St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-18
SIXTH wARDERT SATISFIED.
The Plan of the Council to Tear
Up the Tracks Meets With Gem
eral Favor u1enI

The Plan of the Council to Tear
eral Favor. M.
The resolution adopted by the city
council on Tuesday evening, ordering
the city engineer to remove all street
car tracks from the streets of West
st. Paul, appears to meet with general
approval among the merchants along
the line of the Winlfred street system
q. III. Hosmer, president of the West
Side bank, says, 1.-The order if executed
wOnld be the best thing possible for the
Sixth ward, provided another company
could be induced to take hold and build
a new system at once. Lowry has prom
ised everything and done nothing, as
far as the West side is concerned. re-
member, and so do great many others
IN the Sixth ward when a mass meet
ing was held in the RebholZ hall to dis
cuss street railway matters. That was
before the Robert street bridge was fin
lshed. Mr.. Lowry was at the meeting
and promised all sorts of things for this
side. The lines were to be run clear
out to the end of Ohio street, and MIR.
Lowry assured us that as fast
as the streets were graded
the lines should be extended.
There was local company already Or
ganiZed and the stock was to a great ex-
tent subscribed. Ali the fair promises
held out to the people of the Sixth
ward have been broken, and the serv-
ice of the present system is very unsat-
isfactory. | think the order ought to
be executed.
Henry Martin was short and explicit.
"lt is good order, and the tracks
orb IN no tol- u
where they are. The cars only run
once an hour anyway
d. Thomas-Oh. think its a bluff,
and don't believe the council has back
bone enough to tear up the tracks.
f. B. DOran-So far as can see the
service has been pretty fair. Of course,
there have not been as many cars run
as in the central part of the city, but
they are good tracks, and they are kept
in better order than they are in more
than half the cities l have visited. The
order is all right, provided it has the
effect intended-that of getting the cars
moving.
G. B. Lawton-Tear up the tracks!
Why that would be foolish idea, it
seems TO me. Besides, the city will
probably grant the franchise eventually.
and the tracks would all have to be laid
again. think it's just a scare.
Henry Horman-The council has done
the right thing. If we can't have a
better street car system than the one we
have how, let's do away with it en-
tirely.
Con McNellis-lf the tracks are torn
up it will he the best thing that ever
happened for the merchants of the West
end.
NJ. L. McIntyre-What do | think
about it? Well, for my part, L should be
glad to see the thing commenced. The
schedule upon which the cars have been
run on this street is worse than useless.
| say take the whole business up and
give some company which Will give us
decent service chance.
The foregoing seems to be the general
run of sentiment of merchants and
others on Dakota avenue. On the Con-
cord street line the service has been
much better, but the people are in
cenSed at the refusal of the company to
comply with the terms of its franchise
as to the extension of the lines, and
preference is expressed in all quarters
for any arrangement which will result
in competition, and consequently inn
proved service. In the residence dis
trictS the people want means of trans
portation, and don't care how it is pro-
yided Z