St. Paul daily globe., 1890-05-18
Stoppage Of the Grand Ave-
nue. Line Will Affect Mac
alester Property.
A General Upward Tendency
in Realty Throughout
the City.
Capital Continues to Flow
West and the Loan Busi-
ness Is Growing.

Lowry, nine lnOntnS ago, dSretu W luI-
nish. Mr.. Lowry has been approached,
and this is what he said: CONTRACTS
have been made for all the material
necessary to build the lines, and bills
are being received daily for electric ma
terial now on the road to st. Paul, ,includ-
ing eighty electric motors to be used on
the lines of this city," Such state
ment is one which will be particularly
pleasing to citizens, who, naturally.
had begun to fear that little
was going to be done in the
way of providing better street transpor-
tation than has hitherto characterized
the city. Mr.. Lowry added: "We shall
ask no concessions of the city council.
The task we have undertaken is Her.
culean one. and far greater than we
supposed when we began; but all ar
rangements have been made, SO that we
feel confident that all the lines stipulat-
ed will be done long before November.
$780,"
While the action of Mr.. Lowry is per-
fectly satisfactory, the discontlnuaHce
of the Grand avenue line west of Vic
ment of Grand avenue property. The
line will be closed. from the point
named, for several months, If the state
ment made by Thomas Cochran, DR.,
means anything at all. Mr.. Cochran says
that difficulty has arisen over the grad
ing of Grand avenue, straight through
Manchester Park. This necessitated
rearrangement of the Park streets.
which previously ran in curves and at
all angles. All the property owners
except one. named Matthew Taylor,
agreed to the rearrangement. Taylor
refused to settle without the payment
of $4,000. Other developments fol-
lowed, and now Messrs. Cochran and
Ireland find themselves in hole, and
that the best way out is to pull up the
Cochran says: 1--WE do not intend to
abandon the line, but we shall get the
board of public works to open the street
and then relay the track"
+ One of the first proposals to bring
Eighth street as a business street into
greater prominence was that made
/. Thursday evening by COL Barr before
I the council committee on streets. The
street railway company proposes to con-
struct a single electrical track on
Z. Eighth, from Robert to Wabasha. The
object of the track is to form loop
around which all electric lines entering
the business center OF the city Will run,
tables. j, T, Mcmillan. property owner
on Eighth street, objects to the PROPOSE
tion simply because the loop line was
wholly for the convenience of the street
railway company. He had no objection
to the laying of double track. provld-
ing that the line covers considerable
length of Eighth street, and will be an
accommodation to the people living on
the street. A considerable amount of
property on Eighth street has the past
year been bought up by local capital
lists, and there is every reason to believe
that few years will see this one OF the
business thoroughfares of the city.
Considerable activity is being dis
played in realty circles, as is evidenced
by the following transfers; z. {. John
son to E. M. Gillette, nine lots in Mil
toms addition, Sl1, ZOO; w. L. Matthews
to l.. B. Magee, one lot in Nolcombe's
addition, $4,000; M. c. Finch to ii. E.
Driscall, parts lots 16 and II, block 2,
Terrace Park addition, $4,000; Union
Land company to NJ. Doran, twenty
lots in Desnoyer Park, $4,000; w. ID.
Wychoff to W. E. Bramhall, two
lots, Summit Park, $3.50; j. w.
Jaggard to j. E. Williams. one
lot, Woodland Park, $500; j. Guertin
to ID. A. Michaud, part block of West
st. Paul proper, $4,000. AS indicated
above, the stOppage of the Grand avenue,
west of Victoria, will have bad effect
on Midway property, but this Will be
removed if the University line, connect
ai% ic ,,rncnnntnh q
way which Mr.. Lowry'S remarks would
lead citizens to believe that it will be.
The firm of Faliihee & Snow have
gone into the Midway district property
in great shape. During the past thirty
days they have sold at wholesale and
Stinson's Boulevard, Wann's, Haupt's,
Frlendsville and adjoining additions.
| They are offering property in this vlcin-
| ity at least 50 per cent below value, the
| prices ranging from $500 to 81 900 per
| lot, according to location. They have
| shown considerable enterprise in locat-
| ing branch office on the ground as an
| electric waiting station for the accom-
mediation of the public. and to show
| probable purchasers just where and
how any particular lot lay. The declare
| the following persons will build houses
| in Stinson's Boulevard addition at
once: Cyrus Wellington (of Erwin &
| Wellington, Il. G. Turner with Robin
son & Cary Coz, William Croxford Sr..
| William Croxford Jr., Daniel Authiers,
John Hasslin, William Dawson. Freder-
! ick Femming, Smith & Taylor (two),
Falllhee & Snow two. There are sew
| eral other prominent citizens who also
con template building in this addition in
/ the near future.
The mayor has appointed citizens
| committee to cooperate with Manufac-
| turers' Loan and Investment associa-
tion in securing subscriptions towards
it's capital stock. Really there should
| be no difficulty in raising this money,
that is if the patriotism Of the money
men of the city is worthy of the
started the flourish with which
| its Inauguration was heralded
lent the impression that no
difficulty would be experienced in rails
! ing the S1,000,000 capital stock. The
| work. however, is not so easy as antici
| pated. About 100000 has now been
subscribed, and. unless the big capital
| lists, who will benefit most by the devel-
| opment of the city. subscribe more
| largely for the stock, the association
will be long time before it gets down
| to actual business-that is if the origi-
| nalintention is adhered to, not to COM
mence actual operations until the whole
| of the capital stock is subscribed.
NOTES.
The building trade continues to be
very brisk.
| A great business is being done in
| mortgage loans. Eastern capital is
flowing into the city just now.
| The st. Paul church will build
three-story brick block OH Tenth, near
| Olive, at an estimated cost of $4,000.
Nels Berkey has taken out permit
for five frame dwellings on GrottO, near
| Thomas. to cost $4,000.
j. A. Berkey has taken outa permit
| for three houses on Selby avenue, near
Summit. the estimated cost of which is
| $4,000.
Architect C. A. Wallingford has the
| following new work in charge: An