St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
GIVE US A FAIR SHAKE.
st. Paul Wants as Good Street Car Serv-
ice as Minneapolis Has.
THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE SAY.
The Transportation Committee Of the
Chamber Of Commerce Tackles an
Important Question.

Ihe transportation committee OF Un6
chamber of commerce met yesterday
afternoon to discuss street railway eX-
tension. E. W. Peet acted as chairman,
Gen. Bishop being absent. The chair
man stated that the object of the meet
ing was to secure facts IN order to show
Mr.. Lowry what st. Paul wants.
A petition was read by Mr.. Tallmadge
asking for an extension Of the Payne
avenue line to Jessamine street. The
city is built up half mile further
than the end of the line. The petition
was signed by many of the residents.
A petition was read, signed by fifty
residents of Manchester Park, asking for
some means of rapid transit to st. Paul.
Another petition asked for all extension
of the Mississippi street line north OF
the Northern Pacific crossing to Mary
land street.
A. d. Bletcher said: 81 represent the
Como district. The territory west of
Rice street and north of University ave-
nue. is rapidly increasing in population
and there is a growing demand for eX-
tension of car service. A line should
be built on Western avenue, connect
with the University avenue line, and
then out Como to the park"
WILL DO FOR A STARTER.
Mr.. Tallmadge read long letter from
III. f. Stevens, saying that Mr.. Lowry
should furnish at least the facilities that
Minneapolis enjoys; that cars should
run at no greater intervals than five
minutes, and the cars should be in
creased morning and evening; that the
jackson street line should be eX-
fanJa1 fo CnrfIand StrpQf fbQnPa
to Magnolia street OF Mary
land avenue; the Mississippi street
line should extend to the district
known as Hoyt's Ouulots; the Acker
street line should extend to Rice and
connect with that line; Como avenue
should have line extending to the
park, with a further extension to the
fair grounds later; the University ave-
nue. line should be extended to Lex
ington avenue. A profitable line could
be built from the Milwaukee
depot, at the foot of Chest
nut street, extending to West Sew
Tenth or Oak street, to College avenue
on Oak or Fort street, thence running
on College avenue to Tenth street,
within block of the capitol and high
school buildings, thence to East Sum
nit on Cedar street, passing Central
park to Thirteenth street to a junction
with the Thirteenth street line. This.
laSt-named line should be extended
from the junction east on Somerset and
Waverly place to the junction OF West
minister street and Lafayette avenue.
Aid. Weber wrote the ROndO street
line to Victoria avenue should be COM
pleted, and j. E. f. Moore said the resi-
dents of Como and Western avenues
had no means of transportation except
the Manitoba railroad, and this is too
expensive. He said line was neces-
Sary out Rice to Como, and another out
Como to Dale. J. HI. Rhkildaffer said a
line was absolutely necessary out West
ern from ST. Anthony hill across the
Manitoba tracks.
THE WEST SIDE SPEAKS UP.
The West Side Citizens union wanted
an extension of the South Robert street
line from South Robert street to Dakota
avenue, thence to Winifred. west to
Ohio, south to George, west to Manomin,
south to Sidney, thence west to terminal
on Cherokee. Also an extension on
Concord street southwest to Page.
Some discussion occurred over the eX-
tension to Smelling avenue of the West
Seventh street line. 1t was agreed that
if it were extended to Smelling bridge at
least 100 new houses would be built
there in one year. The following signed
the agreement, and put down the num-
Der of houses each would build:
by Sept. l. 1888, as follows: G. w.
Youngman, II dwellings,; Charles f.
Moore, s: Beriah Magoffin, 20; William
Dawson. Is; Z. f. Birmingham, 10, and
E. 2. Wilgus, 5. Complaints were made
of the Payne and Oakland avenue cars
and line, and after general discussion
on the cable road the meeting ad-
iOurned.