The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-09-14
MODERN JAIL: PLAN
APPROVED BY CITY
City Council Favors Up-to-date Struc-
ture to be Erected at Estimated
Cost of $4,000.
PARK AVENUE TO BE WIDENED
Paving Payment of $1,000 Authorized
on Completed Block-Fire Ordin-
ance to be Redrawn.

Plans for a thoroughly modern
Jail to be erected at cost of $4,000
were presented to the city council by
Architect Harry Reynolds last even
ing and received the approval of that
body.
Plans for improvements to the city
hall were also presented and ap-
proved. The plans now 60 to the
state Board of Control and if sane
toned by that body, bids will be ad-
vertised and the work started this
fall.
The Jail, which is to be constructed
of brick, is to be model building
for the holding of prisoners. The
building will be a triumph of sani-
tary construction, practically fire
proof and safe against the possible
escape of prisoners.
Electrical Apparatus For Firemen.
Electrical apparatus will be in
stalled for the fire department rooms,
which are to be equipped with a
brass pole for the fremen sleeping
on the second floor to slide down in
answer to an alarm. Electric but
tons will release the horse stall bars
and cause the doors to open.
The second floor will contain the
fremen's sleeping quarters and the
fire barn hay loft. There is also a
spacious room that can be fitted up
as lounging or rest room.
The council took final action on
the proposition of opening and
widening Park avenue from Twelfth
to Fourteenth street, by authorizing
the purchase of the necessary pro-
perty. The street is to be widened
to forty feet by taking sixteen feet
off property on the east side and
twenty. four feet off the west side.
Makes Short Cut For Pupils.
This enlargement will be long
needed convenience for children
attending the northwest school,
known as the Andrews building.
Work is to be started without de-
lay.
The committee having in charge
the erection of a septic tank asked
for another weeks time in which
to report and this was granted.
Members Of the committee said
that great care must be exercised
in this work to avoid serious mis-
takes.
A report was received from the
Goodman paving company to the
effect that the first block of the
Third street paving had been COM
pleted at cost of $1,000, and a
payment of $1,000, as requested by
the company, was granted.
The city's bill for the keeping
of prisoners at the county Jail
amounted to 500. 1t was allowed.
Asks City to Share Torson Claim.
City Attorney Torrance was in
structed to redraw the old fire ordin.
ance which prohibits frame buildings
from being moved from one place to
another.
Attorney E. E. Mcdonald asked
that the city bear one half the
judgement against Snow & Bacon,
proprietors of the skating rink,
obtained by Mrs. Emma Torson, who
was awarded $185 for injuries re-
ceived in a fall on the sidewalk near
the rink. The walk had been ordered
in by the city, while the rink pro-
prietors were waiting for the city
to grade the street so that they
might lay cement sidewalk. Suit
was brought against the property
owners and the city.
The judgement was against the
rink proprietors but the. city also is
liable and unless Mr.. McDonald's
offer is accepted the city may have
to take the case to the supreme
court which would cost more than
the judgment amounts to. The propo.
sition went over for one week.