The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-01-21
PLEDGE OF THE $4,000
GIVEN BY Mr.. SCHULTZ
Street Railway MAN Writes
Letter to City Council
from Mondays Da'Iv.

from Mondays Da'Iv.
At the regular meeting af the city
council this morning, City Attorney
Phillips announced that he had re-
ceiyed a letter from ]. O. Schulze
of Iowa City, Iowa, repeating the
pledge of the Mankato Electric Trac-
ton company, of which he is presi-
dent, to pay $4,000 towards the con-
struction of the new bridge across
the Minnesota river at Main street.
The letter stated that the donation
was conditioned on certain franchise
concessions that would be expected
from the city council. Mr.. Schulze
said he expected in the near future to
be in Mankato, and would then work
out with the members of the city
council the full details of the ar
rangements between the city and The
company.
Councilman Lamm remarked that
the bridge would be built strong
enough for the street car traffic and
would be so constructed that the
company could lay on it rails at any
time. He did not see that the city
could do anything more.
The letter was placed on file.
It was announced that Donald D..
Price, The bridge engineer of Lincoln,
Neb., employed to draw the plans of
the new bridge, was ready with his
plans and specifications, and would
appear at the meeting of the city
council next Monday unless he re-
ceived word not to come
Discussed Lights in Alleys. lei
Councilman Lack, who presided
over the meeting in the absence of
Mayor A. G.. Meyer, who has been
quite ill of late, called the attention
of Chief of Police KlugherZ to COM
plants that had been made in regard
to the location OF the new lights,
placed in the alleys between Front
and Second streets, from Byron to
Rock. He said some people were crit
icizing the location of the lights, un-
lice, because the lights did not stand
cut in the alley, instead Of being
placed at one side.
The chief contended that it would
be folly to place the lights out in the
middle of the alley. That would leave
the corners and hiding places, where
crooks liked to get, quite dark, and
would light UP the main alley, so that
the crooks would know when the Of
ficer was. coming. Moreover, the light
would tend to dazzle the eyes of tn
officer, thus being worse than no light
at all. The light should shine on the
hiding places of the thieves, and not
on the officer whose duty it was to
watch suspicious characters. The Of
ficer should approach in the dark,
and the light should shine on the
thief .9
1t was agreed that all members of
the city council would take walk
through that alley, and look over the
places where the lights had been 10
Gated. - s.a
Councilman Eichstaedt was not con-
WINGED that the lights should not be
placed cut in the middle of the alley
A representative of the Cedar Rap
ids Oil company, whose quarters are
located on North Broad street, not far
from the end of the street car line
appeared to ask permission to place
an oil tank on the edge of the side
walk at that place, and to have the
wagon drive up over the boulevard to
get the oil.
There was some discussion at~
this, and the council appeared loatf
to give that permission At length il
was decided that the members would
go out and look over the place and
see what ought to be done.