St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-05
GETTING TOGETHER.
An Ordinance on Which an
Agreement May Be
Reached
That May Be Passed ut the >Spe-
cial Meeting Satur-
day.

An informal meeting of persons inter-
ested in street railway matters was held
yesterday morning at the office Of the
street railway company. Present al the
conference were President Lowry and
Nj. ID. Mum. of the street railway COM
pany: Aid. Copeland and Zimmerman,
Assemblyman Lightner, Assistant Cor
pOration Attorney Phillips, Fred Dris-
coll. ID. ID. Merrill. Thomas Cochran
and w. S. Morton. The ordinance
which is now being considered by the
aldermen, and TO which various amend
ments have been made, was the subject
of discussion. The most of the talk was
regarding the proposed arrangements
between the street railway company
and the North st. Paul company, by
which a reasonable service to the har-
veSter works is to be secured. Repre-
sentatives of the North st. Paul COM
pany promised to make provisions so
that cars would be run every ten min
uIeS between and in the morning,
and and s in the evening. Copeland
and Zimmerman were seemingly salts.
fed with this promise, but wanted 1t in
writing. This the street railway and
North st. Paul company agreed to do,
and it is probable that by Friday writ
ten agreement will be duly signed,
which will remove this part of the OBJ
lection to the ordinance. The next i'm
portant section was the one relating to
transfers. The aldermen decided to
strike out that par. of the section read
,iai. ,ltofl anti nnl
the passenger TO or near the point from
which he started" This will make the
transfers to and from any line good on
all lines. The travel transfers on the in
terurban line are abolished, but III case
local ears running not less than ten
minutes apart are put on the local trans
fers will be good on the interurban
line. The Maria and Stryker avenue
lines are, by the terms of the ordinance,
to be completed by July the present
year. The line to Phalen park is to be
built as soon as the city has secured the
title to the park. but the company is not
required to operate the line until July
l, 1894, and after that date only between
April l and Sept. so. The University
avenue boulevard section was not
changed, but was the subject OF some
discussion. While Mr.. Lowry would
uOl Sdy yes vi W llll VI plOpOol-
tons mentioned. the meeting was said
10 be of a very cOncillatOry nature, and.
as one of the gentlemen present re-
marked. it brought the company and
the aldermen much nearer together
than ever before.
The result of the morning conference
was reported to the committee on
streets meeting yesterday afternoon.
Aid. Franklin insisted on an amend
ment which would give the West side
people ten-minute service on the Win
fired street line. He was advised to
prepare section which would meet his
ideas. Aid. Montgomery objected to
the boulevard plan which would close
several of the streets in the vicinity OF
Prior avenue. Aid. Warren wanted the
ordinance prepared so as to be intro
duced at the meeting of the aldermen
last night, but this was opposed by Aid.
Zimmerman. The Second ward alder
man said he would not vote for the
ordinance until the contract between
the street railway and the North st.
Paul company was drawn up and
signed. This, he said, could not be
done for several days. and he suggested
an adjourned meeting of the aldermen
the latter part of the week. This was
agreed to. and the committee adjourned.
Aid. Copeland stated last night that
there was no doubt but that the ordl-
nance would pass the board of alder
men, although IL was no sure thing that
the street railway company would ac-
cept it after its passage.
Permission was given the NOrmania
and A. o. Ii. societies to have the use
of Market hall on certain nights by the
payment of SIS per night.
n ordinance OrOVidiOp for the iSSU-
ance of licenses to night lunch wagons
was introduced and referred to the COM
mittee on license. The ordinance fixes
the license at S25 each.
A contingent fund of $500 was allowed
the chief of police to assist in the cap
ture and arrest of thieves. Aid. Hick-
man opposed the resolution, but it went
through.
The city engineer reported that the
Milwaukee road were willing to pay
their share of the bridge over their
tracks at Lincoln avenue. The cost will
be about 81, 500, and the cost to the city
about One-third of that sum. A prelim-
mary order for the work was passed.
The resolution of the park board, au-
thOrizing the issuing of $4,000 worth of
bonds for the purpose OF purchasing
site for library, was sent to the COM
mittee on ways and means.
The mayor reported that he had re-
ceived from all the departments, except
city treasurer and corporation attorney,
the annual reports. They were referred
to the committee on printing.
A resolution allowing the police
officers recently discharged by the
mayor. salary from the date of their dis
charge to the time the council concurred
in the action was sent to the committee
on police.