St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-08
A NEW ORDINANCE DRAWN.

ne SlleeI railway OTullldutc WHlCl
the board of aldermen committee on
streets have recommended to pass, and
which, il is said. will carry with only
two opposing votes, is the LIGHTNER
ordinance with many material changes
aud additions. The LIGHTNER pro-
VISION with reference to transfers 10 and
from the interurban line is not
changed; but the arrangement of the
University avenue boulevard, and the
requirements rs to stopping ears for
passengers at street crossings are ma
terially altered.
The LIGHTNER ordinance provides
that transfers shall be issued on
any st. Paul line to any other
city line ''that will not practically
return the passenger to or near the
point from which he started" The
clause Quoted is stricken out. 1t was
admitted by the aldermen that a pas
senger riding on the Lafayette avenue
line from Arlington hills could get his
transfer check, get off at Broadway and
Seventh, transact little business, then
board Mississippi street ear and ride
on his transfer to within three blocks Of
where he started from on Arlington
hills; but it was argued that the COM
pany must devise some system of trans
ferring that would foil such work, aud
that, if it could not, it must take its
chances.
An additional provision is that the
Stryker avenue and Maria avenue new
lines must be completed by July this
year. The provision that no other new
lines, aside from these, the Como ave-
nue., Lake Phalen and the extension of
the Selby avenue, can be ordered by
the council to be built before July l,
1895, Is extended to July 1, 1898.
The LIGHTNER provision, that the city
cannot tear up the Como avenue line TO
build sewers inside of five years, is
changed to three years.
The license provision is changed so
that if on July each year the license
inspector finds that more cars are being
operated on June l than there were
January /, when the count was made,
the company must pay license on the
extra number.
The East Seventh street cable is to be
turned into an electric, and that and
the West Seventh street united as one
line. Then an additional provision re-
quireS that the cars shall be operated to
the harvester works, or that transfers
shall pay the fare of people riding from
the East Seventh street power house on
the White Bear line to the works. An
other additional clause provides that the
Maria avenue cars shall be run on the
Seventh street tracks to Robert street.
The original provision is changed so
that the electric extension of the Selby
avenue cable shall be double track
line around through Merriam Park to
connection with the lnterurban line.
An additional requirement is that Mr..
LOWRY shall extend the Lafayette and
ROndo line at both ends-the east. to
Lake Phalen, and the west, three blocks
beyond Dale street. The east end ex-
tension need not be in operation earlier
than July next year, and the cars are
required TO run to the lake only be-
tween May l ana Oct. /, before Oct. 1,
1897; after that date they must go to the
lake the year round.
Another addition to the LIGHTNER
ordinance is provision that the change
in the interurban transfer system shall
not go into effect until Mr.. LOWRY has
the Como avenue line in operation,
made all the changes OF the Seventh
street lines required, and performed
hn 10 IN do IL,
There are several other changes; but
the ones here enumerated are the most
important ones. The ordinance is pub
lished in full elsewhere, and every citi
zen should read it carefully,