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OLD AND NEW.
The Old Common Council Stops Out ami
the Sew Steps In.
CONGRATULATORY RESOLUTIONS.
Mayor 0 Erie 11 Delivers His Inaugural
Message According to Promise.
STATEMENT OF CITY FINANCES.
The Important Duties of the Board of
Public Works Enlarged Upon.
FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.
Election and Appointment of City Ofli
cers for the Ensuing Year.
The old board of aldermen met in
special session yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of closing up the business before
them and turning over the reigns of gov
ernment to their successors:
BOARD OF PUBLIC WOKKS.
The board of public works was directed
to do the following work: To construct a
sewer on Eleventh street from Robert to
Minnesota street; to pave Fifth street from
Jackson street to Sibley street with cedar
blocks; to construct a sewer on Cedar
street from Minth to Tenth.
The same board is to investigate and
report as to grading Goodhue street: as to
grading Exchange street from Chestnut
street; as to constructing a sewer on
Franklin street from the easterly line of
Irvine park to Eagle street; as to grading
Rice street from Bianca street to the city
limit.*.
THANKS TO ALDERMAN MACAETHY.
Ud. Starkey offered the following which
was adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of the com
mon council of the city of St. Paul be ten
dered Hon. J. C. McCarthy," alderman from
the Sixth ward for several years past, for
his faithfulness aud never ceasing hard
labors for the interests of the Sixth ward
and the city at large.
Upon the adoption mt the resolution be
ing announced Aid. McCarthy addressed
the council in a very feeling manner,
thanking the members for
their kindness and cour
tesy toward him during all the years he
had bean in the council. Aid. McCarthy
has served for a long time, and while he
has been in that body he has succeeded in
carrying through many measures which
other men would have failed in. He has
much vigor and force of che racer and
will. He is a power wherever he is and
in whatever he is engaged.
WAITING ON THE M, JOB.
The chair appointed Aid rm m Dowlan
and Smith to wait upon he mayor atd
a9k him if he had any fui the : communi
cations to make. These two gentlemen
attended to the duty and scon reported
that the mayor had nothing further.
THANKS TO COL. ALLEN.
Aid. Otis offered the following, which
was adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of the com
mon council are hereby tendered to its
honored president for his able and effi
cient services in presiding over the meet
ings of the common council for the past
year.
Upon the adoption of this resolution
Col. Allen took occasion to express to the
council his thanks for the kindness of the
members to him during his term of office
and for the assistance they had rendered
him in disposing of the public business.
The business of the old council having
been closed he, as president of the council,
declared it ended.
THE NEW COV:,'CIL.
The old council having been declared
ndjourned without date, the clerk, Mr.
Prendergast, called up the uw m-mber, I
St. Peter, and those aldermen that do not
hold ever as follows: W. D. Cornish, Ed.
C. Starkey, Charles E. ( )ttis, John Dowlan,
R. T. O'Connor, jjjJoseph Robert. Each of
these gentlemen took the usual oath of of
fice and were thus made aldermen. In or
der to organize the new counicl, Mr.
Prendergast nominated Aid. Smith as
chairman, and that gentleman tou.c
the chair, which made the organiza
tion of the nev council complete.
SENDING FOR THE MAYOK.
On motion of Col. Allen, Messrs. Allen.
Starkey and Otis were appointed a com
mittee to wait upon tho mayor elect and
inform him that the council was organized
atid reudy to listen to any communication
that he might desire to make. In a short
time the committee returned with the
newly elected mayor, C. D. O'Brien, and
also the retiring mayor, Hon. Edmund
ll : ce. Both were waited upon to the presi
dent's desk where the retiring mayor was
seated, while the new mayor proceeded to
deliver the following address:
Mr. President and G^nt'omen of the Com
mon Council:
In assuming the duties of the office to
which I have had the honor of being elect
ed, it is a source of great gratification to
me that I do so at a period in the history
of our city when her condition in financial
matters is most marked and satisfactory,
and when our advance in material and
solid prosperity is almost unparalleled in
its rapidity and thoroughly assured as to the
future; for, at almost every point within
the city limits— comprising as they do an
area of more than twenty square miles,
and thirteen thousand acres -are to be
found the actual and existing evidences of
a growth and improvement which is as
substantial as it is satisfactory.
As the information relating to particu
lar subjects during the past year of the
administration of city affairs will be laid
before you by our estimable and able re
tiring executive, it will not be expected of
me to touch upon them at any length,
beyond the a&suri; ice whick I can give to
you that in r.ddition to the other matters
spoken of, St. Paul enjoys (and justly so)
the reputation of being one of the best
governed cities in the United States, and
that her officers, and all of them, have
brought to the execution and performance
of the duties and the trusts imposed upon
them, an ability and integrity which should
always serv^ as an example to their suc
cessors in whatever department they may
be called upon to act. Nor would it be
proper for me at this time, were I inclined
to do so, to make to you any suggestions
in mat. rial l itters for the future; for, in
additi v ttu :actthat our affairs seem
to me to have been so conducted in the
several departments that no such sugges
tions are necessary, there is the additional
fact that I am not at present so sufficient
ly advised or informed concerning partic
ular matters of detail that I could be of
service to you in the making of such sug
gestions. The reports of the several offi
cers laid before you, with the comments
thereon by the retiring mayor, will give
. d ': the inform rtiou necessary, or that
. ,v je laid before you in those several
iufttters, and from them, and the exact in
iormation which they contain as to the
present condition of municipal affairs you
yourselves— who are particularly charged
with the duty — will be readily able to pro
vide such additional and future measures
as may seem to you proper to be inaugu
rated.
