St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-28
CITY COUNCIL.
Street Railway Matters-Mr. Lowry's
Views Not yet Met.

| Street Railway MatterS-Mf. LOWfy'S
Views Not yet Met.
Third Street Bridge----VariOus Miscellane-
GUS Matters.
The City Council held quite long and ac-
tive meeting last evening.
THE STREET RAILWAY.
A considerable part of the evening was
occupied by the consideration of the well
known ordinance in regard to the street
railway. At a former meeting an ordinance
was reported making, what were deemed,
certain concessions to the street railway
company, and at the same time placing upon
| it certain restrictions. lis ordinance was
not satisfactory to the company
and number of meetings
and conferences have been held on the mat
! ter. Last evening the ordinance cameup again
and received final action, by being adopted.
| While it was before the council last night it
| produced some considerable discussion, the
| council, or rather some part of that body de-
| sired to put certain restrictions into it that
| Mr.. Lowry could not agree to. The two
| points we're the Fourth street paving and
| grading, and the compelling the Street rail-
way company to take up the cobble stone
| pavement between the tracks and pave with
| the same material used by the city. The
! council insisted upon these two points until
Mr. Lowry stated that it was useless to talk
| further upon the matter and asked the clerk
| to read the following communication:
MR. LowRY's STATEMENT.
ST. PAUL, March 81, 1884.
| To tha Honorable Mavor and Cannon Counci1 of
| st. Paul:
| Since assuming the management of the st.
| Paul City Railway company, have endeavored
| to put in operation a system Of street railway
| road that would not only be profitable to the
| company, but of great advantage to the citizens
| of st. Paul. have laid out the proposed plan
after careful study and submitted it to your
| honorable body. At various times .since have
| by request appeared before your committees and
| the Board of Public Works of the city with full
| explanations and have answered fully, frankly
and fairly all questions proposed. AT every
| meeting Il have been led to believe, either by
tacit consent or personal assurance that the
company would be accorded all that was asked.
| On that basis, and the supposition that there
would be no opposition, as president of the COM
| pany have laid out large and extensive i'm
provements. The company have even paid as
sessments that the courts have decided 1t was
not liable for.
The proposed ordinance is SO at variance with
| all conversations and understandings that /, as
president of the company, do not feel warranted
| in accepting it, With the best feeling, and the
belief that it is only of judgment, either
ON the part of your honorable body, or the Street
| Railway company thine will determine which)
must decline to accept the ordinance as pro-
| posed While regretting the termination of ne
| gotiations, which have caused me much time,
trouble and anxiety, will endeavor to accept the
| situation and render to st. Paul as good and eff
antiv actra tha affo daA
will permit. Respectfully yours,
THOMAS LOWRY.
Upon the reading of the above, the mem
bers of the council held kind of miscel-
laneous consultation, and Mr.. Murray en-
deavored to show that the ordinance was, or
ought to be satisfactory to Mr.. Lowry. That
gentleman could not see it, and the mrtter
was again talked over by Mr.. Lowry and the
council. Finally Mr.. Lowry, seeing there
was no chance to settle The matter, left the
hall The ordinance was finally adopted, an
abstract of which is as follows:
The ordinance provides for the laying of a
| double track on Fourth street from Waba-
shaw street to Seven corners; to take up its
rails on Third street, and to lay double
track from the corner of Rice street and
Martin street to the corner of st. Peter street
and Iglehart street, to connect with the track
at Wabashaw street and Fourth street; also to
take up its rails on st. Peter street from Fifth
street to Tenth street and to lay double
track on Jackson street from Fourth street to
Thirteenth street, and to take up its rails on
Sibley street from Fourth street to Eighth
street, to lay double track on Seventh street
from Seven Corners to Bradley street and
thence on Bradley street to North street,
and to lay a double track on Thirteenth
street, and to take up the rails ON Pearl
street from jackson to Mississippi street, and
ON Mississippi street from Pearl street to
| Thirteenth street, also to extend the Lafayette
| avenue line from Westminster street to
! Otsego street on Burr street. The company
| is to grade Thirteenth street from Jackson&o
Canada, according to the grade fixed upon
| by the council, the city to save the company
! from all damages 10 AUDITING property;
pave Jackson from Ninth to Thirteenth
| street at the company's expense between its
rails, between its tracks, and two feet out
side of its tracks, whenever the council shall
order the residue of such part of jackson
street to be paved, with the same kind OF
material as is used by the city; all the other
streets named in the ordinance are to be
paved in like manner and with same
material as is used by the city. PERMITS
sion is given to the railway company
| to pave within its tracks with cobble stones
upon the streets not paved by the city, the
same to be done under the direction and su-
pervision of the city engineer, with the ex-
press understanding and upon the express
condition that whenever any of the streets
on which said railway company has so paved
its track with cobble stones, are paved by
the city the company will take up and pave
| with c11nh ptb or ria1o ha Wi
by the common council and board of public
works.
BRIDGING THIRD STREET.
The city attorney reported contract be-
tween the city and the railroads for bridging
lower Third street over the railrad tracks
signed by j. j Hill of the st. Paul and Mani
toba road, E. W. Winter, for the st. Paul and
Union depot company, and By James Saith
Jr. president of the st. Paul IL Duluth road.
This contract was before the council several
months ago and was then fully, considered
and a complete abstract was at that time
published in these columns. Last night the
contract as reported was accetped and adopt
ed after which it was referred to the proper
committee to have it executed by the proper
officers.
WORK FOR THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
The following matters were referred to the
board to investigate and report: Op.ning,
widening and extend. ng Prospect terrace 100
feet; as to grading Greenwood ayenu4; as to
constructing approaches to the proposed
bridge on Third street; as to grading Bid
well street; as to paving Fourth street from
jackson street to st. Peter street with cedar
blocks and granite curbs; as to constructing
a sewer on Mount Airy street from Missis-
sippi to L'Orient street.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
| The protest of George MiStch again st the