St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-05
The Cross Town Railroad
Scheme Sent to the Spe-
eiaI Committee 10
After Ingersoll Makes a Hard
Fight to Select Dale
Street.
Repaving the Important
Streets Down in the Bust
ness District.
No One Would Touch the Or
dinanee Opening the West
Side LeVee.

The committee on streets, from the
board of aldermen, ''passed up" the
cross town railway ordinance to the
special committee on street railway
matters at the meeting yesterday after
noon. Aid. IngerSoll presented petit
ton said to be signed by 500 property
owners and residents. which requested
that the road be ordered on the follow
ing streets: Commencing at the inter-
section of View and West Seventh
street; thence on View to Jefferson, to
Victoria, to Ridgewood to Milton, to
Grand avenue; then on existing line to
Dale street and on that street across the
railroad bridge. Mr.. Ingersoll made
an earnest plea for the proposed line to
be ordered built on Dale street. He eX-
planned at length how many people such
a line as proposed would accommodate
at the various points along the route,
and said it would be all important feeder
to the present system. He claimed
Dale street was business street and
property owners OH the hill would have
no objection to the line running on that
street. The order to build should. he
argued, be pushed through at once and
the time for the completion of the line
fixed at not later than September. 1894.
Mr.. Ingersoll alluded incidentally in
the course of his remarks to the inter-
est taken by Aid. Warren in street car
~ ho isfr nf
wards explained that his words were
used in playful manner, but not be-
fore the alderman from the Eighth ward
had given the project decidedly black
eye. Aid. Warren said he could get a
petition ten times the length of the one
presented by the Seventh ward repre-.
sentative against the construction of
the line on Dale street: The
argument. advanced, he said, fell
considered in an impartial light. 1t was
not in the province of the council to
order the line built. because the city
council could not order lines placed on
streets where sewers had not been con-
Structed. There was no sewer Oh Dale
street, and for this reason the railway
company would pay no attention to the
order. He spoke in favor OF the ordl-
nance passed by the assembly, and now
before the committee, as much better
than the substitute brought in by Mr..
Ingersol. If the ordinance which had
beea passed by the assembly was not
passed by the board of aldermen there
was no chance for cross town line to
be put in operation. Mr.. Lowry, he said,
was opposed to q line of this kind and
would night it. He was in
favor of amending the ordinance which
had been passed by tho assembly so as
to do away with the objections of prop
erty owners on st. Adams street and
let the line go OH Milton street. AS it
was now, Dale street was the only
driveway to reach the fair ground and
Como park. and the placing of car line
on the street would spoil it for a drive
way. Aid IngerSol said it would be
an easy matter to order sewer on Dale
street, and he objected to the matter
being sent to the street railway COM
mittee and there being traded off for
some other line. The committee, how
ever, did not see it in this light. and re
ferred the entire matter, ordinance, pc
gitions, remonStrances and ALL to the
street railway committee by vote of
10 L, MI. IHSolSull uiohO hOuihS
against it.
Como Avenue Bridge.
The city ENGINEER submitted plans for
a new bridge across the Great Northern
tracks on Como avenue. The plan was
accompanied by letter stating that the
cost of the proposed bridge would be
about $4,000. of which amount the
Great Northern would have to stand
one-third. The bridge, according to the
plan, would be sixty feet wide, and have
a roadway of forty feet. The right OF
way of the railroad having been in
creased from hundred to n hundred
and fifty feet would neceSSitate rad
ical change of grade on Como avenue,
and the cost of this was not included i'll
the $4,000. The committee decided to
recommend preliminary order be sent
to the board of public works, aud the
chairman of the committee was directed
to consult with the comptroller and see
if there were any funds on hand to pay
Tor the new bridge.
At a recent meeting of the board of
aldermen preliminary order was sent
to the board of public works relative to
repaving of Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh and Sibley streets, i'll the bust
ness district. When the report from the
city engineer was taken up yesterday
James King, representing property own
erS on Fourth street, protested against
the work being ordered until an lnSpec-
ton of the payements had been made.
While 1t was undoubtedly true that
some of the streets were in bad condi-
ton, such a sweeping order, Mr.. King
said, was not right. 1t would be much
better to wait until the SNOW and ice
were gone and then inspect the pave
ments and see just the condition they
were in. Aid. Conley moved the matter
be laid over until April 1, and there
was 10 objection to the motion.
EEydrants for Horses.
The resolution of Aid Franklin pro-
viding for the erection of free hydrants
in the district known as the flats in the
Sixth ward was sent to the city engf-
neer to report plans and cost of the
same. Rev. Morgan, of the Bethel as
ISOLATION, said in his work among
the poor people he had found much of
the sickness from diphtheria and tv-s
phoid fever resulted from the drinking
water used. In other cities free water
is furnished in neighborhoods where
the water supply is poor by erecting
haIf-inch pipes every two or three
blocks. This plan, he thought, would be
much cheaper than to care for the people
after they were taken sick. The water
supply on the flats IN the Sixth ward, as
we'll as in Swede Hollow and on the b.
hemian flats, he said. was not good. and
should be done at once. A
we'll digger had informed him that four
inch artesan wells could be put in in
the three places for $3.50 each. Two wells
at each Of the three sections would he
thought, be ali that was necessary. The
cost of topping the mains in the Sixth
ward and putting up pipes which would
run all the time would not cost more
than SO or Sl5 each, and would more
than repay the city for The expense in
Cured.
The ives; Side Eevee
An ordinance presented by Aid.
Franklin set apart strip forty feet
wide OH the Sixth ward levee, from
State to Annapolis street, for railway
purposes. 1t detailed at length the
manner in which railroads could secure
The right to lay tracks. AID Hickman
the ordinance amounted to
If railway company wanted
Il right of way he was in favor of grant