St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-15
Exhibited by a Trip Over the
New Motor to North St.
Paul.
Possibilities Opened Up and
Difficulties Conquered by
Rapid Transit.
What the Services Of an Edi-
son and the Dollars Of a
Lowry May Do.
How Manufactures Flourish
All Around and About
st. Paul.

The demand for rapid transit, which
has agitated st. Paul and Minneapolis
in the past few years, is rapidly being
supplied. AS fast as the frequency of
strikes and the difficulties of construc-
ton will permit, the gap which, for the
expensive connection of the short lines,
has divided the two towns is being
spanned. and it is now but a matter of
months until the combined application
of the genius of an Edison and the dollars
of a Lowry will decimate the twelve
miles of distance, and make morning
calls iu Minneapolis per the electric road
a matter of everyday courtesy. While
this most important of the rapid transit
schemes is being pushed to completion,
similar extensions of the facility for
travel are being made in other dlrec-
lions. Not the least important OF these
was completed the other day in the
North st. Paul motor line, which runs
from the terminus of the East Seventh
street cable to Silver lake, a full mile
beyond the further limits of the city of
North st. Paul. A GLOBE representa-
tive yesterday made a tour of the line
and an investigation of the country
traversed. Just at present trains are
being run but once an hour, which.
however, is a temporary arrangement
and owing to the still incomplete con-
dition OF the r0adbed and complement
of rolling stock. 1t is intended within
a Few weeks, according to the announce
ment of the company controlling the
road, to run trains every twenty min
utes. After leaving the cable power
house and past the first slight grade, the
traveller finds himself humming along
at a
Fair Rate of Speed
over a tolerably smooth road and across
n stretch of country sufficiently undu-
lating and well enough wooded to be
pleasing to the eye. True, there is but
little variety about the scattering Struct-
lures which line the road on either side
for a portion of its length. They are
mostly frame dwellings of modest pro-
portion and architecture, but with a
rapid service to and from the city, the
future possibilities in the line of build
ing in that direction are well-nigh
bOundless. A grade of about five per
cent is reached in the approach to the
Omaha tracks, which are substantially
bridged, all danger from passing trains
being thus obviated. A level crossing
at this point would have been a lasting
source of danger, and the projectors of
the road showed wiSdomin adopting the
bridge as preferable to V e a possible
loss of life. The run from the end of
the cable to the busy little manufactur-
ing metropolis on Silver lake occupied
about twenty-five minutes. the run be-
ing about five miles. Doubtless bet
ter time than this Will be
made when the road gets
Bmoothed down a little, but a high rate
of speed over an absolutely new road
bed is dangerous at any time. The cars
run on this line are passenger coaches
in miniature, built with a view to the
comfort and convenience of the passen-
ger. Smoking cars are provided for
those who daily with the seductive
weed, and the steam motor is OF the
latest pattern of its kind. The road
beyond North st. Paul is still incom-
plete, but the last rail to connect the
central portion of st. Paul proper and
Silver lake will be laid in time for the
opening trip to occur Monday morning.
AS Silver lake is n of the most at
tractive of the smaller lakes in this part
of the state. clear as crystal and frlnged
by luXuriant foliage, the advantage to
those who have the leisure for an after
noon trip away from the heat and dust
of the city becomes at once apparent.
in North st. Paul there is nothing of
proyincialiSm. With a rapidity almost
precocious in so young an aspirant
For Metropolitan Honors,
have been provided fire engines and
chemicals of the most approved make,
and a paid department to man them.
The water works are the pride of this
infant municipality, as they may well
be, for a better system prevails no
where, and an acquisition somewhat
unexpected but no less valuable is the
well five hundred feet deep from which
a totally ineXaustible supply of the pur-
est water is obtained for drinking pur-
poses. The water mains were laid long
ago, and each householder is provided
with as good a water service as could
be obtained anywhere. A city of man
nfactureS is this. On one side rises
works, and from within its walls the
sound is waited on the cool lake breeze
of a thousand hammers on a thousand
anvils. The buZZing of saws and
Whirring of lathes tell the story of in
dustry for the Acme Chair company'S
factory, and that of the Luger Furni-
ture company. For the visitor who de-
sires to witness a branch of manufact-
IRE calling for such delicacy of mechan-
ical work as to be almost an art, there
could be no more interesting method of
spending an hour than in a tour of the
premises of the Ehruff Piano works.
There are, in fact, any number of man
h%facturlng enterprises well worthy a
visit, among them the Konantz Har-
ness company, Enterprise Manufacture
ing company, North st. Paul Casket
company, the willow working establish
ment of l.. ID. Hughes, and so on,
ad intinitum, Then in the mat
ter of hotels, surely a city
of like size was never better provided.
Among the best are the Morton, the
Commercial, the Tontine, the North st.
Paul House. There are half n dozen
others, however, all good houses and we'll
conducted. The depot provided for the
motor passengers at present is but a
temporary arrangement, the intention
being to erect a first-claSs waiting room.
With rapidly running and frequent
trains on this line, the launching of the
new steamer on the lake and the advent
of the heated weather naturally to be
expected, it seems tOlerably safe to
assert at Silver lake will, ere the close
of the summer, have become known as
one of the most popular of near at hand
resorts. and the city of North st. Paul as
a very pleasant place to spend a day OF
q week for that matter. PEG.
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