The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-25
JOIN IN A PROTEST
RETAIL MEN PRACTICALLY \ UNIT
AGAINST THE NEW RAILWAY
ORDNANCE
ANOTHER MEETING IS HELD.
a SCORE OR MORE REITER ATE
THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE
SCHEME.
OTHER VOICES ARE HEARD, TOO.
Suburban Newspapers Unite ia De-
nUiuncinE the Movement in the
Railways Interest.


\ call sent out yesterday morning for
a meeting of the Retail Merchants
union brought together number of
the most prominent gentlemen i'll the
retail district at the Ryan hotel yes
terday morning, and steps were taken
TO fix the views of the councilmen as to
the attitude of the down town mer-
chants on the proposed street railway
ordinance.
The meeting took place in the parlors
and was called to order by President
BoWlby. Some Of the gentlemen pres
ent were in rather a disturbed state of
mind. They felt, and expressed them
selves as feeling, that the members of
the council who were pushing the pro-
posed ordinance were poaCh;ng on their
preserves, and they wanted 70 take
some steps to show their disapproVdl of
the attitude of their legislators. One
gentleman thought that the thing to
do would be to get all of the merchants
whose interests were affected, to meet
az some point ard proceed in a body to
the council chamber and there by force
Of numbers show to the members Of
the council that the ordinance must
be beaten and beaten at once. Robert
Mannheimer and others took a more
conservative view of matters. how
ever
I'VE must do nothing rash" said Mr..
Manufacturer. 81 have inquired into our
rights in the matter and l find that
we have none at law; that we cannot
enjoin the councilmen, and that the
only thing there is for us to do is TO
seek to win them to our views by set
ting before them the wrong they are
doing US and the city"
T. D. O'Brien said that it must not
be thought that the cOuncilmen were
as a whole in favor of the proposed
ordinance. He knew that many Of them
were opposed to it, and that it could
never be passed in it's present form,
even if the opposition did nothing.
what we must do is to reach the
cOuncilmen personally and by persua-
sion get them to understand what we
want. The street railway company
does not expect to get that provision
for the collection of Is cents fare
through at all, and that will be cut out
at once, / believe, when the matter
comes up. Let this body appoint
committee to see the members of the
council and we Will find them amen
able enough to our views" In a little
discussion that followed, it was made
apparent that the retailers will have
a rod in pickle for those who seek to
have the Broadway loop provision made
a part of any street railway legislation
that comes up, and also intimated that
there would be day of reckoning for
the members of the council who favor
ed the proposed loop.
Finally on motion of Robert Mann
heimer, a committee was appointed
to go actively to work to canvass the
council and straighten the strabismus
that afTicts those of the cOuncilmen
whose obIiQuity of vision leads them
to see into, or around, the Broadway
loop. The following gentlemen were
agreed on as such committee: Jacob
Mannheimer, ]. NJ. Smith. T. B. Myers,
Louis Nash, A. Michaud and C. B.
BOWlby, eX-OfficiO.
The committee held a meeting imme-
diately upon the adjournment of the
general meeting. They deputized one
OF their members to ask the G o b e
to continue its efforts in line with their
undertaking.
In order to ascertain the position of
the business men, reporter for the
G. | 0 b called on as many as he could
1,ecrarda1 afternoon and asked them
yestetuaS aIttioon ll iaca 9N +baro INV an
record to the end that the members of
the council might have it demonstrated
to them that the principal retail in
terests acted together, Here are the
questions With the results.
$500 - no 1,rorosod o.di-
l. are you opposed 10 Tie proPoSeu oIui-
nance as a whole? .,,o o-o.oa r,uooa,.o,.
Z. DO you FAVOR the pFopoScu broadway
loop? so, A. o,.,,.o.- 3,,+o,.,,n,,,,,
10 you daVQL tne e%P5eSS p"n
tram feature OF tne PROPOSED oruaLlaIce i,;a
MouiG n you favor an, an 9funance proVio
ing LOT union Gepot loop ,.-- /.
Would you favor an ordnance mar ETC to pro pro
Vide Tor continuous electrlc me from Mer-
HAN Park to the present terminus Of the
cable line on fourth street!
Their replies are given herewith:
Z V GarIand-1 vas, , no. ? no. YES.
8 yes. ''i i''li' 49, - --'' o. -''' = Co.
. u Rov,lby1 veg. no. no. 4 VOC.
YES = 'N'' - nv - nv T. ''''