St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-02
STILL NO ACTION.
Park Board Is Undecided on
Whom to Confer the Priv
ileges
AT LAKE COMO THIS SUMMER
Definite Action Is Postponed
Until Next Monday
Night.
LONG PROTESTS ARE FILED
Against Granting Any Of the
Privileges to the Street
Railway.
LONG PROTESTS ARE FILED

oSitionS last night from the ST. Paul
& Co. for the leasing for three years
of privileges at Como park next
summer. No action, however, was
taken, the board adjourning until
next Monday night, when it will
probably decide to whom the priv
ileges will be leased, it being under
stood that in the meantime others
may submit propositions.
The offer of the st. Paul City Rail-
way company is substantially as
follows:
The company will spend $4,000
year for three years on music and
other entertainments. It will also
give the park board $4,000, the pay
ments to be apportioned during the
three years as follows: $1,000 the
first year, $1,000 the second, and
$4,000 the third. 1t will also relieve
the board from the contract of
$625 for the purchase of the row
boats and $375 for the repairs of old
boats. The company further offers
to furnish fifty-one additional cleo
trio lights and maintain them for
three years along the shore of the
lake for a distance of two miles.
In return for all this, the company
asks for all privileges, including
the exclusive rights to let for hire
the row boats, sail boats and the
launches, to maintain refreshment
stands and places of amusement,
to erect toboggan slides and to have
turned over to it by the park board
the sixty-four boats and all appli-
ances, landings, etc. The boats to
be returned at the end of the three
years to the park board. The COM
pany also agrees to maintain
trotting track on Lake Como in as
good condition as that of the past
winter and to provide equally good
facilities for skating. The right to
subiet any and all privileges is re-
served. The park board, however,
must maintain the pavilion.
j. Adler & Co. submitted two prop
ositions. One was to furnish a COM
plete electric light plant, with
capacity of seventy-five 2,000-candle
power arc lights, and to maintain
the same for three years in Como
park and on the boulevard, as the
board may designate during the
summer of each year, and
IN THE WINTER
to maintain sufficient lights to prop
erly light the warming room. In
consideration of this the Adler COM
pany wants the exclusive refresh
ment privileges Of the park and the
use of the pavilion for three years,
after which the company offers to
donate to the park the electric light
plant complete.
The other proposition of J. Adler
& Co. stated that in case the park
board would give them the exclusive
refreshment, boating and amuse-
ment privileges at Como park for a
period of three years, it would not
only furnish an electric light plant,
but in addition thereto would spend
from $500 to $4,000 a season for
music or such other amusements as
the board might direct.
The difference between the propo-
sitions of the ST. Paul Railway COM
pany and J. Adler & Co. was at
once pointed out. The street rail-
way company's offer exceeded it by
$4,000, against which was Adler's
offer to donate the electric light
plant at the end Of three years.
At this stage of the proceedings
Attorney Sam Brant arose and read
protests, with yards of names at
tached, advising the park board not
to grant any privileges at Como
park to the Twin City Rapid Transit
company, but to lease them to pri-
vate citizens, and citizens of st.
Paul, too. These protests were
signed by prominent business firms,
labor unions and private citizens.
Among the business concerns were
Mannheimer Bros, Schuneman &
Evans, Powers Dry Goods COM
pany, Finch, Van Slyke & Co., Wright,
Barrett & Stilwell, Hemingway &
Co., and so on. The cigar makers,
typographical, retail clerks and bak-
ers' unions also sent in protests.
Commissioner Wheelock said that
he thought he was voicing the unani-
nous sentiment of the park board in
saying that the ST. Paul citizens
should be