Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-13
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THE RAILROAD ORDINANCE


Tie Proceedings Of the Special Meeting OF
the CitU Council Held Last EreninG-A
Large 4mOal,t of Miscellaneous Business
Transacted.
A special meeting of the city council
was held last night with President Walsh
in the chair, for the purpose of taking
action upon the new railroad ordinance,
and other important business.
THE ORDINANCE TAKEN UP.
After the call for the meet
ing the ordinance was taken up
and read by the clerk.
SAME AS THE OLD.
The order is substantially the same as
offered at the suggestion of President Hill
few months since, and as printed in ab-
stract in the GLOBE. According to the
wording OF this ordinance the city shall
construct and maintain all the approaches
to bridges and to maintain and keep in
repair all the bridges proper, the railroad
companies being obliged 10 first build the
structures.
PROyIsIO on.
However IN case of the bridges being
destroyed through any railroad
accident, then the railroad company shall
speedily rebuild. The company shall use
great care in doing the work of making
street crossings, and shall place them in
the
BEST POSSIBLE CONDITION,
and shall not block nor obstruct the free
Of J,o hi INV of
these crossings. Upon this very point
hinged all the trouble with the former Or
dinance passed by the council but rejected
by the railway company.
Upon the motion of Aid. Pillsbury the
ordinance was referred to- the committee
on railroads, to be reported back at once.
Aid. Nelson moved that recess of ten
minutes be taken. Carried.
COMMITTEE REPORT.
At the expiration of the ten minutes the
council was again called to order and lis
tened to the report of the committee on
railroads.
The committee reported recommending
its adoption with the amendments that
whenever the words city engineer occurred
it should be stricken out and the words
city council inserted
SECOND READING.
Aid. Pillsbury moved that the rules be
Suspended and the ordinance placed on its
second reading for amendments. The roll
being taken the motion was carried.
Upon the reading of the first clause Aid
Andrews objected to the wording respect
ing the repeal of the old ordinance.
Aid. Glenn thought it poor policy for the
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first section of so lengthy a docu-
ment. when the present ordinance was so
very little different from the old ordinance
passed by the council, and in that particu-
lar section, no difference.
Section related to the rights of way on
the East side, crossing diverse streets, ex-
tending five tracks over the same, on South
Main street.
would permit the railway company
block 50, by curving around
upon the opposite side of the street, the
ordinance only preventing them from
provides for building and laying tracks
to the bridge, and prohibits the obstruc-
ton of crossings by leaving cars upon
them.
Section provides for crossing the river
to some point between Second and Third
avenues south.
Section 4 gives permission to remove
the tracks of the Minneapolis Eastern
Railway company to make room
for the tracks of the new company
and when somoved they may be
used and maintained by the Min
neapolis s. Eastern company in coniunc-
ton with the Minneapolis 81 st. Louis
railway.
Aid Andrews wanted to know if the
present ordinance spseting the erection
of bridges and crossings and their main
tenance, which requires that the railway
companies shall build and keep them in
repair, was beng enforced.
Aid. Glenn stated that he should vote
for the ordinance. Tt IS claimed that the
Manitoba Railway company is backing
this Union railroad. Tbe Manitoba
has never called for nor
received dollar from the
city, whereas $250,000 had been donated
to the Minneapolis & st. Louis railway. A
few months since he had been called upon
to vote large tract Of land to the Chicago,
Milwaukee 81 ST. Paul Railroad company.
He could not favor sticking over these
little and trivial points.
Aid. Pills5ury explained that the clause
would not change i'll the least the status re-
specting the Minneapolis s. ST. Louis rail
way privileges.
Section grants permission to extend
tn @ tracks along River street and to occu-
Ply the whole of the streets; to extend four
or more tracks across Hennepin avenue
west of the bridge piers to Third avenue
north, and connecting with the Minneapo-
lis 81 st. Louis and st. Paul. Minneapolis
& Manitoba Railway company's tracks.
Section 6 grants to the Minneapolis
Union railway privileges of building a
union depot at the west end of the
suspension bridge, and to remove and re-
construct the bridge piers, the
same to be done to the satisfaction of the
city engineer and common council.
Section regulates the grade of the
tracks crossing Hennepin avenue to the in
tersection with the St. Paul, Minneapolis
Manitoba railway tracks, the company
to put up proper ratings along the en-
bankments
Section relates to the maintenance of
the crossings in condition for public
travel.
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