The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-03

receipts put in bank here long enough
to get cold The citizens had given the
street on University avenue to the public
and owned a fee in the street. It would
be unjust to give the company a right
to use the street as a railroad yard.
The street railway system was the hest
In the United States but the accommo-
dations could be improved upon. If
the street railway company was in SYM
pathy with the residents of st. Paul
why had not the Randolph street Zine
been operated? Why was not the public
accommodated in the morning and even
ing by more cars on the interurban lines?
Aid Bantz created something of a
sensation by saying that the petitions
presented by the company pretending TO
be signed by citizens asking for the
passage of the ordinance were fraudu-
lently obtained. He recited that one of
the agents of the company had promised
a citizen of st. Paul IS if he would Sc
cure the signature of eighty persons to
the petition. The man had circulated the
petition, but had been unable to secure
any more than twelve names
Mr.. Fitzgerald, the man whom Aid.
Bantz had referred to. corroborated the
statement and handed in the petition he
had circulated at the request of an agent
or the company. In answer to a ques-
ton by Aid. BantZ, fitzgerald said he
had received the petition and a letter
offering him S. for eighty signatures
from F. w. Bayer, who was employed In
the county auditors office
VERY FEW FAVOR TT.
Mr.. finland said there was not fifty
out OF the 1000 voters he represented In
the last legislature who favored the Or
dlnance. By the fast line but one class
of citizens would he benefited. The line
would 1n1ure property along the avenue
and 1t was not demanded by any one
but the street railway company.
Louis Nash advanced the idea that the
people should be allowed to pass on a
proposition Of the kind before the coun-
Gil granted it.
James Everington, secretary of the
South Minneapolis improvement associa-
ton, said the association was going to
fight the ordinance which had passed in
Minneapolis.
George Whitcomb, representing the
manufacturers union of st. Anthony
Fark, protested on behalf of that asso-
citation against the ordinance Over 700
men, he said, were employed at st. An
thony Park, and so per cent of this
number lived in the Twin Cities and pat
ronized the Interurban line. He favored
fast trains, but insisted that they be OPP
Grated on an elevated line and suggested
that an ordinance be presented directing
the company to construct and operate an
elevated line.
James Quinn. resident of the Eighth
ward, called attention to the fact that the
fast line would have to make thirty
miles an hour. This was faster than the
steam railways were allowed to run on a
right of way which was not on a travel
ed thoroughfare.
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Pierce Butler agreed with most of the
criticism that had been made against the
ordinance. Rapid transit could not be
given by the council if it endangered life
or confiscated property. Rapid transit
was desirable. The street railway COM
pany had improved the city in the last
few years. not because it loved the city,
but because it paid The saving of half
an hours time btween the cities would
benefit the business men in both cities
If the people could be protected in their
rights and the present service maintained
then rapid transit was a good thing.
Jared How said he was surprised at the
attitude taken by his former law part
ner. During three-years' business part
nership he had been informed by his then
partner that his views were too much
What had occasioned
the change of front in his late business
associate he could not understand.
f. L. McGhee urged that there be no
compromise. Mr.. Butler had talked
about snuffing the ordinance out il the
did not live up to it's agreement
The best thing to do was to snuff it
out now.
Louis Nash remembered that two years
ago Mr.. Butler had opposed a similar
ordinance. At that time the speaker had
also opposed it, and he did now. He
thought the change in front by Mr.. But
Ter was case of knowing on which side
his bread was buttered.
ANOTHER TROUBLESOME DEPUTY.
County Auditor Johnson explained that
while, perhaps, some man employed in
his office favored the ordinance, he Gid
not The principle Of giving the COM
pany the right to run cars along a street
without giving the property owners a
chance to patronize the cars was wrong
and the courts would not sustain it.
Mr.. Mum, replying, stated that the
new line was purely experimental, but he
would agree to put in the ordinance that
if the line was success in three years
an elevated line would be built.
He suggested that the ordinance be
amended so as to conform to the wishes
of the citizens, but that the company be
given the chance to see if rapid transit
was not desired by the public.
NEW PROPOSITION.
E. W. Peet said it was for the inter
ests of ST. Paul and Minneapolis that
there should be rapid transit between the
cities. He did not approve of the pres
ent ordinance as it injured the property
and life of one class of citizens. He sug-
gested that the fast line be operated
through the Seventh ward via Marshall
avenue. This plan was feas be and
there would be no objection to it.
Aid Shepard informed the audi nee
that a number of petitions had been pre-
scented, both in favor of and against the
ordinance and that they would be given
consideration.
Petitions signed by 1900 property own
ers and residents of the Eighth ward, at
least so Attorney Mum stated, were pre-
scented urging the council to grant Il e
company the right to run a fast lire.
The petitions read as follows:
We, the undersigned residents and prop
erty owners of the Eighth ward oeem
that it is for the best interes of tie
city at large, as well as the property
owners and residents Of the Eighth
ward, that the st. Paul Street Railway
company should be permitted to put in
a temporary through service a ong Uni
versity avenue. Provided that in max
ing such grant the same shall be of
temporary nature, exceeding in no event
vided that in making said grant the rae
of speed at Which said cars are operated
shall not be increased beyond the speed
of the present service; and provided that
the present service shall not be impai Z d,
and that only two tracks shall be main
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