The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-21
PROVISIONS MUCH THE SANE
AS THE ONE THE COMPANY WOULD
NOT ACCEPT, ONLY IT GOES
FURTHER.
ELECTRIC LINE ON sELBY AVENUE.
The Broadway Loop People, How
ever, Now Insist on That Change
EefnG Made.

has been the cause Of so much talk "hd
discussion since the present city coun-
Gil assumed charge Of matters legisla-
tive, has simmered down to d qaas-
ton of the Broadway loop. At a
meeting of the committee on Streets
of the board of aldermen held last
evening the street railway company
presented on ordinance which provides
for the changing of the cable into an
electric line. The measure IS practi-
cally the same as the one recently
passed by the council and which Presi-
dent Lowry refused to accept. The
ordinance presented by Attorney M. D.
Mum in fact goes even farther than
the members Of the council anticipat-
ed. 1t allows transfer from the pro-
posed Fourth street electric line to
all other lines. There was no section
providing for transfers to the inter
urban line, but. as this was insisted
on by several of the councilmen, Mr.
Mum said this request would be
granted. The ordinance grants the
company the franchise to operate the
line until 1915, which is seven years
longer than the time mentioned in the
ordinance which Mr. Lowry refused
to accept The time for paving Fourth
and Third streets is also extended to
Sept. /, 1898, the company claiming
that, with all the new pavemeuts CT
dered for next year. 1t would be i'm
possible to pave Third and Fourth
streets. The ordinance also provides
for the line to be completed and in
operation by July 1, 1898.
After presenting the new ordinance,
the attorney for the company stated
that the union depot loop would be
built next spring. The three or four
members of the aldermen who had
stood out for the Broadway Loop in
sisted that this also be [ tken into
consideration, and on this proposition
there was a split. the railroad officials
not being in favor of operating the
Broadway loop An executive session of
the committee and the railway officials
was held, but, after discussing the
matter an hour, no decision las or
rived at. and an adjournment vas
taken to Thursday evening. The
Broadway loop adherents in the i>0ard
Of aldermen claim that the street rail-
way company Is badly scared, and, If
the aldermen only keep up stiff
back, the company will be compelled
to operate the Broadway loop in or
der to get the ordinance allowing a
change from the cable to IN electric
line
The Broadway loop coterie in the
board of aldermen claim that they
have sufficient votes to block the PRO-
posed electric line ordinance, unless
the company operates the ower-town
loop. AS it takes nine votes to pass
the ordinance presented by the Company
last evening and only six votes 10 pass
the Albrecht ordinance FORGETTING the
cable franchise, it would appear that
the Broadway loop crowd had a shade
the best of the argu:n ,nt. 1t was
stated last evening when the co.r nit
tee adjourned that, at the meeting to
be held Thursday night. the street rail-
way people would probably come to
time and agree to the proposition made
to operate the Broadway loop.
Present at the session of the COM
mittee last night were Vice President
Goodrich and M. D. Mum, representing
the street railway company; Aid
Kenny, Kaldunski, Sanborn, Shepard
and Bell, of the committe on streets
Aldermen Bigelow and Stutzman, As
semblymen DAILY and Kirke, Moritz
Helm, Henry Johns, T. B. Scott and
also interested spectators.
Id Kenny in collipor tho
order, said the object was to have the
street railway people appear and make
some propositions touching the difficult
ty between the city and the COMPANY.
Mr.. Mum said: 1--WE are here. Now.
what do you want of us?"
Aid. Kenny said he had notified Supt.
Smith that If the railway officials had
any propositions to make this would
be the time to make them. The matter
before the committee was the ordinance
FORGETTING the cable franchise What
the committee really wanted to know
was would the company agree to &C
cept the ordinances which had been
passed by the council.
Mr.. Mum said the company was will
ing to meet the council on the Selby
avenue line. An ordinance was now
before the committee on streets of the
board Of aldermen and known as the
Sanborn or Kirke ordinance The COM
pany was ready to discuss that ordin-
arce and incidentally the so-called AL
brecht ordinance.
At the request of some of the mem
bers Of the council the company had
prepared an ordinance which was the
same as the one introduced by Mr.
Kirke, except that 1t provided that the
transfers would be issued from the
Fourth street line at Robert and
Fourth streets. The time Of the fran
chise under the ordinance was also ex-
tended to 1915. Asked if the ordinance
allowed transfers from the cable to the
interurban line, Mr.. Mum said 1t did
not. but II insisted on this would be in
serted in the ordinance. This had not
been placed in the ordinance for the
reason that it was not considered nee
essary, as those on the cable line de-
string to go to Minneapolis could use the
Prior avenue line. In answer to an
other question, Mr.. Mum said the
union depot loop would be built the
coming summer.
Aid. Sanborn wanted to hear the or
dinance read, and while Mr.. Mum was
doing this the new ordinance was care
fully compared.
An ordinance authorizing the st. Paul CITY
Railway company to change its Fourth street
and Selby avenue cable line, so called. into
an electric line.
The common council of the city of St. Paul
do ordain as follows:
Section 1. The st. Paul City Railway COM
pany is hereby directed, authorized and en-
powered to change and substitute for its ca
BILE line, now in operation on Fourth street,