St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-16
SHOW THEIR HANDS.
Anti-Street Railway Alder
men Begin to Get in
Their Work.
Two Ordinances That Have a
Very Retaliatory Appear
ance.
The Board Burdened With a
Great Amount OF Rou tine
Work.
WaG &c.
Closing Up the Business
Handed Down From the
Assembly.

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The board of aldermen last evening
ground out large griSt of business, the
most important features concerning the
street railway company. Aid. Warren
played his usual star role in this part of
the business, introducing an ordinance
and other measures which will tend to
make the street railway company suffer.
ALI were present except Aid. Jensen.
Among the measures Introduced by Aid.
Warren, was the draft of an ordinance
regulating the speed of street cars in
different parts Of the city. 1t prohibits
the running eff cars faster than eight
miles all hour Ill the main part of the
city, and confines the speed to twelve
miles an hour i'll other parts which are
specified. The ordinance is as follows:
Section !. No person having the control
of the speed of street car operated by cleo
tricity shall allow such car TO go i'll that part
of the city within the boundaries, 10 wit:
Beginning on Broadway at the river, and
running north on the east line or that street
to Thirteenth street; thence westerly on the
north line of Thirteenth to Robert; thence
on Robert to the north line of University to
the west line of Rice street: thence along
the westerly and southWesterly line of Rice
street TO Fort street; thence along Fort street
to Eagle street; thence along Eagle 10 the
north bank of the Mississippi river: thence
along the north bank OF the river to
the place of beginning on Broad
way; at rate of speed faster than
eight miles an hour. Nor in any part of the
city outside of the foregoing district bound
ed as follows:
On the nsrth by Minnehaha street, on the
west by Dale street, on the east by Arcade
street, if extended south to Congress street.
and on the south by Congress street, at u rate
of speed faster than twelve miles an hour
Sect. 3 No person having control of the
speed OF a street car in any street shall, eX-
cept III case of accident or TO prevent injury
to persons or property, allow such car 10 go
within ten feet of a car or other vehicle i'll
front.
The remainder of the draft provides that
cars shall not go against persons vehicles
ETC., and that they shall be stopped any place
Ill the street when directed so to do by po-
lice officer; Blso that motornen shall keep
vigilant lookout for people, teams, etc.,
ahead on the track, and that they shall strike
the gong vigorously when approaching teams
and peop.e. Also that the motorman shall
stop his car within the shortest time possible
to avoid accidents. 1t provides that the cars
shall not be stopped on croSSWalks and cross
streets, except TO avoid accidents. 1t pro-
hibits the company and employees Gprinkling
gravel, sand, salt OF other article Of u decom
posing nature on the tracks, except by per-
mission of the city engineer. The penalty
fixed is fine of not less than $40 nor more
than $50
The draft was referred to the commit
tee on streets.
Another Break.
Aid. Franklin played good second
TO Warren in street railway matters,
and offered an ordinance requiring the
street railway company to stop its cars
on University avenue at all street cross
ings. The draft of the ordinance pro-
videS that the cars shall stop at each
street crossing on that avenue to per-
nit passengers to get on or alighJ. The
second section provides that the COM
pany shall remove the signs on the poles
on that avenue which signify the street
crossings where the cars will stop to set
off aud receive passengers. The third
section provides that unless the signs
are removed by the company within
fifteen days, the city shall remove them.
On University avenue, in the Midway
district, there are many street crossings
at which the cars do not stop, and the
ordinance is directed at this rule of the
company.
The substitute for Assembly File No.
936, being an ordinance to grant the st.
Paul City Railway company permission
to construct and maintain all appliance
or device upon Selby avenue, between
pose of more safely operating its cars at
the point" was Indefinitely postponed,
the board being a unit in the matter.
Aid. Warren found another place for
a severe dig at Mr.. Lowry. 1t will be
remembered that the city railway COM
pany secured an ordinance granting the
company permission to replace all its
rails in the city with the ~ rails.
Mayor Smith always maintained that
this rail must from its shape afford an
additional obstruction to vehicles.
He therefore vetoed the "T"
rail ordinance, after it slipped
through the common council as
if creased. But the corporation pro-
cured the passage OF the ordinance over
the mayors veto. Ever since then the
streets have been kept in an almost per-
petual torn-up condition by the com
pany in its work of laying 'T'' rails.
Last evening Aid. Warren secured the
passage by an unanimous vote of an or
dinance repeating the IT" rail ordi-
nance. AS the ''r'' rail ordinance was
not in the form of contract. there
seems to be no reason why it cannot be
repealed.
miscellaneous Work.
e 1t will be remembered that Prof.
Green, of the state experiment station,
at St. Anthony Park, last spring was
aroused from his slumbers one night by
a burglar in his house. He arose and
went for that burglar in way that was
peculiar. The outcome of the seriul-
mage was that the burglar was nearly
killed, and came near dying in the city
hospital from the effects of his wounds.
The burglar gave the name of Peter
Olson; but he had an alias, which was
Karlson. There was before the board
last evening the bin of Drs. Cobb and
Stephens, amounting to SIS, for profess
sional services in saving the life of the
burglar. The board very promptly sat
upon the bill, having first received the
advice of the corporation attorney,
which was that the city is not liable.
The board of public works submitted
its fourth semi-annual report of the
street-light service. The report sets
forth that provision III the contract
pnhort Gaomor