St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
LOWRY is WILLING
To Provide Citizens With All
the Rapid Transit They
Desire.
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Though Late, the Offer ms
cludes Cable, Electric and
Gas Power. o.
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All This Is Pleasingly Agreed
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Tribute to Be Paid to the City
for the Use Of It's
Streets. y

Col. Thomas Lowry came over to St.
Paul yesterday afternoon to fix UP his
fences. The acts of the common cOun-
ell during the past three months upon
the street railway matters left many
gaps i'll Mt. Lowry's Enclosure, and his
visit yesterday afternoon was to make a
final effort to close them up. At 2
o'clock he met Aid. w. II. Sanborn, Ed
ward G. Rogers and III. F. Stevens, the
subcommittee appointed to meet him at
conference between the council COM
mittee on streets and delegation from
the chamber of commerce. They were
closeted in rooms at the Minnesota club,
and the doors were not only
closed, but bolted and barred
against any possible intrusion. How
ever interesting the conference may
have been, it was not very long one,
lasting about an hour. If there were
any differences between the members of
this subcommittee and Mr.. Lowry, they
seem to have been amieably adjusted in
short order. When they adjourned it
was announced that an agreement had
been reached which is perfectly salts
factory to both MI. Lowry and the COM
mittee, and that Mr.. Lowry would agree
to build and equip lines of rapid transit
at once should the council adopt the
committee report. Their report, which
will probably be presented to the coun-
Gil tonight, reads as follows:
To the Joint Committee of the Common
Council of the City of st. Paul, appointed
to confer with the City Railway company.
Gentlemen: The undersigned. your sub
committee appointed to confer with the
president of the city railway company, rec
commend
That contract be made between the St.
Paul City Railway company and the city of
St. Paul to the effect that the railway COM
pany pay to the city for use of streets to be
occupied by its various lines, the difference
between its tax under the general laws as
sessed upon property necessary to the Oper-
alton of its railways in said city, and per
cent per annum upon its gross earnings upon
all its lines for a term of ten years, and there
after for forty additional years, provided that
the city shall have the option, at the end of.
each ten years, to return to the system OF
taxation then in vogue; and that il this
proposition be not acceptable to your com
mittee the scheme upon taxation Of gross
earnings be dropped.
That the franchise be for the term OF fifty,
years, and include propulsion by cable,
electric pneumatic and gas power. providing
no power shall be used which shall operate.
as public or private nuisance; nor shall'
the franchises include any power not above:
specified which shall constitute an additional
easement or servitude.
That the council shall have the right at any
time after Jan. /, 1892 and as often as they1
shall elect, to order the construction and
completion within one year thereafter of any
new line or extension of any present Or
future line upon which sewers shall be COM
structed under all the lines or portions of
lines so ordered before the order is made :.
and to which line, when connecting with,
then existing lines, the system of transfer
tickets shall apply as elsewhere in the city;
this to be in lieu of ordering one mile each
six months under the present charter.
The action of. the common eDuneik
upon the committees report viii be
awaited with interest, and its course to-
night will probably settle the matter of.
rapid transit so far as the street railway
announced that he will depart next
week for Europe. By those who are in
a position to know. it is not believed that
the council will pay much attention to
the sub committees recommendations.
1t was agreed several weeks ago that
Mr.. Lowry should be compelled to COM
ply with the terms of the model ordi-
nance before any additional privileges
are given him. The ''model" ordinance,
among other things, knocked out the
clauses under which Mr.. Lowry claims
exclusive rights, and gave other com
panies rights over his tracks under GER
tain conditions. These important clauses,
under the recommendations of the COM
mittee, would be eliminated. and it is
hardly probable that the council will
give I'D so much that is deemed essen
tial to the city'S interests.