St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-19
Aldermen Make a Deep
Mouthed Kick at Street
Railway Style.
The Special Committee Has a
Grievance Against Near
ly Every Line.
AS Large a Grist as Usual
Of Miscellaneous Bust
ness Done.
The Ordinance for the North
Side Belt Line Is Pre-
Sented.

The more important phase of last
nights meeting of the board OF alder.
men was the blow struck at Thomas
Lo 'ry's street railway service. On
nearly every line in the city the service
has been abridged, and Mr.. Lowry com
plains, it is related, that he has been
forced TO this course by the transfer
system.
The committee on street railway that
has been making an investigation into
the matter submitted a report, which
was adopted unanimously by the conn-
ell. The report reads:
Your joint committee to whom was re-
terred various resolutions. some of which
were introduced in the board OF aldermen
and some i'll The assembly. relative tC the ST.
Paul City Railway company TO the condi-
ton of the service on the various lines i'll The
city and asking for better service on the Vari-
| Gus lines, and also for the extension of some
of the lines of the street railway system, have
fully considered the same.
The committee has held a great many SEES
| SionS al several of which Mr. Lowry repre-
| senting the ST. Paul City Railway company
has been present and several of which many
public spirited citizens of the CITY have at
| tended. and also committees from various
organizations and also committee from the
| chamber of commerce.
| A these meetings the questions referred TO
| your committee have been discussed and con-
| sidered i'll detail. Mr.. Lowry, OIL behalf of
| the company has, in some respects, beer
| liberal i'll the promises made TO your COM
| mittee. but after a full consideration it seems
| difficult for your committee and Mr.. Lowry
| 10 agree upon what is necessary and proper
! with respect to any particular line. as 10
| what is a fair and reasonable service to be
| ndered by The city railway company to the
public. Mr. Lowry evidently holds 10 the
! opinion that on all of the present existing
| lines he is rendering service entirely sutti-
| Gent and what ought 10 be considered III all
! respects reasonable. Your committee is I'M
| able TO agree with Mr.. Lowry in the views
! that he takes i'll this matter, and without
! generalzmg furtheryour committee now Will
| point out what has been and what is being
! done upon certain lines in the city. and will
| state its opinion as 10 what service the city
| of st. Paul ought to expect from the ST. Paul
City Railway company.
EAST SEVENTH STREET CABLE
The service has been reduced from a five
| minute to a seven-and- half minute serv-
| ice. with extra trains taken off now and
! then at all hours, making the service still
more Inadequate. During one of the first
| conferences with Mr.. Lowry he agreed To
| give at least siX-minute service. This
| promise has not been kept.
MARIA AVENUE EXTENSION.
Formerly every cher cable train connect.
| ed with an electric car on Maria avenue
| Since the change in the cable service they
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sn~vice on Maria avenue was asked. In an
sw to this the service has been reduced to
one electric car only. This car makes 22
niles for round trip. II is run at a high
rate Of speed. This does not meet the re-
quire n ants in the least On neither line is
The se'Tlce anywhere near adequate The
cars ar shameiully overcrowded. to the
reat di comfort of ladies and children and
al who nave TO use the line.
II.t natter of SO arranging the service be-
| tween the East Seventh street cable line and
| the eastern city@limits or the Wood harvester
| works has been under consideration of the
J committee and MIR. Lowry. who stated that
| negotiations were il progress with the own
| ers Of the electric line to White Bear where
| by only one fare is 10 be charged to the city
| limits for one continuous ride. The com
mltiee see no prospect OF the early fulfiilnent
| of this promise.
| The committee then reported that ii is
| likely tina: Mr.. Lowry will make the promised
extension OF the Maria avenue line TO Indian
| Mound park. The committee recommended
that five minute service be insisted on on
| the Seventh street cable line, and that the
Maria avenue cars connect with every other
cable car. as formerly.
| LAFAYETTE AND RoNDo LINES
| Prior 10 Sept. l. 1892 cars were run on fhe
| Lafayette and Rondo lines every ten minutes.
