St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
CITY STREET CAR TRAFFIC
Furnishes Theme for Manager P. F.
Barr.
DAYTON'S BLUFF CABLE.
Passengers Still Riding on Reduced
Rate Tickets Up st. Anthony oa
Hill. &c

Cars began running to-day on the
Greenbrier avenue line, said Col. r.
f. Barr. and there will not be any
further interruption of travel this sea-
son. Finishing touches were given yesa
terday to the new barn at the corner of
Greenbrier and Maryland avenues, and
the structure is one of the largest and
finest in the country. There are ac-
commodations for over 200 horses in the
stalls. and the car housing arrangements
are simply perfect. The terminus of
the new line will be at the court house,
corner of Wabasha and Fourth streets.
Progress is being made on the Sew
enth street cable line, and the excava-
ton for the power house foundation is
well under way. Contracts for the
yokes intended for the streets have
been awarded, and shipments of mate
rial will begin in the course of week
or two. We propose to push this work
as rapidly as possible, and by the goth
inst. at the outside there will be large
force of men at work on the street eXca-
vations for the cable conduits. 1t must
be borne in mind, however, that all the
material necessary for the cable line has
to he made to order, and this will prob
ably account for seeming delay on our
part When the yokeS are obtained we
will be in position TO work speedily
and satisfactorily, and the people along
the proposed line will be riding in cable
cars next summer to a certainty.
We do not anticipate such delays as
marked the work of the New York
Cable Construction company on the
Selby avenue line last year and have
awarded contracts to another corpora
ton. BY the way, the New York con-
Germ has ceased TO exist, and according
to the latest adviceS, the stockholders
are buSlly engaged in
WINDING UP IT'S AFFAIRS.
Travel on the present cable line has
not come up to our expectations yet and
we could easily stand double the
amount of traffic that we are now doing.
When the council repealed the three
cent fare ordinance we accepted the
provisions very promptly and ceased the
issue of reduced rate tickets. But
number of people had laid in a supply
of the cheap tickets, which are accepted
between the hours of and Z O'Clock in
the morning and afternoon respectively
just as though the ordinance was in eX-
istence. Several hundred dollars
worth of these tickets are still out, but
we are calling them in as rapidly as cir
cumstances will admit, so that practi-
cally we are running on five-cent basis.
1t was mistake in the first place
to accept the three-cent fare provisO, for
it educated the people to cheap fares
and thus made it harder for us to rem
edy the evil when we went before the
council Still that is q matter of the
past and we can only look forward TO
increased traffic to make up our losses
III that respect. People will scarcely
believe the amount of money that 2
cents difference in the fares made in our
receipts, but the books of the company.
would satisfy the most incredulOus.
We will not have this evil to contend
with, however, on the Seventh street
cable line, and it will be plain sailing
from the outset.
1t is the intention of the st. Paul City
Railway company to give its patrons the
best accommodations, backed up by the
latest improvements in methods of
transportation, and we have right to
expect that our efforts will meet with
commensurate recompense.
The Selby avenue cable line, despite
the numerous drawbacks we encoun-
tered, will go on record as the quickest
work of the kind ever accomplished in
street railway building, and we will en-
deavor to beat that in our venture on
Seventh street, but the public must not
be toe impatient. 1t is our interest as
well as theirs that this line should be
built rapidly, and under the plans that
we have adopted such result is bound
to follow our effort.