THE FINANCIAL CONDITION
of the city, to which I have just alluded,
may be properly summarized by the state
ment that there is at present on hand, as
shown by the books of the City Treasurer's
office, a balance of $93,053 88, of which
$80,586.40 belong to the city funds proper.
$3,425.26 to the water works fund, and
$43.23 to the library fund, as against the
balance existing at the same time last year
of $25,963.38; and from the fact that un
der recent legislation the additional cleri
cal force awarded to the Board of Public
Works has enabled that body to expedite
its business to a far greater extent than
formerly, and the additional fact that under
such enactments the assessments for local
improvements can be made as soon as the
contracts are let. The local improvement
fund is in much better condition than it
has been for many years, and the city will
be able to promptly meet all payments for
work now under contract without difficulty
or embarrassment of any kind. A most
satisfactory and elaborate report on this
subject from the city Comptroller is here
with presented.
city compteollee's eepoet.
Comptroller's Office, City Hall. )
St. Paul, Minn., June 2, 'S3. ' )
Hon. C. D. O'Bbien, Mayor-elect of the
City of St. Paul:
Deae Sib: — It is with pride that i
present to you the following statement of
the present bonded debt of the city of St.
Paul, showing purpose, maturity, rates of
interest, assessed valuation of real and
personal estate, (which is about one-third
of the cash value) and the present tax levy
for state, county, city and school purposes.
Also, the annual receipts (other than taxes)
and disbursements of the city government
which approximate the basis of the next
tax levy for 1883.
The present debt is $2,143,040 71-100,
being about five (5) per cent, on each dol
lar of the assessed valuation of the real
and personal estate, and about two and
one-half (2J?£) per cent, on the actual cash
value of the real estate alone.
The city of St. Paul never defaults in
the prompt payment of bonds and interest
when due. It is difficult to obtain five per
cent, city bonds after investors gets pos
session of them, simply on account of the
safe investment, and the holders cling to
them with a tenacity which shows
that the financial standing of the city
of St. Paul, in the eastern
money centers, is fully equal to any city
in the country. It is also demonstrated
by the last issue of $215,000. five (5)
per cent, bonds, sold to Kountze Brothers,
New York, at a premium of 1 5-32 per
cent., and that the financial agents
are fully satisfied with the happy condition
of affairs.
The sale of the bonds to Kountze Broth
ers, makes the credit of Saint Paul much
firmer than if sold to other parties, as they
are the financial agents of the city, having
paid all bonds and coupons at maturity,
and are more competent to judge than any
one else except the holders of the bonds.
The $31,870 bonds matured last month,
May 1, 1883, were promptly paid out of
the present tax levy.
There are $545,000 of the bonded debt
which will probably be redeemed at ma
turity from the revenues of the water
works, workhouse, markethouse and local
improvement fund.
The "Local Improvement Fund," for
which the $100,000 bonds were issued, was
created for the purpose of paying contrac
tors in advance of assessment collections.
All contracts are charged to the fund, and
all assessments credited. The theory of
the law creating the fund is, that at the
time the bonds mature in the year 1898
there will be money in the treasury be
longing to the fund sufficient to redeem
them without resorting to a tax levy or
refunding.
The finances of Saint Paul were never in
better condition than at present, being
the result of low taxation and economy in
the management of the city government
which I know will be the aim of your ad
ministration. A wealthy and prominent
citizen residing in a large
neighboring city, and owning
large properties there and here, remarked
last week while in the office, that ''St.
Paul was really blessed with low taxation
compared with other cities."
The rapid growth of St. Paul is pro
digious, I place the population for the
year 1883, at 90,000, which some persons
will consider extravagant when compared
with the census population of years
1870 and 1880, being 22,300 and 41,498, re
spectively. By reference to the "Business
T>i rectory" for year 18:- 2, page 57, you will
fina Jv-.0J4 names by actual count, being
an ! increi?' c ,l",(H8 names over the year
1881, r.:id by selecting 2; ,'. i"c lowest mul
tiple used by "directory jnji, Ushers"' in the
United States, the r'evuli will be 75,835
populatkr: tor last year I .682). It can
not be disputed that the city has increased
more the past year than the previous one —
but granting the increase to be only the
same — the next directory for 1883, should
show 37,282 names, which by using the
same multiple of 2^ will produce 93.205
present population. The growth has been
so rapid and continuous, that the new di
rectory for 1883 will probably show 40,
--000 names, representing 100,000 popula
tion.
As it is a safeguard to keep the public
debt before the people, I have the honor
to submit to you the following:
BONDED DEBT AND PURPOSES .
Bonus to Railroads £520,000
Public Park, (Como, 260 acres) 100.000
Beverage 314.100
Saint Paul Water Works, purchased .... 350,000
Local Improvement Fund ( revolving ) . . 100,000
Redemptions, revenue and bounty. £383,405 < 0
Saint Paul bridge 107,850 71
Lafayette avenue bridge approach
es.... 26,000 00
Westminster bridge approaches. ... 5,000 00
Fourth street bridge 5,000 00
Fire Department real estate 23,125 00
New market house 40,000 00
West St. Paul debt assume! 13.51 0 00
Alms house and hospital 15.000 00
City workhouse 55,000 00
Phalen creek roadway 30,000 00
Sixth ward levee damages 20,000 00
Fort street grading i,nd macada
mizing 10,000 00
1 übhc parks 25,000 00
Total $2,143,040 71
MVTCUITY O. ,NDEL DEBT.
