St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-07
THE CITY RAILWAY.


the committee last Friday afternoon
were so fair that the common council
could not do better service to the city
than to accept them. He directs MS re
marks to the things most needed, and
asks to be relieved from building lines
which he cannot operate at pr0ht,
and, under the original contract ordl-
nance of September, 1889, need not Oper-
ate oftener than is necessary to accom-
modate the travel, which would be cars
about once a day in some cases. For
instance, the proposed croSS-toWn line
would be through a sparsely settled
part of the city, running to no business
center, and in direction in which very
few desire to travel. 1t is doubtful If
dozen passengers a day would travel
on it.
Mr.. LOWRY proposes to build and
maintain a double track line from the
center Of the city to Como park. and
thus to afford St Paul the same Oppor-
tunity for summer amusement that Mill
neapolis enjoys. The reason why he has
not done this before is because the city
had not complied with its agreement i'll
laying sewers under specified streets on
the way. He has been ready to do this
whenever the city complied with its
agreement. The people of st. Paul
greatly desire that the double track line
to Como park shall be built, and if the
city does its part faithfully they will
have a place of recreation at Como
equal at least to Lake Harriet and as
easy of access.
1t would be vastly more to the city'S
interests to make no unreasonable de-
mands of the company, and leave it to
eXpend the money the croSstoWn line
would cost in making Improvement we
need.
Mr.. LOWRY offers to place safety
device Oh the Selby avenue hill and add
trailerS SO as to double the service.
He proposes to boulevard University
avenue in accordance with the terms of
the agreement; to extend the Selby av-
enue electric line around to connect
with University avenue; and to run
open cars during the warm summer
months Oh all lines, providing only one
license is charged Oh the two sets of
cars. Then he asks. that In considera-
ton of these improvements, no new
lines, including the Maria avenue and
Stryker avenue, shall be ordered during
the next two years. He wishes to have
the interurban through travel transfer
abolished
The GLOBE indorses the lines of Mr..
LowRY's latest proposition. His offers
are eminently fair, and his conditions
are not unreasonable. A 10cent ride
to and from Minneapolis is an eX-
ceedingly cheap ride. The larg-
est cars operated on the inter-
urban line hold about seventy people.
and the great majority Of those
vino enter it ride through; the way
travel is light. If every passenger paid,
car would do exceedingly we'll to take
in $40 one way; but it happens that,
under the transfer system, an average
of one-half the people hold transfer
checks. In the winter time the travel
that way is not half what it is in the
summer. 1t is very clear that the in
terurban line is not making much
money under the present system.
The interests of ST. Paul are not in
the direction of crppling the street
railway company. They are not in the
direction of requiring the company to
build lines which can be operated only
at a great loss to the company, or in
such a way as would be unsatisfactory
to travel Several of the lines asked to
be built, or extended, are moved for the
interests of real estate spectators only.
1t is high time to come down to buSl-
ness and be fair with the street railway
company.
TIE question of annexation of Hawaii.
or of establishing protectorate, divides
opinion almost solidly Oh partisan lines.
OF the twenty senators favoring it all
are Republican; those opposed are Dem
ocrats, and of the twenty-five non-com-
initial senators all but four are Demo
Gratis. In the house about the same pro-
portions appear. The press of the coun-
try divide about the same way. DAVIS
and HALVoRsEN favor it, HALL opposes
it and LIND is -committal.
CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON evid emily be-
lieyes that there will be no immigratio
of natives into North Dakota during
the next two years. He expects to be
chairman of the coinage committee in
the Fifty-fourth.
ETHE gallant member from Hennepin
was doubtless moved by the state Of the
mercury to introduce his anti-hoops bill,
for nothing in such weather could be
blea6er than hoop skirt.