St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-31


tiations were completed yesterda y.
The Thompson-Houston company will
equip the line, and Lane K. Stone,
supplementing the exclusive statement
in the GOBE yesterday, says:
The road will be frst-class in every re-
spect. 1t will have splendid roadbed, fully
ballasted and laid with fifty-pound steel
rails and with no sharp curves. 1t will be
built so that its trains can make the quickest
time and be perfectly safe: 1t will also be
competent to handle freight with steam mo-
tors. as at present. The electric equipment
will be OF the latest and best. There will be
two twenty five horsepower electric motors
in each car. capable of making thirty or forty
miles per hour"
THE electric plant will be at North st
Paul and will consist of two 10G-horse power
dynamos with two steel boilers made by Bah
cock d. Wilcox, and condensing engines OF
the latest models. A large brick bnilding will
be erected at once for the purpose. The
large high-speed motors, five III number, Will
run from the city to Mahtomedi in forty min
utes or less, and will make trips half
hourly or ofteper, so that resi-
dents of White Bear lake can have
satisfactory service at very low prices.
The cars will be constructed ut Pullman, ana
are to be the finest and most expensive built
for electric roads. Itss expected that in the
early future the ST. Paul City Railway COM
pamy will take up the East Seventh street
caDie anu 6uDSIlluIS 6lSCLIlClJy. Nutu LILLE
is done our cars will run Oh East Seventh
street from Wabasha street, so that there
VIII be no change of cars. Until this is done
ticket will be good over the cable line"
by looking at the map it will be seen that
we are supplying what has become a crying
need of st. Paul. III order to get the largest
manufacturing establishments here we re-
quire ample room for shop grounds, etc., and
the best shipping facilities. Our railroad.
when completed. will connect with
the Chicago. Burlington & North
ern. the Omaha, the Wisconsin
Central the St. Paul .& Duluth and the
Sault Ste. Marie lines These are practically
all the lumber. coal and iron roads Hence
manufactory located anywhere at North st.
Paul or Hazel Park, or along the east line Of
the city, will have six railroads instead of
only one or two. Freight viii he delivered to
the side tracks of any factory at St Paul
rates.
''This in itself is of the greatest value to St.
Paul. as the present transfer between the
two cities is SO situated that the heavy cost
for factory grounds, for establishments of
the largest class. hampers the developments
we are all working for. We own l30-foot
right of way nearly the entire distance. and
when the business becomes large enough we
will build double tracks. The electric equip
ment will not interfere with using the line
for freight traffic. This is now done on the
completed portion.
I'VE expect to have SO good line and TO
give the public such service that the most
delightful excursion for st. Paul people dur
ing the summer will be ride over our line to
While Bear lake. We contemplate extensive
terminal improvements at White Bear. but
as that part of the plan is not yet fully ma
tured. we prefer TO dc it in detail We ex-
pect to have the road completed and running
not later than June 15"
The road, when completed, will be
the longest continuous electric line in
this country-in fact; the world. Messrs.
L.. K. Stone, w. S. Morton, I'll. M.
Byllesby, Joseph Jockey and H. G.
Lewis will constitute the first board of
directors