St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-08
Which Is Referred to a Com
mittee Before He Can
Have 1t Read.
Claim That the New InStru-
ment Has No Objection
able Features.
Interurban Transfers Surren-
dered and a Double Track
to Como.

A large gTlSt OF routine business was
disposed Of at the board Of aldermen
me eting last night. Aid. Warren, at
the close of the session, introduced an
ordinance relating to street railway
matters, which is given below:
Section /. That section IA of Ordi-
nance No. 1927, entitled IAN ordinance
authorizing the st. Paul City Railway
company to construct, equip, maintain
ana operate street railway lines III the
city of st. Paul." passed Sept. 10, 1889,
and approved Sept. 20. 1889, be, and the
same is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Said st. Paul City Railway company
shall issue transfer check to any pas
senger who has paid one fare on any
line now operated. or to be hereafter
operated by said st. Paul City Railway
company in the city of st. Paul, which
transfer check shall entitle the passeu-
ger so receiving the same to continu-
Gus passage Oh any connecting OF cross
ing line operated. or to be hereafter
operated. by said st. Paul City Railway
company, with animal or any other
power. or on any other line operated, or
TO be hereafter operated by said COM
pany in said city, which shall not
practically return the passenger to OF
near the point from which such pas
senger started.
No passenger shall be entitled to
more than one transfer for one fare.
and such transfer check shall be used
only by the person receiving the same
for one continuous passage, and shall
be used upon the first car departing on
the connecting or crossing line, or. in
"a - fIaGAEe
line, then upon the first car departing
thereon after the passenger shall have
had time to reach the same by proceed
ing directly thereto.
No Interurban Transfers.
Provided however, that said transfer
checks shall not be good to or from or
on interurban cars, meaning by Inter
III ban cars" cars actually operated and
while operated for through travel be-
tween the cities of st. Paul and Mime
apolis and which are plainly designated
OH the outside as ''interurban cars"
Provided further however, that such
transfer checks shall be good and shall
be issued to or from and on said inter-
urban cars for local passengers to and
from auy portion of any line in the city
of st. Paul upon which said lnterurban
cars are operated.
Sec. 2. The above amendments and
this ordinance are made subject to and
upon the condition that the said The ST.
Paul City Railway company shall, With
i'll fifteen days after the publication or
this ordinance, file with the city clerk
written acceptance of the provisions
thereof, and carry out the following
provisions, to wit:
First-The st. Paul City Railway
company shall change the present So
called East Seventh street cable line to
an electric line, and operate the cars
over said East Seventh street by means
of electricity. pneumatic or gas power,
as provided IN section of said OrdI-
nance No. 1927 above referred to.
When such change is made what is
now known as West Seventh street, eX-
tending westerly from the Intersection
of West Seventh street and Wabasha
street. in the city of st. Paul, shall be
connected Herewith and made part of
the said East Seventh street lines that
cars may be operated continuously
along and over said East and West Sew
enth streets. Such change to be made
and the said line along East Seventh
street to be in operation as an electric
line on or before the 1st day Of July,
1893, and when said change is made OH
said East Seventh street line the cars
now operated on the Maria avenue line,
so called, shall be run down into the
city and operated up and down East
Seventh street.
Double Track 40 Como.
Second-The st. Paul City railway
company shall construct and operate
double track line from said "loop," in
the city of st. Paul, out along Wabasha
street to Rice street; thence along Rice
street to the intersection of Rice street
and Como avenue: thence along Como
avenue to the intersection of Como
avenue and Front street: thence along
Front street to the intersection of
Chatsworth and Front streets; thence
along ChatSWorth street to the inter-
section of ChatsWorth street and Van
Slyke avenue; thence along Van Slyke
avenue, to Como park.
Said line is to be constructed along
the route above described and to be
completed and in operation within
thirty days after the sewer shall have
been laid along Como avenue as far out
as the point where Como avenue inter
sects the right of way of the Great
Northern Railway company; provided,
however, that after said line is so con-
structed no sewer shall be ordered or
built along any portion of said line from
the said intersection so as TO require the
taking up of the tracks OF said COM
pany, or to interfere with the operation
of cars OH said line for period of three
years from the completion of said line.
Said line shall be built, operated and
maintained as asdOuble track line.
Third-The said st. Paul City Rail-
way company shall extend and operate
the Merriam Park extension of the Selby
avenue line, so-called, from the point to
which said company now operates its
cars on Prior avenue in said city of st.
Paul to the intersection Of Prior avenue
and University avenue with said COM
pany, the same to be in operation on or
before the first day of May, 1898.
Fourth-The said The st. Paul City
Railway company shall furnish and op-
crate open cars sufficient to accommo-
date on all the lines operated or TO be
city of st. Paul during the summer
collect from said company only one an
nual license fee for each closed car
which said company shall operate over
and OH its lines in said city of st. Paul.
The said annual license fee to be the
same amount and payable at the time
named in section II of said ordinance
No. 1921. Provided, that no license
shall he charged on or collected on any
open car operated by said company, or
grip cars, so called, used on its cable
lines.
A Proposed Repeal.
Sec. 8. That certain ordinance passed
bv the common council of the city of