Matured in 1870 and prior years,
never presented 865 00
Maturingin 1884 72,900 00
1885 13,003 00
;; ||:::::::::::;:::: 63,040 00
JBB7 16,010 71
„ "88 87,500 00
» "89 61,000 00
» {I}? 102,125 00
*£&•* 3.000 00
"93 7,500 00
"95 60,000 00
"97 192,500 00
}!* 838,500 00
"99 90,000 00
1900 100.000 00
MATUBITY OF BONDED DEBT.
Matured in 1870 and prior Tears,
never presented «<* ccc no
Ma^*;«" ::::::: tSBS
.< M J£g 13,000 00
a „ }™° 63,046 00
v ."87 16010 71
« .. "88 87,50') 00
t . loea 61,00000
" "1890...: :;;;••-• 102,125 00
; "iß3i ;;;;• 3,000 00
II "1893 ;.;;; 7,500 00
" "1897...... 60,r00 00
" "1898 ; 192,500 00
" "1899 .;■••• 338,500UD
" i9oo :.;;;:; 10000000
Maturing in £::::::::::::::: 147 '4nn
JSM 127,000 00
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, J UNE 6, 1883.
" 1905 9,600 CO I
" 1906 • 77,000 CO
" 1907 26,000 CO
•".; 1938 105,000 00
-"; 1912 850,000 00
" 1913 90,000 00
Total 2,143,040 71
Amounts drawing and rates of interest
named upon the bonded debt.
Four per cent, bonds $481,000 00
Five " " 291,600 0 1
Six " " 4iJB,COO 00
Seven " " 039,315 71
Eight " " 203,125 00
Total $2,143,040 71
Which makes the total annual interest
amount to $129,202.10, averaging about G
per cent, on the total debt.
The property valuation for the year 1832:
ASSESSED VALUATION.
Heal estate $30,000,000 00
Personal property 10,000,'Jt.0 1 0
Total £40,000,000 00
CASH VALUATION.
Heal estate $90,000,000 00
Personal estate Cannot Bay.
TAX LEVY IN FULL, 1882.
State purposes 1.10 mills
County purposes 2.90 "
School (educational) 4. 00 "
School buildings 100 "
City purposes 12. (JO "
" !
Total on each dollar of the assessed
valuation 21. C0 mills
Estimated receipts, other than taxes, and
expenditures of the city government for
the year 1883:
EXPENDITURES.
Annual interest on the bonded debt.. 5129,202 10
Bonds maturing May and November,
I, 884 72,900 00
Police department 65,000 00
Fire department 75,000 00
Salaries — Mayor, aldermen, board of
public works,board of fire commis
sioners and city officers 29,000 00
Engineering department (employes). 16,000 00
Water commissioners, water for pi b
!ic 12,C00 00
St . » aul Gas Light company 16,000 00
Gasoline (street lamps 11,000 00
City workhouse 20,000 00
Alms hou*e and hospital 8,000 00
Printi g and stationery 18,000 00
Bond of female cit y prison, House of
Good Shepherd 2,000 00
Improvement of public parks 5,000 00
Bt. Paul Library... 5,000 00
Ward expenses, cleaning streets, re
pairing sewers, street crossings,
etc 40,000 00
Lafayette avenue, change of grade
damages 7,500 00
Judgments 3,000 00
General expenses 10,000 00
Total expenditures $544,602 10
RECEIPTS OTHEB THAN TAXES.
Licenses $50,000 00
Municipal court fines 10,000 00
Market house 10,000 00
Miscellaneous revenue 10,000 00
Totul receipts , ?80,U0O 00
Ec-ti mated balance for tax lew,
1883 ;. $404,602 10
Respectfully submitted.
John W. Roche, City Comptroller.
In the division of the city departments
THE BOAED OF PUBLIC WOEKS
has come to be one of the most important;
as all matters pertaining to local improve
ments of almost every description, includ
ing the projecting and supervision of all
such improvements emanate from and are
to a great extent controlled by that de
partment, subject of course, to the super
visory power of your honorable body. It
will appear from a reference to the records
of that department that there was ex
pended in the year 1872 for local improve
ments the sum of ff^oSO.OO, of which sum
$11,120 was expended for cleaning and re
pairing existing streets and sewers, the
balance being expended for improvements
instituted and completed in that year. In
the year 1873 the aggregate amount ex
pended for the purposes referred to was
$141,320.00, of which sum $17,670.00 was
expended for repairing and cleaning the
streets and sewers. In the ir 1874 the
total expenditure was $2C ' WJO, of which
$19,880 was expended for clean
ing and repairs. In the year 1875 the
total expenditure was $809,040.00, of which
$17,090.00 were for repairs and cleaning.
In the year 187G the total expenditure was
$32,350.00, of which $11,150.00 were for
cleaning and repairs. In the year 1877 the
expenditures were $56,500.00, of which
$13,370.00 were expended for cleaning and
repairs. In the year 1878 the total expend
itures were $110,470.00 of which $12,250
were expended for cleaning and repairs.
In the year 1879 the total expenditures
were $79,(500, of which $12,450 were ex
pended for cleaning and repairs. Iv the
year 1880 the total expenditures were
$70,520, of which $11,510 were for cleaning
and repairs. In the year 1881 the total
expenditures were $179,700, of which
$28,100 were for cleaning and repairs. In
the year 1882 the total expenditures were
$396,000, of which $30,950 were for clean
ing and repairs. During the present year —
up to the present time, that is, from the
firet of January to the first of June, there
has been expended the sum of $370,000. of
which $11, < .)(JO were expended for cleaning
and repairs. Making an aggregate ex
pended for locai improvements since the
year 1872 and up to the first day of the
present month, of $1,704,000 of which
$203,500 were expended for cleaning and
repairs in the manner indicated. These
expenditures include all local improve
ments, such as grading and macadamizing
streets, building sewers and sidewalks, and
paving streets, and in themselves indicate
a continued and increasing current of pros
perity. The fluctuations observable in
the expenditures for local improvements
are to be attributed to ordinary causes.
