The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-05
TO PAVE FOURTH STREET TRACKS,
Change Cable, Run Jackson Street
Cars Oftener,BOulevard University
Avenue and other Things.

The board of aldermen went up and
down the line with the street railway
company last evening. 1t was given out
that the city had wasted valuable time
in expecting favors from the COM
pany, and the only way was to go at
it hammer and tongs. This the alder
men proceeded to do. The bicycle or
dinance was passed, as told in another
column, and a new ordinance relating
to the muzzling of dogs was presented
and pfassSsd under. a suspension. of the
ruleS.ush jssw.. a.s ,a1u9jcns
Ia Aha9 Ienlsy brought dR, tie Broadway
1oop,Sjhff iagesslfght disguisaa he ordinance
he introduced provifed2 that the cars
on the interurbah, Hamline and Como
lines be operated on Wabasha,. Fifth,
Broadway and Seventh street The
clerk had only commenced the reading
of the ordinance. when AID. .Denahower
moved that it be referred to the COM
mittee on streets in order to give the
business interests-a chance to be heard.
Mr.. Kenny objected to a reference and
said that the ordinance was nearly an
exact copy of the old one directing the
company to operate the cars around
the Broadway loop. The only change
was that the cars would run up Seventh
instead of Eighth street. The ordi-
nance was introduced, he said, owing to
the fact that the street railway. COM
pany refused to operate cars on the
Broadway loop, claiming that a suffi-
cient number of votes had not been Sc
cured to make the ordinance legal. The
talk made by the Third ward alderman
had no effect, as the motion to refer
was carried by a vote of to 5, Messrs.
Allard, Bell, Donahower Larsen, San
born and Shepard favoring the refer-
ence.
Later III the evening Aid. Kenny Sc
cured reconsideration of the vote by
which the ordinance was sent to the
committee on streets. He explained
that the railway company refused to
operate the Broadway loop on the
ground that a three-fourths vote OF
the members of each body was neces-
sary to give the company the use OF
streets not occupied by lines. For this
reason the corporation attorney at his
request had drafted the present ordin-
ance. Mr.. Kenny said the idea was
that tracks being already laid on Fifth,
Broadway and Seventh streets, the
council could by an ordinance, passed
by a majority vote, compel the COM
pany to run the cars on these streets.
The motion to suspend the rules was
carried, although Messrs. Bell, Dona-
hover and Shepard voted against it.
Aid. Allard wanted the Hamline line
excepted from the new loop andj this
being done, the, ordinance was. passed
by vote9 of 8 to 2, EMessfs. Bell and
Donahower voting against" the pas
sage .BHlIa
"vi A resolution was. also adopted direct
ing the streetrcar company to run cars
on the Jackson street.-The every fifteen
minutes. a.. II
Resolutions determined upon at the
conference meeting of the two bodies
held Monday night were introduced by
Aid. Bigelow. The first one provided
that the street car company pave with
granite block between their tracks on
Fourth street from Seventh street to
Broadway. Aid. Shepard and Bell
wanted the resolution sent to the COM
mittee on streets. but the motion to
refer was lost. President Bigelow an
nounced that the object of the reso-
luton was to bring to focus some Of
the questions about new street car
lines which were pending.
Aid. Bell questioned whether the
street railway company had been ad-
vised as to what the city wanted in
the way of new lines. Aid. Shepard
handed up and had read a letter adj
dressed to him by Vice President Good
rich, of the street railway company
The letter stated that the company had
never taken any action about the Selby