St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-05
Trains On the Proposed Interurban
Line Will Not Run Into ST.
Paul This Year.
Its Plans Sat Down Upon By a Council
Committee and Lobby" OF
Taxpayers.
4 New Telephone Line in Prospect, Which
Will Compete With the Pres
ent Monopoly.
4 Suicide Under Strange Circumstances-Be-
fore His Honor, the Municipal Judge
General Criminal News.
Queer Things Heard on the streets-Report
of Last Weeks Business-Mis-
cellaneous Notes.
THE ELEVATED RAILROAD.

THE ELEVATED RAILROAD.
Indignant Citizens Enter Vigorous Pro-
test Against Its Construction.
The council chamber was well filled last
evening by citizens who were interested in
the elevated railroad project, having prop
erty AUDITING on the proposed route, and who
had turned out to see what action the COM
mttee on streets would take in the prem
ises.
Mr. Eugene Hendrickson, attorney for the
corporation which proposes to build the enter
prise. addressed the chairman in explain
alton of the scheme, and asked that they
be allowed to enter the city and settle such
claims for damages as might come up after
the road was built The discussion was at
once commenced, and the audience took a
lively part.
Aid. Van Slyke thought that the corpora
ton should prepare profile Of the line and
the streets along which it was proposed TO
enter the city. Mr.. Otis questioned
the right of the council to grant
any such privilege, and thought the
road ought to come into the city as any
other railroad company had done, by con-
demning property and paying damages
Mr.. Hendrickson said they asked no more
than was reasonable--in fact, wher the street
car and other corporations had asked the
earth, this corporation only asked portion
of it, A gentleman spoke up and said that
the present uncertainty of the location OF
the road had deprecated property along
the several routes which it was likely
to take He was administrator of an estate
which be wished to sell, and the prospect OF
the road running along the estate had already
deprecated it from 81, 900 to So 900.
second gentleman said there was the founda-
ton laid for a 81, 900 residence, which i'm
provement had been abandoned until the L.
road route was finally abandoned.
Judge Barrett thought it would be well to
have an opinion from the city attorney as to
the extent Of
THE COUNCILS POWER
in the matter Alderman Dowlan wanted to
know what benefit the city was to receive
from the building of the road, and
was not very favorabIy impressed with it.
Property was already affected by the prospect
of the road, and how much greater would IL
be deprecated by the certainty of its being
built.
The corpsration's attorney hoped the gen
tlemen would not be influenced by the
''lobby," and was ready at any time to name
the streets upon which they would build.
This remark was occasioned by disposition
on the part of the crowd to cheer on the ad-
Vocates against the plan and to make COM
| ments on his presentation, and his allusion
to the ''lobby'' called forth the remark that
! the lobby represented the property owners,
and they proposed to be present at each
meeting where this subject was discussed
CITY Attorney Murray proposed that the
company present another petition in which
they should be more explicit In stating just
what they wanted. This was agreeable to
Mr. Hendrickson, and after further debate
in the same line Aid. Dowlan moved that
the petition be not considered. Mr.. Otis
seconded and wanted the ayes and noes.
They were taken, and before being
nounced G voice called chairman Johnson"
in answer to which the gentleman called
with some force, "aye." The vote was
unanimous to report against granting the
franchise.
THINKS IT'S A HUMBUG.
To the Editor of the Globe:
was present at the meeting of the com
mittee on streets at the council chamber last
night and | wish to publicly commend the
action of the committee in unanimously re
iecting the preposterous and cheeky PROPOSE
ton of the paper organization which evil
IDENTITY desires to secure charter to specu-
late upon.
When II is considered that New York Is
the only city in the country which has an
elevated road, aud the peculiar reasons which
led to its construction there are taken into
account 1t strikes me that st. Paul would be
little fast in inaugurating such a scheme.
Hemmed in by water, New York could not
reach suburban points with ease or indulge
In a surface outskirt route to connect
the upper and lower points in the island, and
consequently large amount of property was
sacrificed to make the connection by the
elevated line through the streets. The cities
Of Philadelphia and Chicago are certainly as
large as st. Paul, aud have as much subur-
ban territory at their command as st. Paul.
but the authorities of those cities have stead
lily refused to destroy the property
of their citizens by chartering
elevated lines, though attempts, sim
liar to the one now being agitated in st. Paul,
have been made. There are a few other cities
larger than st. Paul without this property de-
stroying appliance, but cite those cities be-
cause they have wider and more regular
streets than most large places and elevated
lines would be the least Objectionable Still
the people there considered them ruinous.
II these allegad capitalists are really de
sirous Of doing something for the public why
do they not unite st. Paul and Minneapolis
bS a cable surface road, which is entirely
practicable and understandable, II they are
honest and square-dealing, why do they en-
viron themselves with secrecy and style the
taxpayers who came before the council a
'lobbyl" The scheme looks like fshy rural
real estate speculation. and the promoters
coolly ask TO have valuable city property con-
tscated in order that they may turn their
cabbage pasture into town lots.
II. 2. HALL.
Great Excitement on East Third Street