Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-10-07
EUSIIS and
CORPORATIONS
The Republican, Candid atesandI
His Service Of the lowry
= .s@ Monopoiies= When M ay-:s.ZS5z''
or Of MINNEAPOLIS.
VETO OF THE HARVEY ORDINANCE;

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would Deliver Minnesota. Body and
Bos,, to the Corporal .ons-How Eustis
wonld Stand If Elected Governor,
The Reform Press of Minnesota have
shown the people the undeniable facts
OF the connection of w. H .Eustis, Re-
pahlican candidate for governor. with
3he swindling Northwestern warranty
Lean company, and his official re-.
sponsibility for the 500, 900 City Hos
pita' job of his administration as mayor
OF Minneapolis. While the victims of
ths one are scattered all over the land.
and those of, the other are Minneapolis
taxpayers, the people of the Twin
Cities suffered losses to the amount Of
thousands of dollars from another i'm.
portsnt act of his administration, to-
Wit, his service of the Minneapolis
Street Railway company, in the strug.
gle which the people had with that
monopoly during his administration.
10 obtain a reasonable and fair transfer
system on the Lowry lines; while the
case at the same time disclosed that
W. H. Eustis holds principles touch.
ing the proper regulation of the cor.
pofations which if applied in this state
by his election would mean the com.
plass surrender of all our material in.
tarests to the corporations and the
nonopo.ies. ....,..... XII "a
Read the facts from the record. in
the celebrated Harvey Transfer ordin-
anes and its veto by Mayor Eustis, and
if this is not the unquestionable
<nselusion. -. =. ~
When the City of Minneapolis CON.
"fes1ed upon the Street Oar Company
Abe privilege of substituting electric
power in place of the much more ex.
pensive horse power, the company
ap oed to transfer passengers without
oh arge from any Of its lines to
sny ether line connecting Herewith.
Bot it largely ignored its obligation.
Il wholly refused to issue transfers to
ass ''paraller' lines, and so ignored the
spirit of its agreement as to render the
privi1ege to large extent valueless.
There were at the time 80 connecting
points where lines interseoted, but the
company only gave transfers at six
Of these points. 1t required that
any passenger desiring transfer
at any of the outlying connecting
points, should, in order to obtain
it, ride upon the car to central sta
of intersection. And under this system,
passengers desiring to transfer at any
one of "a intersecting points were com.
PEELED to pay an additional fare or
travel unnecessarily distance varying
FROM one.half mile to more tnan five.
Furthermore, under the old system,
ahe transfer could only be obtained, ii
mt all. after the passenger had lett the
car and was upon the street, in the
from passing vehicles cs,u.d only be
avaded by the utm ost d diligence. .. "; !:
The Street Railway Compsny's pur-
pose in thus failing to provide a SUIT.
able transfer privilege was apparent.
First, upon it's so called parallel
lines Qnany Of them running more
xhan half mile apart) many passen.
xera were compelled. to pay two fares
tn place Of one Second, the securing
Of the transfer at the outlying points
Vas so inconvenient and dilatory that
most passengers preferred, rather than
80 to aha central station, to pay an
additional fare. - -, ~ b.. i s I.
Thousands Of readers of this article
know from experiences when in the
Twin Cities how iniquitous. this sys-.
tam was. But the company wanted it.,
for by it's own showing in court IT'S
INCOME WAS INCREASED UP.
WARDS OF ONE HUNDRED THOU
SAND DOLLARS A YEAR By THIS
MEANS: It was interested, therefore,
In continuing the oppression as long as
possible. -. II
o. DULY Ia, 1889, the Minneapolis
Nty Council undertook to remedy this
svif, by the passage Of IN ordinance 70.
qniring the railway company to de.
liver ''at the junction or intersection
saf any Of it5 lines > O.. q; transfer
10 any passenger demanding the
snns;" and providing also that ..said
azansfer shall be issued to said passen.
ger from and upon the car
On which said passenger has paid his
full fane.'"4 $a.S55 s sss.,<
this ORDlN nee WAS PASSED
UNANIMOUSLY. ss...,..s,= s33
In the language of the official record
Of the oeunoil proceedings for 1898 q.
425) ''there were-yeas, "a; 81 nays,
none" Every person in Minneapolis,
save only the officers Of the Street Oar
Numpany and the Mayor, g that time
Avored this ordinance. TOT q news.
paper raised its voice against is New
autheless, William q. Eustis, nnfor-
aunaaely at that time May or Of Minne-
,spolls, proceeded to veto the proposed