St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-15
Citizens OF Midway Protest
Against Unsatisfactory
Street Car Service.
Street Railway Company Ac-
knowledge Earning 40
Per Cent,
Yet Proper Accommodation Is
Refused the Hamlin-
ties.
Citizens Will Tonight Swoop
Down Upon the City
Aldermen.

The heavy rain of yesterday was not
sufficient to obscure the lurid glow
which Overspread the western part of
the city last evening. 1t only served 20
Intensity the Inconvenience of the re-
cent change in the Hamline and st.
Anthony Park street car lines. and the
disgust of the passengers who bad to
await, in the heavy showers, the pleas
ure of the railway company. The anger
eliminated in mass meeting OF the
citizens Of the two parks III the town
hall at uamIine. The object was to
consider the change in the service of
the electric line which went into effect
Saturday morning, compelling passed.
gers to transfer at Univerity and Lex
ingtOn avenues instead Of being carried
through. Indignation was at white
heat and the air was thick with fiery
darts at Mr.. Lowry, and the box which
has been used for distributing salt along
the lines and now is sailed down AT the
intersection OF the two lines was the
target for all which could he spared
from the president of the railway COM
pany.
The meeting was called to order by J.
II: Chamberlain, and II. K. Evans was
appointed chairman. Z. j.. Buell., of
st. Anthony PARK, spoke OF the diff
Guilty OF the high school students in
reaching their place Of learning OH time.
With great danger to their health they
are compelled TO stand waiting for cars
in such weather as this, because Mr..
Lowry declares that the line is not pay
ing. while he tells Eastern capitalists
that 80 per cent of the nickelS taken in
is clear profit He continued:
We'd better let Mr.. Lowry alone The
thing 10 do is to. all of us, go down to the
council and tell them of the poor service on
the line. Let us stale our case plainly, and L
believe we will get what we want.
A communication was read by Read
johnson from lady who teaches in the
Madison school. A young lady, a
teacher in st. Anthony Park, was COM
PEELED to stand
Waiting for Her Car
one hour, and two absences make her
lose half days salary.
w. +. Rich moved That a committee of
one hundred be appointed to interview
the council, which q. j. Buell. amended
by including all the citizens of the two
parks. a committee was appointed to
Investigate and draw resolutions setting
forth all the grievances in pointed Ian.
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OF the committee. e. n. AkerS ana X.
X. Evans complete the number.
The street railway company is COM
PEELED to pay ; per cent of its gross
earnings and $40 Il year for each car for
the privilege of the franchise. and it
was suggested that this line is 10 be put
in with the interurban line as MinneaD-
oils trade. This bomb was thrown in to
add fire 10 the meeting and occasiOned
considerable discussion. as it will be
easy to avoid the tax Oh the earnings.
a street railway company never has
any net earnings if they are to be taxed
A large delegation of st. Anthony
Park entered here. Col. Taylor was
called upon to express his views, and he
Voice them 10y saying:
The time for smooth words is passed
away and the time for vigorous kicking ar
rived.
II. e. Craig declared that they ought
to kick with both feet. as it is matter
Of dollars and cents with us as we'll as
for the railway company. He declared
he was mad. and if he were a citizen of
st. Anthony Park he would be madden
yet.
The letter which Mr.. Lowry sent to
Aid. l.. j. DUbner after the meeting of
two months ago was read, in which he
said no action would be taken in regard
to the matter OF transferring until the
committee from the meeting could pre-
sent its side. and a suggestion to have
the letter printed was received with ap-
plause.
Lawyer kirkpatrick. of st. Anthony,
said that the people of the Park were
known every where as kickers. and he
thought everyone would like to see Tom
Lowry and his railway buried i'll the
Bottom OF the Sea
Every man with friend i'm the coun-
Gil should talk to him in earnest, for
Tom Lowry will want something of the
city sometime. He continued:
once we had trains every hour, and we
talk Of them and the good ola times when
we were sure we would get there. we want
every man, woman and child TO kick; protest
whenever Tom Lowry hobs up serenely and
we viii get what we want. One of the cit
liens said he spent forty days of ten hours
each III the cars. during the year, and now
the company is anxious to compel them 10
spend six months.
{. \. AkerS answered the excuse that
is made that it is impossible to run the
large cars Oh the lnterur0gn as fast
when the slow cars from the Hamllne
and st. Anthony line: then he should
forfeit his franchise for putting such
poor service upon these suburban resi-
dents He said:
We probably cannot go to law about It but
we can go before the court of public opinion.
Wemay disagree il politics and other things
but IN this we are like the Irishman and his
wife; when any one gets after us. we pull to-
gether.
A motion was carried that a general
invitation be extended to all in the city
who symDathiZe in the matter to meet
the committee at the city council this
evening and let Tom Lowry under
stand THAT what the Lord hath given
the Lord can take away"
A second motion instructed the alder
man for that district to sae that a DO
liceman be sent to the salt car tomor-
row morning and protect the public
from trampS and other evils.
An adjournment was taken to the
rooms of the city council this evening.