon his
report to Washington will likely
depend in large measure the i'm
mediate settlement of the matter or
a continuance of the do-nothing
policy which has marked the plan
since the passage of the measure
setting aside certain sum for the
purpose.
The prospect tor baseball field
was also given tinge of true color
ing through the report by President
Arnold that he had interviewed Of
ficials of the Oliver Iron Mining Co,
and had obtained practical assur.
ance that ball park could be OBJ.
tanned on Oliver grounds just west
of the bridge. 1t is the lack of
grounds that has created the lack
of enthusiasm and the organization
of the fastest team on the ranges.
The proposition by the council to
change the route of the Virginia.
Mud Lake road was brought up
through Attorney Pickering, in be-
half of the farmers living in the
settlement, and Ed Edholm, one of
the men who are putting in their
time and energy in that section was
present and addressed the meeting,
stating that at the present time
some sixteen farmers lived in the
settlement and that the coming year
six or seven children from there
would attend the Virginia High
School. Statistics show that up
wards of 1000 bushels of potatoes
were raised there the past year in
addition to much other produce
and that upwards of 100 quarts OF
milk per day are being delivered in
the city from the section, and Mr.
Edholm believed the city should
make it as easy as possible to get
into town instead of considering
any idea to compel the thrifty tillere
of the soil to go mile and half to
make a mile. A committee compris.
ing Messrs. Pickering, Rooney and
Edholm was appointed to appear
before the council in the matter.
Following the return by the coun.
Gil of the communication asking az.
sistance in the support of a band
a committee of five composed Of
Messrs. Bickford, Kennedy, Krog.
dahl, Deering and Gillespie was ap'
pointed to solicit popular subscrip.
tione for the maintenance of such
an organization.
President Arnold made report
that the hotel committee was in
correspondence relative to new
hotel, and felt confident that ar
rangements were now under way
which would insure the erection oi
a fine hotel building on what il
known as the Fitger corner during
the present season.
A Warm Game Booked.