The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-24

which would be Of such vital import
4 ance to the city. Mr.. Caulfleld said the
Great Northern road wanted nothing,
but in order to secure the shops the
city would have to conceded.
First-The railroad company desires an
assurance from the city, that no streets will
these tracks where the proposed new shops
are to be located. nor where the old ones
are at present. and additions made thereto.
| Second-The vacation of that part of old
! jackson street. from Arch street to Jackson
street bridge (the railroad company claims to
own this property. never having decided II
| away.
Third-The abandonment of the Broadway
bridge scheme.
Fourth-The assurance from the city that
| a certain contract entered into with the city
OF st. Paul and the railroad companies, under
gate OF Aug. %, 1885, relating to bridges to
be constructed over the railroad tracks. be
lived up to. This contract provides that the
city is to build the approaches. and the rail-
ROAD companies are to build the bridges and
abutments, and the city thereafter to keep
road companies.
The tract of land owned by the company.
on CIV which it is intended to build the new
Arundel and the railroad track, and up to the
present time no streets are plated within
| these boundaries.
come w at the request of Mr. Hill. but
from movement of the commercial bodies
of this city. and employees of the railroad
shops. who were informed that there was a
| probability of the shops being removed.
The concessions above referred to not
| such as cannot be granted safely by the
| city; the building of these shops means a
| great deal to st. Paul and the removal of
the present shops would be greatly deplored
and would be an everlasting injury to the
city; The building of the Broadway bridge
would. In measure, destroy the magnificent
| office building, which is constructed ex-
c!usively fer the general offices of the Great
L pnil
destroy the proposed building which the rail-
| road company intends to erect on the prop
erty recently purchased opposite their head
| quarters building.
In 1879 and 1850, among the concessions
granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad
company was the vacation. by ordinance. of
freight houses are located, east of Broad
way; One year later the Omaha railroad,
| owning property adjoining, asked for the va
ca h;oh OF the streets crossing It's property,
when was granted. This gave the two rail-
road companies the ownership Of all the
streets east of Broadway to Trout Brook. and
between etraS ho Third and Fourth streets, Prince
| street being between the latter two.
A few years later. when the Great North
ern railroad company built its large freight
houses on the south side of Third street
| the Duldlng inspector objected to the COM
| pany building on John street, and the COM
! pany stipulated with the corporation attor-
ney upon given permission to build, that
the company would abide by the decision
| CT me court. This and other streets north
of Third street had been vacated, as I stated
above, leaving only this small portion of John
depot property. which was useless to the
pubic and only good for the purpose of an
moving the railroad companies. I merely
mention this fact to show how much more
| llperal the city has been to the foreign COM
| panles than 1t has been to our local COM
| pany, and the first railroad the city exer had
Drief history of this railroad since its incep-
ton. Much Of the data has been obtained
! from the history Of the Minnesota e. Pacific
| railroad company (of which the Great North
Folsom. " i-0-' % =
The late Hon. Edmund Rice was president
OF the Minnesota & Pacific railroad and the
hrst car was run from the small depot on the
banks of the river, some distance below
SIO ei. street to st. Anthony on July 2, 1862
contract with Litchfield & Co to build a
road to Watab, and Mr.. Litchfield furnished
. Mr: Rice money to extend the tracks from
where the company proposed to build new
Depot on what was called Island No II. Mr..
sS 80 owned two lots-11 and -, block
%, st. Paul proper-and in December. 1852,
commenced action to elect them from the the
property in front of his lots. The depot was
finished she Jan 10. 1853. Litchfield & Co. built
with his part of the contract Then Mr. Rice
| agreed to give Litchfeld & Co. certain
amount OF stock; At this time the legislature
g. company called 'The First Division of the
st. Paul Pacific Railroad" which took ali
that part Of the Cd charter from Mr.. Rice
MS latter law they organized Feb. "a, 1864
with Geo. L. Becker as president They had
n tbo,, r'g h OF way. except few lots given
lows addition. The Schurmeier suit referred
to above was still nendine
In October. 1868 Hon. S. P. Folsom. en-
was assigned to duty as right of way agent,
| claim agent. and had charge of all law suits
subject s1a to the council of record. The schur-
a the was n ted s sapng hans
| Mr.. Folsom settled this claim in 1869 upon
payment Of S25 600.
rs II ISL the the stwser and TayOrs Falls
FIRST Division company's depot from the
| Junction. north of Lafayette avenue. by per-
nj MT, This s.. was the first railroad that came
INTO the city over the tracks of the First Di-
vision of the st. Paul G. Pacific railroad
The next railroad that came into st. Paul
was the the Miiwaukee & ST. Paul; this track
was built from Winopa along the river, and
| by permission of Mr.. Folsom Mr. Becker be-
ing ing absent in Washington, it passed through
| rected with the Milwaukee & st. Paul's road
| at Slo!ey, coming from the south by way
OF MENDOZA. In the meantime the law was
PASSED pass ~ the legislature, permitting the
! city or St Paul to give the Milwaukee &
| st: Paul Railroad company a bonus of $50
W0 for the bridge across the river. By an
! other law on or about the same time a bonus
same road and $500, O0O to the Lake snner ii1T
& Mississippi railroad, now the st. Paul &,
| Duluth Railroad company.
| No law was ever enacted authorizine tho
! city OF ST Paul to give any bonus to the
| St Paul & Pacific railroad, nor was there
any asked, and this road never received one
| company ever received IL It was q gratuitv
was vacation of the streets on which the
present shops are situated. Other streets
were vacated. but at the request. and for the
| benefit of private individuals living in the
| peighborhood on the railroad tracks, to wit.
| monroe street. on petition Of the late Hon.
H H. sibley and Horace Thompson; Rialto
street, at the request Of the Foundry com
| pany when they built their foundry in 1868.
Under the agreement of the CITY and the
railroad railroad COMPANIES Of Aug. 3d. 1880. eleven
city, nine Of which were built by the Mani
| toba and Great Northern railroads You
will see by this that the bonus Of keeping the
t IroS Msn IN repair will fall as nine to two
1 am we'll Informed that neither the Great
Northern or any of its predecessors ever re-
c sa one cent as bonus from the city of
| ST. Paul. and that Mr.. Folsom after he en-.
tered into the discharge of his duties as
right of way agent in 1868. secured all of
the property south of Third street and east
| the blocks south of Third street, and be-
tween Sibley and Broadway, and for years
! all the railroads ran into the city over this
! company's tracks. and practically all of them
| UP to the present time. except the Milwaukee,
| and Burlington. In securing this large prop-
| erty 1t fixed the HEADQUARTERS of the railroad
system OF Minnesota If you may so call it:
therefore rendering to the city of ST. Paul
! such service as it seems has fastened them
here up to the presnt time.
Just as an item of the benefit to the
city, the present shops We're Mr.. CauI-
field stated, that the sum of $4,000 was
paid during the last year for water
| used at the shops.
| Mr. Dno roS~said Tho oi+;uo~ ~,