The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-23
6sisra| Contracting Company Of niane.
apolis and lawIenee'necaln Go. Afs
Successful Bidders; BituIltie lat
Wood Block Materials.
ORDINANCE LICENSING
AUTOMOBILES IS PASSED
Rates Of Hire Prescibed: License Nay Be
Revoked aad Fine lnposed Il Chauf-
teurs Ply to Resorts OF Use
Iatoxieaats 10 Excess.

At the regular meeting of the
Virginia council Tuesday evening
paving contracts covering approx
lnately 1900 yards were awarded
to the General Contracting COM
pany of Minneapolis and the Law
rence-McC;inn Co. The latter firm
was also awarded the contract for
installing a considerable amount
of new curb and gutter and Rus
berg & Marvck were the successful
bidders for the installation of ap-
proximately 117,OOO square feet of
new cement sidewalk in various
sections Of the city.
The General Contracting COM
pany's award covers bitulithio
paving on First street. from First
street to Fifth avenue north in
North Side addition; on Birch
street from Lake boulevard to Gen.
trail avenue; Cn Beech street from
Cleveland to Mesaba avenue, and
on Hemlock from Virginia to Rail-
road. 1t includes approximately
10000 yards and is awarded at the
figure of $2.A8' yard.
First street from the west side
of the steel bridge to First street
and First avenue north, North Side
addition will be paved with creo-
soted wood block at $2.63 yard
hy the Lawrence MoCann company.
Bids for the paving were sub
mlled by the Butler-Coons com.
pany CT Virginia, the General
Contracting company of Mime
apuEis, the Lawrence-McCann COM
pany of Eveleth and p. McDon-
mel If Duluth. They covered wood
blocks, bitulithic, asphalt, sheet
asphalt and Donnelitp. All the
figures were close. The Butler
Coons Contracting company and the
Lawrence McCann company were
led on the bids for creosoted wood
block. The latter was the lower
on the excavation, however, the
figures being 70 cents and. IS
cents square yard respectively.
In both cases the awards were to
the lowest bidder.
For the installat ion of curb and
gutter the Lawrence -McCann COM
pany were low at 73 cents a lineal
foot. Rusbcrg & Marvick were low
on the cement sidewalk instalLat ion
at 15k cents square foot.
Autos Must BE- Licensed.
An ordinance licensing and pre-
scribing certain regulations for au-
tomobilcs kept for hire was given
| its final reading and passed. 1t
provides an annual license of $25
Ior every automobile. The rates
10 be charged for srevice are fixed
at not more than 81 an hour for
ii\r-passenger cars, IS for the
first hour and 81 an hour for each
hour thereafter for cars carrying
mGre than five passengers, not to
exceed 1926 day for a day of 1O
hours, however. Automobiles will
not be permitted to stand on Chest
nut street. 4 license may be re-
vOkrd upon verified information
that any driver is operating a cal
for hire to a house of i'll repute
or is addicted to the habitual use
of intoXicants or is intoxicated
while driving an automobile.
Seven applications for license tt
sell cigarettes under the terms OF
the recently effective state law
were granted.
A communication from H. S
Newtun, of the Mesaba Railway
Iasking that the company be allow:
ed to pave between its tracks will
some material other than cr,vs,ttt
wood. block, was read and filed
Mr.. Newton stated that the expert:
*mce Of the company with Moot
block on the streets of Hibbing
1 1Chisholm and Virginia had beer
unsatisfactory. Mr.. Newton's com
mnnication was considered in con
nection~ with the paving awards
but had no bearing On the result.
The council refused to grant ;
>tlicense to d. Brassard to operate
a shooting gallery in a canvas ten
: on vacant lot in the business dis
) Iirict of the city, upholding th'
precedent established by actor
taken on similar application SOM
time ago.
A city plumbers license wa
granted to Emil Ojampa and min,
applications to sell milk and cream