| the cars making the round trip in 100 min
| utes; extra cars were run morning, noon and
| night. During the time extra cars were in
service the cars were run every five minutes
| On Sept. |, 1892, two cars were taken from
| the regular service and the speed increased
and cars run every ten minutes. making the
| round trip IN eighty minutes; at the same
| time the extra cars at noon were taken off
and every other car after O'Clock p. m.
| Your committee is OF the opinion that the
speed on this line being such that the round
| UP Is made IN eighty minutes is too fast with
| the number OF cars running and that it is
| impossible TO give regular service with the
! number of cars on that line. 1t is ATTEMPTED
| to run the cars regularly ev ery ten minutes
I account GnpQd nd or
| amount OF travel on this line il is wholly
| impracticable to make the time-on account
| OF this we fiud the cars sometimes running
| SIX and ven minutes apart, and AT other
| times sixteen to twenty minutes apart
Your committee is of The opinion that the
| cars Oh this line should be run every eight
minutes apart up to clock p. No.. and that
| extra cars should be run morning and even
| ing. After o'clock D. M your committee
| are satisfied that cars should run, in any
! event, as often as every twelve minutes.
| MISSISSIPPI AND WEST ST. PAUL LINE.
On this line prior to Oct /, 1892 the cars
| were run every ten minutes, and the service
| might be considered reasonable; since that
time larger cars have been placed on this
| line. and the time of the running of the cars
| has been fixed at thirteen minutes apart
| While with the larger cars the city railway
| company may be able to carry all who desire
| to patroniZe 1t by running as they dc. vet in
view Of the many other lines that this line
| crosses ana the inconvenience of DELAYS, we
think the cars on this line should be run as
often as every twelve minutes
! JACKSON STREET LINE.
On this line cars are run every thirty min
utes, anG although 1t is line where it can
| not be eXpec,ed that there is to be great
| amount of travel, yet your committee does
not believe that the city railway company is
furnishing reasonable service on this line.
y our committee believe that ears should be
run on this line every fifteen minutes
Prior TO the operation of what is now
known as the jackson street line, the Mis-
sissippi street line ran out jackson street to
Thirteenth street; thence on Thirteenth
street 10 MISSISSIPPI street: now as there are
no cars operated on Thirteenth street. we
would recommend that the city railway com
| pany remove their tracks and poles from that
street and Tx the street up i'll proper coli.
| dition
HAMLINE AND ST. ANTHONY PARK LINE.
Your committee recommend that the pres
| ent service be continued.
| COMO AVENUE LINE.
| BY The ordinance granting the St Paul City
| Railway company the right to construct and
| operate electric railway lines in the city of
| ST. Paul, it is provided that there should be q
line constructed connecting with the Uni.
yersity avenue line at The intersection of Rice
| street and University avenue; thence on Rice
street TO Como avenue; thence OH Como av-
enue 10 Front street. which line shall be
| completed and i'll operation on or before the
first day of November, 1890. The St Paul
City Railway company has never operated
| such line. 1t constructed a single track OF,
street, which connects with the lines running
on Rice street. On this line there is operated
only one car. which makes at the present
| time round trip every sixteen minutes
| This is better service than what was formery
| rendered, which consisted of five trips every
two hours.
Your committee recommend that the street
railway company be required, in order tc
furnish reasonable service. TO run two cars
| connecting with the University avenue line;
thence on Rice street TO Como avenue; thence
| on Como avenue to Front street.
| 1t was intended by the ordinance that this
line should be extended to Como park prior
to this time, but under the ordinance the city
is not in position 10 require the extension OF
! this line at this time.
Your committee has had several consulta
tons with Mr.. Lowry about this extension
but we have failed to arrive at-any salts
fsetory result. This Como avenue extension
ought to be built at once, and we feel that
although it cannot be required. yet in view
of the iiberaiity of the city OF
St Paul towards the ST. Pau
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