The years 1875, 1876 and 1877, when the
expenditures were least, were, as you know,
years which involved a general financial
depression, that effected the entire coun
try, and which our city in common shared
with all other localities. During the years
1879 and 1880 matters were, to a certain
extent, in a transition 6tate, emerging,
as the country then was, from the former
financial depression, and matters were re
arranging themselves, but since 1881 the
figures that I have given show a continous
and rapid development of improvements
which were called for and necessitated by
the unparalleled growth of our city. The
question of the relation of the amounts
expended for repairs and cleaning streets
and sewers to the entire amount of the ex
penditures will be in the future, as it has
undoubtedly been in the past, a matter for
your close observance, and the exercise
upon your part of that sound judgment
which this body has always evidenced in
city affairs, and has been perhaps in the
past largely due to the fact that at the
time of their inauguration many of the
improvements were to a certain extent
experimental. But that period has finally
passed in our city, and the time has now
certainly come when the character of local
improvements will be substantial and last
ing, and the period of experimentalism
has undoubtedly ceased.
UNDEB THE EXPENDITUBES
to which I have called your attention there
have been graded and macadamized 218
streets, containing a length of seventy-nine
miles: there have been constructed twenty
three and five-eighths miles of 6ewere, and
sixty-two miles of sidewalk, and there have
been laid four miles of wooden pavement.
While it is true that the original orders for
these improvements emanate, as they
properly should, from your honorable bo
dy, yet the advisability of their inaugura
tion, the question of their extent, the let
ting of the contrac-'s ror them, their super
vision while under construction, and their
final acceptance are controlled by the
Board of Public Works. And it therefore
seems to me that I have not overestimated
the importance of that department. It I
might therefore be advisable to call your
attention to the questions of reports from
that department, and as to an investiga
tion by your honorable body as to whether
quarterly reports covering the work done
therein, the work under construction, and
the projected improremente during each
quarter would not be appropriate for your
Information. I desire to be understood
that the same argument is equally applica
ble to
ALL OF THE CITY DErABTMENTS,
of whatever nature, but I use the depart
ment of the Board of Public Works merely
as an illustration upon this subject. The
depurtments directly connected with the
receipt and disbursement of the funds of
the city, and with the accounts thereof, are
of course, equal in their importance to that
of the board of public works, but it has
seemed to me that a rule which might be
found serviceable in that department
would unquestionably be of like service for
Rll. I predicate this view upon the fact
that the supervision and control of all mu
nicipal affairs originate and finally rest
with your honorable body; that, in addi
tion to those duties, you are required to
exercise your legislative jurisdiction; that
for those ends, and to enable a body of
the character of a common council and the
members of such body to exercise, as they
are required to do, their highest judgment
in all their enactments, luvolving, as the
exercise of that judgment does, not only a
knowledge of the present condition of af
fairs, bnt also of the necessary steps, legis
lative or otherwise, for the future, that j ou
should have laid before you at frequently
recurring periods exact and particular in
formation as to the precise con
dition of municipal affairs, and their con
dtct in all of the several divisions of the
municipal government. J>, is not and cm
:iot be reasonably expected that a member
of the common council should be as famil
iar with the diverse and complex affairs of
the city, as the particular persons who aro
charged with their execution in the differ
ent departments which the transaction of
that business requires the municipal gov
ernment to be divided into, and it is from
those departments, if at all, that the neces
sary information can be laid before you
upon which you predicate your actions and
control of the city government. I think,
therefore, that Ido not over estimate the
importance of frequent and systematic
reports in the manner in which I have
indicated, for not only will they advise
each member of the council in a concise
and intelligible form of the exact condi
tion of things, but they will enable your
body to take such further steps as may be
necessary, or to correct nny abuses which
may creep in, and guard against future
errors.
FIEE DiPABTMENT.
Under the new system which has been
adopted, the fire deparment ie, as you are
aware, in a most satisfactory condition.
The present appliances and effective force
consist of five 6teamers with their atten
dant companies, two hook and ladder com
panies with their appurtenances, twenty
six horses, and a working force of sixty-two
men and officers, including two men con
nected with the telegraph lines of the de
partment. In the report of the gentlemen
comprising the Board of Fire Commission
ers will be found an exact and particular
statement of the condition of the depart
ment, together with their suggestion con
cerning the same for the future. And in
this behalf it is perhaps advisable to call
your attention to certain maters alluded
to in that report. That is, the condition
of telegraph and telephone wires in the
city, it is complained by this department
that the multiplication of wires for the
purposes named not only seriously embar
rass them in their workings at a fire, in the
vicinity of where these wires happen to be,
but that the present arrangement of wires
frequently interferes with the fire alarm,
and resHlt either in false alarms, or in an
ineffective working of that system at diff
erent times; and it has been suggested
that it be required of such companias that
the upper portions of their poles be by
them placed at the disposal of the fire de
partment for the stringing of the wires in
use in that department upon them, which
situation it is claimed will prevent many
of the present inconveniences and hind
rances to which the fire department are
exposed. That you have the power to im
pose that duty as a condition of permitting
those companies to occupy the streets
with their poles and wires is unquestioned.
