St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
A Trip Over the New Elee-
trical Road to White
Bear.
The 18th Inst. Named for Put
ting the Line in Oper-
alton.
A Boy Accidentally and Prob
ably Fatally Hurt by a
Playmate.
Corridor Chat Corralled at
Random With DiStin-
guished Visitors.

Yesterday a GLOBE representative,
under the guidance of Walter Morton.
spent several hours looking over the
improvements being made by the new
st. Paul d White Bear Railroad COM
pany. Reversing the usual order of
things. start was made at the White
Bear end of the line. On the lake
grounds everything is rapidly approach
ing completion; trees have been
trimmed, opening beautiful view out
upon the lake, underbrush has all been
cut off. docks are nearly finished and
Work OH the new Casino is being rapid
ly pushed. Yesterday forenoon the
locations of the bath houses and tobog
gan slide were selected, and work at
once begun. A site was also deter
mined upon for large rifle gallery on
the tunnel" system, the range con-
ssting of long tunnel of boiler-irOn
forty feet in length and about six feet
in diameter, ensuring absolute safety
from wild firing and stray bullets.
The grading is finished far beyond the
picnic grounds toward Mahtomedl, and
the track is laid to the lake shore. From
u
bed begins TO ascend, at last reaching
the level. of the surrounding country
after long grade of 1000 feet. The view
from this point is, without exception,
one of the finest in the neighborhood OF
st. Paul. Toward the south stretches
The Beautiful Valley
of Four Lakes. while towards the north
stretches the rolling country checkered
nj mi
of'oakS. AS the train neared Castle,
the brackets system of suspending the
trolley wires from single line of posts
is given up. being replaced by the reg
ular sus penson-wire system, having a
row of poles on each side of the track,
the brackets being resumed after pass
ing through the town. The trolley
wires are strung as far as Castle, but
the feed wires reach as yet but to
North ST. Paul, where there is in
course of erection the new power house
of the company.
One very important feature of the
road is that it has all been so con-
structed as TO permit of the using OF
regulation railway stock of any railroad.
The road is standard gauge, with ties
laid twenty inches from center to cell
ter, all rallied with fifty-pound steel
D,
The trolley wires are strung twenty-One
feet above the rails. and will not inter-
fere in the least with the handling of
regulation freight cars.
At North st. Paulithe power house is
ready for the roof. and will be in shape
for use in about ten days. The build
ing is of ChaSka brick. and is 36X122
feet. The north half is arranged for
car house, with capacity OF twelve
thlTty-two foot cars, such as will be used
BY the Company. '-1
: The boilers, with a capacity Of 300
horse power, are already in place., One,
part of the south half of the building is
occupied by the boiler room, repair
shop and coal bunkerS. and the other by
the engine room, offices and supply
room. The two engines are already set
up, and are the finest tandem expansion
engines obtainable. There still remains
a great deal of work to be done on the
power house, owing to the rainy wealth
er, but Mr.. Morton seems very conf
dent that all will be in running order in
a few days. r.;
The company expects to commence
running trains by the 18th inst. at the
latest, and will place in service five cars
OF the best design. That portion of the
road embracing the old North st. Paul
motor line is of course ready for use,
poles having been set and wiring COM
pleted long since.
The price of single round-trip tickets
will be placed at 10 cents, including tue
cable fare at each end of the trip, while
ten-ride tickets will be sold at the same
rate as that made by the st. Paul IL
Duluth. AS soon as the public realize
the beauty of the trip over this line to
the lake, there is no doubt but that the
new company will have plenty of pat
rOnage