Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-01
Where Shalt the Bridge be-
To the Editor of the Globe.

10 the Editor of the Globe:
The Pioneer Press has a singular article
this morning on the bridge auestion-tak-
the ground that we do not want another
bridge to West st. Paul because there are
so few people opposite the lower town,
who would use the bridge. If our rail-
roads had acted on this theory and waited
until Dakota and Montana were thicklv
settled, how many railroads would have
been built, and where would st. Paul have
been to-day? The railroad companies
built the roads to settle and to populate
the country; and we want to build bridges
to West st. Paul and to Dayton's
bluff to settle and populate those districts,
and give the city room and verge to grow.
What queer ideas the P. P. must have to
think st. Paul can get along and grow with
one bridge, while Minneapolis has half a
dozen. We not only want one bridge to
West St. Paul but four bridges. One at
Nabashaw street, one at Jackson street,
one from Dayton's bluff to West st. Paul
and one from bluff to bluff in upper town,
and all of these will be built.
The only one voted ON so far is the
lower town bridge, and when the people
vote for bonds for bridge in lower town,
all discussion about expanding the money
IN upper town is out of order. write as
an upper town, st. Anthony hill man.
Ihls Idea might as we'll be dismissed. as
the bonds could not be issued in good
faith Tor any such purpose. The people who
would be accommodated by the Jackson
street bridge would not be West st. Paul
people, but st. Paul people-those who
LABOR IN our stores and manufactures from
jackson street to Dayton's bluff, and back
as tar as Seventh street, and who would
seek the cheap homes on the fiat in West
st. Paul as soon as they could reach them.
Those $500 acres of land in West st.
raul which were annexed must be utilized
and the only way to utilize them is to
make them accessible by g.
bridge now at jackson street
| and alter few more years another in
| the upper town.
We must have room for the people to
build houses convenient to business. We
| must have room for our manufactures.
and we must have room for our railroads.
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will be needed to let the city expand and
| stretch out and spread herself. We must
have no Chinese shoe policy. Roads and
bridges must be built wherever there is
anything to tap which will give more blood
| and nourishment to the city--the more
! roads and bridges the better. Strange
| that st. Paul paper should oppose i'm
DrOVomentS SO npcpScarv 70 Tho ounox,,4I-
| and expansion of the city. jackson street
is better than Broadway, because bridge
there will cost less and interfere less with
the steamboat business or any other bus
Ines. Robert street is too near Wabashw
The Nabashaw bridge is not adequate to
the business which goes over it now, and
| IN two years, Tor by the time it can be
bullt) another will be an absolute neces-
! sity. J.W. MoC1UNG.
Changes in the Street Car System.
The change in the running arrange
| ments of the street cars of the st. Paul
| system, as announced in the GLOBE some
time since, goes into operation to-day.
| Under the new arrangements the several
lines will be operated as follows:
The st. Anthony hill cars will run to
dHu 1roiu tne OnlOn depOt, ana not Lafay-
cite avenue as before, the University ave-
nue. line to be operated in the same way
to and from the Union depot. A new line
is put on, which will run up Fourth street
to st. Peter, down st. Peter to Third, back
on Third to Wabashaw, up Wabashaw to
Fourth, and down Fourth to Lafayette
| avenue. The Fort and Mississippi streets
| lines will be operated as now.
The Lafayette avenue cars will be plaid
color, lettered Bridge square and Lafay-
cite avenue" and will carry red and
blue light. st. Anthony hill cars will be
lettered ''St. Anthony hill and Union de-
| pot" and carry yellow light. The Univer-
sity avenue cars are to be green and carry IL
green light, while the Fort and Mississippi
street cars will continue to carry red
| light. Two horses will be used Oh all lines
except the Lafayette avenue and University
avenue lines.