St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-17
A SATISFACTORILY ANSWER
Returned by President Lowry On
the Street Car Question.

the street Car Question.
By fragrant breach of faith, charac-
teriStc of the paper, the Pioneer Press
yesterday printed an article in relation
to meeting of citizens in the may Or'S
office. 1t was stated that Mr.. Lowry
was discriminating III favor OF Mime
al oils in the building of street railway
lines, putting OH large crews in the
sister city for the purpose of swelling
tbe census returns, and holding back
the work here to keep st. Paul's census
from Increasing any more than possible.
Speaking of the matter Alr. Lowry said:
Such insinuatious as were made by that
paper this morning are so lnaiiclouSiy Ill
error that hardly feel ike saying anything
about IT, If that fellow who told the Pioneer
Press this morning that had SO MANY work.
men in the field here in order to
swell the Minneapolis census was Iii
that committee I would refuse to speak,
TO him or have anything to do with him.
But, as you newspaper men say. that inter-
view may have been fake !"
The only truth i'll the article was that
a meeting was held at which ID commit
tee was appointed TO wait un0n MIR.
Lowry, the committee consisting of E.
F. Drake, Aid. P. L. Kavanagh, w. b.
Dean, d. IL. Moon. Ii. 5. Falrehilt,
Thomas Cochran, William Lindeke, 9.
w. Hackett, Charming Seabury. II. q.
| Rogers, Nj. 3. Curry, Mayor Smith. The
committee waited upon Mr.. Lowry at
Minneapolis yesterday afternoon. and
| was courteUuSly received.
The committee found the magnate III
his office, busily engaged in directing
the COURSE of the great work in when
lie is engaged. Mr.. Rogers took the
Initiative in explaining the mission Ut
the delegation. He began by deprecat-
ing the expression appearing in st.
Paul morning paper yesterday, stating
that it was first the desire Of the COM
mittee to correct the erroneous impress
sion which smuSt inevitably have beeh
created by the publication of said arti-
Gle, and disclainipg any responsibility
for its appearance.
THE matter can be stated briefly in this
wise" continued the spokesman. If large
force of men is put on i'll Minneapolis. and
an equally large force is not pat on In st.
Paul, and as result work on the Mlnneapot
lis lines is pushed TO the detriment OF st,
Paul, the occurrence of any unforeseen con-
tingency preventing the completion of the
roads by the specified time would not be
viewed with a particularly friendly spirit in
| ST. Paul, and no concessions would be grant
ed The committee had no threats and no
| charges To make, but had come to- MIuneap-
| oils with the one object of securing personal
| information on the subject.
Mr.. Lowry's reply was not begun
until he had rung all electric bell SUM
moning Engineer Wise who has charge
of the works. Then he faced the com
lnttee smilingly and stated in his most
| gracious vein the case as tits:
ut affords me- he said, great qualification
to be able to give satisfactory explanations
| of the difficulties which have been magni-
| fed into insurmounlable obstacles. First
| let me assure you. gentlemen, that there has
| been no discrimination, nor Will there be
any. The contracts for the work in both
| cities were signed at the same time-in fact
| may state that the st. Paul contract was
! signed first, by about Thirty seconds. The
| contracts are exactly alike. and nothing pre-
| vents the work from being i'll full blast HOW
| but the lack Of material"
Engineer Wise having arrived On the
| scene, was questioned by MIR. Lowry as
| to the number of men employed OH the
| Minneapolis line. He REPLIED that there
| were $50, most of them being idle at this
| time owing to the n0n-arrval OF con
| struction supplies. Col. Barr announced
| that there were 800 men employed by
| the company in st. Paul. MIR. Lowry
explained that the work had been begun
| too soon in Minneapolis. There were
difficulties which had not been taken
into consideration at first. The addi-
tional outlay of money for the
two towns would reach the sum of
$1,000, 900. BY the terms of the con
tracts, however, the lines would all be
complete by Nov. l, 1890, aud as to con-
cessions by the st. Paul council, MIR,
Lowry said, None are wanted. and
none will he asked" Both cities would
receive equal treatment, and there
would be equality in everything per
tanning to the service. The committee
expressed satisfaction at the clearneSs
of the colonei's statements and with
drew with increased confidence in his
good faith.