St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-23
GOES MERELY ON.
Work on Additional Street
Car Lines in Saint
Paul.
Selby Avenne Cable Extern
sion to Be Completed
Early in July.
Building Of a Power House
May Delay the University
Line.
Twin City Jobbers, Touring
Montana, Swear Eternal
Friendship.

The Selby avenue cable line extern
sion will be completed to Fairview ave-
nue., the intended limit, by July Is. The
steady work of four hundred men on
the line has resulted in bringing it to
stage approaching completion at much
earlier date than was expected by the
most Sanguine, and within month the
cars will be running regularly over the
new line. Taking the intermittent
strikes and other happenings detrimen-
tai to progress into consideration, the
work has been done with praiseworthy
celebrity, and without causing any
delay in the running of the regular
cable trains. The extension of the
street railway facilities all over the city
is being carried on with equal rapidity.
The extension of the electric line along
Wabasha street across the bridge to
South Wabasha, and thence along the
line of the old Winifred street route,
has been completed so far as the tracks
are concerned, the. posts to carry the
electric wires having yet to be put in
place. This branch of the general ex-
tension is boon to the people of West
St. Paul, who have hitherto been
compelled to put up with the
wretched service offered them in the
old Oakland avenueE cars, which ran
but once in twenty minutes in theory
and less than twice an hour i'll reality.
In this connection it must be said I'll at
the presence of the electric car on
bridge square will add another to the
dangers of that particularly dangerous
locality. On the University avenue
line 200 men have been kept at work
regularly, and at the present writing
the IRON has been laid to point beyond
the transfer. This line will be pushed
through to Minneapolis with all possible
speed, and will be completed,
cerned by the end of July. 1t will be
some time after the rails are laid, how
ever, before the new power house will
be ready to furnish electricity for the
propulsion of the cars. The University
avenue works are in charge of Supt.
Curtin, and the Selby avenue line is
being pushed by Supt. Morgan.
The completion of the numerous lines
now in course of construction will give
to st. Paul facilities for rapid transit
unequaled anywhere in the cities of
the West. The North st. Paul motor
line. while not portion of the street
railway company's system, is a
voluable addition to the city's
resources, and has already, though
but week in operation, an eX-
last Sunday took advantage of the new
route for trip to the shores of Silver
lake indicate that the road will have all
it can do to accommodate its patrons,
especially during the summer months.
No less is the crowding of the cars
which run to Groveland park An index
to what will be done when it becomes
possible TO ride to Minneapolis and back
on the new line for % cents. The mana
gers for the company state that
the new power house will not take so
long to complete as now seems probable
to the ordinary observer. The slow pro-
greSs of the work in that direction mas
been occasioned by the rocky strata
through which it was necessary to pass
in order to lay the foundations. Blast
ing has been resorted to, and the struct-
ure will advance in construction more
rapidly than in the past. The work of
placing the iron posts to carry the wires
is another feature of construction which
consumes great deal of time and labor.
This is on account of the fact that each
post hole so far has had to be drilled
with a steam drill through solid rock.
In the case of the West side line this
difficulty will not present. and much
more rapid progress can be made. This
is also true of a great portion of the
length of the University avenue line.
A large numberof new cars have been
ordered for the new lines, which will
be fully equipped with everything nee
esSary for firSt-claSs service. The grip
cars will be specially constructed on an
entirely new plan, making the control
Trains will be run on the new line be-
tween the cities every fifteen minutes,
and as the rate of speed allowed outside
the city limits will reach twenty miles
an hour, the difference in time between
the electric and short lines will be but
slight,