Whether you shall exercise that power, or
not, is a matter for your judgment with
out any suggestions from myself. I have,
however, to suggest that so far as the
TELEPHONE COMPANIES
are concerned, inasmuch a3 their right to
erect and maintain poles upon the streets
of the city was granted t them under ordi
na.nce Xo. 214, which expressly reserves the
right to your honorable body to pass such
further ordinances upon the subject as you
de?ire, and inasmuch as the provisions of
that ordinance, requiring them to plane
and paint their poles, have not been com
plied wiih by them to a extent, and
the privilege which is accorded to them is
an exceedingly valuable one, it might be
proper, in your discretion, not only to re
quire a compliance upon their part with
the suggestions of the Fire Department,
and with the provisions of the ordinance
in question, bat in addition thereto, require
them to place the telephone service at
proper points at the disposal of the police
and fire department for their use, without
additional cost to the city. At present
each city department using the telephone
is, as I am advised, reqaired to pay for it,
and inasmuch as that service 13 rendered
without any appreciable cost to the tele
phone company, it might be well that in
return for the privileges extended to them
by the city they should contribute the nec
cessary telephone service for the use of
the city, without charging therefor at the
rates at present charged to private sub
scribers. The condition of the
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT,
and its services during the past year will
fully appearin the report of the Chief of
Police which will be before you.
inasmuch as the area of the city has, and
is, rapidly extending, and at present in
cludes 3G5 miles of streets to be patrolled,
and the available force of men for that
purpose does not exceed forty, on account
of the neccessary detail of men upon
special duty at the Union depot, railroad
crossings on Third street, and at the City
Ha.l, it perhaps might be advisable that
your honorable body should take some or
der towards a particular examination of
the present needs of the city with relation
to the police force, and as to whether or
not a slight, or at least some increase, may
not be necessary.
POLICE STATIONS.
There is an actual and existing necessity
at present for sub-stations, one in the
western, and another in the eastern portion
of the city. As at present patrolmen are
on duty at distances of from one to three
miles to the City Hall, and as that station
is the only police station in the city, a po
liceman making an arrest in the suburbs,
either by day or night, is compelled to
leave his beat and bring his prisoner from
a long distance to the City Hall, leaving
the district comprised in his patrol un
guarded and unprotected while engaged in
so doing. If such station.* should be estab
lished at proper points, one great necessi
ty for an increase of the present force
would be to a certain extent obviated, and
a more effective duty and policing of
the city would be the immediate result.
And to this requirement is to ie added the
present and pressing necessity for a patrol
wagon, the placing of which at the use of
the department is exceedingly necessary;
and if your honor'' 'e body should see fit
to consider such matters, I would also sug .
gest that the establishment of "
A SYSTEM OF POLICE ALAEM
might also be found to be beneficial.
Wheu it is considered that the enforce
ment of law and order, and of all the or
dinances, whether civil or criminal, includ
ing those regulatiDjj the conduct of such
business as is controlledby the enactments
of your honorable body, the reports as to
the condition of the streets, and as to gas
and oil lamps, are all confided to this de
partment, to which you look for their en
forcement, execution and observance, it
places the importance of an elective police
service far beyond the mere matter of the
arrest of criminals, or repression of crime,
and in fnct, the larger portion of the duties
of the Police Department consists in the
performance of such duties, and the en
forcement of such ordinances, the due ob
servance of which is neccessary for the wel
fare of the city, and strongly tend 3to
economize Li many of its sources of reve
nue.
THE LAW DErAETMENT.
Repeated enactments, iuvolving amend
ments to the charter, of ihe city the creation
of new subdivisions of the municipal de
partments by legislative enactment?, con
tained Acts passed at every session of the
legislature since 1874, including extra ses
sions,have produced a serious complexity in
present condition of our Charter. I learn
•with great pleasure that the very efficient
Law Department of the city has already
perfected and completed a most necessary
codification of the Charter and existing or
dinances. I have the honor to specially
request that your honorable body will take
the necsssary steps to immediately cause
the same to be published, and placed in
the hinds of the several officers for use in
the different departments.
MAYOB EICE.
As I have stated, it seems to me that the
present occasion does not require at my
hands a more particular or detailed state
ment of the matters involved,and I will make
no further allusion to them. I have not
attempted to give more than a general re
sume of the condition of the more promi
nent features of public alFairs, and in
view of the exhaustive treatment which all
those subjects have received at the hands
of the retiring ma i or, euch allusons upon
my part would be entirely unnecessary and
superfluous.
EXECUTIVE DUTIES.
By the Charter of the city your Mayor is
made the chief executive officer, and is di
rectly charged with a personal responsibili
ty tor the enforcement of the provisions of
the Charter of the city, the ordinances
that you may enact, and the laws of the
State, so far as the same are applicable
within its limits. To your body is confided
the duty of the enactment of thes6 ordi
nances. That such as h ive been enacted
are wise in their provisions, and necessary
for the government and welfare of the city
cannot be questioned: that their enactment
and position on the statute books of the
city require their enforcement cannot be
gainsay ed: and to the execution of them, so
far as it lies in my power with the assist
ance which I shall expect from your honor
able body, and all the executive depart
ments of the city, I most sincerely pledge
myself to the extent of my ability. And if
I shall be so fortunate as to be able to do
so to the satisfaction of your honorable
body, and of the public at large, whose
servant I regard myself, I shall feel that I
have made some attempt to express my
sincere appreciation of the confidence
which has been reposed in me by my
fellow citizens.
SECBET SESSION.
At the conclusion of the mayor's mes
sage the council concluded to hold a secret
session and all but the members were re
quested to retire.
