St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-20
LowRY's EARS MUST BURNS
His Name in Everbody's Mouth
and Not COMPLIMENTARY.

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and Not Complimentary.
The residents of Southeast Minneap-
oils are the people who never hesitate
to speak their minds. They are now
after one L. Lowry, and the lusty bowls
which are going up from their Threats
must be heard in Red Wing. They are
not simply mad" at Mr.. Lowry; they
are beside themselves with rage. And
it is all because the internrban electric
line has not been put in operation. The
s0utheasterners argue that they have
given the street railway company very
valuable franchise, prospectively speak
ing, and that nothing has yet been
meted out to them in return. Should a
Sh0rt-lIne company, they say, attempt
to built an additional road from Mime
apolis to st. Paul, the mere right of
way, which Mr.'Lowry has acquired for
nothing. would cost hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. 1t is even said that
Mr.. Lowry was offered a round million
dollars by New York firm for his in
terurban franchise Immediately after it
was granted him.
With such feelings in their breasts.
these people gathered at the corner of
Oak and Cambridge streets Tuesday
night and poured out the demijObnS of
company, and committee, headed by
Police Commissioner Guile and Prof. j.
&. Moore, was appointed to confer with
Mr.. Lowry. The other members of the
committee are w. F. Decker, A. II.
Humphreys, j. Nj. Dunn. III.
ellison, W. A. Pike and j. B.
Eustis. Nearly 100 representative
East siderS were present. But the
kickers get little satisfaction from the
company. c. G. Goodrich says there is
no cause for complaint and. as evidence
of good faith, he caused one car to be
run over the line yesterday afternoon.
But the people in Southeast MinDeapo-
lis will continue to kick.
Another source of complaint to the
patrons of the street cars is the re-
cently-adopted transfer system. Trans
fer checks, instead of being deliverable
by the conductors on each car, can be
procured only at Hennepin and Wash
ington. Here is what one kicker says:
came up The Washington avenue line the
other day. and told the conductor wanted
transfer TO First avenue. So he said / would
have to go to Hennepin to get it. As / passed
First avenue there was car just about to
start which should have taken. When we
got to Hennepin. as il was busy time of day
the car was crowded, and it SO happened that
all the passengers in the car wanted transfers
except two or three. So the car was stopped,
the conductor marched US in a body to
the transfer agent, where q very pleasant in
formal reception was held. the conductor
presenting thespassengers i'll turn. He was a
very pleasant gentleman, and very possibly
we should never have had chance 10 meet
him socially, except under this system; but
1t took two or three minutes of valuable
time, and then those of us who wanted to
take the First avenue line had to walk two
blocks. We just missed car there and had
to wait for the next one q was not the only
one by any means.)
1t strikes good many patrons of the
street cars that this clumsy transfer
system is employed so that passengers
may be induced to spend an extra nickel
and avoid the trouble of getting trans
fer check. But Manager Goodrich says
the company is merely experimenting"