The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-28

| menace to the safety of this great mass
| of property a thousand times more
real than the supposed injury Of rum
ming a line down Sibley street to the
union depot.
This consideration adds one more ar
| gument to the long list against the
proposed Broadway loop. That scheme
has never had anything whatever to
recommend it except it's imaginary ben
eft by stimulating real estate value.
1t is worthless even for that. He must
be very slow-minded man who is not
convinced by this time that real estate
will never boom again as the result OF
any artificial stimulant. st. Paul prop
erty is worth prices far above those
now ruling. and it will bring them;
but this will come about as the result
of natural and heaHhful growth, and
will not be promoted by any such
scheme as the Broadway loop. A SEN
sible man owning a tract of land any
where on the outskirts Of the city
would not give a bonus Of S. to have
the street railway company build a
line past or across it, for he would
know that it would not help him to sell
single lot. For the same reason real
estate on the line of the projected
loop will not be enhanced in value and
will not find purchasers any more
readily if this change, so obnoxious to
our business men and so destructive
to the retail interest of the city, shall
be forced through
No electric line ought to be run ON
Fourth street below Jackson in any
event. If the Selby avenue line is
changed to an electric it should be
switched at Robert street onto Fifth.
This makes the Broadway loop, as
laid out, impracticable, and it ought to
be abandoned altogether We believe
that it will be, in Difference to the very
strong public opinion that has been
| developed. We believe that this Broad
way loop business is being used by the
street railway company very much as
the change of the Fourth street line TO
an electric is being used, as a club
WhereW1th to beat the people into sub
mission. The company is far more
| anxious to substitute electric for 90 b1a
po"er than the people, yet, in return
Tor dong what it is anxious to do. If
wants new and vastly enlarged privi-
leges.
In the same way it appears from tba
street railway company's ordinance
that 1t is not averse to running even
the lnterurban cars around a Broadway
loop, II 1t can compass the same OBJ
Ject. 1t is aware we think. that there
never was any popular demand for q
ohaiise OF the loop; that the movement
III It's favor was speculative one, con-
nned to small number of politically
llIuentlal persons, and that the over
Whelmlng demand today is that tba
loop remain as it is. 1t suits the com
pahy 10 pretend that the people want
Tue loop and it must obey; while the
demand for union depot connection
winch Is thousand times as Ieriti
mate and earnest is showed to ono sido
without any notice whatever.
Inc Danger of running electric cars
Oh lower Fourth street, the absence Of
union depot loop the hostility OF the
broadway loop project to the deyeJon-
meht OF ou1 trade, and the protest of
al people wishing to go to MINNEAPOLIS
OH the interurban line against being
carried half mile out OF their wav
ny having to go down to Broadway
ana pack again before start can be
made, all unite in emphasizing the oh
Jectionable features of even those nor
tlons of the new ordinance that are
| least aggressive and absurd in their
demands They simply go to prove the
assertion of the G o e, so Unanimous
~ accepted and reiterated by the nao-
pie, that the way to deal with +bis
ordinance is not to amend it, but 70
kill it.