ELECTION OF OFFICEBS.
When the doors were again opened the
council proceeded to elect its officers. The
first ballot was for president of the council
and resulted in the re-election of Col.
Allen. Upon taking his seat the colonel
proceeded to return his thanks, and
said that all along he had regarded
the result as a very uncertain
question, and consequently "he had not pre
pared any impromptu remarks for the
unexpected result, but he would join hands
with the clerk and next Tuesday evening,
if the members of the council would have
no objections they would meet them at the
Merchant's hotel, where he would read an
interesting speech which be promised
should be well composed and well pre
pared.
By direction of the council the city
clerk cast the vote of the council
for Aid. Cornish for vice president.
On motion of Aid. Dowlan the president
cast the vote of the council for T. A. Pren
dergast as clerk.
On motion of Aid. Johnson the clerk
cast the vote of the council for H. F. Hoy.
for health officer.
The remainder of the officers elected
were as follows :
Market Master — P. O'llegan.
Jailer — Jo. Speel.
Janitor — Patrick Welch.
Driver of Patrol Wagon — Patrick Casey. <
MICIXLANEOCS.
The following micellaneous business was
transacted ye-tarday by the old council be
fore it dissolved:
Tho request for a change of grade of
Fifteenth street was referred to the com
mittee on "streets, the city enginer and at- |
torney.
A comunication from James Middleton
and others complaining of the lack of fire
protection, gas light and police for Day
ton's bluff, and stating that J. J. Lemon,
P. H. Kelly and Dr. Schiffmann had been
appointed a committee to confer with a
committee from the council in regard to
the matter, was referred to the committee
on fire department and Aid. Starkey.
Exchange street from Chestnut to Wil
kin street is to bo sprinkled; also Summit
avenue from Arundel street.
A communication from Charles D. Stew
art and others asking for grading Hoff
man avenue was referred to the committee
on streets.
The request of Geo. O. Lawton and
others for the vacation of Snelling street
was sent to the committee on streets.
The ordinance for inpounding cattle
was amended so as to include certain
territory in the Fifth ward and in the vi
cinity of De Bow street and Minnehah 1 |
avenue.
TJie board of public works reported that
the grading of Josette street from Dayton
avenue to Fuller street and tl.e grading of
Hoffman avenue from McLean street to
Suburban Hills was not necessary.
The slaughter house on the corner of
Warsaw and Randolph streets was declared
a nuisance and is to be abated.
An ordinance was adopted excluding
from the fire limits so much of block 45,
Rice it|lrving's additions as lies south of
and between the track of the railroad and
the Mississippi river.
FLIES AND BUGS.
Flies, roaches, ante, bed-bugs, rate, mice,
gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by "Rough on
Bats." 15c.
The Ohio Fishery Laws.
Toledo, June 5. — At a meeting of the
state commissioners of fisheries held here
last night, it was ordered that the superin
tendent be directed to prosecute all
persons *ho violate the provisions of the
law, and that the supreir. soort be asked
by the attorney general of the state to de
fine the law upon cases made by the com
missioners. There are several interesting
questions to be decided, and the commis
sioners are resolved that the law shall not
CLOTHIERS.
AN ACTUAITfaCT!
You can save from 25 to 50 per cent, on all you purchase with a
guarantee if goods, quality or price are not perfectly satisfactory in
every instance, on return of goods your money will bs cheerfully
refunded at the Boston. '~ x '
Our Workingman's Pants, guaranteed not to rip, at 81 and $1 25
and the buttons will stay on. Best Overalls in the State, suitable
for all trades for 50 cents, and our all-wool Men's Pant 3 at*2 *2 50
and $3; and extra fine quality at $4 and $5, arc immense values
You cannot get their equal within $9 to $5 more elsewhere.
Boys' and Children's Suits in excellent variety, at $2, $3 and U.
and for $5 and $6 you can get a Suit good enough for any boy. Sure
pop whips given to every boy customer, and a beautiful and artistic
fan to every lady. aniaxic
The BOSTON'S low prices in plain figures on these goods are con
vincing. Before making your purchases, visit our store, compare
goods, quality and price, and we will convince you that it is for
your interest to trade with us.
Boston 'One Price' Mil House,
Corner Third and Robert Sts., St. jf aul.
h UMBAUH, PINUE ' &' Uh k-h. K.
- 'Us Only IMiiif Dry Goods House a tie Rinkioi
Conmete.H with the Markets of New York anil rjliingf/ n
be a dead letter through any negligence on
their part. The superintendent was order
ed to proceed at once to Sandusky and the
Lake Erie islands to enforce the laws.
*The man who knows nothing of Mrs . Lydia
E. Pinklmn and her sovereign remedy for
women is wanted for a juryman . The fact clear
ly proves that he does not read the papers.— .V.
H. Regittt r.
-UlXyjz.Stt FA CHOI'S.
The Weaiher Favorable aim t'«o Prospects
Good for si I.:tree Yield of Cereal and
Root Crops.
1 The following is the statement of the
crop prospects for the state, carefully com
' piled by the statistical agent of Minnesota
for the United States agricultural bureau,
, up to June 1:
1 The weather throughout the past month
has been unseasonably cold in all parts of
' the state and in the western, middle and
1 southeastern counties generally, complaint
' is being made of its being somewhat too
; wet. The condition had been similar dur
ing April, and both seeding of small grains
' and corn planting have been retarded very
considerably. Seeeing was, however, con
tinued up till the middle of May, and corn
planting had not been finished at the close
of the month. Notwithstanding this, the
; tenor of all the reports is hopefnl and
wheat and other small grains, (especial
ly the earlier sowings) are represented
as in a promising condition. In one or
| two limited localities some slight damage 1
was inflicted by late frosts. Several cor
respondents mention that the cold weath
er has caused the wheat to "stool" more
than it would otherwise have done, thus
giving a thicker stand with a prospect of
increased yield. Of other small grains the
reports are generally favorable. Corn ha 3
suffered severely from the cold and wet.
