St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-08
A Street Car Ordinance That
Will Probably Pass Is !
Agreed Upon.
No Transfers Will Be Issued
on Interurban Cars Out ;
side Of City Limits.
East and West Seventh
Streets to Be a Continuous {
Electric Line.
Boulevarding, Open Cars,
Park Lines and Extensions I
Provided For.

The committee on streets of the board
of aldermen held meeting Yesterday
afternoon and put the finishing touches
on the street railway ordinance which
will be reported to the board of alder
men tonight as substitute for the So,
called Lightner ordinance. Present at;
the meeting yesterday were Aid. Cope
land, Franklin, Jensen, Warren, Conley,
and Montgomery, of the streets commits
tee, and Aid. Cullen and Zimmerman,
and Assemblyman Doran. The ordi-i
nance was read by Assistant Corpora
tion Attorney Phillips. and the several
sections were discussed and amended
in a number of instances. Aid. Gull
len raised the point that the
property owners on University avenne
might object to the closing up of
that thoroughfare for three or four,
blocks as provided for by the boulevard
section. Aid. Montgomery wanted the
street between Fairview avenue and the
bridge
Exempted From the Boulevard. |
claiming this section was a business
street, aud the merchants wanted the
privilege of going from one side of the
street to the other with teams without
going four blocks out of the way to get
across. This was agreed to and the or
dinance so amended. The appeal Of
several residents regarding the exten<
sion of the Rondo street line three
blocks west from Dale street met with
the approval of the committee. and
this was ordered inserted in
the ordinance. Aid. Warren want<
ed the section providing fol
sewers along the streets of the line to
Como park to read that sewers might
be built after three, instead of five
years, as requested by the railway COM
pany. This change was also made.
When the vote to recommend the adop-
tion Of the ordinance and so report to
the council was made by Aid. Conley,
there was a noticeable desire on the
part of the committeeman to shirk the
vote. AID Copeland had been obliged
to take train at o'clock, and was not
present when the motion was made.j
Aid. Franklin did not care to vote on
the matter and Aid. Jensen had mys-
teriously disappeared. This left only
Aids. Warren, Conley and MONTGOMERY
present. and as this was not majority,
of the committee,
There Was a Question J.
as to the best course to pursue. Some
one said Aid. Copeland had remarked
before leaving that he was in favor Of
the ordinance, and it was suggested
that it would be all right to say he was
in favor of the motion. This was not
deemed exactly proper, and so the COM
mittee will only report the ordinance as
substitute for the Lighter one without
any recommendation. ASSemblyman
Doran, after the meeting adjourned.
complimented the members by saying
it was all right to give Tom Lowry
everything he wanted, and the best way
was to bow the knee to him. The reE
port is that the ordinance will pass the
board of aldermen at the meeting to<
night with but TWO dissenting votes,
AS it only takes nine votes to pass it
these two votes will not be necessary.
The following is full text of the ordit
nance as it will be presented: