The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-18
THEY STAND as ONE
JOBBERs ARE UNITED IN FAVOR
OF THE PROPOSED BROAD
WAY LOOP.
ITS ADVANTAGES ARE MANY
AND APPARENT TO THE MOST
CASUAL OBSERVER OF LOCAL
TRADE
DEPoTs AND JoBBING HOUSES
Alike Would Then Be Accessible
From Uptown and From
the Sister City.
IT'S ADVANTAGES ARE MANY
DEPors AND JoBBING HOUSES

urday, has the almost, II not quite.
unanimous support of the jobbers of
the city, and it will be presented to the
council with strong backing. In fact
at the meeting of the committee Sat
urday, number of letters from repre-
sentative firms and business men were
read, from which the following are
extracts:
Lindeke. Warner & sehurmeier-I would be
OF great benefit to the wholesale and manu-
featuring district, to the railroad and freight
offices and to the thousands of employees.
P. H. Kelly Mercantile Cove favor the
extension of the street loop to Broad
way, which would be greatly to the interests
OF the jobbers, manufacturers, travelling pub
nc and the city in general. The loop at
present is entirely Inadequate for the needs
of the city and the accommodation of the
public.
G. w. Hackett Hardware Co-This extern
sion will greatly accommodate the manufac-
turing, wholesale and railroad business, and
we think that justice to a large part of the
patrons of the street railway demands this
extension.
McKibbin Co.-The proposed extension of
the street car loop to Broadway, in our opip-
Ion, would be great convenience to the large
number of people employed in the wholesale
houses, factories and railroad offices in the
business district If the loop is extended to
broadway, the travelling public using the new
broadway depot will find it a great conve-
nience.
Merriam Realty Company-As owners of
quite an amount of property on Fifth street.
we respectfully urge upon you the desirable
lty OF arranging for the proposed loop. The
change will give better facilities for large
number of employees situated between Broad
way and jackson, and would save much un-
necessary expense and trouble to many of
our citizens.
J. H. Allen & Cove consider the extern
sion of the loop to Broadway would be very
desirable to the business community in gen
eral.
Robinson & Cary Company-It will prove
very greatly to the convenience not only to
the large population of the jobbing district
mense travelling public who are at present
practically without street railway facilities to
depots.
Finch, Van Slyck, Young & Colt will
be of decided benefit to a large number of
employees of the jobbing houses in the whole
sale district of the city.
c. Gotham G Co.-The loop would we be-
lieve be of untold benefit to the employees of
the manufacturing district and those of the
railroad and freight Offices. In our estab-
llshment alone we employ about 600 hands,
the greater proportion of whom have to walk
to the corner of Fifth and Robert to get
their car.
Sharood & Crooks-We are doing business
in this ward and therefore ask you to do
all you can to bring the loop down East
Fifth street and Broadway, as now contem-
plated.
We employ 275 hands, many of whom will
derive great benefit If the street cars are
made more accessible. The proposed loop
Will also be of benefit to us in making our
factory more accessible to our customers who
live out of the city, particularly those coming
from Mime apolis, where we have large
c. Sommers C Cove RESPECTFULLY Deti
ton your honorable body to report favorably
on the extension of the loop to Broadway
We think that this is a matter of great i'm
portance to the city at large, and especially
to the employees and others connected with the
wholesale district, and will also be of great
penent to the passengers arriving at the union
depot.
Wright, Barrett & StiIwell Co.-The extern
sion Will be a great accommodation and bene-
fit to the large number of employees and others
who located in the district Interested and
as we'll as giving much better accommoda-
ton to the passengers using the Union depot
and the new passenger depot in course of
erection at the foot of Fourth street We
believe the section of the city benefited bv the
proposed extension deserves this recognition
at your hands, and we most earnestly renuest
your favorable action.
Noyes Bros. G Cutler-We are strongly in
favor of having the present loop extend to
broadway, as we feel it would be of great
benefit to the public at large, especially SO
to those employed in the wholesale district
and the travelling public.
Fairbanks, Morse & Colt would in our
OPINION, be a convenience to the wholesale
district, its merchants and it's customers
Would also favor it because of the convent
enee it would afford the general travelling
public in reaching all our passenger depots
Northern Pacific Railroad Company. by L.
7. Chamberlain-The st. Paul e Northern
Pacific Railway company is now engaged in
erecting an addition to the Office building
used at present by the receivers of the
Northern Pacific Railroad company. This
addition is really new building larger and
more commodious than the present one and
the officers of the company and the officers If
the Northern Pacific Railroad company and of
the new Northern Pacific Railway company
are very anxious to have the street car loop
so extended as to afford easy access to this
oftice building and the depot grounds adj
Joining it. This will be great accommo-
dation to the hundreds of people employed
in the buildings and to many hundreds more
going to and coming from the trains which
now have, and which will hereafter have
entry upon the depot grounds between Fourth
and Fifth streets on Broadway. For these
reasons am authorized by the officers above
mentioned to express to you and to Mr.
Lowry our earnest request that the street car
loop be so extended.
Powers Dry Goods Company-We are very
decidedly in favor of it, for various reasons:
among these, we believe there are more en-
ployes to be benefited by such exteneion
both men and women-in the section east of
robert street, than in any other section of
the city, and we sincerely hope the extern
sion Will be brought about
p J. Bowlin & Colt will be a great con-
venience, not only to ourselves and our en-
ployes. but also to customers from the
country. giving them better connections with
the union depot.
Lanpher, Finch C Skinner-It is evident
that 1t would be great accommodation to
~ SohSi al punt, 70 the employees of the
jobbing houses in the vicinity Of Broadway.
to the employees of the railroad Offices and
generally in getting better facility for reach
ing the depots.
Menk Brothers-We believe that In. evten
sion would be great benefit 20 the public.
not only for employees in the railroad offices
and Jobbing houses in that locality but more
so for the general convenience to and from tbo
several depots which at the present time is
very poor for city like ours. We think IL
very necessary.
Scheffer g. RossI1nn-No thinI- A. -.
loop is too small for the population Of orr
city. This extension will be Of ADVANTAGE II
every citizen, and will be especially valuable
to the jobbing district.
T. L. Blood & Cove very much favor
the extension CT the street railway loon from
It's present location to Broadway thereby
benehting the entire wholesale district the
railroad offices and the public generally.
Ogden, Merrill & Greer-The present loon
think that it would be greatly to the advan-
tage or business houses located on lower
Seventh, Sixth and Fifth streets also facili-
ties for reaching the union depot would be
much improved.
Koehler & Hinrichs-H would be great
benefit to the manufacturing interests. as well
as the laboring people. The loop the Way
1t is at present, Is very short.
The Konantz Saddlery Colt would be a
benefit to the wholesale and manufacturing
district, well to the travellers coming
in and out of our city from the union depot
and railroad Offices 1t appears to us that
the present loop does not at all answer the
purpose that it is intended for, and is not
fair to the general business Of st. Paul and
the interests of the masses.
Griggs, Cooper & Colt would be bene-
fetal to the wholesale and manufacturing
district, to the railroad and freight offices
and to the thousands of employees The pres
ent loop is the smallest in the United States
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