Much of the earlier planted rotted in the
ground. A good deal of replanting has
had to be done and both planting and re
planting were continued in a number of
instances till the close 01 the month.
Reports of in jnry to the crops and con
sequently probable serious shortage in
supply from the winter wheat states and
from Europe, together with the circum
stance that much of the seed corn was not
regarded as reliable, led Minnesota farm
j ers to continue sowing wheat much later
than usual. Instead of the area being 8
per cent less than that of last year, a s
seemed positive a month ago, the reports
for June 1, indicate that it is fully
' " per cent more; and thai ,
i notwithstanding the backwardness yi the I
j season present appearances favor tho sup- I
1 position that the yield will be but little if
any less. This will give 2,572,000 acres
and nearly 32,750.000 bushels at tua hoy;
apparent crop of this state.
The area devoted to oats is not as large
jas intended and as was reported last
month, the ground being encroached upon
somewhat for wheat. As compared with
last year it is hardly more than 112 per
cent. The later reports indicate an in
creased area sown in barley, reaching very
nearly 103 per cent, of that of 1882. Acre
J age, as compared with last year, is 102 per
I cent., and the comparative condition
of ,iii these grains is about 96 per cent.
There has been an increase of at least
one-fourth more grass grown for hay,
though the larger proportion is on meadow
land not properly included in the hitherto
cultivated area. There appears to be about
the same area of clover as last year. Up
until within a few days ago growers were
all much behind, but recent thunder-storms
and warmer temperature have brought
them forward very rapidly.
Corn planting has likewise been delayed
half a month later than usual, and was not
yet finished on the first of the month.
Much that was planted early failed to
sprout, and the "stand" is generally thin,
though thi3 may not be the case when the
"Replanting shall show itself. The aver
age was considerably less than was intend
| ed, had the weather been seasonable and
I the seed good. It will not exceed that of
last year by more than ten per cent. The
area that will be sown in flax will bo from
fifteen to twenty per cent, less than last
1 year.
THAT HUSBAND OF MINK
Is three times the man he was before lie began
using "Wells' Health Renewer."' $L Drug
gists.
A lady living near Algona, lowa, bought
a mourning outfit at a milliner's shop in
that town the other day. She said that her
husband was in bad health and liable to
pass away at any time, and it might not
be nandy to come to town for these things
when she need them.
leoalT"
QTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF RAMSEY
O— District Court, Second Judicial District.
Emma E. Smith, plaintiff, vs. Frank H. Smith.
nUHM
The State of Minnesota to the above named De
fendant:
You are hereby summoned and required to an
swer to the complaint in this action, a copy of which
is hereunto annexed and served upon you, and to
serve a copy of your answer to the n a complaint
on the subscribers, at their office in the city of St.
Paul, county of Ramsey, within urty days
after the service of this summons upon you, ex
ilusive of the day of such service, and if jou fail
to answer the said complaint within the time
aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply
to the court for the relief demanded in said com
plaint.
BURGESS & WEYJIOUTH.
Plaintiff's Attorneys. St. Paal. Minn.
Dated May 25, 1883. mayao-wedtiw '
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.
LEGAL
ASSIGNEE'S SALE?
State of Minnesota— District Court, County ol
Ramsey.
In the matter of the assignment of Seheiers Bros,
to O. G. Miller.
Notice is hereby given that under an 1 by virtue
of an order of court herein, 1 will Bell at public
auction, to the highest bidder for cash, at the store
formerly occupied by mid Schefers Bros. No. 58
East Third street, in St. Paul, in said county, on
Wednesday, the 13th day of .June, A. D. 1*8:3. at 10
a. m., all the stock, fixtures, book-accounts and all
other nncollected and unconverted assets of said
estate. Said stock, fixtures and other assets and a
lint of said book-accounts may be seen at said store
of Schefers Bros, during all reasonable business
hours.
Dated St. Paul, Minn., Just- 2, 1883.
O. G. MILLEK, Assignee.
Lamprey, James & Wabben, Attorney's for said as
signee. 155-153
MORTGAGE SALE— is hereby given that
ill by reason of non payment, default has been
made in the conditions of a certain mortgage con
taining a power of sale, made by William White
and Mary H. White, his wife, mortgagors, to Lydia
G. Dominick, mortgagee, and assigned by i-aid
mortgagee, Lydia G Dominick to Ella M. Dominick
Said mortgage Is dated the Bth day of June, A.
D. 1875, and was recorded on the l'2th day of June,
A. D. 1875, at 3:20 o'clock p. 1:1.. in the office of the
Register of Deeds in and for the county of Ramsey
and State of Minnesota, in book *35" 01 mortgages,
on page 552, &c, and said assignment is dated the
10th day of August, A. D. 1375, and recorded on
the 18th day of August A. D. 1875, at 10:10 o'clock a.
m., in said office of said Register of Deed*, in
book "D" of assignments, on page 416.
