Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-24
CITY COUNCIL.
The Te1ed Street Ratl,cay Questton--The
East Side Victorious THIS Tine--Darid
Blakely's Engineering Trtu,,a phant--B,sf

The Teeed Street Ratl,Uay Questto,,--The
East Side Victorious This Tine--Darid
Blakely's Engineering Trtu,e phant--Btt
The End Not Yet.
special meeting of the city council was
held at the council chamber last night, there
being present the following aldermen:
Barrows, Bendeke Camp, ellison, Haugan,
Lyons. Morse, Nelson, Smith, Thielen, Watt,
Walsh, Woodward, Mr.. President.
It will be seen that several West division
viz: Anderson, Gale and Snyder. But the
East side members were out in force, only one
member (Andrews] being absent.
Aid. Barrows, Of the East side, offered the
following:
Resozyed, That the Minneapolis Street Rail-
way be and they are hereby ordered
to lay and place but one
track from the westerly side of the anchorage
piers on Nicollet Island through to the easterly
side of University avenue, said track to be
placed in the centre of the street, and stone
arch bridge.
Aid. Walsh asked if it was not necessary to
reconsider the action of the last meeting Of the
council which fixed the number of the tracks
at two. If 80, the necessary number of alder
men were not present.
President Corser ruled that it was not neces-
sary to reconsider the action taken at anJ
previous meeting.
Aid. Smith, of the West Side differed from
the chair, and Aid. Camp, from the East Side,
supported the ruling.
Mr.. Carpenter. from the Street Railway COM
pany, hoped there would be no hasty action
taken. This was vital matter to the Street
Railway company.
Mr.. Brown and Mr.. De Laittre, both of the
East Side, spoke in favor of single track,
stating that the feeling on the East Side was
in Of only track
Aid. Wait thought it was not entirely unani-
nous. City Attorney Lochran had said to him
that he favored two tracks.
Aid. Camp did not understand that any
definite action had been taken last meeting.
The council had only voted to indefinitely post
pone the whole matter.
The city engineer was called for, and sts ted
that, generally speaking, two tracks were
better. He then took the other side,
and said, that under existing
circumstances he was little
in favor of one track. He gave asketch upon the
blackboard, and said to the members that they
were just as we'll qualified to judge as he was.
Mr.. Carpenter asked that Mr. Atwood, super
intendent of the street railway, be heard.
Aid. Camp called for the question, which was
ordered.
The question was on the adoption of the
resolution, and the roll being called there were
ten yeas and four nays, as follows:
Yeas-Ald. Barrows, Bendeke, Camp, Gibson,
Lyons Morse, Nelson, Smith Thielen, Mr.. Pres
ident--10.
Nays-Ald. Hangar, Watt, Walsh, Wood
ward.
And SO the resolution was adopted.
Council adjourned.
The GLOBE man asked Mr.. Carpenter what
the company proposed to do. he said
as the two tracks we're already down they
would remain as they were, unless the city
took them up.
does IKE boys play TOR the
public prejudice dictates, without regarding
public interests or private rights. The GLOBE
will have something further to say tomorrow
on this subject.