St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-28

the curbs. The question is, Where?
1t certainly could not be set apart
anywhere without causing a great
innovation. The standard width of
st. Paul streets, from curb TO curb,
if forty feet. Suppose a pathway
six feet wide should be set aside
for bicycles on each side of The street
and protected by a curb. That is
to say, instead of boulevarding the
streets, why not utilize twelve feet
of the forty between curb and curb
by providing two SiX-foot roadWayS
for bicycles on each side. They can
be separated from the twenty-eight
feet of driveway left for horse
vehicles by a curb not over five or
six inches in height, while another
curb will prevent the bicycles from
encroaching upon the sidewalks. 1t
may be urged that this scheme is
impracticable, inaSmuch as it would
render it impossible to back delivery
wagons UP to the sidewalks in front
of residences, and would seriously
interfere with the delivery of coal
through the coal holes. This is not
necessarily the case, however, for
longer coal chutes might be used,
and as for the delivery wagons, the
bicycle roadways would in no way
interfere with the delivery of goods
to the various residences.
True it is, that any radical change
of the character proposed cannot be
accomplished in a day. More than
twenty-four hours were consumed
in building Rome, so it is said. Ev-
cry improvement is achieved only
after overcoming practical difficult
ties. The obstacles in the way of the
plan proposed in this instance seem
! great, but they can be overcome
and will be removed when the prop
er time comes.
| How ST. Paul has regulated the
use of bicycles within the city
limits, and how it proposes to gov
ern them in the future may be seen
from the following recapitulation of
i the ordinances on the subject passed
and pending:
The first ordinance regulating and
/ restricting the use of bicycles in st.
Paul was passed by the council in De-
cember, 1892. Its provisions were as
! follows:
| Section 1. No person shall ride any
| bicycle upon or along any public side
walk Of the paved portion of any street
in the city of ST. Paul, nor upon the
| sidewalk of any park or the foot path
of any bridge of the city, nor upon or
along the sidewalk of any streets with
in the limits bounded by and including
the following named streets, to-wit:
Commencing at the intersection of
| the Mississippi river and Eagle street;
| thence along said Eagle street to West
| Third street; thence along West Third
! street to Summit avenue: thence along
Summit avenue to Rice street; thence
| along Rice street to University ave-
+! nue.; thence along University avenue
to Broadway street: thence along
Broadway street to Grove street;
thence along Grove street to East
Seventh street; thence along East Sew
enth street to Maple street; thence
along Maple street to Plum street
thence along. Plum street to the Mis-
sissippi river; thence along the Mis-
sissippi river to place Of beginning.
Nor shall any person ride any bicy.
Gle upon the sidewalks on University
avenue, from Dale street to Lexington
avenue, nor upon the sidewalk on the
north side of st. Anthony avenue
from Prior avenue to the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul short line, moi
upon the sidewalks on Hastings ave
nue., from Bates avenue to Earl street
nor upon any sidewalk upon the fol
lowing named streets included within
the following boundaries, to wit: Com
mencing at the intersection of Soutf
Robert street and the west shore OF
the Mississippi river; thence alone
South Robert street to Isabel street
thence along Isabel street to State
street: thence along State street tt
Concord street; thence along Concord
street to South Wabasha street
thence along Wabasha street to the