The real estate embraced in and conveyed by
said mortgage is all that lot or parcel of land lying
and being in the county of Ramsey and State of
Minnesota, described as follows, to-wit: a part of
lots four (4), five (5), and six (6), iv block one (1),
of Bazille & Guerin's addition to sr. Paul, accord
ing to the recorded plat thereof, and described anil
bounded as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a no*
on the east side of Wobashaw street, in the city at
St. Paul, between Tenth (loth) end Eleventh (ll'h)
streets, distant one hundred and eighty-seven a id
one-half (187!4) feet northwesterly from the north
east corner of Tenth (10th) and Wabashw streets
and running thence northwesterly along the said
easterly line of Wabashaw street eighteen I IS) feet
and nine (9) inches, thence northeasterly at right
angles to said last mentioned line one hundred and
fifty (150) feet; thence southeasterly at right angles
eighteen (18) feet and nine (9) inches; thence
southwesterly at right angles one hundred and fifty
(150) feet to the place of beginning; also a right
of-way to said premises over and through an alley
situated on the easterly Ride of said lot four (4),
aforesaid, and being twelve (12) feet wide, and ex
tending the whole length of said lot; together with
ail the hereditaments and appurtenances thereto
belonging or in anywise appertaining.
The amount which is now, at tiie. date of this
notice, due and claimed to be due on said mort
gage, after allowing all payments and net rei^ts of
said premises received thereon, is the no >f tares
thousand, one hundred and seventeen dollars and
thirteen cents ($3,117.13) of principal .:;:.: interest,
besides also the sum of throe hundred and rfsty
five and 41-100 dollars for taxes and assessments
and interest thereon, paid by said assignee on said
mortgaged premises, and also the further «un of
forty-four and 24-100 dollars for insurance of said
property, and interest thereon, paid by said as
signee, ami also seventy-five dollars attorney's lee-,
as provided in said mortgage;
<•■ ■! whereas, no suit at law or otherwise ha* been
ji.til • • mmenced to recover any of said moneys
i:<" .'. <!ur; of* said mortgage or any par( thereof;
Notice is hereby given, that on Thursday, the
WAi rlny of June, A. D. 1883, at 10 o'clock a. m., at
llio Crout c..)or of the old Court House, In the city
f.I St. iv.ii., in said county of Ramsey and State of
Minnesota, the above described mortgaged real
e.-tate, with the improvement! then >n, will be sold
by Hie Sheriff of said county, at public veudue, to
the highest bidder, to foreclose said mortgage and
to satisfy said sums due thereon, with attorney's
fees and the costs and expenses of such sale
ELLA M. DOMI!
Assignee of said Mortgage.
W. K. Gastox, Attorney for said Assig <•••. St.
Paul, Minn.
Dated April 25th, 1883. apr2s-Wed-Tw
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF RAMSEY
O — Be. In Probate Court, General Term. June
4, 1833.
In the matter of the estate of Michael Mueller, de
ceased.
Whereas, an instrument in writing, purporting
to be the la°t •will and testament of Michael Muel
ler, decease.!, la c of said comity, hr.s been deliv
ered to this court;
And whereas. M.ngdalona Bernbach, has filed
therewith her petition, representing among other
things that said Michael Mueller died in gaM coun
ty, on the 27th day of May, 1888, testate, and that
said petitioner is the sole executrix named in said
last 'will and testament, and praying that tke said
instrument may be admitted to probate, and that
letters testamentary be to her issued thereon;
It is ordered, that the proofs of said instrument,
and the said petition, be heard before this court, at
the probate office in said county, on the 28th day of
June, A. D. 1883, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
when all concerned may appear and contest the
probate of said instrument;
And it is further ordered, that public notice of
the time and place of said hearing be given to all
persons interested, by publication of these orders
for three weeks successive!; t -:ovlous to said day
of hearing, in the Daily Globe, a newspaper print
ed and published at Saint Paul, in said county.
By the Court, WM. B. McGBOBTT,
[*l.s.] Judge of Probate.
Attest: Frank Robert, Jr., Clerk.
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BTATEOF .MINNESOTA— OF RAJISti,
O ss. In Probate Court, General Term, June
4, 1883.
In 11 9 matter of the estate of Charles A. Moberg,
deceased.
On reading and'filing the petition of Frederick
Moberg, administrator of the estate of Charles A.
Moberg, deceased, representing among other things
that he has fully administered said estate, and ray
ing that a time and place be fixed for examining and
allowing his account of his administration, end for
the assignment of the residue of said estate to heirs;
It is ordered, that said account be examined and
petition heard by the judge of this court, on
Thursday, the 28th day of June, A. D. 1883, at ten
o'clock a. m., at the probate office in (-aid county.
And it is further ordered, that notice thereof be
given to all persons interested, by publishing a
copy of this order for three successive weeks prior
to said day of hearing, in the Daily Globe, a
newspaper printed and published at Saint Paul, in
said county. •
By the Court, Wm. B. McGRORTT,
l. 8. ] Judge of Probate.
Attest: Fhank Robert, Jr. Clerk.
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OTICIS TO CREDITORS. — ><aie <f Minnesota,
Pi County of Ramsey — ss. la Prolate Court.
In the matter of tke estate of Wilh^jmina Dorete
Metz, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons having
claims and demands against the estate of Wilhelmi
na Dorete Metz, late of the county of Ramsey, de
ceased, that the judge of the probate court of paid
county wilt hear, examine, and adjust claims and
demands against said estate, at his office in Saint
Paul, in said county, on the first Monday of the
month of August, A. D., 1883, at ten o'clock a. m.,
and that six months from the 21st day of May, 1883,
have been limited and allowed by Bald probate
court for creditors to present their claims.
Dated this 21st day of May, A. D 1883.
CHARLES E. SIETZ,
Administrator of the estate of Wilhelmiua Dorete
Metz, deceased. :nay23-we-5w
