The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
PREPARE PLANS FOR 4 ''WHITE Way"
City Engineer Instructed to Submit
Same At Next Regular Meeting
of Citv Council.

City Engineer Instructed to Submit
Same At. Next Regular Meeting
of City Council.
Following a prolonged discussion
of the installation of a a"White Way
along Chestnut street, as recon
mended by the Commercial Club
the council passed a motion Tues
day evening instructing City En-
gineer Johnson to prepare and have
in readiness for the next meeting or
as soon as possible, plans and spec
,fcations therefor, showing the cost
of installation of three light stand
ards fifty feet apart or OF FIVE light
standards one hundred feet apart.
The discussion of this project
brought out the feeling of several
of the aldermen on the subject, AL
derman E. c. A. Johnson lavoring
the plan provided the cost thereof
was taken from the fund secured
from the sale of the park site, while
Alderman Osborn considered the
installation OF an incinerator was
of more pressing importance at the
present time. Mayor Hawkinson
stated his. conviction that, while
agreeing with the plan to beautify
the street, he believed the improve
ment of outlying streets and ave.
nues was of greater importance and
considered the city funds could be
expended to better advantage in
this manner.
However the final action of the
body after the submission of plans,
specifications and estimates, is a
problenatical matter, although it
would appear the passage of res.
olution for such improvement al
this time was doubtful.
The clerk at this meeting present.
ed to the council, through the Park
Board, lease for the northwest
quarter of the northeast quarter OF
section :, 58-17, lying just east OF
Greenwood cemetery, for park pur.
poses, for the term of ten years, the
terms of the lease providing that
the city shall pay all taxes and as
sessments, general and special
levied against the property includ
ed therein during the full term OF
such lease. AS part of the con.
sideration it is also stipulated that
no professional ball games or sports
of any other nature to which an ad
mission fee 1s charged, shall be per.
mitted on such grounds during the
term of the lease. This is in line
with the ideas OF the Park Board
and their desire to create a rustic
park, which will be greatly appre
ciated by Virginians. The land is
well located, being less than a ten
minute walk from the center of the
city, is covered with a growth o1
evergreen, and will be brushed out
and improved for the purpose des
ignated.
A resolution demanding that
sewer connections be made by all
abutting property along all sanitary
sewer lines in the city within thirty
days, and providing further that
unless such connections are made
the city will do 80 and assess the
cost against the property, was pass
ed by full vote of all members pres
ent.
Needed sidewalks were ordered
constructed, in compliance with
petitions, along the west side of Vir
ginia avenue between Spruce anc
Poplar st1 1eets, along the north side
of Block 81 on Beech street, ALONG
the north side of Beech street be
tween Mesaba and Wyoming ave
nues and along the south eide O.
Sage street between Wyoming an6
| Cleveland avenues.