St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-23
HAS ABANDONED The IDEA
OF Changing the Cable Road
Into an Electric Sys-
Item.
RuMoRs DENIED BY SMITH
Service Decreased Slightly
Because Of Lack OF Pat
ronage.

Rumors prevalent of. late that the
street railway company had aban-
doned its plan to change the Selby
cable line into an electric line, and
that it had therefore ordered a new
wire cable, were practically denied
yesterday by Supt. Smith.
1T would be quite absurd" said
Mr.. Smith, ''for the company to order
a new cable now in any event, for
the. one in use is only three or four
months old and perfectly good.
'As for there having been any
change of plan regarding a@change
to the electric system, all I have to
say is that it's news to. me. / have
not heard anything of the sort, while,
as every one knows, the company
has intended all along to substitute
electricity for cable on the Selby
line just as soon as circumstances
were favorable. Now L think this
whole MATERIAL these rumors and
all this talk-has come out of the
new schedule which went into effect
today. But there's nothing novel
about our changing the time card at
this season of the var. We always
do the same thing both spring and
fall
''You see, the grip car is a rather
cool place to ride on during the win
ter, season, and every one wants q
seat in the single closed car. A few,
of course, do ride on the grip, unless
the cold is very intense; but, taking
the average travel throughout the
fall and winter, 1 might say that the
same number of trainS-Would carry
about one-third less people. For that
reason we always increase the num-
Der of trains during cold weather,
and when it becomes warm enough
for people to ride on the grip we de-
crease the trains. That's just what
we've done today.
but the change won't be felt by
any one. 1t simply reduces by about
one minute the time between certain
trains running in the middle Of the
morning and the middle of the after
noon. This is
THE DULLEST TIME
of the day. No change at alTwill be
made as far as concerns the trains
put on during the morning and even
ing rush. Early in the morning
trains will continue to run three min
utes apart, while between $50 and
$50 p. m. the interval will be two
and a half minutes, just as it is
now.
Eyes, the new patent gates have been
a great success. Most of our former;
accidents were due to people stepping
on and off before the car stopped.
They can't do this now, and we have
had much less number of accidents.
Then, again, the gates are a good
thing for the public, even if it does
deprive them of the pleasure of break
ing their limbs or shocking their ner-
vous system. The cars always stop
now when anybody gets on or off, and
a passenger is not obliged to take any
risks by jumping. You know the mo-
tormen used to think that a man, at
least, could as we'll jump on as not.
1.-The new Illuminated signs? Well,
they've been put on almost every one
of our cars already, and the Others
will be equipped in a very short time.
mo, 1 can't say anything very de-
finite yet about the attractions at
Como this summer, but you may be
sure that they will be satisfactory
and much ahead of last year. Only
one change has been made so far, out
at the lake. We are moving the pa
vilion down to the shore. Before, you
remember, it set back SO that teams
were constantly driving past between
the people ON the pavilion and the band
playing on the lake. Of course, the
rattle of carriages didn't improve the
effect of the music, unless, perhaps,
when they played something from
Wagner. Then it added to the general
uproar, and was decided benefit