St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-11
Sales of Real Property Continue to I'm
prove Daily and the Market Strong
and Firm.
Over 100000 Worth of Recorded Trans
fers Last Week Which Shows
Gradual Increase.
What the Railroads are Doing Be-
tween the Two Cities of the
Great Northwest.
An Increase in the Number OF Sta
lions Between the Two Cities
Greatly Needed.


apolis and st. Paul has been caused prin-
cipally by the frequent and quick trains
that run between the business centers OF
The two towns. A business man who
lives at Merriam or Union or Lowering
Park, at Manchester station, st. Anthony
Park or anywhere on broad-guage rail-
read where the accommodation passenger
trains stop can 90 home To his dinner from
either city and lose less time than he would
in going and returning one and One-hat
miles by street cars. When winter storm
closes street car lines, the broad-guage rail-
road. as rule, is unrestricted. When the
weather is stormy or the streets muddy, the
street car lines leading to residence dis
trictS of either city are over-crowded. and
man has to walk. or at best get standing
room or hang onto the platform of 4 street
car. If. however, he has secured home
on one of the short line railroads he can
always secure good seat leave the union
depot at a fixed moment, arrive home and
return on schedule time, and be absent
from his business less time than his partners
or employees who go home Oh some street
car line These facilities by the various
railroad lines are assisting greatly in the
DEVELOPMENT and settlement of the interur-
ban district. The Manitoba short line has
the following stations between the union
depOtS which are regular stops
for all their accommodation trains,
viz: East Minneapolis, st. Anthony Park
and Hamline. 1t is expected also that this
road will establish new station or two in
the suburbs of ST. Paul, probably at the
crossing of Rice street. and at another
point. The st. Paul and Northern Pacific
will soon operate hourly trains over its new
line between the two cities. This COM
will
with the Chicago, Milwaukee q ST. Paul
road and the Manitoba on through bust
ness between the two cities and IN develop
ing the intervening territory, and will do
all in its power to
ENCOURAGE LOCAL BUSINESS
along the whole line The business prin-
cipleS on which this road is constructed give
assurance that the stations will be established
whenever nucleus of population can
be established. Their through line has
been so recently completed that their sta
tons have not yet been definitely an
nOunced but nature and development
point out certain localities as fitting points
for stations While, therefore, there is no
authority for stating where these depOts
will certainly be built it is fair to assume
that they will be about as follows, viz:
Prospect Park, StAnthOny Park, Hamline,
at the crossing of Smelling avenue, Warren
dale, at the crossing of Lexington avenue,
Como avenue. Rice street and Mississippi
street. 1t is safe to say that it will have
the most frequent stops and give the best
accommodations of any of the lines between
the two cities. This is a wise policy
and will anchor thousands and tens
Of thousands of settlers Oh its line.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul line
stops at East Minneapolis, Merriam Park,
Manchester station and Chestnut street.
From Chestnut street to Smelling avenue, at
Manchester station, there is no stop, al
though the track runs through the very
finest region for suburban residences in st.
Paul. The crossing at Pleasant avenue, at
Victoria street, or st. Claire street, or Sum-
nit avenue, are all points where stops are
desirable and where it was supposed depOts
would be established, but the grade from
Chestnut street to within fifteen hundred
feet east of Manchester station on Smelling
avenue is about sixty feet to the mile and the
Inconvenience of stopping and starting
trains on this grade has been assigned as
the excuse for lack of accommodations on
the Milwaukee road between the points
above named. 1t would seem as though a
small difficulty of this kind would be over
come whenever settlement indicates
\ PAYING BUSINESS,
and this will doubtless be the case. and a
station will go in at some point within a
reasonable time. 1t may be expected that
all these roads will stop every half mile,
and do the service which in other parts of
these cities will be performed by street
cars Smelling avenue fairly represents
the apex of the hill between st. Paul and
Minneapolis. 1t is about 210 feet above
low-water mark at the levee, and, assuming
that the tracks at Union depot in st. Paul
are fifteen or twenty feet above low-water
Mark, then all trains going from Union
depot, st. Paul, to Minneapolis will have
to climb up hill about 100 or los feet
high. The probability is that all these lines
will in the near future establish frequent
stopping points, if they build nothing bu t
platforms. within the limits of both cities,
otherwise Mr.. Lowry will run street car
lines parallel with them and do all the local
business which otherwise would fall natur-
ally TO the broad guage railroads, for at
least several squares on each side of their
tracks. Several hundred street car fares
taken in daily by trains that run any way,
and which would have no additional eX-
penSe except the the friction of stopping
and starting at these accommodation sta
tons, would be money found" The
ESTABLISHMENT OF STATIONS
on Como avenue and near WaTendale by
the st. Paul & Northern Pacific is rapidly
building up those localities. A depot at st.
Clair street or Lexington avenue on the
Chicago. Milwaukee Il st. Paul road, where
all vehicles would cross the tracks on
bridges above the level of the road, would
lead to wonderful development in that
vicinity, and it seems that an improvement
OF this kind is probable in the near future.
st. Clair seems to have the preference, as
that street is under contract for grading
the present season, making it fine avenue
to the city limits. RumorS have been rife
all the spring that a depot was going in at
this point, and a number of large purchases
have been negotiated in this immediate
vicinity, such as ten acres sold to Z. A.
Phinney and ten acres north of Bryants
nursery sold to Chicago party, eighty acres
of the Nettleton tract also sold to Chicago
parties, the forty acres directly at and
around the cross ing of st. Clair street, fifty
acres further out and near Simpson ave-
nue.. The parties who have been most
active III manipulating these deals profess
ignorance as to any depot at St Clair
street. but other shrewd operators suspect
that all this ignorance is affected and that it
is shown In order to give an opportunity to
secure all the properties that are desirable,
before the real facts are made public. 1t is
certain that all desirable property near this
point is being picked up as fast as possible,
and these best informed think that at least
5000. 600 worth, in that vicinity will show
up i'll transfers between now and June 1.
Northwest illustrated Monthly.
A year ago the publishers of the North
west illustrated Monthly magazine issued
their first great st. Paul number. Tens of