St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-30
THE CITY RAILWAY.
Another Meeting by the West Seventh
Street People, Who Pointealy Call
Attention to Their Rights
Public Sentiment Fa-
yoring the Agita-
tors.

Sometime ago the street railway company
abandoned that part of its track on West Seventh
street and Lee avenue. This abandonment is
very much against the wishes and the conve-
nience of the people in that vicinity, many of
whom went out there and built houses with the
expectation that the street railway would con-
tinue TO be run over the abandoned track. Had
they know that the cars wonld be taken off
that part of the road, they would never gone out
there to live The consequence is that all the
! people out there feel that by this action of the
road they have been injured, and they now
| taking steps to have the restored and the
road PIT into use They held meeting weeS
| ago to consult upon the matter the proceedings
of which were published at tue time in these
columns committee then appointed to
consult with the mayor, the city attorney and
President Lowry to see what course was
best to pursue under the circum-
! stances, At the meeting last evening, which
was held little above the point where the cars
now 90 on West Seventh street. the committee
reported that they called on the mayor who list
ened patiently to the statement of the case, and
| promised that he would write to President Lowry
and ask him for his reasons for taking eff the
| cars. The mayor also recommended to the COM
mitiee that suitable resolutions should be pre-
| prepared and adopted, and that if this was was
| uohe nc WOulu see IuaJ tuey were pldCeu UelOFe
the council.
| The city attorney was also called upon and de-
| bounced the action of the street railway
! company as outrageous. He counseed them to
prepare a petition to the council, ard expressed
the opinion that the action of the street railway
company was Illegal and that it could not aban-
| don the tract as in this case.
The committee also called upon the president
of the school board, and he expressed similar
views as to petition.
| The report of the committee was discussed by
| those present., and the action of the company
was severely condemned. Finally the report was
| accepted and the committee was continued
RESOLUTION ADOPTED
| The question then arose as to what should be
done, when the following preamble and resolu-
ton was offered:
| To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of
| the City of st. Paul:
| At meeting of the residents and property
owners of the Fourth ward, held Aug. 30, the
| following preamble and resolutions were adopted
| unanimously:
WHEREAS. The St. Paul City Railway COM
| pany has seen fit to abandon the three blocks of
| track between Randolph street and Lee avenue
ON West Seventh street, and believing the same
to be detriment to, as well as an outrage on the
residents of the said part of the city of st. Paul
and other residents of our city, and having asked
the said railway company through their presi
| ueht, vice president and superin-
| tendent, to still continue to
| operate the same and having been refused by
them, therefore be it
ReSOt0cd, that we, the undersigned residents
and property owners of the Fourth ward of the
city of st. Paul, county of Ramsey and state of
Minnesota, do hereby petition the honorable
mayor and common council of the city of st.
! Paul to adopt such measures as will compel the
the SAID st. Paul Csty Railway company to ope-
rate the three blocks of track abandoned by them
between Randolph street and Lee avenue, in con-
necton with the West Seventh street railway,
and that we do hereby request the mayor and
| common council to enforce any every law
which may be in such case made and provided,
and we, your petitioners, do pray for a careful
and immediate consideration of this matter
1t was suggested by one that the resolution
might be adopted and held by the committee till
they could communicate further with President
| Lowry, but none of those present at the meeting
| could see any advantage in that They thought
there was to talk to Mr. Lowry but that
the best way was to get the paper signed and
| presented to the council Immediately The
| preamble and resolution was finally adopted and
afterwards committee of three, consisting of
| Messrs. Wendlich, Mackawitz and
Ryva, was appointed with instruc-
| tons to get signatures to the
paper and have the same placed in the hands of
the committee appointed at the previous meet
| ing to be presented to the council next Tuesday
night.
| The meeting was very determined one and
all present felt that they had been injured and
wronged in very rude and lawiess manner.